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Woods-McAfee Memorial 



CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF 



JOHN WOODS AND JAMES McAFEE 

OF IRELAN D 

AND THEIR DESCENDANTS IN AMERICA 



COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS DRAWN EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK, AND EMBELLISHED WITH 
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY HANDSOMELY ENGRAVED PORTRAITS, SCENES, ETC. 



BY REV. NEANDER M. WOODS, D. D., LL. D. 



WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY 



Hon. REUBEN T. DURRETT, A. M., LL. D., of Louisville, Ky. 

PRESIDENT OF THE FILSON CLUB 



IN WHICH. BESIDES CONSIDERABLE NEW MATTER BEARING ON VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY HISTORY. 
WILL BE FOUND MENTION OF THE FAMILIES OF 

ADAMS. ALEXANDER, ARMSTRONG, BEHRE, BENNETT. BIRKHEAD, BOONE, BORDEN, BOWYER. BRUCE. BUCHANAN, BUTLER, CAPERTON, CAMPBELL. 

CLARK, COATES, CRAWFORD, CURRY, DAINGERFIELD. DAVIESS. DEDMAN. DUNCAN, DUNN, DURRETT, FORSYTH, FOSTER. CACHET, 

GOOCH.GOODLOE, GOODWIN, GUTHRIE, HALE, HARRIS. HENDERSON. JOHNSTON. LAPSLEY, MACFARLANE, MACGOWAN, 

MAGOFFIN, McAFEE, McCOUN, McDOWELL, McKAMEY, PHILLIPS, REID, RICKENBAUGH, ROGERS. ROYSTER, 

SHELBY. SAMPSON, SPEED. SUDDARTH. TAYLOR, TODD, THOMPSON, VARNER, WADE. 

WALKER, WALLACE. WHITE, WILLIAMSON. WOOD, WOODS, WYLIE, YOUNG 

AND FIVE HUNDRED OTHERS, AS WILL BE SEEN BY 

CONSULTING THE INDEX. 

ALSO SOME HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS WHICH CONSTITUTE A VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO 
THE PIONEER HISTORY OF VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY. 



LOUISVILLE, KY.: 

COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING CO. 

1905 



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PREFACE 



It sliimld 1h' noted at the oiilsct (lial (liis woik 
was uudci'taktni with almost exclusive reference to 
certain lirauclies of the Woodses and tlie ^[cAfecs. 
It is tlieref()r(> mainly a family all'air, and it nn- 
avoidahly contains a s'ood deal of matter which 
must possess small interest for the i>;(*ueral reader. 

At the same time it is claimed that this liook 
has in it a jireat deal relatinsi' to the history of 
^'irg•inia and Kentucky which is part and parcel 
of the story of these gxeat Commonwealths, and 
suited to interest all who love to study their 
pioneer records. Some of the matters referred to 
have never before appeared in print. A careful 
perusal of the Table of Contents will enable the 
reader to (htermime what chapters arc lilcely to 
deal with events which he would care to study. 

The author has devoted a large part of his spare 
time for the last fifteen years to gatherinsi' up the 
facts and traditions to be found recorded herein, 
and the la1>or involved in his researches will never 
be fully understood, even by those who shall find 
the greatest satisfaction in the reading of this 
book. Court records, family Bibles, church reg- 
isters, milit*a.i"y rosters, private papers an<l moss- 
covered grave-stones have been made to yield their 
varied testimonies for entrance on these pages. 
The constant aim of the author has been to learn 
what was true, and to set it down faithfully. Posi- 
tive assertions, in all cases where there seemed to 
be any need of it, have been supported by the cita- 
tion of authorities. "\^'here mere inferences or 
private opinions are given, qualifying language has 
been employed to indicate fairly the degree of certi- 
tude pertaining to each case. Part Three, which 
consists of Sketches of Patrons, is composed of 



iiiadcr foi- wliich the autiior is only in ])art re- 
s]M)nsili]c. Tlicsc sketches have been prepared, as 
a, rule, liy friends of the sultjects of the same. The 
autll(^r wrote only tliose of liimsclf and his immedi- 
ate family, and added a few sentences to a few 
others. 

Nearly all of (he one Iiuiidrcd and fifty-nin<' il- 
lustrations found herein have been engraved ex- 
pressly for this work, and lun'e never ))efore been 
published. Tiiey are, very many of them, more 
than simple end)ellishments of the book. Some of 
them present scenes of great historic interest, and 
cost the author much iiersonal effort. 

For the homely ap]warance of the maps in this 
volume some apology is due. As to their mechan- 
ical executi(m they an^ unworthy of the book. 
When the author found that ma])S would be es- 
sential to a jn-oper elucidation of the subject- 
matter, and he saw that the funds at his command 
would not admit of his employing a regular m'ap 
draughtsman, he Avas forced to choose beitween 
having no niaps, and nndving them himself. He 
yielded to the latter alternative. But let it be 
borne in mind that the cardinal virtue of a map is 
not its beautiful mechanical execution, but its 
topogTaphical accuracy. This virtue is claimed 
for these liomely maps. They ai'e based upon the 
splendid large-scale maps of the U. S. Geological 
Survey, and are the result of prolonged and pains- 
taking investigations by thi^ author. In all es- 
sentials they are reliable. 

The author, in gathering his materials for this 
work, has been compelled to deix^nd nuich upon the 
kind assistance of num'erous j>ersons, and he is 
most grateful l\>r (he courtesv he has met with in 



PEEFACE. 



every quai'teT. His obligations to some individu- 
als, however, are too larsie to admit of bis debt 
being discliarged by a mere general aclcnowledg- 
ment A few of the gracious friends must be men- 
tioned by name. To the lion. Eeulicn T. DuiTett, 
of Louisville, President of the I-'ilson CMul), and the 
A\Titei' of the Intro<lurtion to this volume, the 
author is most largely indclited. Possessing, as lie 
pr(vV)ably din's, the most magnificent private libi-aiT 
in th(- South, containing a bibliography of Ken- 
tuclcy liardly surpassed anywhere in the world, he 
has never bwn too busy to help the author with 
the loan of b<H>ks or a word of infonnatiou and 
counst»l, as needed. Without his aid this volume 
would lack some of its most valuable chapters. To 
the late Dr. John P. Hale, long-tim'e President of 
the West Virginia Historical Society, who knew 
more, pei'haps, than any man of his day in regard 
to the streiims, mountains and trails of his native 
State (West Virginia), the author owes much. 
The A'oluiniuous coiTespondence which the author 
liad with Dr. Hale only a few years l>efore his 
death has greatly enriclie<l this volume. The Rev. 
Edgar WocKls, Ph. D., of Charlottesville, Va. ; Col. 
Charles A. R. Woods, of Kansas City, ]Mo. ; ilr. 
Julian Watson Woods, of Mississippi; Mrs. Gen- 
evieve Bennett Clark, of Bowling Green, Mo., -wife 
of the Hon. Champ Clark, M. C, and a host of 
other friends have, in one way or another, aided 
the author so materially in bringing this publica- 
tion to a successful conclusion that he desires in 
this public manner to thank them. 

It would require considei'able space to give even 
the names of all the books, pamphlets and im- 
printed manuscripts which the author has con- 
sulted in the preparation of this work; but a few 
of those from Axliich he has derived the largest as- 
sistance should be ntentioned. First of all stands 
the unprinted manuscript of the late General 
Robert B. McAfee, entitled his Autobiography and 
Fam'ily History, which he finished about the year 
1846, not long before his death. To him we owe 
nearly all we know of a large part of tlie history 
of the McAfees. That manuscript volume has 



oft<>n lK>en copied, and can l)e found in many o: 
th(^ great libraries on both sides of the sea. The 
journals sx^verally kept by James and Robert Mc- 
•Vfee, during the tour of the McAfee Company to 
Kentucky in 1773, are simply invaluable. They 
are given in full, Avith notes, in Ap])endix A of this 
volume. The two publications by the Rev. Edgar 
AA'oods, of Charlottesville, Va., to wit: History of 
Alb(^marl(> County, Virginia; and History of One 
Branch of the Woodses furnish a great luass of 
reliable information in regard t(» the earlier 
Wo()ds(^ and T^^allaces. That fascinating little 
monogTaph on The Wilderness Road, by the late 
lamented Capt. Thomas Speed, has been a great 
help and a delight to the present writer. Historic 
Families of Kentucky, by the late Col. Thomas M. 
Green, has afforded most A'aluable item's in regard 
to ilagdalen Woods, the McDoA\-ells and the 
Bordens and the Bowyers. The History of Ken- 
tucky by the tflo Collinses — father and son — re- 
nxains the grandest thesaurus of Keutiicky records 
an_A-^\'her(^ to be found, without which no man can 
Avrite of Kentucky to good purpose. A recent 
History of South-Westem Virginia, by the Hon. 
Lewis P. Summers, of the Abingdon Bar, has done 
for the region y\-\th which it deals what the Col- 
linses have done for Kentucky, and no man who 
would know the genesis of that interesting section 
of our counti-y can affoi'd to be Avithout it. We 
have deinved much assistance also from Old Vir- 
ginia and Her Neighbors, by the late Professor 
John Fiske; fi'om the histories of Kentucky by 
^Marshall, Butler, Shaler and Smith, resi>ectively ; 
frcmi the histories of Tennessee, by Haywood and 
Ramsey, respectively ; from Wlw^ler's North Oaro- 
lima; from Foote's Shetches of Virginia, both series; 
from the local histories of Augusta County, Vir- 
ginia, by Waddell and Peyton, respectively; and, 
last, but not least, from Dr. Hale's Trans-Alle- 
gheny Pioneers, a book which possesses the chanu 
of 1>eing in large part the narrative of the actual 
experiences of its author. 

The Index appended hereto is full enough to 
enable the reader to find, without m'ucli difficulty, 



PIJEFAC'I-]. 



uoarly every person, place ami event of real ini- Imuu will think kiudly of him who made it possible 

portauce that is anywhere mentioned iii this for tiiem to know much ahont their worthy prt>- 

volumc. jieuilors, aiul that perhaps a hundred yeai*s hence 

The preparation of this wurk has been to the there may be found, here and thei'e in this broad 

author, from first to last, a la.l)or of love. That it laud, those who w ill fnudly cherish as one of their 

is much marrwl by blemishes and defects he doubts luost sacred fauiily heirlooms a well-worn copj' of 

not, and hence he has no hope thait it is yoiug to The W'ocxIs-MeAfee ^lenu>rial. This shall be our 

please even all of those for wh<»se benetit it has sutticient reward. 

been written; but the author ventures to cherish Nkandeu M. Woods. 

the hope that many AVoodses and McAfees yet un- Louisville, Ky., ^lay, 1905. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Frontispiece— Portrait ok the Author .... 

Preface— Bv the Author 

List of Maps, with Explanations 

Introduction— BY R. T. Duerett, A. M., L.L- D. 



PART I THE WOODS FAMILY 

(Pages 1 to 150) 

CHAPTER FIRST— The Woodses in Great Britain 1 

CHAPTER SECOND— Elizabeth Woods and the Wallaces 3 

CHAPTER THIRD— Michael Woods of Blair Park 9 

CHAPTER FOURTH— William Woods of North Carolina 132 

PART II THE McAFEE FAMILY 

(Pages 151 to 218) 

CHAPTER FIRST— The McAfees in Great Britain 153 

CHAPTER SECOND— James McAfee, Sr., in America 157 

CHAPTER THIRD— Tour of McAfee Company to Kentucky in 1773 163 

CHAPTER FOURTH— The Migration to Kentucky in 1779 175 

CHAPTER FIFTH— The Salt River Settlement to 1811 185 

CHAPTER SIXTH— The Pioneer McAfees and Their Children 195 

PART III THE PATRONS OF THIS WORK 

(Pages 219 to 421) 

THERE WERE NINETY-THREE ORIGINAL PATRONS. THESE ARE DIVIDED INTO FOUR GROUPS, 
AND A SKETCH OF EACH PATRON IS GIVEN. 

GROUP ONE— Patrons not Related to either Woodses or McAfees. Six Sketches, i to 6, 

inclusive 221 

GROUP TWO— Patrons Descended from the McAfees only. Twenty-sevejj Sketches, 7 to 33, 

inclusive . . 234 

GROUP THREE— Patrons De.scended from Woodses only. Forty-seven Sketches, 34 to 80, 

inclusive . . 278 

GROUP FOUR — Patrons Descended from both the Woodses and the McAfees. Thirteen 

Sketches, 81 to 93, inclusive 367 

PART IV THE APPENDICES 

(Pages 423 to 486) 

APPENDIX A— The McAfee Journals— 1773, with Notes 424 

APPENDIX B— Three Great Pioneer Roads 454 

i'l) The Wilderness Road 456 

(d) Long Hunters' Road 459 

(c) Boone's Trace 473 

APPENDIX C — Some Ancient Documents of Interest to the Woodses, more Especially . . . 479 

INDEX 489 



MAPS IN THIS VOLUME 

(ID i;k. lofMi A r iin: i;mj ui- 'i iiKiiooK.] 



MAP No, I— ALBEMARLE COUNTY, \'IRGINIA— Siiowinc, the Locations ok thk Woodsks and 
Waixaces, 1 734-1 800. 

MAP No. 2— SOUTH-WEST, VA., and SOUTH-EAST, KY.-SHOwiNr., Mainly, thk Route of the 
McAfee Company in 1773. 

MAP No. 3— MERCER COUNTY, KY., and ADJACENT REGION— Mainly Illustrating the 
Tour of the McAfees in 1773. 

MAP No. 4— VICINITY OF IRVINE ON KENTUCKY RIVER— Mainly Illustrating the McAfee 
Tour of 1773. 

MAP No. 5— PARTING OF THE WAYS— Showing the Numerous Trails Centering at Drapers 
Meadows on New River, Va. 

MAP No. 6— CENTRAL KENTUCKY. 

MAP No. 7— THREE GREAT POINEER ROADS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



BY REUBEN T. DURRETT, A. M., LL. D., OF LOUISVIl 
PRESIDENT OF THE FILSON CI.UB. 



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The iit'iiraloiiy nf tlic W(hm1s ;iu(1 McAfee fami- 
lies, which follows this lutrodnctioii, has ample 
]n'eci"(l('nts hoth in ancient and modern times. It 
is tlio work of the Rev. Neander M. 'SA^xxls, D. D., 
a (listiniiuished mem1>er of both of \ho families 
whoso pedigrees are traced in the hook, and is an 
example of that lore of ancestry ^^'hi(•ll has i>ive'n 
to the livinsi' of to-day the most accejitahle knowl- 
e<l,i>e of their jyrogenitors who lived hundreds of 
years before their time. 

Genealogy, Avhich has become so popular of late, * 
is a term derived from the Greek words f/ciiea and 
Ifif/os, and nu'ans the arranging of a. pedigree, or 
the tracing of a family history. It Wcas one of the 
first exercises that engaged the human mind, and 
is therefore as old as the human race. Primeval 
man, before civilization gave him' the use of let- 
ters, cfnild hardly have scratched upon the liark of 
trees or stamped upon clay the births and marri- 
ages and deaths of his progenitors and descend- 
ants, but lu^ could have stored them in meuioiy 
and held them in tradition until the scribes of the 
future transferred them to their record. Pedigrees 
may be oral or written, and those we have in our 
Bibles of the patriarchs of the infant world orig- 
inated in tradition and ended in Avriting. To sup- 
pose that the patriarchs of the elder world re- 
corded the pedigrees of those who lived in the ten 
generations from Adam to Noah, and the ten from 
Noah to Abraham at the time, and in the order, in 
which they occurred is to attribute to them a 
knowledge of the art of writing which tliey could 
not have possessed at that time. Their lineage 
records were presented in tradition until stami>ed 
upon clay or inscribed upon papyrus or some otlier 
early writing material. 



Tliose jiadiarchs of (lie infant world were suflSci- 
ently imbued wilh Ihe (l(i<lriiie of y)rimogeniture 
not to attempt anything in their genealogy except 
the ]>edigree of a single ancestor. Had they 
undertaken to remember (vr to record the names of 
all members of (heii- families in the twenty genera- 
tions from Adam to Abraham, they would have 
had much to remem1)er and a bulky record. In 
the ascending line ancestors d(mble in each genera- 
tion so that at the end of the twentieth generation 
they would have had something like a million 
of names; and if the descending line were followefl 
there is no telling how many they would innnber 
at the end of twenty genei'ations. The final enu- 
meration would depend upon the number of chil- 
dren each successor had, and would yvrobably rise 
too high up in the millicms to be remembered or 
recorded as the art of writing then existed. 

We are greatly indebted to the Jews for the 
knowledge they have given us of the elder world. 
The pedigrc»es they kept in their temple give in- 
fonnatiion of peoi)le and events farther back in the 
past than we can get as full and reliable from any 
other source. The inxpi-ession has long prevailed 
that inspiration had something to do with these 
Bible pedigrees and that they were, thei-efore, re- 
liable on that account Whether this be true or 
not we would not on any account be without what 
they teach us of the first of our race and the first 
of all things that happened in the infant world. 

The Jews, however, were not the only ancient 
people who paid attention to genealogy. Late dis- 
coveries aanong the ruins of buried cities, in the 
Easit, indicate that tliere were genealogists in other 
countries contemporaneous with the Jews, if not 
of earlier date. They had not the advantages 



INTRODUCTION. 



which supposed inspiration ^^ixxe to the pedicrees 
of the Ohl Tcstaniont and the New, extendin<r from 
Adam to Jesus throni^h a period of forty genera- 
tions, but standing u]>on their own merits they 
show thaifc genealosrv was an art in use among 
EgT]>tians, Bahylonians. Assyrians nnd other an- 
cient x>eoph'S liefore the Jewisli records wei-e made. 

So far as discoveries liave been ma(h>, Egypt 
stands oldest in uninspired genealogy. Recently 
there has been exhumed from the ruins of 
the ancient city of Abydos the golden bracelets 
of the Queen or King Zer which had been worn 
something like five thousand yeai*s before the 
Christian era. This discovc^iy takes us back be- 
yond the beginning of the world as once under- 
stood to he indicated by the pedigrees given in the 
Bible. The Egyptians were known to keep in 
their temples the pedigrees of their kings and 
priests and the records of important events. When 
Solon, one of the Avise men of Greece, was in Egypt 
five hundred years before the Christian era in 
search of knoAvledge he was told by a priest that 
there was a record in his temple of the destruction 
of the island of Atlantis nine thousand years be- 
fore that time. With this statement of the temple 
records it can not be suri)rising that i>edigTees of 
Egyptian kings and (jueeus have been found in the 
ruins of long-buried cities which date back to a 
period anterior to those of the Bible chronology. 

Other ancient nations, and especially the Greeks 
and Komaus, paid early attention to genealogy. 
Acusilaus, a Greek historian, wrote a book on 
genealogy .about eight hundred years Iwfore the 
Christian era. Only fragments of this work have 
come down to our times, but these are sufficient to 
show how early the Greek mind was devoted to 
this subject. In such old histories as that of 
Herodotus, and sudi antieiit pi.inis as those of 
Homer, genealogical sketches are of freijuent oc- 
currence although genealogy was not the subject 
undei' consideration. 

The pride of ancestry nmde the Eom'an gene- 
alogists date their origin from the time when 
^Tineas wandered from Trov to Latium. Roman 



liatricians vied Avith one another in the effort to 
trace their lineage back to one or the other of the 
thr(-<" tribes of Ramnes, Titienses or Luceres whose 
consolidation formefl the nation. Yirgil in trac- 
ing C;esar back to .Eneas wrote one of the finest 
]>oeius in the Latin language, and prominent fam- 
ilies like the Cornelii, Gracchi, IMarcelli, etc., had 
pedigrees dating back as near to the origin of 
Rome as possible, which were known and Inmored 
by plebeians jis well as patricians. 

Leaving the field of ancient genealogy and also 
passing by its early dev(doimient in England, 
which probably ccuicerns us more th;in any other 
country, l)ut can not be noticed here for want of 
space, we find that when the Dark Ages were lift- 
ing their shadows from Europe, during the reign 
of Richard III, a college of heraldry was esitab- 
lished in London for the puii>ose of taking charge 
of the whole subject of genealogy. Heralds were 
appoint«l to go over the countiy and collect such 
facts and records as could be had for preservation 
in the g'enealogical books of the college. By this 
means it A\-as hop«l that such fabulous pedigrees 
as had been traced from gods and demigods, 
w(;uld be discredite<l and real pedigrees substi- 
tuted for tliem'. Of late years it has lieen said of 
this college, h(;\vever, that money sometimes had 
as much infliu'uce in securing the right to coats-of- 
arms as heroic deeds, but whether this be true or 
not, solid old England has the noblest nobility and 
the genteel est gentry of any coimtry in the world. 

After this college of heraldiy was established in 
London in the sixteenth century, many learned 
works on genealogy wei'e puldisheil in England and 
other countries. Before these publications gene- 
alogical data, when recorded at all, wwi' generally 
in manuscripts and practically inaccessible to the 
genei"al reader. An author by the name of Mills 
may be said to have led in publishing this kind of 
literature in a folio volume entitled "The British 
Peei'age" Avhich was issued in KJIO. Among the 
many publications that followe*! may be men- 
tioned Collins' Peerage of England, Burkes' Peer- 
age And Baronetage, Debretfs Peerage And 



INTKonrCTION. 



Baronetage, Lodge's Peerage And Baronetage, 
Dodd's Peerage, Baronetage And Kniglitagc, 
Dugdale's Baronetage, and Nicholas' History of 
KnighthocKl. With a college of heraldry in their 
midst and snch hooks as these and others at hand, 
the English had the means of knowing with ac- 
curacy all about the lineage of families, either 
noble or comm'on, they might wish to know. 

In the United States we have not followe<l the 
English to the extent of establishing a college of 
heraldry to dignify the researches of genealogists 
and to clothe them with something of authority. 
Private enterprise, however, has done much for 
genealogy and the New England Historical and 
Genealogical Society alone has published more 
than a score of volumes on this subject. Holgate's 
American Genealogy, "^A'ebster's Genealogy and 
Thomas' Genealogical Notes may also be men- 
tioned as individual enterprises in this line. 

Of recent years, however, thei-e has been a Avide- 
spread activity in genealogical research in the 
United States, and Kentucky has shared largely in 
the movement. Many individuals have written 
and published the lineage of their families as they 
^^(il'e able to gather their records from foreign 
countries, from the different States and from Ken- 
tucky. To attempt to enum'erate all these works 
would he tedious and vain, but the following may 
be mentioned: The Prestons by John Mason 
Brown, The Russels by 3Irs. des Cognets, The Gar- 
rards by the same author, The Irvines by Mrs. 
Boyd, The Clays by Z. F. Smith and Mi-s. Clay, 
The Johnsons by Thomas L. Johnson, The Nourses 
by Mrs. Lyle, The Nortons by Rev. David Morton, 
The :McKees by George Wilson McKee, The Quis- 
enberiys by A. C. QuisenbeiTy, The Speeds by 
Thomas Speed, The Henrys by John F. Heniy, The 
Marshalls ))y W. M. Paxton, The Joneses by L. H. 
Jones, The Lewises by W'q\. Terrill Lewis, The 
Johnstons by Wm. Preston Johnston, Historic 
Families by Thomas M. Green, Notable Families 
by Mrs. Watson and King William Families by 
Pevton M. Clarke. All these set forth the lineage 



of families now living in Kentucky, and (Iiere are 
many other works of the same kind. 

The movciucnt, however, which has lionc most for 
genealogy is that which oi-ganizcd such societies 
and associations as Dauglitei's of America, Co- 
lonial Dames, DauglUers of (lie American Revolu- 
tion, Daughters of tlie Confe<leracy, and Sons of 
the American Revolution. All these societies hold 
meetings and gather information and make pub- 
lications of one kind or another. The National 
society of the Danghtei's of the American Revolu- 
tion have up to this time collected and published 
twenty volumes of matter relating to the ancestry 
of its membei"s. In thus collecting genealogical 
matter in local societies scattere<l all over the 
country' an<l grouping it in the work of the na- 
tional society, an enonnous amount of information 
must 1)0 gathered and preseiwed in a few years. 

There is nothing strange, therefore, in the ap- 
l>eai"ance at this time of this book, embracing the 
Woods and JIcAfee genealogy. It is in line with 
precetlents reaching back to the r-emotest times. 
Such I'ecords began before letters were invente«l, 
^^'hen barbarcnis man scratcheil hieroglyphics on 
the bark and leaA'Cs of trees or stamped them upon 
plastic clay. A practice thus reaching l»ack to the 
twilight of the world's beginning and continuing 
through all changes and conditions to the present 
time is the best evidence of the high regard in 
which genealogy has always been held and should 
continue to be held. 

When Dr. Woods, in behalf of himself and his 
family, undertook to i-ecoi'd the pevligrees of the 
Woods and McAfee families, he simply followed 
in the footsteps of others who desired to preserve 
the histories of their families. He thought the 
Woods and McAfe«! families had a histoiy worthy 
of preservation and undertook to record it. He 
has done his work thoroughly and well. He has 
inserted in his book nothing that should have been 
omitted, and the m'any families meutione^l owe him 
a debt of gratitude which it will not be easy to 
pay. The stoiy, moreover, as he has told it not 



INTEODUCTION. 



only embraces family liistnry, 1»nt inohules his- 
torical facts in the pioneer period which will be 
fonnd nowhere else. 

In Chaptei-s III and IV of Tart Second will 
be fonnd a better acconnt of tlie first set- 
tlement of Kentncky than can be obtained 
from most of onr histories. Members of the 
family are there shown ahont Harrodslmrg 
clearinsj land and bnildinc; honses for perma- 
nent occnpanc^' ^\-hile they heard the howl of 
ferocions animals and saw tlie gleam of the toma- 
ha^^•k and scalping-knife in the wild forest aronnd. 
But dangers did not deter them and they kept 
right on with their work until a settlement was 
established in the country. There has always been 
a doubt about the I'oute by which the jMcAfees left 
Kentucky and returned to their homes in Virginia 
in 1773. Dr. Woods studied this route until he 
had a clear idea of it and then made a map of it 
which shows it plainly from' beginning to end. 
The nmp of this route is not the only one that 
adorns the work. There are others which throw 
much light upon early times and there are splendid 
landscapes which beautify the work and make us 
familiar with the country when it was new. These 
landscapes are fine specimens of the engraver's art 
and illustrate the historic text as finely as the 
superb half-tone likenesses, of which there are 
many, do the biographic sketches of the members 
of the families represented. 

The IMcAfees were in Kentucky in 1773 before 
the white man had cleared an acre of ground or 
built a cabin upon it. The original forest with its 
infinite variety of noble trees covered the whole 
land excei>t ^A'here the rivers and smaller streams 
severcd it and cane-brakes and baiTens usurped 
portions of it. There was nothing like a human 
habitation on all the land. Even the Indian, if 
ever he built his wigwam in the dai'k shadows of 
the dense forest, had long since abandoned it and 
sought another home. There were everywhere to 
be seen upon the river terraces and othei" places 
mounds which had been erected by human hands, 
but the bnildei's had been gone so long that not 



even a tradition of them' remained. The panther 
and the bear roajned in the dark forests and the 
buffalo and the deer fattened upon the cane. 
Herds having a thousand animals were sometimes 
seen at one of the Salt Springs. The McAfees, 
therefore, saw Kentucky Avhen it was one of the 
grandest natural parks that ever existed. It was 
called by Boone and others the hunt(^r"s paradise, 
but the McAfees came not here to hunt. They 
came in search of homes for their families. And 
hei*e, ^^•here the richest of land could be had for tlie 
asking, they selected their farms and built their 
houses and became citizens of the country they had 
thus practically discovered. 

Dr. Woods, however, does not rest the claim of 
the Woodses and McAfees to genealogical notice 
upon their early migration from the old country to 
the new. They perfonned good deeds in the 
Colonial period, and ^\■hen the Eevolutionary War 
came on they shouldered their muskets and 
buckled on their broadswoitls and fought like 
hei'oes for the independence of their country. And 
A\'hen the victory of the Kevolution left the country 
free of the original enemy but Iieset on its bordea^ 
by ldoodtliir.sty and merciless savages they fought 
these savages for the freedom' of their adopted new 
State, until none of them were left to fight. Our 
counti-j^ has had no war in which the progenitors 
and the descendants of the Woodses and McAfees 
did not take part. x\s soldiers, as statesmen, as 
physicians, as lawyers, as scholar's, as clergymen, 
as mechanics, as manufacturers, as farmers, as 
merchants and as citizens of almost every class 
they performed well their part in the great drama 
of progress in the new State while it. was a wilder- 
ness, and continued their good work after it be- 
came the home of civilization and the arts and 
sciences. By marriage they extended their rela- 
tions to a host of families, most of whom appear in 
this book, and some of whom present the m'ost dis- 
tinguished names in the land. Gen. Lew Wallace, 
a soldier, a statesman and an author, who gave to 
the world Ben Hur, one of the most famous books 
ever written, was a Woods on the maternal side. 



INTllODUCTION. 



Gen. Kobt. B. McAfee, another soldier, statesman 
and anther, was in the Battle of the Thames and 
hel])e(l the Kentnckians to win their ji-lorions 
victory there. ^Vhen the war was over he wrote a 
history of it Avhich was pnhlislu'd in I.e.xinnton in 
ISlfi, and has always been accei>tcHl as authority. 
Other distiujinished names mijiht lie mentioned 
l)oth ajuoug the Woodses and ^IcAfees, bnt any 
necessity for d(>sijinatin,<i- them' is superseded by an 
ample index at the end of the work in which nearly 
(>verv important name is mentioned, with a refer- 
ence to the page where it is to be found. 



Dr. Woods's work, besides being known as the 
m'ost elaborate and most thorongli on family his- 
tory yet produced in Kentucky, will also be re- 
gardetl as the most vahialile contribulion to gene- 
alogy. And the printer, who sometimes gels his 
share of faint ])raise when In; brings out a new 
work, will meet with nothing (if this kind here. 
The beautiful ]ia])er, tlie clear tyjiography, the 
tasteful arrangement, and t.he suiK'i'b illustrations 
entitle the Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. to 
the highest praise. 

K. T. DtTUUKTT. 




WOODS COAT OF ARMS. 



THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL 

PART FIRST THE WOODS FAMILY. 



CHAPTER I. 

THE WOODSES IN GREAT BRITAIN. 

Wliilst till' iiiinic Woods is iiiKloiilitcdly Eiiii- I'Miiallv, llicrc ;n-e llic imincroiis Irish Woodses, 

lisli, dL'rived fi-oiu Ani^lo-Saxou (Wiidu), not all wlio.se aiici-stois ronncil.v were known liy tlie Gaelic 

of the ix'()])li' who bear it have oonie of pnro English name of O'Coilltc, hut wiio exehunycd it for the 

stock, r.esides tliosc families wiiiiii have for Enij;lish e(|uivaleiit, \\'oods. These Woodses are, 

centuries nmde their lumics in Eni;Iand, and are as a rule, pure Irish, and, ahnost without exception, 

descended from the true English, there are at least Komau Catholics. Thousands of tlieni are to 

four other races of men, some of wliose rejiresenta- he found in liie Enitcd States at the present time, 

rives are now called hy this name. First, there are The particular hranch of the Woods family with 

the Woodses wiiom we tind to-day in Scotland, which this volume is nu)re especially concerned is 

whose ancestors .yeuerations hack were English, of pure English, or else of Anglo-Scotch, blood, 

but who crossed the border to dwell among the AVhether the individual who was the founder of this 

Scotch, and became so thoroughly identified with branch niigrate<l directly to lieland from England, 

them by marriage and long residence as to become or belonged to those who resided some time in Scot- 

indistinguisliable fi-om the dwellers to the north of land before migrating to the Emerald Isle, can not 

the Tweed. Some of these Anglo-Scotcli \\'o(>dses be positively atlirmed, but the preponderance of 

in after times migrated, along with the unmixed evidence seems to be in favor of the flrst-uanied 

Scotch, to the North of Ii'eland; and then, later on, supposition.^ That the Woodses were Protestants, 

to America; and they would naturally come to be and mainly I'rcsbyterians, seems reasonably 

regarded as Scotch-Irish, their English blood being certain. And it seems to be e([ually certain that 

almost entirely lost sight of, even by themselves, tiie ^\'allaces and Campbells, with whom the 

Secondly, among the unhappy Huguenots who lied A\'oodses intermarried, were not only Presbyteri- 

from France during the period of Catholic persecu- ans, but people of pure Scotch blood. Prior to 1G50 

tion, tliere were not a few families by the name of the Woodses seem to have been connected with the 

Du Bols (I)nbose), some of whom, after their set- English Established Church. 

tlement in England, signalized tlieir complete ex- The persecutions visited uiion the Dissenters of 

patriation from the land of tlieir birth by a<lopting Ireland during the eighleenth century, largely as 

the English e(|uivalent (Woods) for th.e name they the result of the bigotry of English prelates, had 

had formerly borne as Frenchmen. Thirdly, there two marked effects: they rendered life in Ireland 

are some Woodses now in America wliose ancestors unbearable to the liberty-loving Scotch-Irish, there- 

not fai- back were (Jernian, and who were formerly by driving (ens (d' thousands of (hem to the Ameri- 

called by the name of AVoltz, but who have seen fit can colonies; and they helped to fill the patriot 

to make tlieir ]iatronyniic conform to their new army in after days with splendid soldiers, when the 

Dlitce of residence amongstEnglish-speakiiig people. American IJevolution began. The stream of emi- 



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,urati(in I'l-diii the Xoitli nf Ircljiiid liciiun to tlnw as 
early as Kills, Init it was chct-kod for a seasou. 
Then in 171!) it ri'coiiinicnocd, and continued for 
fifty years. In that notable niovciucnt- we find the 
AVoodsi'S and A\'allaces with whom we have to do 
in this volume. In the year lTli4 there came to 
Pennsylvania from I lie Norih of Ireland one 
Michael Woods, his ln'other \^'illialn, and their 
widowed sister Elizabeth ^^■alla(•e. and a number of 
their children.'' It has been a current belief in the 
Woods family that Mieliael, William and Elizabeth 
had two brothers, James and Andrew, who mi- 
grated with them to America. At the date of the 
migration ^Michael Woods was forty years old, and 
William was about twenty-nine. Elizabeth was 
probably tlie eldest of the party, and about forty- 
two .years old, and had with her at least 
six children by her husband, Peter Wal- 
lace, who was not long since deceased. Concern- 
lug James and Andrew Woods we have only 
the scantiest infornuition. It is probable they 
accompanied their sister and brothers to Penn- 
sylvania, but there is no positive evidence that 
they removed with them when, some ten years later, 
they migrated to Virginia. It is possible they were 
the ancestors of some of the numerous Pi'otestant 
Woodses in Pennsylvania and Maryland. There 
was, however, in Virginia, about the outbreak of 
the Kevolutiou, a James Woods living onh^ a mile 
or two from ^Michael Woods's home, who may have 
been one of these brothers. He patented land on 
Stockton's Creek, in what is now Albemarle county, 
Virginia, in 1749, and in 1775 we find him opening 
his home to the patriots of the Revolution for a 
meeting of the District Committee. This individual 
may have been a younger brother of Michael and 
William.* 

When we come to incfnire about the parents of 
these individuals — Elizabeth, :Michael, William, 
JauH's and AudreAV — we raise questions, not all of 
which can be answered as fully and positively as 
we could desire. vSome facts, hoAvever, are fairly 
well established." Without attempting to quote all 
that is given by the authorities mentioned in note 5, 



the follow lug exhibit of the main facts is deemed 
sulilicieiit, to-wit: 1, tlicre came lo Ii-eland a cer- 
tain English trooper, who was in the Cromwelliau 
arm_\' of in\asion in Klt'.t, by the name of ^\'oods; 
1', this ti-ooper had a son, John ^\■oods, who, alxmt 
KiSl, married a .Miss Elizabeth Wiusop''; 3, this 
iliss Worsop was born November lo, 1656, and it 
is assumed as probable that the John \\'oods whom 
she nmrried was liorn about KiT)!, not long after his 
father had withdrawn from Cromwell's arm.y and 
settled down to private life in Ireland ; 4, it is prob- 
able that Jolin ^Voods■s father <ame frcnn York- 
shire, England, and that he settled in one of the 
three counties of Fermanagh, Down or ileatb ; 5, it 
is most likely that the families of both John Woods 
and Elizabeth Worsop were Episcopalians, and of 
pure English stock ; 6, there are good reasons for be- 
lieving that the familyof which John Woods was the 
head was the only one in Ireland of the Protestant 
faith; 7, Elizabeth AVorsoji was undoubtedly a lady 
of gentle birth, and directly descended from some '■ 
families of the highest standing in England; and 
8, her line is as follows: She was the daughter j 
of Thomas Worsop and Elizabeth Parsons; and said 
Elizabeth Parsons was the datighter of Kichard 
Parsons and his wife, Letitia Loftus; and the said I 
Letitia Avas the daughter of Sir Adam Lof ttis, by his 
wife Jane A'aughn ; and said Sir Adam Avas the son 
of Sir Dudley Loftus, of county Dublin, by his wife 
Anne Bagnall ; and the said Sir Dudley was the son 
of Adam Loftus (Archbishop of Dublin, and Lord 
Chancellor of Ireland) l)y his wife Jane Purdon. 
The said Archbishop Loftus was born in Yorkshire, 
England, in 1534, and was the son of the 
Kight IJeverend Edward Loftus, of Levins- 
head. He ■was ordained in 1559 ; and hav- 
ing attracted the favorable notice of Queen 
Elizabeth during his examinations at Cam- 
bridge, he was rapidly promoted in the Church, be- 
ing made Archbishop of Armagh when he was only 
twenty-seven years old, and later on Archbishop of 
Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The 
said John Woods and his wife Elizabeth had at 
least one daughter and four sous, to-Avit: Eliza- 



HISTORY OF THE WOODSES. 



Iiclli, -MieliiU'l, \\'illiaiii, Jaiiu's and Audrew, all of 
wlidiii c'liiigrated to >,'ortli AuiLTioa iu 1724, aud 
had attaiiiL'd to their uiajorit}- by that time, 
and several of them had considei-able famil- 
ies. AN'hen and where John Woods aud his wife 
died we have no nieaus of kuowiug, but the proba- 
bility is that both liad passed away before 1724. 

When Ave seek for the reasons compelling al- 
most au entire family of people to forsake their 
uative laud aud seek a home iu a distaut aud 
sparsely settled colony, we are left to mere con- 
jecture. The eldest one of the party (Elizabeth 
>\'allacej was, as above stated, not far from forty- 
two years old Avhen the migration was undertaken. 
The Woodses and AA'al laces were probably people 
of culture aud some little worldly goods, but they 
were Disseuters aud Presbyterians, who had had to 
endure many disabilities aud sutler mauy i^etty 
tyrannies at the hands of bigoted English ecclesi- 
astics. The tide of population from Ireland to the 
American colonies was just then of tremendous vol- 
ume, aud thousands of the very best people of Ire- 
laud were seeking homes beyond the sea. It was 
?, vast, popular movement, for which there existed 
tlie twofold motive of escape from persecution, and 
the making of a start iu the new Land of 
Promise across the Atlantic. In America good 



hind was aimndanl and i'lii'a|i. and the jiroinise of 
freedom aud protection to all was inviting. So, 
in the year 1724, the A\'oodses aud Wallaces set 
sail foi- Amci'ica, and in a few weeks their destina- 
tion was reacbed, and the colony of I'ennsylxania 
becanu' theii- home. Tliey were done with (Jreat 
I'ritaiu forever. 

The John \\'oo(ls ( "oat of .Vrms is thus described 
liy .Mr. O'llart : "Arms Sa. three garbs or. Crest — 
out of clouds a hand erect, lioldiug a crowu be- 
tween two swords in bend aud bend sinister, points 
upward, all i)pr. The sliield is black, with three 
gold sheaves of wheat t)n it; out of gray donds a 
llesh-colored band, perpendicular, holding a gold 
crown, and all between two steel colored swords. 
The sheaAes of a\ heat indicate that the bearer came 
from a wheat producing country; the crest implies 
a combat, a \ictory, and an unexi)ected reward." 

The .Mrs. I'.arrett rei'errcd to in Note 5 is per- 
sonally ac([uaint('d with (piitea number of Woodses 
now living in Ireland, who are descendants of John 
^Voods aud Elizabeth A\'orsop and who occupy 
positions of prominence and lunutr iu the various 
walks of life. From this circumstance it is infer- 
red that John aiul Elizabeth had one or more sous 
who did not migrate to America with the Woods- 
\Vallace colonv of 1724. 



CHAPTER 11. 

ELIZABETH WOODS AND THE WALLACES. 

Elizabeth, as was stated in the previous chapter, w ho came with her to America. She resided in the 
was probably the first child of Johu Woods and his colouv' of I'eunsylvauia for about ten or fifteeu 
wife Elizabeth A\'orsop. We know that her years. Xo less than four of her children — three 
brother Michael t who came to be known iu after sons and a daughter — married children of her 
times as Michael Woods of Blair Park) was born brother ^lichael, their first cousins. When, in 
iu Ireland in l(iS4, and there is good reason for be- 1734, her brother Michael moved down into Yir- 
lieviug that she was the elder of the two. We may ginia, at least two of her sons had married, each, a 
assume, therefore, that she was boi-u yipt later than daughter of their uncle, aud moved with him to 
about the year 1082. She was tthrried to Peter what is now Albemai-le county, Virginia. Eliza- 
Wallace probably about the y«irv 170."). In 1724 beth i)robab]y did not leave Pennsylvania for sev- 
she migrated to America Avith her lirother ^Michael eral years after her bnitlicr, possibly nitt till 1739, 
and his family, at which date she had been a widow and when she did go she chose a home iu the Val- 
for .some time, and had at least six children living, ley of Virginia, Rockbridge county, just across the 



THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



Blue Kiiljic from wlicrc lici' hrotlicr :niil iwo of lu-r 
sous resided. For tliosi' days llie ride across tlie 
mouutaius was liut a small uiatler. and the inter- 
course hetween the families was no douht fre(|neut 
aud intimate. Whetlier she left any relatives in 
Pennsylvania — ^V(i(idses. or AValhiees — we can not 
say, hut there is jiood reason for l)elievino; that not 
all the ties wliich hound these two families to their 
old Tennsylvaina home were severed when the mi- 
gration to Vir.iiinia occurred. It is next to certain 
that at least one of Elizabeth's lirandsons left Vir- 



17<>7. He had a son, William Brown Wallace, born 
in King (ieorge county. \'a.. in IT.iT. who moved to 
Kentucky, aud there died in lS3o. Eliza Brown 
Wallace ^born in 171H), and died 18-13) was a 
daugliter of the bef<u'e-mentioned William Brown 
Wallace and married Hr. Dixon (J. Dedman, nl 
Lawrenci'burg, Kentucky, in 1S18. It seems to 
have been the belief of the descendants of both 
Peter Walhice (who married Klizat)eth Woods i 
and of William Wallace (whose son Michael set- 
tled in King (Jeorge county, Virginia) that the 



ginia before or about the Kevolutionary period, and great Scottish patriot, Sir William Wallace ( 1270- 



niade his home in Pennsylvania. Of the date of 
Elizabetli's deatli nothing positive is known, l)ut we 
feel reasonal>ly sure that her dust reposes in some 
one of the old Presbyterian church-yards of Kock- 
bridge county, Virginia. 



1305) was their ancestcu'; and the name Elderslie 
(or EUerslie, as it is often spelled i which belonged 
to the old Wallace lumiestead in Beufrewshire, 
Scotland, seven centuries ago, is still revered and 
clainu'd by them. All of this, however, is only con- 
The Peter Wallace wIkuu Elizabeth AVoods mar- jecture, based upon family traditions, aud is given 



ried about 1705 Avas, according to the traditions of 
his desceudants, a Scotch Highlander, who speur 
the latter part of his life in Ireland.' Very lit- 
tle is positively known concerning him. It is sup- 
jjosed that he was born about 1(580, and it is con- 
fidently believed he die.d some years i)rior to the 
migration of the Woodses and AA'allaces to 
America. Concerning his descendants, however, 
a great deal is known. They are scattered by 
thousands all over this Union, aud a more reput- 
able family can not be found in America. In Vir- 
ginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, California and 
other states the Wallaces are numerous. The 
most distinguished persons who have borne this 
name are Judge Caleb Wallace, one of the first 
three judges of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, ap- 
pointed in 171)2, and Major-Geueral Lew Wallace, 
the noted soldier, diidonuit and author, who is now 
easih" the first citizen of Indiana. There was an- 
other prominent family of this name in Virginia 



only for what it may be wcu'th. The six children 
known to have been born to Peter Wallace and his 
wife Elizabeth Woods will now be mentioned in 
what is believed to be their i)roper chronological 
order, so far as can now be known. 

A— WILLIAM WALLACE, son of Peter Wii\- 
lace, Sr., by his wife Elizabeth Woods, was prob- 
ably born in Ireland about the year 1706. In 1724 
he came, with his widowed mother and his uncle 
Michael Woods, to America, and settled in Lan- 
caster county, Pennsylvania. About the year 1730 
he nmrried his cimsiu Hannah ^^'oods, who was his 
uncle Michael's daughter. The intermarriage of 
cousins was a common occurrence with the 
Woodses aud Wallaces. When ^lichael Woods 
migrated to Virginia in 1734, William Wallace and 
his wife accompanied liim and settled very close to 
him at the eastern foot of the Blue Eidge. The 
stations called (Jreenwood and Crozet, on the 
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, are in the midst of 



and Kentucky,* the American head of which was the charming region of Albeu\arle couuty which 

Michael Wallace, ^1. 1»., who was the son of a the ^^'oodses and Wallaces settled. It was in early 

William Wallace, and was born in Scotland in days known as Henderson's Quarter, aud Mountain 

1719. This Dr. Michael Wallace migrated to Vir- I'lains. Dr. Foote informs us of the fornuition of 

ginia, and spent the last years of his life at Elder- this settlement in 1734" by Michael Woods, and 

slie. in King (Jeorge cimnty, Va., where he died in adds this statement: "Three sons and three sons- 



HISTORY OF TIIK WOODSES. o 

iii-l;i\\ ciiiii.- Willi him and sctilcil nrar. One of the sciicd liy iTlialilc |.cisoiis wliu arc (Icsccndcd from 

sons-ill law. ^^'illialll ^^■a 1 lace, took liis rcsidonee on her, and wlio arc in a position to know the facts. 

M('clniin"s livcr. in Allicniarlc." There he spent She was jirohahly horn in Ireland alxnit tlie year 

the rcinaiii.l<'v ..f his life, lie seems to have l)een a IKIS. and in 17l'4 came to .Xmerica with her inr)tlier 

o;reat favorite with liis father-in-law. His name and iier iiiiele .Mieliael W Is. After a residence 

is signed as a witness to a deed executed liy his of ahont ten years in Pennsylvania, she removed 

wife's father in 174:!. a facsimile of whicii ai)pears (in 17:'.4) to Viriiinia. hein-i then (he wife of 

in one of tlie illustrations contained in this vol- William Woods, her tirst cousin, whom she had 

lime. In 17lil. when .MichaeM\'oods came to make ])roliahly niairied in !7;'iL'. I'^iirtlier particulars 

his last will, he named William Wallace as one of concernin<>- her life will he given in the sucreedinf 

his executors. His descendants have lived in Alhe- chapters, where her husband's career will be con- 

marle for more than a hundred and fifty years, and sidered. 

are among the most ])roiiiineiit and luuiored citi- <' — !^-VirT'EL WALLACE was the son of Peter 
zens of the county. Tie and his father-in-hiw, ^^I'lhice, Sr., by his wife Elizabeth Woods, ami was 
Michael ^^'oods, wei-e Scotch Presbyterians, and probabl\ born in Ireland in the \ear 170!). He mi- 
were the i)rinci](al founders of the ^Fountain Plains grated with the Wallaces and Woodses to Pennsvl- 
Presbyterian Church, organized near their home vauia in 17l'4, wliere he seems to have lived about 
about the middle of the eighteenth century, but fifteen years. A\'hen the family migrated to Kork- 
long since dissidved. AA'illiam Wallace and his bridge counts-, \'irgiuia. about 17:>0. he \veii( with 
\vife Ilanuah Woods had born to them at least them, but he could not have resided but a short 
seven children, as follows: 1, ^Iich.vel, who com- time in Kockbridge, for he married a Miss Esther 
inanded a military <-omi)any in the Kevolutionary Baker, of Cub Treek Settlement, in what is now 
army, who married .\nn Allen, who in the year 1786 Charlotte County, ^'irginia, in 1741. There he 
<i.-ld out his lands in Virginia and moved to Ken- seems to have made his home till the year 1782, 
tucky, and who left nine children, as ai>pears from wlieu he removed to Kentucky, where he died about 
the Wallace cliart found in this v(dume; 2, John, *'!<? ."^'^n" I'^OO, in his ninety-first year. Samuel 
whose home was near the present village of Green- Wallace had four children born to him by his wife 

wood, who married Mary , who in 1780 Esther Paker, as follows: 1. C.\i,i;r.. who was 

sold his lauds and moved to \Vas1iington county, "'™'" >" '''^-' "*^'''^* nioved to Kentucky in 17S2. who 

Virginia, and jiossibly a little later, to Kentucky; ^^'^^ '^ ruling elder of the Presbyt(n'ian Church and 

3. .T.\NK or .Ti:.VN. win. married IJoliert Poage; 4, " "lii^^'ii.iiiii^l"''' lawyer, who was chosen to be one 

Wii.i.iAM I the L'.n. who married ^lary Pillsou, re- ^'^ ^''^^ ^^'^^ ^'"■^'^' j"''"^^*^ "f ^^'^ Kentucky Court of 

sid.'d near (Jivenw 1. and theiv died in 1809; 5, ^^PP'^'^il^ ^^ its creation in 1702, and was one of 

S.vitAH. uf whom th. ...litor .-ould h.ani nothing; G, ^''"' ='''^^'"^ ^"'"^ '"""^ ^unun..} jurists Kentucky ever 

Hannah, who mani.-d a Micha.d Woods; and 7, '"'•^' ''"'' ^^■'"' '^''''^ '" l'^'^' ''•"' f"" Particulars as 



Josi.Mi. who mairied a Miss Wallace, not related 
to his family, whose Christian name Dr. Edgar 
Woods states was Hannah, but which is thought bv 



to Judge Wallace and his ])arents the reader is re 

ferred to the volume devoted to the Wallace family 

of which the Kev. Dr. AVilliam II. Whitsitt is the 

author." 2. Elizaiiiotii. who was born in 1745, 

a Miss Wallace now living in California, and who ^^.,,„ ,„:„-ried C.d..n.d Henry Pawling, and who 

is a descendant of hers, to have been Susan.'" ,];,,] j,, ,si4; :!, Asunv.w . who was born in 1748, 

P— SrS.VNX.MI WALLACE is believed to married Catharine Parks, move<l to Kentucky with 

''"^'<' ' 'I f'"' second cli'ld, and first daughter, of |,is father, and there died in 1820; and 4, Samuicl. 

Peter Wallace, Sr., iiy his wife Elizabeth Woods. who, when a young man, started to Scotland, and 
That she was one of their children is ])ositively as- was never again heard of. 



6 THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 

D— ANDREW WALLACE, sou of Peter Wal- AVallace einigrated from Virginia before the move- 
lace, Sr., ^)^■ liis wife Elizabeth Woods, was prob- mciit to KeiitiiflvV (17S2 and onward) fairly set in, 
ably born in IrchuKl abont tlie year 171-!, and mi- it would almost ccrlainly ha\(' been bis eldest son, 
grated with his mother and nncle, Michael Woods, and he wduld have gone tn one of the colonies to 
to America in 1724. lie married .Margaret AYoods, the north of Virginia. The ^^■allaces had come to 
his nncle ^lichael's danghter, abont the year 1733, N'irgiiiia li-oiii renns_\ hania, and, as remarked be- 
and probably went with him and his own brother fore, they had probably not entirely severed the ties 
William to Virginia in 1734, he (Andrew) being, which bonnd them to that colony, and if one of 
as is confidently believed, one of the three sons-in- them abandoned "S'irginia aii\\\here from 170.") to 
law of ^fichael Woods, who accompanied him to 177r>, rennsylvania was, of all i>laccs in America, 
Virginia, according to l>r. Foote's acconnt Ix-fore the one which we wonld ('.KjuMt him to choose. It 
referred to. Andrew Wallace's plantation, as is is certainly known that there was a family of Wal- 
shown on the maj) of Albemarle county, Virginia, laces living in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in the year 
in this volume, was located at what is now Ivy 1778, and that town is only about fifty miles from 
Depot, and there he seems to have spent his days, the Virginia border, and less than thirty miles from 
his death occurring in 17S5. ^Margaret, his wife, the edge of the Pennsylvania county (Lancaster) 
died at least twenty-six years, and possil)ly thirty, in which the Wallaces had lived for fifteen years 
before Andrew; for her father Michael, in his will, prior to their migration to Virginia, iloreover, 
written in 1761, refers to her as being then dead, when this Andrew Wallace, of Carlisle, began to 
There is reason to believe she died about 1750, at think of marrying he left I'ennsylvania, and went 
which date Andrew was about forty-four years old. down into old Virginia and sought the hand of a 
\\liclh('r he married again, nv continued a widower niece of the famous John Paul (Jones), who in her 
for the remaining twenty-nine years of his life is y(mng girlhood days was a special favorite of (Jen- 
not known, but it is probable he remarried. If he eral Washington. This couple were the grand- 
did seek another wife it was when his older chil- parents of Major-General Lew Wallace, of national 
dren were of the age at which the children of a fame. That ilichael Wallace, who was the eldest 
family are most apt to resent a second marriage by son of Andi'inv. of Albemarle, and his wife Mar- 
either parent. His eldest son, Michael, was about garet Woods, was the father of Andrew, of Carlisle, 
twenty-two years old in ll'A't, and his second son, and luimed his son for Andrew,of Albemarle,fits so 
vSamuel, about twenty, as may be reasonably sup- exactly into all the known facts of the case, and 
posed. If Andrew did remarry, and the step- agrees so fully with all the persistent traditions of 
mother he brought into his family was not accept- the Wallaces and AYoodses, that until some positive 
able to his eight childi'cn, it may be that such a adverse testimony can be produced to overturn it, 
state of domestic affairs was brought about as helps we are warranted in accepting it as substantially 
to account for the rather unusual circumstance correct, and yet without asserting positively that 
which l)i'. l-:dgar Woods certifies to in his History all the deductions and inferences above presented 
of Albemarle County, ^'irginia, namely, that all of are, in every particular, based on facts, 
his eight cliildrcn, but one, emigrated from Albe- Andrew Wallace and Margaret Woods left the 
marie county, scattering to various distant regions, following children, to wit: 1, Mich.vel, who was 
The most of them went to Kentucky, and sonu- to jirobably born not far from the year 1734, who may 
the regions now included in West Virginia, which, have emigrated from Virginia to Pennsylvania 
let it be noted, boi-ders on Pennsylvania in part. The about 17(>r), and who probably was the father of the 
French and Indian War was concluded by the end Andrew Wallace that was born in Carlisle, Penn- 
of 17G2; and if any one of the children of Andrew sylvania, in 177S; 2, .S.vmuel, who was the second 



niSTOKY OF TIIK WOODSES. 7 

cliild of his ]i;ircn(s. iiiid ])r(>l);ihlv lini-n alidul 1T:'.<;. Ilic notice nf Aihiiii \\ail;ii'c. Saiiiiicl Wallace was 

ami wiio may pussihly have iiii<j;rat(Ml to IViiiisyl- an i>niccr in llic itcvuini ionary Army, ami coni- 

vania with his oldci- brother Michael; 3, Ki.t/a- manded al I'mt Vonnii on (he \'ir<;iiiia frontier 

iirni, who nian-ied \\"illiam I'.riscoe; 4, .Mai;v, who dniinii Ihe I'lcnch and Indian War. 3, J.VMES, 

mari'ied Alexandei- Henderson; ."), Ua.n.nah, ot w lin was an ensiiin in ihe Tliiid \'iri;inia Ivciiiment, 

whom nothinii is Jcnowii; (1, Stsan, who married and died of smailimx in I'liiiadelpliia in ITTd; 4, 

Thomas Collins; 7, .MAi:(;Ai:i"r. who married \Vil- Aham. the caiitain of a l{ocUhrid!.;e Tompaiiy in the 

liam Kamsey, and was the only one of the children Tenth N'irninia l{ei;iment, who was killed by Tarle- 

who <lid not emij;rate from Albemarle; and S, Ion's Iroopeis while bravely liiihtinii a.i;ainst fear- 

JiOAN, who married a ilr. Wilson. For additional fnl odds at tbe Waxliaw, Sonth Carolina, .May 21), 

])artienlars the reader may consult ])r. Edgar ITSO, and whose sword, nsed on that bloody day, 

Woods's woi-k, referred to in Note 10. was in the ])ossession of the .Mr. .fohn A. \l. Varner, 

E — A1>A.M WALLACE was probably born in of Lexington, \'a., already allnded to. a few years 

Ireland about the year 1715, bnt almost nothing ago ;."), Andkkw, who was the captain of a comiiany 

is known of him. He may have died early in life, in the Eighth N'irginia Regiment, and was killed 

or he may have migrated to the Carolinas, or back at Guildford Court House in 17N1.'- He, like 

to Pennsylvania. By some writers of the history his brothers, James and Adam, seems never to have 

of the Wallaces he has been confounded with Adam been married, and all three were young men at the 

Wallace, his gallant ne])hew, son of I'eter Wallace, time they died; (i. Joiix; 7, Eli/.aiu:tii, who mar- 

Jr., who perished while bravely tight iug the Uritish ried Col. .lolin (iilmore, of Kockbridge county; 8, 

troopers at AVaxhaw, 8. C, in 1780. .Iaxict; ami !», Sisannaii. The home of Teter Wal- 

p — rETEK W.VLLACE, JUNIOR, was the lace was only two miles southwest of Lexington, 
last child of I'eter ^^'allace, tSr., and his wife, Eliza- Va. He died in 1784, and his wife Martha in 
b( th AA'oods, and was almost certainly born in li-e- 1700. Two of his brothers-iudaw were adjoining 
land. The late J. A. 11. Varner, of Lexington, Va., neighbors, namely: (ieneral John Bowyer, the 
one of his lineal descendants and a gentleman well third husband of .Magdalen Woods; and Joseph 
informed about the Wallaces and Wooilses, and the Lapsley, the husband of 8arali Woods, 
source of much of the information contained in this The sword which the above-mentioned Adam 
volume, wrote the editor of this work in 1895 that Wallace wielded with telling effect upon th.' 
IVter Wallace, Jr., was born in 1710, and that his British dragoons at AVaxhaw, S. C, in 1780, de- 
wife, :\lartha Woods, was born in 1720. Peter, Jr., serves a moment's notice here. Adam was the cap- 
came from Ireland to Pennsylvania with his tain of one of Ihe companies of the Tenth Virginia 
mother in 1724, and it is ccmtidently believed he Kegiment of Ihe Continental Line (regulars), com- 
came with her to Kockbridge cotmty, Va., alxmt manded by Lietit. -Col. Abraham Biiford. Wallace's 
the year 1730. Like two of his brothers and one of c(nnpauy was comiiosed <d' fifty R(Mlcbridge mm. 
his sisters, before him, he married his first cousin. Col. Buford's regiment (the Tenth Virginia) had 
one of his uncde .Michael W\)ods's dilldren. This hwu detached from the Northern xVrmy,aiid order- 
lirobably took j.lace alxmt 1744. By her he had ed to go to the relief of our beleaguered garrison at 
niim children, as bdlows:"* 1, :MAr,(OM, who was Charleston, S. C. On their way they learned that 
in Ihe army under :Morgan, at Boston, and died (Jen. Lincoln had capitulated, and C(d. Buford was 
there, in service, in 177."); 2, SAMnoi., who was ordered to fall back again toward the north. Corn- 
born in 174."), who married Bebekah Anderson, wallis, learning of P.nford's retreat, sent his dash- 
who died in 17S(i, and who was the great ing, unscrnimlous cavalry otllicer, Co\. Tarlton, 
grandfather of the Mr. Varner alluded to above iu with 300 picked men, in pursuit; and after a forced 



THE WOODS-McAFEE ilEMORIAL. 



march of 100 miles, be overtook Huford at Wax- 
haw, S. C. Before Kuford and his ^'ir<>■iniaIls 
could i(re])are for the attack, the Uritisli cavalry 
were upou them from frout and rear, and both 
flanks. The Virginians delivered their fire, but 
before they could reload Tarleton's cavalrymen 
were on them with their pistols and swords. Out 
of 400 men of Buford's cou)niand 300 were killed 
or \\(>un(l<'(]. The wounded were hacked to pieces 
in tlic most inhuman manner. It was in this ter- 
rible enctmnter that Captain Adam Wallace fell. 
He was a young man of twenty-five years, and 
stood six feet, two inches, in his stockings — the very 
])icture of vigorous manhood. Col. Buford, seeing 
his men in confusion, tied early in the tight, but 
young Wallace disdained to fly; and, standing his 
ground, met steel with steel — his trusty sword was 
wielded with ti-emendous vigor, and he managed 
to kill a nundier of Tarlton's dragoons before he 
received the fatal blow which ended his noble 
young life. That very sword was, a few years ago, 
in the jKissession of Major J. A. IJ. Varner, of Lex- 
ington, Ya., himself a descendant of the young 
hero's brother, Samuel Wallace. It was an in- 
fantry captain's sword, with a Imck-horn handle, 
heavily mounted in silver. On the clasp nearest 
the handle is engraved, in clear letters, his name — 
"Adam Wallace." Four brothers, Malcolm, Adam, 
Andrew and James, sous of Peter Wallace, 
Jr., and :\Iartha AYoods, were sacrificed upon 
the altar of their country. This interest- 
ing story, which was publi.shcd in the Lex- 
ington (^'a.) paper. The Bocl-bridf/c Xcirs,'^'' found 
its way to Scotland, and a :Mr. William Cum- 
niing, of Shetlestown, Glasgow, Scotland, 
was moved to pen some stanzas in which the 
sword of Sir William Wallace, the great Scottish 
l)atriot, is joined with that of his su])posed descend- 
ant, Adam AVallace, of Virginia. Sinne of these 
stanzas are given in the belief that they will prove 
of deep interest to many of the Wallaces and 
Woodses of America, in whose veins flows some of 
the same blood as that which this young hero pour- 
ed out on the fatal field of '\^'axhaw in the year 



UNO. Adam Wallace was only twenty-eiglit at 
I lie time of his death. 

"When Scotland's ]»atriot hero led 

The Scottish hosts at Stirling's figlit, 
I-'ierce gleamed among the English foe 

Ills ])onder<ms falchion bright. 
^^■here'er the dreaded weapon flashed, 

There w as the deadliest of the fray : 
And England's stcmtest sons had fall'n, 

When victory crown'd the day. 
The centuries have passed since then; 

But near our fortress of the North 
The Wallace monument to-day 

Looks out ui)on the Forth — 
Looks over Scotland's pnmdest fields — 

Stirling and Bannockburn, adored; 
And treasures in its noble walls, 

Tlie time-worn Wallace sword. 

Of Scotland's kin full many a one 

In fair Virginia's old domain, 
Had found the freedom, which, alas, 

They sought at home in vain. 
For on their land had fell, awhile, 

The hated tyrant's evil poAver; 
And thus they passed, (m foreign shore. 

Through h^reedom's darkest hour. 
But A\lien the call to arms arose. 

And Britain would her sons enslave. 
She uR't, in those Virginian Scots, 

A phalanx of the brave. 
And one there was at Waxliaw's fight 

Who to the tyrant would not yield; 
'Who bore the name of "M'allacc wight": 

He died upon the field. 
He nobly faced the British foe. 

Like the ancestor of his race; 
And gave his life for Freedom's cause, 

Nor sought, in flight, disgrace. 
The sword he bore now lies with men. 

Who \\v]\ can prize the honored blade. 
For they have marched to many a field 

In "Stonewall's" old Brigade! 
Old veterans of the Southern cause. 

Descendants of our Wallace rare. 
That same old blade links Stirling here 

With AVaxhaw over there. 
And in thy honored roll of fame. 

We'd twine our Wallace name with thee; 
Blend Scottish with Virginian wreath — 

lvockbri<l"e and Elderslie." 



MICHAEL WOODS OF BLAIK VAllK. f^ 

111 ;i s]>cc(li siiid to li;i\c liccii (IclixiTcd in tlii- Of all tlic uiciiilicrs nl' ilic Wallacc-Wnnds clan 

^'i]■^inia House of 1 >('lcjiat('S, hv the late (ioxcniov none liad a noldcr iciord in liic livciit stnijisilc for 

.Tallies .McDowell, occurs this senlence concerninii Ainorican inde])eiidence than did Peter Wallace, 

the lirave vonnji soldier who owned that sword: Jr., and his wife, .Martha Woods. To that sacred 

"That dark and disinnl jcmc in the history of the cause they iia\e live hrave sons : Samuel, .Malcolm, 

Uexolntion — ilial carni\al of cruel and unjustifi- .\ndrew, .lames and .\dam, all Init one of whom 

ahle slauiihter — stainjied with tiie name of NVax- offered up his life upon the altar of freedom. These 

haw, is illuminated only hy the s])]endid heroism Scotch-Irish I'reshyterians were of the class of 

of a s(ddier I'roni the \ailey of ^'il■ii■illia, whom I men on whom \\'ashinL;lon said he couhl rely in the 

am iiroud to claim as my kinsman,'^ Cajitain dark hour of disaster. 
.Vdam Wallace, of Kockhridiie." 

CHAPTER III. 
MICHAEL WOODS OF BLAIR PARK. 

In the (dd family hiirial-iiround of .Michael true heyond all dispute, hut that they seem to rest 

\\'oods, (Ml the planlation which he owned and oc- ujioii good evidence, and that nothing inconsistent 

cupied for ahout twenty-eight years in .Mhemarle with any one of them is known to the writer, 

county. \'irgiiiia, lliere is to he seen tlie grave in It is certainly known that the lady wlnun 

which .Michael's liody was laid to rest in the year .Micliael AVoods married, jtossihly nineteen years 

17()ll. I'p to about the year ISO! this grave was ]>rior to his migration to .\iiieriea, was named .Mary 

marked hy a rather rudely formed honidstoue, on Caniiihell. It has been asserted hy trustworthy 

which was an inscription showing that he was horn writers, an<l has long l)een currently lielieved hy 

in the year l(i84, and died iii ITOli. Only a part the descendants of .Michael and .Mary, that she was 

of the heatlstone now remains, the upper portion of the house of the Dnke of .Vrgyle, and hehtnged to 

having been broken (d'f. Intelligent and trust- the famous Scotcli clan — Campbell.'" This fact, 

worthy ])ers(nis in the neig1d)orhood have asserted if we consider it as (-(UKdusively settled, would seem 

that they had seen the stone and read the inscrip- to indicate that .Michael \\'oods may have gotten 

tion before and after it was broken, and hence the his wife in Scotland; and, if this be true, then it 

date of Michael Woods's birth and death, and the would seem (|uite possilde that the Woodses may 

ju-ecise jdace of his burial may be considered as have resided in Scotland ])ri<u- to their being in 

settled for all time. That he was born in the Ireland, which some jiersons well (|nalitied to judge 

Emerald Isle; that he was the second child of a have not hesitated to assert was the case. The 

certain .Tolin Woods, who was the son of an English Woodses may, indeed, have been ])ure English 

trooper in the ( 'roinwellian army of invasicm, by stock, but they may have migrated to Scotland be- 

liis wife, Elizabeth Worso]); that he was a man of fore coming to Ireland. .\nd the writer confesses 

family i)rior to his migration from Ireland, and that there are several considerations which have 

took with him, when he moved, his wife and several teniled to incline his own mind to this sup])osit ion. 

children; that he migl-ated to .Vmerica in the year The fact that ihe father (d' .lohii ^^■ Is i.iiid grand- 

17:2-1, and that his first place of settlement in the father of .Michael I was in Cromwell's army, which 

New World was in the colony of Pennsylvania — all iii\ade(l Ireland about KU!), does not reipiire us to 

of these details ha\e ali-eady been staled to be sub- coiKlude Ihiil the Woodses had not left ICngland 

stantially c(»rrect on tiie strength of authorities before that time, and had not resided in Scotland, 

cited in the first chai>ter of Part I, of this volume.'' It would have l)eeii no difticult or unnatural thing 

It is not claimed ih.it each and all of the for .lolin \\'oods"s father to ha\'e connected himself 

statenients included in the foregoing sentence are with Cromwcirs arm\- alter it reached Ireland, if 



10 THE WOODS-M.AFKK MK.MOlJl AI.. 

liis svnipntliics were witli tlic invaders, and lie was iKciipii-d \ty tliat industrious, lirave and God-ft>ar- 

tlicn a cilizcn of that cnnntry. inii raic. He was ulatl. also, to havf the hardy (icr- 

('<incci-nin^ the stay which .Miihat-l and liis mans niaUc the hackwoods of \'irj;inia their home' 

family made in Pennsylvania, we have hut little The expausiou of the colony liy this means 

certain Icnowlediic It seems to have been agreed meant not only the •leneral industrial prosperity of 

])V all who ha\'e written on this siiltject that the the country, hut it ]iro\ided a liody of settlers on j 

Woodses and Wallaces settled in Lancaster county rJie colonial frontier, which would serve as a most | 

of that colony. The writer, however, has been un- valuable protection aiiainst the Indians to the older 

able, after some correspondence with the clerks of settlements in the central and tide-water i)ortions 

several of the Pennsylvania counties, to tind a of the colony. (lov. (Joocli was a somewhat zealous 

single record to indicate that Michael Woods ever partisan of The Ksrablished ("hurcli, and had no 

purchased or sold any land in what was, in 17:24 to special admiration for the religi(ms views and prac- 

1734, Lancaster county. He may have resided tices of Presbyterians and other Dissenters iu 

there, however, without carin>i to make any invest- the colony; but he was now more than willing to ] 

ments iu real estate, for we know he did not remain make concessi(ms an<l hold out inducements to the 

there but ten years, and then migrated to Virginia. !<cotch-Irish and (iermans of Pennsylvania. He 

Tbedateof this migration is tixed in the year 1731 offered tine lands to them upon liberal terms, and 

by Foote, A\'addell, Peyton and l>r. Edgar A\'oods. assured all new settlers of ami)le protection and 

Ami we happen to Isave a twofold explanation of welcome, provided they were law-abiding, and will- 

this southward move of the AVoodses and Wallaces, ing to uphold the Act of Toleration. Whilst the 

For one tiling, by 1732, the original settlers of Scotch-Irish never had much use for that Act, 

Pennsylvania, having grown jeabms of the i^cotcli- despising, in their souls, the very idea that any 

Irish who had come into the colony by thousands, decent, upright citizen should need to be "tol- 

and by their frugality, industry and skill had erated" instead of being left free to worship God 

grown prosperotis, liegan to urge the Proprietary as he saw best, and m>t compelled to pay taxes to 

Government to enact restrictive measures aimed at supjiort a form of religion which he disapproved, 

these new-comers, and intended to harass them and they were willing to accept the Governor's offer, 

discourage fnrtlier additions of their kind to the So it came to pass that a vast tide of these brave 

population of the colony. Thus did the men who ]>eople poured into the Great Valley, and through 

succeeded the lil>erty-loving and benevolent Wil- the gaps of the lUue Kidge over to the fertile and 

liam Penn rei>udiate the very principles which at charming region which lay at its eastern base, 

first had dominated the policy of that ccdony and Gov. Gooch was truly a shrewd statesman, but he 

rendered it attractive to the people of rister. The Imilded much wiser than he knew; for that new 

result of this ungenerous legislation, no doubt, was element, which he thus helped to introduce into 

that many of the Scotch-Irish settlers were ren- Virginia's life, tiltimately effected a complete revo- 

dered uncomfortable and made ready to improve, lution in the whole spirit and character of her 

with alacrity, any favorable openings for bettering p(H)ple and her laws. There were, indeed, some 

their condition. The shrewd governor of the colony ]>ainful struggles, and no little friction as the years 

of Virginia, Sir William (Jooch, was not slow to passed; but before the eighteenth century bad run 

give special encouragement to settlers from Penn- its course, the democratic ideas, which had their 

sylvania. Himself a Scotchman, he wrU knew the chief nursery in the ^'alley and I'iedmont sections 

sturdy character of the Scotch-Irish, and was only of Virginia, had come to dominate tlie whole of the 

to,) glad to see the Great Valley and all the as-yet- State.''* The common can.se which all Virginians 

unsettled regions on both sides of the Pine Kidge had to make against the tyrannies of the ^lother 



MICHAEL WOOD8 OF ULAIK I'AKK. 11 

Country in tlic Itcvoliit i«inary iicriod InoiiiilM them down into tlic sidcmliil \'iillcy iiml ci-ccl limiics. 
;it last to si'c eve lo eye. and to stand slionldcr to The i'ifdniont Kcnion. tlioniili closer to the olilcr 
slionldci-; and wlicn tliey t'lncriicd from tliat trc- scttlcincnfs of tlic colony, and lyin^- on the eastern 
niendiins strii,u.t;lc. llic old antaii<inisnis liad jtracti- side of tlic inoiiniains, was ((uilc as slow in liciiiii 
(■ally disaiipcai-cd, and NMriiinians were one j^i-eat settled as the \ alley. I'iske tells ns that in Spols- 
]ie(>]de, liviiii; toyellier in tile most cordial friend- wood's time ilTHt to ITl'l'i the v<'ry outposts of 
sliij) and nmttial esieem. The hearing which these lOniilish civilizaticm iiad not creiil inland ( west- 
rellections have upon our narrative will he ap- wardi heyond tlie ]M»ints at which the ocean tides 
](arent as we jiroceed. elihed and llowcd. "A strip of forest lifty miles or 
That famous iani;c of the Ajipalacliiaii system, more in hreadth still inlervenetl iietweeu the Vir- 
(iilled the IJltie KidiiC enters \'iriiinia from Mary- jiinia frontier and those hiiie ]ieaks visiiile ai^ainst 
land at Harper's I'erry on the Totomac, and ex- the western sky.""' This same state of thiiijis 
tends ch^ar across the State in a sonthwesterl\- seems to have continued almost u]i to the time at 
direction, a distance of iTiO miles, and jiasses on which .Michael \\i>o(ls sei i led at t he eastern hase of 
into North Carolina. ( >n the western side of this the Blui' Ividiic in what is now .Mhemarle county, 
ranii'e lies the (ireal N'alley, which avera!.i('s about ^'irlI,inia, just at the iiaj) which thereafter look his 
thirty miles in width, and extends to the jiarallel luime.-- The western half of what is now AUie- 
ranjie of the Alleiihanics on the west. On the east marie ootinty seems to have had no settlers prior to 
side of the Blue liidiie lies a tier of counties com- the date at which ^lichael Woods ti.xed his hahita- 
posin^ what is known as the Piedmont IJe^ion of t ion at the eastern base of the I'diie Kidiic. On the 
Virjiinia — the foot-of-the-mountain country, as its western side of the mountain, in the Valley, prob- 
uame imjilies. It was this riedmoiit Kejiion which ably the only settlement then in existence, as far 
^lichael Woods chose as his home in 17:U; and, so south as that of Woods, was the one made two 
far as known, he was the first white man to settle years before il73lM by John Lewis, near wliere 
in that part of the colony. It is usual to say that Staunton now is.-' The territory iu)w included 
the romantic, not to say hilarious, expedition of in the cotiuty of Aujiusta was then a part of Oransie 
(iovernor Spotswitod. in 171(1, marks the bejiinninu county, and what is now Albemarh' was then a part 
of the exploration of the ^'alley, thotinh several <>f CJoochland. The frontier of the colony then ex- 
earlier totirs to portions of its area are contended tended aloni;- the eastern base of the lihie Kidjie at 
for by various writers.'' The actual occupation h-ast twenty miles back from it, and tlie whole of 
of the \'alley by iiermaneiit settlers, however, did the A'alley was a viri^in wihlerness, with a sin.ule 
not take place till 17o-, abotit fourteen years after settler in the whole of the territory now included 
(iov. Spotswood's famous Knijiilits of the Ooldeii iu the connlies of l{ockini;liam. Tajie, Augusta, 
Horseshoe had uncorked and merrily emptied their Kockbridge, and beyond, and the little colony of 
inimerous brandy and cliainiiaiiiie bottles on the -Toist llite near the site of AVinchester, about eighty 
lianks of the lovely Shenandoah.-" A man from miles to the north. It was into this practically nu- 
I'ennsylvania named Joist Ilite made, in 17:'>L'. inhabited wilderness that Michael Woods ]>ene- 
what is gein-rally considered the tirst i)ermanent t rated in the year 17o4,-* there to live out tlie re- 
white settlement in the A'alley about live miles maining days of his life. He was then Hfty years of 
sotith of where Winchester now stands. Ilite had age, and had a large family of children —not less 
a warrant for 40,(1(1(1 acres of land which -Tohn and than eleven, as w ill be shown farther on — all of 
Isaac A'anmeter had gotten from (to\". (looch only whom but one seem to have accom]ianied him in this 
two yc^ars before, and he jiroceeded to offer induce- niigr;ttion. ( >f course, we are obliged lo assume - 
meats to enterprising men at the North to come though we have no positive evidence of the course 



12 



THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMOKIAL. 



]nii-su(Ml in this ])iirticiil;ir case — that iin scnsildc 
man would set out iu tliat early day. upon a 
journey of more tluiii two hundred miles, from 
T>aiicaster county, reuusylvauia, to the wilds of 
\'iriiinia. with a lot of women and children and 
household efl'ects. unless he had previously made a 
tour of investijiation to tlie rcfjion iu Avhioli lie pro- 



known that the Indiaus at the north-west were con- 
stantly at war witli tttlier tril)es at the South, and 
hands of warriors were fre(|ueutly passin<r to and 
fro aloiiii' the N'alley. and throuiih Woods's Gaji. 
hent on mischief 1o i-adi other. These warlike 
]iarties of savages conhl noi he deiieuded on lo re- 
main ])eaceahle and harmless. They would steal 



posed to settle, and made some arrangements for any valualdes they conhl lay hands on, and they 

the comfort and safely of Ids family. A\'e may, were not at all a\crse to Idoodshed, es])ecially when 

thei'efore, feel jiretty sui-e that several of llie men nu'ctiui; with i)ai-lies of whites whom they "ireatly 

of his family had visiti-d ^'ir,^■inia some months in oulnunihered. ( )f the Indian tribes whom tlie 

advance of the actual migration, fixed upon the ex- early settlers in the Valley had to deal with ilr. 

act location to he ocoipied, and perhaps erected a Waddell writes entertainingly, nuiking free quota- 



few rude cabins in the forest. The jirecise neighbor- 
hood .selected we know with all reasonable cer- 
tainty. It ^^as in what is now Albenmrle county 
(then (loochland I, about fourteen miles west of 
the town of ( "harlot tesville, and immediatelv at the 



tions from AA'ithers's ISorder Warfare."'"' From his I 
account we learn that the Delawares of the North, 
and tlie Catawhas of the South, were at war with 
each other about the time John Lewis and MichaeJ I 
\\'oods moved down into \'irginia, and that this 



foot of the Itlue Kidge, at the gap which for several circumstance retarded the settlement of the 

generations was called Woods's Gap, and is now country by the whites. Waddell giA^es it as his 

known as Jarman's. The Chesapeake 6c Ohio ojiinion that all of the earliest settlers of the Val- 

IJailway now traverses wliat was the plantation of lev came from I'ennsylvania, and came u\) the 



Michael Woods, between the stations of (ireenwood 
and ("rozet. It is near the head branches of the 
stream called Lickinghole Creek, and iu one of the 
most beautiful and desii'able locatimis in Virginia. 
The rea.sons impelling ilichael Woods to choose the 
eastern liase of the Kidge for a home, instead of tlie 
Great Valley on its western sid(>, we can only con- 
jecture; but we can well believe that he felt he 
would be somewhat better shielded from Indian 
attacks on that side. John Lewis, the first settler 
in that portion of the Vall(>y contiguous to the 
^^'oods settleuKMit, had only been there two years; 
and whilst, as AVaddell informs us,-" the Valley be- 
gan to till up i-a]»idly soon after Lewis canu>, it is 



Shenandoah A'alley. Whilst there were no roads 
then in existence in the Valley, there were Indian 
and Huffalo trails fairly well suited to pack- 
horses.-' According to I'eyton, the war-i)ath trav- 
elled by the Indians on their hostile ex]K'ditions 
against each other crossed the Fdue Kidge at 
^^'oods's Gap (Jarman's) and K(»cktish Gap, passed 
by the site of Staunton, and on down the Valley to 
the northward.-'' It was directly on this war-path 
that ^lichael ^^'oods umde his settlement. There 
is now a road leading through ^^'oods's Gap from 
Albemarle over to the Valley, which reaches the 
South Fork of the Shenandoah river at Doom's, a 
small station on the Norfolk ^S: ^^'estern K. K., and 



not likely that many families had settled in tliat there can scarcely be a doubt that this was the pre- 
vicinity by the time .Michael >Voods had made up cise rcmte which ^lichael Woods came in 173J. The 



liis mind to migi-ate. 

No move could be made, by any prudent man, 
into the N'irginia wilderness without taking ac- 
count of the Indians. Whilst it seems reasonably 



old Wilderness Koad, which ran from Philadelphia 
to the Potonmc ri\'er. and tlience uj) the Valley to 
New Kiver, and on down through Southwestern 
Virginia to CunUierland (Jap and Kentucky, had. 



certain that about this time (1732-5) the whites of course, not yet come into being for more than a 
and savages were not at war with each other, it is small ]iart of the distance; but no doubt the same 



MICHAEL WOODS OF BLAIR PARK. 15 

lii(li;u! .-iiiil IiuITmIo li-;iils, wliicli it iiiiiiiily fnllnwcd, liardiv lunc liccii llircc, ;is I >r. I'nnic iisscrls, Inil 

had pi-olialdy hccii already inarlccd out I'or cciilur- only t w n. < hir of llicsc was William Wallace 

ies. That I'ltad passed Ihioiii^h I.aiicasler, I'eiiii- ( iiieiit ioiied hy |ir. I'nuiei. wimhad iiiai-ried llaii- 

sylvaiiia, and Slauiildii, \'ii-i;inia. The distance nali W Is; and annlher, most jtnilialdy, was An- 

hy that lonle li-dni Lancaster to Woods's ( lap was drew ^^'allace, liroijier of Williani. who niai-ried 
alioiit 21.'.'') miles ; and in t i-aveisini; it wilhamiscel- .Marjiai'el \\'oods. Tin- only olhei- dan^hlev of 
laneons company of wdiueii, childi-en, cattle, and .Michael who was old enoiij;h lo lia\c lieeii niaffied 
the nsnal array of honsehold ^oods and sni)|)lies. hy 17."?4 was .Maudalen, his eldesi child, wliose first 
the time occni)ied conld hardly he less llian two hnshand was .I(din Mel >o\\ ell, and many who have 
weeks, or Ioniser. written ahout her have positively asserted, or as- 
Of the persons, chatlels, etc., coiuposint; the lit- snnied, that she cauM' to Anu-rica with her father, 
tie caravan of .Michael Woods, we know somet hi ni;-, and married .Tolm .Mcl>owcll in Pennsylvania, and 
lint not a ^reat deal. Still, the little we do know was livinji' in NMr^inia as early as lT;;ti. I'.ul each 
fni-nishes a hasis for some most reasonahle con- and all of these assiimptions as to .Maiidaleii are 
jectures which it can do ns no harm to consider for proved hy the conrt records of Orange connty, \'ir- 
a monn-nt. I'rom k'oote and others we learn that i;inia, to luu'e lieen entirely mistaken. She mar- 
.Michael had with him on this memorahle journey ried John .McHowell in (!reat I'.ritain, and did not 
several sous and sons-in-law. Dr. Foote does not c(mie to AnuMica till 17:*>T. Of this we shall have 
<;ive the nami'S of any of the i>arty, e.xceiit that of more to say when considerinii the nnmliei' of 
JHchael himself, and A\'illiam Wallace, oiu' of his MicliaeFs children, further on. Dr. Foote had 
sons-in-law. And he does not cite any authority prohahly adopted the current belief that Ma.udalen 
for his assertion; hut it is likely he knew, and had came to America in 1724 with her parents, and he 
conversed with, some of old .MichaeFs descendants may have concluded, also, that she and her hus- 
in Albemarle, Augusta, or Rockbridge, between band accompanied her father to Virginia in 1784, 
1840 and 1 8r)(), who preserved the traditions of the as they were known to have been in that colony 
family. As we know what children .Michaid had, shortly afterwar<ls. In addition to the llii-ee mar- 
aud have the means of knowing about when most of ried children in .\nierica, and .Magdalen still in 
his children were born, and know whom they mar- Ireland, .Michael and .Mary had three sons and two 
ried, and have good reasons for believing that every daughters, ranging in age from about eighteen 
one of his eleven children, except his eldest (Mag- down to ten years, all of wlnnn we nuiy safely as- 
dalenl, migrated with him to Virginia, we can sume canu' with their parents, namely: IJichard. 
make a very fair guess as to the size and composi- .Martha, .Vndrew, .Vrchibald and S.irah. Then, as 
tion of the com])any wliich journeyed in 17:U from iu this c(nn]»any there were live young married 
Lancaster county, I'ennsylvania, to (ioochland conpli-s, we may further assume there were not less 
county, Virginia, and came to a halt at the fool of than seven m- eight lit lie folks, most of whom were 
the nine Ridge tinder the shadow of the gap which less thau two years old. Then there were, in all 
came to bear the name (d' Woods. First of all, jirobability, several indentured servants, belonging 
there were .Michael ami .Mary, his wife. Then the to members of (he c(unpany. Thus there must 
three sons of :Micliael, whom Dr. Foote refers to, have been from t wcnty-tive to thirty ])ers(uis, young 
wer<' proliably — almost certaiidy -William, who and old, in this migration. Then these families, 
had married Susannah Wallace; .Michael, Jr., besides a great variety of supplies and houselndd 
whose wife was .\nne; and John, who married goods, must have brought along a nundier of cat- 
SusanmUi .Vnder.son. The lunnber of sons-in-law tie, pigs, shee]) and domestic fowls, not to meidion 
who accompanied Michael iu this migration could the inevitable assemblage of dogs, which could not 



16 THE WOODS-McAFEE JIEMORIAL. 

be left bf'liind. F<ir lln- wctincii ;ui(l cliililrcii and CliarlDlicsvillc. II liaving been deenied prudent 
liiisccllaiicoiis (-battels <>( so coiisidcralilc a com- liy tlie Aiiiericaiis to remove tbe Hritisb prisoners 
pany as tbat a yood many liorscs Cnrnislicd witli over into the \allcy and np to Winchester, this 
pack-saddU'S would be recpiired — not less tlian tif- .Major Anbury, wlio was evidently a gentleman of 
teen or twenty — the grand aggregate constituting culture, wrote to his friends in England an account 
a somewliat pretentious caravan. The able-bodied of tbe trip from Charlottesville, through Woods's 
men and older boys would walk, and each had, we <Iap to Winchester. In this letter, dated at Win- 
can be sure, his tlint-lock ritie, tomahawk, and Juint- Chester Nov. 20, 1780, he says: "We crossed tlie 
ing knife. The distance, as remarked above, from I'ignut Kidge, or more properly the Blue Mount- 
Lancaster, I'ennsylvania, to Woods's (iaj) was 225 ains, at Woods's (lap, and th(mgh consideralily 
miles, and, as such a body could not average more b.ftier tlian those we crossed in Connecticut, we did 
than fifteen miles a ila.\'. tbe journey i)robably con- not meet with so many difficulties; in short, yon 
sumed about t\M) \\-eeks or longer. I'rom Lan- scarcely perceive, till you ai'e upon the summit, 
caster down to the I'otomac — full.\' one-lialf of the that yon are gaining an eminence, mtn-h less one 
distance — we would expect a pretty fair road for tbat is of such prodigious height, owing to the ju- 
horses. When the company had once gotten into dicious manner tbat the inhabitants have made the 
the (ireat A'alley, tbe outixists-of ci\ilization were road, wliicb by its w indings renders tbe ascent ex- 
reached, and from thence on to their destination a tremely easy. After traveling near a mile through 
sharp look(mt for Indians was needful to b;' main- a thick wood befin-e ycm gain the summit of these 
tained. Before reaching the western base of the motiiitains, when you reach the top. you are sud- 
Blue Ridge, opposite the gap, soon to become denly suriJiised with an unbounded prosjiect that 
known as ^Yoods's, the decided depression in the strikes you with amazement. At the foot of the 
mimntaiu just in front became visible. At a dis- mountain runs a beautiful river; beyond it is a 
tance of three to live miles to the west, and very extensivi' ]»lain, interspersed with a variety of 
north-west, one easily recognizes the ga]) to-day. objects to render the scene still more delightful; 
The gap-crest is 2,400 feet above sea-level, whilst and alumt fifty miles distant are the lofty Alleghany 
the ri<lge-crest is, on tbe one side, :l,l()() feet, and on 3Iountains, whose tops are buried in the skies." 
tbe other, 3,000. The ascent from the South l^irk These, let it be noted, are the impressions of a 
of the Shenandoah at Doom's Station covers only captive British soldier in the fall of 1780 — forty- 
ahout three miles, but the rise is 1,200 feet to the six years after the Woodses and AA'allaces reached 
crest of the gap where the road ])asses through, the plate — he being on his way to Winchester, some 
Up this ascent the caravan slowly crept, following eighty miles to tbe north. Of course this gentle- 
the old Indian war-path, and when tbe top was man was not describing the view towards which 
reached the scene to the south and soutli-east which ilicbael Woods was now advancing, but the scenery 
met their gaze must have been enchanting, if these is very charming in both directions, 
practical people were lilessed at all with the It is no wdiider Michael Woods was pleased 
esthetic sense. A lovelier, more impressive view with the charming country which lay spread out 
it would be ditticult to find anywhere in the world, before him when he stood in tbe gap and looked 
Dr. E<lgar Woods, of Cbarlottesville, Virginia, in toward tlie south and south-east. It is, of course, 
his valuable History of Albemarle rounty, has lovelier to-day than it was in 1784, as tbe Avhole 
given some interesting letters written by a Major region is tinder cidtivation, and farm Inmses and 
Anbury, a British officer who was captured at Bur- villages dot the plains, and the marks of modern 
goyne's surrender in the fall of 1777, and who was civilization greet the eye in every direction. Just 
c(mfiued for a c<m])le of years in a prison camp at befe Michael Woods spent the remaining twenty- 



MICHAEL WOODS OF BLAIR PARK. 19 

eight years of Iiis life, and licic. ill li is own privatt' llic exposed regions iii-ar, and west of, the lilue 
Imrial-gromid, his dust lias reposi-d siiue 1T(J2, he- liidge was siicli as we can seareely uiiderslaiid in 
side tliat of liis wife and some of Jiis eliiidreii and tliese days of jieace. .\[any settlers U'fi their 
ehildreii's children. iionies and IIimI, some even going (h)wn into North 
The extremely exposed position occupied hy the Carolina. The reason was that everyhody fully 
Woodses and Wallaces at the hase of the Blue expected that the Indians, emholdeued hy their 
Rulge from llie time of their settlement there in notable victory, would in a few days, or weeks, at 
1734, until the close of the French and ludian most, overrun the more exposed settlements, and 
Wars in IKi:. — a period of nearly thirty years — murder the inhahitaiits and destroy everything 
must he home in mind in order to understand they might he umildc (o carry away. Now, Michael 
aright the conditions in the midst of which they Woods and his children were at this critical mo- 
lived. In all those years they were in a frontier ment living in one of the most insecure localities in 
region, and constantly in danger of Indian out- the colony, immediately on that very war-path from 
rages. Whilst, as was stated ahove, the Indians the uorth-west, which the savages would he ex- 
were uot formally and avo\\('dly at war with the pected to travel on tlu'ir mission of hlood and de 
whites for most of this period, hut only with each struction. >Vhat sorrow, consternation and dread 
other, yet they were constantly passing to and fro tilled the hearts of the men and women of whom we 
through the country, and now and then committed now write, we can only imagine, for they have left 
the most terrible deeds of blood. For instance, iu us only the briefest records to inform us of their 
December, 1742, only about eight j'ears after fearful experiences; but we know that the Woodses, 
yiichael ^^'oo(ls settled at AVoods's Gap, a baud of ^^'allaces, McDowells, Lai)sleys, etc., were there 
Shawnees from north of the Ohio invaded the Val- with their wives, their helpless little children and 
ley, and .lolin McDowell, the son-in-law of Michael all their worldly possessions, and were in sore peril 
Woods, with eight of his companions, was killed by and distress, such as but few of their descendants 
them on James river, near Balcony Falls, iu what have ever known. Michael AV'oods, therefore, spent 
is now Rockbridge county, where Noi'th river enters the whole of the twenty-eight years which he lived 
the James.-"' In 17").") — Sunday, July S — 'the very iu "N'irginia iu the midst of the hardships and stren- 
day before Braddock's defeat in Pennsylvania, oc- uous conditions of a frontier life, and iu all our 
curred the noted massacre at Drajiers Meadows, on estimates of them we must keep these facts in mind 
New river, in \\hat is now Montgomery county, Vir- if we would undcn-stand what manner of folk our 
ginia. The next day — July 9, 17r)5^the defeat of ancestors were. 

the British and Virginians by the French and Indi- Whether Michael Woods purchased any laud in 

ans at Fort Duquesne, and the death of General Virginia at the time he migrated thither, we now 

Braddock, their commander, soon sent a thrill of have no means of determining; but Dr. Edgar 

horror all through Virginia, and esjiecially through Woods, who has given this ipiestiou much careful 

the sparsely settled region in which the Woodses study, seems to have concluded that Michael's first 

and Wallaces then lived. Thackeray, in "The Vir- investment in Goochland county (now Albemarle) 

ginians,'' (juoted by Waddell,''" gives a graphic was made in 1737, three years after he settled in 

description of the speed with which the news of this that region." Certain it is, as ofiicial records show, 

fearful disaster reached all parts of the colony, and Michael recei\ed three Crown Grants aggregating 

of the terror which seemed then to seize every 1337 acres that year from King George II. The 

heart. Of the 300 Virginia militia iu the battle 90 original patent for one of them, which is dated June 

per cent, weiv killed, only thirty escaping alive. 4, 1737 — fourth year of (icorge II — ami signed 

The consternati(m of the inhabitants throughout by Sir William Gooch, the then Lieutenant- 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE .AIEIMORIAL. 



Governor of the "Colony and Dominion of 
Virf^inia." is no^^■ in the possession of Hon. 
Micajali ^^■oo(ls, of ( "liarlottesville, Yirjiinia, 
and a copy of the same is in rlie hands of the 
writer.^" This 4((0-a(re tract lay on J^ickinnhole 
creek and .Mechnms river. That same year he 
hon.iiht a tract of 2,000 acres on Ivy creek, not far 
away, from one (Miarles Ilndson, which said II nd- 
son had ])atented in IToo. .Michael's son Archi- 
bald and his son-iu-Iaw, William Wallace, pro- 
cnred patents for Crown (irants the same year that 
Michael did, for about the same nnudier of acres, 
each, and in the same ueighborliood. Archibald 
bad probably just reached liis majority, having 
been born, as is supposed, in ITKi. It is also as- 
serted — ujion what authority we know not — that, 
on that day. June 4. 1737, Michael received other 
grants of land aggi-egating 0,674 acres, and that 
three of his sons received grants for about 5,400 
acres. Land was ridiculously cheap in that part 
of the country at that early ijioueer period, the 
colonial authorities being only too glad to have 
sturdy settlers occupy the frontier and bear the 
brunt of developing the conutry in the face of the 
tremendous difficulties uecessary to be encountered. 
Brawn, brain and nerve counted for more than cash 
at that particular time, and in that particular part 
of the colony; and it is very probable that our 
titi'cestors of that i)eriod had more of the former 
than of the last-named commodity. On no other 
theory can we explain their willingness to settle 
and live in that part of the world. By frugality 
and industry, however, tliey bettered their condi- 
tion, and some of the children of Michael seem to 
have accumulated a considerable amount of prop- 
erty before passing away. 

We do not know whether or not ^lichael Woods 
ever gave his nuiin farm or plantation any distinct- 
ive name, but it has had at least two names since 
his death. In his will, dated in 17G1, he makes no 
reference to his old home place whatever. Tin- 
only land referred to in that docunnnit was a cer- 
tain tract of G80 acres, lying on Ivy creek, which 
stream was, at its nearest point, six or seven miles 



to the east of the [jlace on wliich Michael resided. 
It seems neaily certain that he had conveyed his 
Inmie place, or at least that portion of it on which 
stood his dwelling house, to his sou William, years 
liefore he died. .Michael was seventy-eight years old 
at the time of his death, and he had i)robably been 
a widower for at least nineteen years; for in numer- 
ous conveyances he executed in 1743, his wife's 
name does not appear. But we kno\\' that William 
Woods sold part of the old place to one Thomas 
Adams about 1773; and that Adams, in making his 
will in 17SS, left it to a Judge Blair, and spoke of 
it as "Mimntaiu Plains." That was evidently the 
name the plantation had bmg been known by. After 
Judge Blair came into possession of it, howevei", it 
came to be called "Blair Park,'' a name it holds to 
this day. And because thei'e were so nmny 
Woodses named ilichael, in honor of the head of 
the fanuly, one of whom was his own son, in order 
to distinguish the old patriarch from all the other 
Michaels he came to be knf>wn by all as "Michael 
Woods of Blair Park." The comparatively level 
stretch of country included within his plantation, 
and lying just at the foot of the Blue Kidge, and in 
close proximity to several cousidei'able outlying 
l)eaks, made the name of Mountain Plains very ap- 
propriate, and it is to be regretted that this historic 
and suggestive appellation was ever dropped. 

The first church of any faith, except that of the 
English Established Church, in Goochland county, 
belonged to Presbyterians, and was erected on or 
close to Michael Woods's place, and owed its exist- 
ence mainly to the Woodses and Wallaces. This 
church was called the Mountain Plains Church, in 
honor of Michael AVoods; and though the Presby- 
terians finally became so scarce in that vicinity in 
after years as to indiu-e them to sell their house of 
worship to a sister denomination of Christians (the 
Baptists), the name of ilountain Plains still ad- 
heres to it, thereby affording another reason why 
irichael's old home place should never have been 
called liy any other name than that which con- 
nected it so appropriately with the first nmn that 
exer came into that neighborhood to make a home. 



MICHAEL WOODS OF BLAIR PARK. 



21 



Anotlier chanjtc of names, fully as rciiTcttahlo as 
this, is here siiii-icstcd to the wvitci-'s iiiiiid. and 
that is, tlu* (inc whicli was made in the name nf iln' 
jjap in the lUnc Ikidyc wliirh loidcs down iijion the 
sjiot where ^Michael Woods lived, and whieh was 
for so many years known as Woods's (Jaj). In all 
the earlier ]>nhlislied voluiaes lliis was llie recoi;'- 
nized name loi' iliat mountain pass. In 1T."»7 the 
^'ir^inia ('(doinal Assemldy designated it in that 
way.'' If ever there was a sjx)! whieji had an a])- 
l»ro](riate name it was that liaii. when railed for 
.Michael ^^■oods. He was not only the hrst white 
nnin that settled anywhere within fweidy miles of 
it. lint he made his home riiiiit hy it for tweiity- 
ei<jht years: and, aho\c all, he was as worthy a 
eitizen as ever resided in that ])art of the land, and 
reared there one of the most re](utal)le families the 
county has ever })rodnce<l. r>nt this small honor 
the State of Virs>inia has allowed him to he de- 
])riA-ed of. Ahont eiiihty or ninety years ago, one 
Thomas -Tarman ]»ur<-hased land on the erest of the 
I]lue Kidjie at that pass, and from that time on the 
name of Woods has heen displaced hy that of Jar- 
man, and now all the maps have it "Jarnian's Gap." 
To he sure, it is not a vital matter, or worth any 
contention; and yet it <loes seem hardly the hand- 
some thinii' for ^'irginia to lend her conntenance to 
a change so needless, and one which takes from one 
of her worthiest jdoneers the only jjnhlic recog- 
nition he ever had in the records of a col- 
ony and State to which he ga\'e so many gallant 
defendei's during the I'rench and Indians \'\'ars, 
and the Revolution. It is modestly snggesteil that 
it would not he amiss in the Virginia Legislature, 
at sonn- time in the not distant future, to indulge 
in a little "poetic justice" hy ordaining that said 
l)ass he hereafter recognized, in all the official acts 
of the State thereto relating, hy its ancient and 
](ro])er designation — "^^'oods"s (lap." The worthy 
gentleman \\hose mime hecame attachi'd to this 
lieautiful mountain ])ass — ]Mr. .Tarman — could 
hai-dly op])ose the change to the original designa- 
tion, f(n' his own heloved daughter, Miss Mary, 



sJKiwcd a special liking for the name of ^^■olKls liy 
marrying one of old .Michael's grandsons. 

Tlie religions iMdiefs and denominational pri'f- 
eivnces of the Woodses were_, as we have good 
reasons for helieving, I'nshylerian. in tlie nmin. 
Thai .Michael Wnods and his wife. Mary ( 'amphell, 
and tile \\allaces, and the .McDowells, and the 
Lapsleys were Scotch I'reshyterians there seems to 
lie no cause to douht. Sonu' memhers of the next 
genei-ation. howcxcr, hecame ardent Uaptists. As 
the generations have come and gone since 1T."0, and 
intermarriages with memhei's of various other 
faiths have occurred, the solidity of the I'reshy- 
terian '•line" has heen very considerahly hroken, 
and yet it is prohahly true that more of the descend- 
ants of the families named ahove can still he found 
in the I'i-esh\terian fold than in any other one 
denomination of Christians. 

Tlie ndigious iirivileges of the settlers at 
^^'oods's (Jap were ])rohahly never very ahundant 
at any ]ieriod in the eighte<>nth century; they were 
painfully meagre for Hlc tirst ten or fifteen years 
of the Mountain Plains sell lenient. It is not likeh" 
there was anywhere within a reasonahle distance 
of ^^'oods's (!a]( a regular church of any kind prior 
to the year 1740. It was aliout that year, or a lit- 
tle later, that I'reshyterian churches hegau to be 
organized throughout the \'alley, and in the year 
1745 the first ste[)s weie taken hy the inhahitaJtits 
at Woods's Gap to secure the regular ministrations 
of (JosihI ])r(achers. A travelling e\ang(dist lia<l 
occasi(unilly passed that way. hut no church had 
heen organized, and no stated |)ul)lic religiims meet- 
ings had heen ludd. Those good peo]ilc had, indeed, 
hroughr with them their r.ildes. and i'salm hooks, 
and catechisms, and a few dexotioual volumes, and 
family religion was regularly maintained, we may 
feel sure; hut there was, for nniny of these years in 
the wilderness, a sad dearth of the ]iuhli<- oi\li- 
nances of religion. It was truly a life of privation 
those "hackwoods inhahitants" were ohliged to 
live; and the sli-nggle they had to maintain with 
the forces of nature in the as yet unsuhdued wild- 
erness, ccnipled with constant exposure to ludiau 



22 THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 

deprcHlatioiis, of necessity (lulled very greatly their that the time was near when he should he gathered 
sense of sjjiritnal things, and tended to make them to his fathers, proceeded to make his last will, 
careless about ])urely religicms concerns. But IJorn one year before the close of the reign of 
their previous training in godly homes in Ireland riiarles II 1 1(584 ), lie lived tlirough the brief reign 
and Scotland could not be wliolly obliterated, and of .Tames II, tlirougli Ihe stormy days of William 
those hard conditions witli which tliey had to deal and Mary, and was just thirty wlicn tlie first of the 
must have often made tliem feel their need of lielp Georges ascended tlie thi'one in 1714. lie outlived 
other than human, so that tlie fires on their family (leorge I and (ieorge II, and saw tlie first two 
altars, and in their hearts, never quite died out. So years of George III. Goniing to \'irginia in 1734. 
we find that, in 174."), John Woods, one of (dd then a man of fifty, when George Washington was 
Michael's favorite sons, was sent to Donegal I'res- but an infant of two years, he found Sir William 
l)ytery, away up in rennsylvauia, to prosecute a (looch at tlie helm in the colony. Outliving Ciooch, 
call for the ministerial services of a Kev. John lie saw John Robinson, Lord Albemarle, Louis Bur- 
Ilindman in behalf of the churches of ^lountaiu well, Robert Dinwiddle, and John Blair come and 
Plains and Rockfish. This effort was not sue- go, each in his tiirn, as colonial governor, and wit- 
cessful, however^ but it was renewed two years nessed also the first four years of the adniinistra- 
later. In 1747 a call, signed by fifty-seven persons, tion of (Jov. Fauiiuier, and closed his life just as 
was sent on to a Rev. Samuel Black to become tlie the I^rench and Indian War was about at an end. 
pastor of the scattered sheep of Christ's fold at He seems to have been a farmer all his life, and, so 
Jlountain Plains and Ivy Creek." This gentleman far as the writer is informed, he does not seem ever 
accei)ted the call, and was the first I'resbyterian to have held any very important official position, 
minister that ever resided in Albemarle county. He or to have seen service as a soldier. The records 
was there by 1751, and remained about twenty of Albemarle show that at one time and another he 
years, though he probably did not serve the people acquired a good deal of landed property; but so far 
at Woods's Gap very long, as the records of Han- as can be discovered from his last will, it Avould be 
over Presbytery for 1755 show that a jietition was inferred by many that he had disposed of all but a 
then before it from the people of that section ask- single tract before writing that instrument. He 
ing for a preacher. In ^larch, 17o(), in response to makes reference to lint a small amount of personal 
that request, the famous Samuel Davies spent a few property in his Avill, and yet this fact does not 
days preaching for them. He liad a regular charge necessarily imply that he did not possess a great 
in Hanover c(mnty, and could only i)ay them a brief deal besides, which he meant should descend ac- 
visit. But as the years passed the opportunities cording to the common law to his heirs. Even the 
for the stated services of regular ministers in- names of the heirs, to whom he desired such uumen- 
creased. During the last third of the eighteenth tioned property to go, were not obliged to be re- 
century the Presbytery of Hanover met in that ferred to. He did not need, in fact, to make any 
region of Albemarle at least a dozen times, and by will at all, except as he wished to make be(|uests to 
the year 1800 the rural districts of that part of certain individuals in a manner dift'erent from 
Virginia were fairly well supplied with <lospel that indicated by the law. The probability is, how- 
privileges. But the first (piarter of a century ever, that he liad long since distributed most of his 
which the Woodses and Wallaces spent in Vir- property, and was living with his son William at 
ginia were years of spiritual destitution, as well as the old home place. His will, on record at Char- 
physical hardship. lottesville, reads as follows : 

In the fall of 17C1 Michael Woods, being then "In the name of God, amen! This twenty- 
seventy-seven years old, and very ill, and realizing fourth day of November, one thousand seven bun- 



MICHAEL WOODS OF BLAIR PARK. 23 

drcd and sixty-ouo, I, Midiacl Woods, of the Colouy "Sijliicd, scali'd, i»uhlislicd and i)rononnf('d and 

of Viroinia, and county of AlhiMuarlc, bcins very declared h\ tlic said .Micliiiel Woods as liis last will 
sick and weak in body, hut of perfect mind and and teslanient. in preseiK-e nf ilii. siihscriliers, 
memory, thanks to (lod, therefore, callin-;- to miu.l '•.Miciiaim, Woctns. .Minor, 

the mortality of my body and knowing that it is "Miciimm W\ii vck 

appointed for all men once to die, (h> make and 

ordain this my last will and testament, that is to "^ *'" ''•^' ""■^•' 1"'''^'''"« const itnle and a].p..int 

say, principally and first ..f all f -ive an.l r.'com- ^"" -^'•'•'il'^'l"' ^V"«">^< -'"I". W.mmIs :,nd William 
mend my s.ml into the hands of Almighty God that ^^■''"""■'' '" I"' '"^ ^"1'' <'-V''«-<>lors, ms witness my 
gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth to ''=""' ""' >'"''"' '""' '^''>' "'•"^""' ^^■'■'*'''"- 
be buried in decent Christian burial, and as touch- ".Mi(ii.\i:i. ,,,, Woons, { L. S.) 

ing such worldly estate wherewith it hatli pleased ".Miciiaiol Woons, .Minor, 

God to bless me in this life, I give, devise and dis- "ilii'iiAiCL Wai.iaci:." 

pose of in the following nmunei' and form (ami 
first) let all my debts be paid, (secondly) I give 
and bequeath to son Archibald Woods ten pounds. 
(Thirdly) 1 give and be(ineath to son John Woods 
ten pounds. Fourthly, I give and bequeath to 
daughter Sarah ten pounds. Fifthly, I give and be- 
(|ueath to daughter Hannah ten pounds. Sixthly, I 
give and be(iueath my deceased daughter ^largar- 
et's children ten jionnds. Seventhly, I give and be- 
([ueath to son Archibald and son John my GSO acres 
of land lying on Ivy Greek, and that the said land 
shall be sold and the money divided among son 
Archibald, John, and William Wallace's families, 
and that each grandchild now in being shall have 
an equal share. Eighthly, I give and bequeath to 
son William Woods twenty shillings, which shall 
be paid out of said land. Ninthly, I give to Wil- 
liam's son -Michael twenty shillings, which shall b(> 
paid out of said land. Tenthly, I give and be- 
(lueath to daughter Sarah one pistole which shall 
be of the ready money no\\" by nie. Eleventhly, I 
give and bequeath to son Archibald's son .Michacd 
my great coat. And I do hereby utterly revi.ke and < >f ^1><' f'iii''i'al exercises held over the r<-mains of 

disallow all and every other former testaments, :Michael W Is we have no record. We only know 

wills, legacies, be(|ueaths and executions by me in ^I'^it his family burial-gnmnd was situated alnrnt 
any ways before named, willed and be(iueathe(l,rati- three to live hundred yards south ..f his dw.dling, 
tying and c(mtirming this and no other to be my "'"^ *'"'!••' '"' ^^-'^ l=>i'l >" ''"■^t- "'>^ beloved wife, 
last will and testament. In witness whereof I have ^f'>iT Gami-licll, had ju-obably been dead alxmt 
hereunto set my han.l and seal the day and year twenty years, as her name does not appear in 
;d)ove written deeds he executed in 1743. In conveying to his son 

"Mi('iiAi:i, ,, Woons, (L. S.) William a tract of 21)4 acres many years before his 



The following cei-tilicate from the clerk of the 
County Court of Albemarle is apjiendcd to the will, 
as follows : 

"At a court held for Albemarle cuunty the 11th 
day of June, ]7(>l', this last will and testament of 
^lichael A\'oods, deceased, was jii-oduced in court, 
^Michael \\(PO(ls, minor, and .Michael ^^'allace, two 
of the devisees and legatees in the saiil will, re- 
limpiish all benefit they might claim by the said 
^^■ill, whereupon the same \\as ])roved by tlu- oaths 
of the said Michael Wood.s, minor, and Michael 
AA'allace, the witnesses thereto and ord<»red to be 
recorded. .Vml on the motion of John ^\'()(lds and 
William Wallace, two of the executors therein 
named, made oath according to law, certiticate is 
granted them f'oi- obtaining a ])roiiate in due form 
giving security, whereupon they, with .\rlhur Hop- 
kins and William Cabell Gent, their securities, 
entered into and acknowledged their bond acciu'd- 
ingly. 

"Test. Joitx Xiciior.AS, Clk." 



24 THE WOODSOrcAFEE INfEMOKIAL. 

(leutb, Avliicli iiicludt^d tht' old liomestead aud the satisfartory account of the miinei-ous branches of 

family hnrial-iiTound. ^fichael expressly reserved to Woodses clainiinin- kinship with ^richael. of Blair 

himself and lici IS forever the rjiiht to enter and care Park. Afler iiiakinu a pretty tlioronjih investijia- 

for said burial-iironnd, and prohibited any and all tion of the subject, aud consultinii- every available 

persons from cultivating or disturbing Ihe same. Tu sdui-ce nf inforinatinii, lie lias readied the ]iositive 

1895, the date at which the ])lioto was taken of this coiu-lnsion that ilichael of Blair Park had a nuni- 

little "(lod's Acre," w hich was used in producing her of children in addition to the si.x mentioned in 

the engraving herewitli given, there was a rail fence tlie will. That he had at least eleven children, 

around the spot, and the entire enclosure Avas which is five more than are named in his will, it 

thickly set in cherry tr(>es. ^lichael's grave is still shall now be ours to prove. 

visible, and is located in the extreme north-western In the first place, a family of ten or a dozen 

corner of the plot, but the rude head and foot children in those bi'ave old days was not consid- 

stones which were originally set there have fallen ered a specially large one. It is not unheard of 

down, and the portion of the stone which con- even in (mr own times. The writer is himself the 

tained the inscription was broken off about ISGO, youngest of an even dozen children, all having the 

and its whereabouts are no longer known. The same father and mother. Tertain it is that a fam- 

neglected and ragged condition of this burial- ily of only six children was, a hundred years ago, 

ground, in which many of the Woodses were inter- considered a small one. 

red, is a reproach to tln^r descendants. Their liv- The only reason the writer has ever hear<l any- 

ing representatives owe it to their ancestors and to one assign for denying that ^Michael and Mary had 

themselves to atone for this neglect by enclosing more than the six children mentioned in the will is 

that plot witli a neat and substantial iron fence, the mere fact that only those six are referred to in 

and erecting a marble shaft in honor of those yet that instrument. In other words, the only argu- 

sleeping there. If each one of the now living ment we have to meet is the old one of ud if/iior- 

descendants of ^Michael Woods would contribute (lutiniii. The will names three sons and three 

one dollar, this good wiu'k could easily be accom- daughters, to-wit : William. John and Archibald, 

plished. Attention is called here to the peculiar and Ilannah, ^favgaret and Sarah. But was 

manner in which Michael signed his name — he al- Michael obliged to mention children who had long 

ways Avrote a small letter m between ^Michael and since gotten their portion of his estate? If a will 

Woods, and a little lielow the line, as though it ]mrported to be a family history, then it would have 

were the initial of a middle name. We do not un- been strange indeed to omit any one of them ; but a 

derstand it."" will is intended solely to indicate the direction the 

Before iiroceeding to give some account of the testator wishes certain i)arts of his property to 

children of :Michael Woods and Jfary Campbell, take, and what persons shall see to its distribution; 

his wife, it is incumbent on ns to settle how many and if he has several children for whom he has 

children there were, and what names they bore. ]n-eviotisly made all the jirovision he cares to make, 

This is needful because most of those persons who why need he refer to them at all? The law does 

have undertaken to write about ifichael Woods not recpiire him to do so, and his failure so to do 

have gone upon the supposition that the six chil- tieed not work any harm to any of his heirs. Hence 

dren mentioned by him in his will were the only he may or may not refer to them, as he thinks most 

ones he had. As soon as the present writer began convenient. It is a not(U'ious fact that thousands 

gathering material for this volume this qiaestion of men of property, before reaching the advanced 

confronted him, and he saw it had to be settled in age of seventy-seven, make distribution of the bulk 

one way or another in order to be able to give a of their estates among their several heirs, or at 



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MICnAEL WOOD^ OI' BLAIK PAKK. 27 

least p:ivc sonic of tlHMhIldrcn tlicii- ])(irt ions Ix'fori' plciiu-nts, and liouscliolil j^ioods. and silver i)late 
makinji' tlH'ir wills, and hence in wvilinti' their wills and jewelry, worth altofjether ten thousand 
have only some of the yonnii'cr children to jtrovide pounds; and it may he tliat he had some special 
for. Xow and tlien some of (Ju' cliildi'cn in a reasons for wantiu};; to j>ive the six children a little 
family marry forlnnes, oi- Ity some nihcr means ac- more than the others, and so char}"-ed his <;eneral 
quire much larger estates flian either their parents estate with these particular he((uests, intending 
or their hrolhers and sisters ever possessed, in that the residue of liis ])roi)erty, remaining after 
which cases the fatlu-r would naturally want to pro- satisfying these spccitic demands, should he equally 
vide for the less fortunate ones, and miglit give no divided, as the common law directed, lietwccn ail 
part of Lis small estate to the wealthier children. the children. In this way the \innamed children 
And once in a great while we hud a father who has w(ml(l get all that Michael pnrixtsed they should 
children, who in some way have excited his sore dis- have as certainly as if he had ex])ressly mentioned 
pleasure and from whom he has become alienated, them by name. And in favor of this supposition in 
In all such cases it were nothing very surprising to this case is the almost demonstrated fact that 
find no mention of one or more of his children in Jlichael Woods was possessed of a good many items 
his will. of property to which no allusion is made in his will. 
But there is another class of cases, which are to He speaks, in the will, of "the ready money now by 
be met with everywhere now and then, in which the me," in making his devise of "one pistole" to his 
testator not only omits all reference to one or more daughter Sarah, to whom he had already given ten 
of his children, but likewise says not a word in his pounds without hinting what sliajH' these pounds 
will concerning the larger part of his estate. lie were then in, and who knows how many hundreds, 
may oAvn a dozen farms or city lots, and have hun- or thousands of pounds, he nmy have had loaned 
dreds of bonds and other investments, worth, in the out over the county to which he makes no allusion, 
aggregate, a million dollars; and, besides a wife, and Avhich he fully intended should be divided, ac- 
he may have several children for whom he cherishes cording to law, among his various heirs? ITis 
the ^\•armest natural atTection. Such a num might, own son-in-law, Josei)h Lapsley, the husband of his 
Avithout the slightest irregularity, make a will con- daughter Sarah, above mentioned, did precisely 
sisting of a single provision only, to this eft'ect : "I this thing in writing his will. He mentioned only 
hereby be(]ueath to my Avife, Mary, one hundred two of his children, Joseph, Jr., aiul John, when it 
thousand dollars." What objection could anybody is known he had another son and several daughters, 
fairly make to his not mentioning his children and Samuel Dedman, of Albemarle, who died a century 
his various items of property? Noiu' at all. Such ago, and Avho was the writei''s great-grandfather, 
a will Avould simply mean that he wanted his wife, made no mention, in his will, of the son who bore 
first of all, to be given the one hundred thousand his own name — Samuel Dedman, Jr., — and yet the 
dollars, and the residue of his estate to be distrib- court records show that that son was alive when 
uted to his heirs, whoever they be, according to the his father died. In view of these considerations, 
law of the State in which he resided. This sort of which we feel sure no good lawyer will set aside as 
a will can be nu4 with in almost every State in the mere baseless reasoning, we ought to dismiss from 
Union. It would not in the slightest degree imply our minds the idea that a nmn can not have any 
that he had no children, nor that he had only the children whom he omits to mention in his will. Of 
amount of money given to his wife. For all we course we have not yet proved that Michael aotu- 
know, Michael Woods nuiy have had, when he made ally had children who \\-ere not referred to in the 
his will, several plantations, and a lai-ge number of will, but we have at least, as we hope, removed 
slaves, and nuiny horses, cattle, sheep, farming im- some purely imaginary obstacles out of the way. 



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THE WOODS MfA FEE :\rE:N[ORIAL. 



and we arc now pivpaird for sncli positive proof 
of the justice of the writer's contentions as may be 
adduced. 

The writer is of the opinion tliat Michael Woods 
of Bhiir I'arlc had, in achlition to the six chihlreu 
mentioned in his will, certainly four, and very 
probably live more. They are the followiag, to- 
wit : 1, iliciiael. whose wife was Anne, who re- 
sided for many years in Albemarle, and wlio late 
in life moved to Botetourt, and there died in 1777; 
2, ila<i;daleii. wlio married John ^McDowell, and 
later, Benjamin Borden, Jr., and still later. Col. 
John Bowyer, and who attained to an extraordin- 
ary age; 3, .Martha, who was the \\ife of Peter Wal- 
lace, Jr., and died iu 171K); 4, Andrew, who mar- 
ried a Miss I'oage, and died iu 1781 ; and 5, Bich- 
ard. Besides these five there were one or two other 
AVoodses in Albemarle who were, in all probability, 
either the sons or near kinsmen of ilichael, namely, 
James and Ir^amuel. As the evidence to be adduced 
for the correctness of our opinions is not exactly 
the same for any two of the five allejicd children, 
it will be best to take up each one separately. And 
let it be observed that if we shall be able to umke 
out our case for any oiu' of the five we shall have 
succeeded in deuKmstratiiiii the unsoundness of the 
position that mere non-mention of a person in a 
will necessarily imidics that he or she could not be 
a child of the testator. Let it be also noted that not 
one particle of objection can be offered to the 
theory of more than six children except the mere 
supposed abseuce of proof of there having been 
more. 

AVe will begin with Michael Woods, who, for 
convenience, is often spoken of as "^[ichael of Bote- 
tcmrt." to distinguish him from Michael of Blair 
Park. For one thing, all will surely agree that it 
would have been a natural and proper thing for 
Jfichael of Blair Park to have named one of his 
S(ms for himself; and if this man uow under con- 
sideration was not the son ()f the Blair Park 
Michael, then, so far as we have information, the 
latter had no namesake at all among his own chil- 
dren. .Secondly, it is absolutely certain that this 



Botetourt -Michael lived in the same county, and 
l)arish and neighborhood as the other Michael for 
at least thirty years. Their farms were not over 
five miles apart. From a deed now on record in 
the court-house at Charlottesville, executed in 1743, 
we learn that the Blair Park Michael conveyed a 
tract of 200 acres of land to the other ^lichael, 
which tract Botetimrt Michael sold in 1773, about 
eleven years after the Blair Park ilichael had died, 
and a year or two after he himself had moved to the 
county of Botetourt to reside. This Botetourt 
Michael may have come to that neighborhood when 
Blair Park ^lichael did — as this writer is confi- 
dent was the case — but he was certainly a near 
neighbor of Blair Park .Michael from 1743 until the 
latter died. Kight there in the nest of Woodses 
and AVallaces this Botetourt ^lichael spent thirty | 
years, and possibly neai'ly forty years, of his life. 
What more natural than that in a frontier, back- 
woods region of the colony a father and his sons 
should live in the closest touch with each other? 
.And we find that the Botetourt Michael did not 1 
leave .Vlbemarle till the other ^lichael had been 
dead eight or ten years. We know he did not sell 
his farm in .Vlbemarle for several years after he 
had settled in Botetourt. Thirdly, when we come 
to examine the deed above referred to, and note 
who were the ^\itnesses to it, we get another sig- 
nificaut intimation of the fact that the grantor and 
grantee were probably father and son. There are 
four witut'sses to this deed of 1743, and we find 
three of them are the sons of Michael of Blair Park 
( the very ones mentioned in his will I , aud the other 
oue was his son-iu-law William Wallace. If the 
two ^Michaels were father and son we can see why 
the whole transaction would be exclusively a fam- 
ily affair, aud all four witnesses as close to the 
grantee as to the grantor. But if the Botetourt 
^lichael had been cmlya distant relative of the other 
^lichael, or was merely a man of the same name 
who happened to be living in the neighborhood, it 
would have been more natural for the grantee to 
have had at least one of the fimr witnesses more 
closelv connected witli himself than with the 



MICIIAKL WOODS OF T5LA1I; I'AUK. 



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g-mntor. Il is iidt ill all usual for iiicii in sicttin^ 
witucsscs to iiiipoi'taut traiisactidiis (o have all of 
tlu'iii the sous of the (tiu» party and none of them 
vei'v close to Ihcinscjvcs, and lliat, loo, wIhmi so 
many as four wiliicsscs arc secured. That wduld 
look iiUe a decidedly one-sided all'air. Ivxaminiui;' 
the court records at Charlottesville a little more 
closely for 1748, we are struck with the fact that it 
seems to have lieen a year in which Micliatd of lilair 
Park Avas heut on distrihutiug his landed estate 
among his children who were living close hy him. 
In that one year we tind he made conveyances of 
laud to his son William, his son John, his son-in- 
law William, and to another individual. And who 
was this fourth individual who constitutes 
one of tliis (juartet of grantees? It was uoue 
other than this ]>otelonrt ^lichael, whom we feel 
certain was just as much the son of I'dair Tark 
Michael as AVilliam and John AVoods were, and 
nearer to him than A\'illiam \Vallace. In 1743 
Blair Park ^lichael was fifty nine years old, and a 
widower; AVilliam was prohahly ahout thirty-six, 
^Michael of Ilotetourt about thirty-tive, and John 
thirty-one. AA'illiam AA'allace was prohahlv the 
same age as AA'illiam Woods. How natural and 
proper that at this time .Alichael of Blair Park 
should give his sons each a good farm? It is true 
that in each conveyance a money consideration is 
mentioned, but that does not signify that a single 
pound actually changed hands. The sums stated 
may have lieen put tliere merely to indicate the 
value of the i)orti(m given to each as a guide in de- 
termining, in after years, Avhat would be an equit- 
able arrangement for the respective heirs. 

But we are not yet done with this deed of 1743, 
made to 3Iichael of Botetourt. A certified copy of 
it lies before the writer, and its preamble will now 
be cited, just as it is: "This indenture made the 
third day of August, in the seventeenth year of the 
reign of our Sovereign Lord (Jeorge II by the 
Grace of God, of (Jreat Britain, France and Ire- 
land, King Defender of the I'aith, etc., and in the 
year of Our Lord Christ MDCCXLIIL, between 
Michael Woods, Si*., of the parish of Saint James 



and county of Goochland, farmer, of the one, and 
Michael AVoods, Jun'r, of the same i)arish and 
county, of the other ])art, witnesseth," etc. 

The point we want noted here is that in this con- 
veyance alone, of all the four executed in 1743, 
Blair Park Michael designates himself as Michael 
AVoods "Senior." In sjieaking of the grantee he 
designates him as .Alichael "Junior." This grantee 
coidd not possibly have been one of the numerous 
grandsons of ohl Michael bearing his name, for not 
one of them was then (d' sutlicient age to take the 
title to real estate. And in none of the instru- 
ments executed prior to old .Alichael's death 
in which the grandsons named .Alichael AVoods 
are referred to, or siyn their names, docs the 
suffix "Junior" occur so far as we have been able 
to discover. AA'hy did Blair Park Alichael describe 
the other ^Michael, the grantee, as "Junior?"' Is 
that the likely way in which he would have dis- 
criminated a distant kinsman, or a man outside his 
family who happened to have that name and reside 
in Goochland? That explanatory appendix to a 
name is almost always the mark of sonship, and not 
of mere sameness of name. If any one should ob- 
ject that had the grantee been the elder Michael's 
son the relationshi]> would have been recognizeil in 
that deed, it may be rei)lied that in the deeds of 
that same year to two sons and a son-in-law there is 
no allusion whatever to the relationship of the 
parties to each other. A facsimile reproduction of 
a part of the deed to John AA'oods of 1743 is given 
in Appendi.x F. and it will s])eak for itself. The 
reference to the grantee in this jiart of the deed is 
the same as that in the body (d' the instrument. 
That word "Junior" is ceitainly very suggestive. 
Whilst admitting that il could, without im])ro- 
priety, be apjdied to the younger of two ](ersons in 
the same community bearing the same name, it is 
but fair to contend that in nearly all cases it is used 
to discriminate a son fnnn his father. Some other 
e.\planatoi-y a])pendix isusually em]>loye<l wherethe 
l)ersons having the same name are not father and 
son. In the AA'oods family in .Albemarle there were 
several individuals named AA'illiam, but those not 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



rclatt'd iis father and son were diseriniinated as 
"Heaver Creek Billy Woods," and "r.aptist Uilly 
Woods." In the ease in hand, if tlie yonnger 
iMiehael had not been the elder iliehael's son he 
■\vonld most jirobably have been called "Ivy Creek 
Miehael," after the stream on whose headwaters his 
farm lay, or by some other distinctive title. 

There is something suggestive also in the preva- 
lence of certain Christian names to be found in the 
families of tliese two Jlichaels, respectively. In 
those old days the descendants of the Scottish 
Highlanders were exceedingly clannish, and a 
man ^\•as far more likely then than now to adhere 
to the family names in naming his children. Jilood 
relationship counted for much, and the old clan 
feeling was strong. The man who attempts to 
count and properly locate all the .Alichaels and 
Johns and 8aniuels and Williams in the Woods 
families from 1700 to 1800 will soon find himself 
hopelessly confused. On examining the names of 
the children of these two :Michaels we find we have 
in each family a William, a Magdalen, a Sarah, 
a Martha, and a Margaret. If we could but know 
the names of all the little children that probably 
came into those two homes to abide only a few 
years and pass away, we should doubtless be able 
to illustrate the persistency of family names yet 
more strikingly. Christian names were not so ex- 
ceedingly scarce in those days that each of these 
two men must needs employ the same ones for at 
least five of their children, respectively. It cer- 
tainly does look as if these two :\Iichaels were not 
merely near of kin, but father and son. 

But we now covne to deal with something more 
reliable and convincing than even the strong cir- 
cumstantial evidence we have been considering. 
There is unimpeachable testimony of persons who 
were not only in the highest degree trustworthy, 
and thoroughly capable of judging as to the value 
and meaning of well-established family traditions, 
but who through a long course of years were in a 
position to learn the truth, and who had no motive 
imaginable for making false statements concerning 
this question. 



It was the \Ariter"s good fortune, several years 
ago, to get into communication with Major J. A. K. 
Varner, of Lexington, A'irginia, who has been dead 
since the fall of IS!)."). This gentleman was himseif 
a descendant of ^Michael Woods of Blair Park, 
through his daughter I\Iartha, who was the wife of 
Peter Wallace, Jr., and he made a great deal of 
research in the records of courts and families in 
Kockbridge county, Virginia, and learned a great 
deal about the Woodses and Wallaces, many of 
whom were citizens of that county from 1734 on- 
ward, ilajor Varner was a man of high character, 
well educated, and very intelligent. The present 
writer has now in his possession three letters Avrit- 
teu by Major Varner not long before his death, 
and from these letters liberal quotations will be 
made. Several of his statements concerning both 
Wallaces and Wo(»dses will here be given which 
may seem at first glance to be not entirely relcA'ant 
to the particular point now under consideration, 
but which Avill later on be seen to bear directlj' on 
it. Under date of July 21, 1893, Major Varner 
writes as follows: "^lartha Woods, Avife of Peter 
\\'allace, was the daughter of 3Iichael Woods, of 
Albemarle, and the mother of the said Peter Wal- 
lace was Elizabeth "Woods, a sister of the aforesaid 
Michael Woods. Peter Wallace and his wife, 
Martha T^'oods, \\ere first cousins. * * * Peter 
^^'allace, 8r., father of the Peter AVallace, Jr., men- 
tioned, is said to have been a Highland Scotchman, 
but he emigrated to the Province of Ulster and died 
there. It is said by some that he came over with 
his family to Pennsylvania and died in that prov- 
ince. His wife was named Elizabeth Woods, and 
she was a sister of :Michael AN'oods of Blair Park. 
It is not known how many children were 
born to Peter Wallace and his wife Elizabeth 
"Woods, but it is known beyond a reason- 
able doubt that five of their sous — five broth- 
ers — came from Pennsylvania between 1731 
and 1740 to their uncle Michael Woods's 
home at Blair Park in one of the gaps in the Blue 
Ridge, in what is now known as Albemarle county, 
Viro'inia. The names of these five Wallace broth- 



MICHAEL W(K)1)S OF BLAlli PARK. 31 

ci's were: rctcv, Williiiiii, Adam, Waiiincl and lioiicst folk. Their fallicr was a man of iiilclli- 
Aiidrcw. Tlii-cc of tlicsc lirofluTs married tlieir jicnce; I know lie \vi'o<e a t^ood liand and an exccl- 
lirst consins, daujiliters of llieir uncle, .Miclmel lent leltei-; lie was sixteen vears old wlien Ids ^rand- 
Woods. I'eter ^Vallaee nuirried .Martha \\'oods; motluT Martini (Woods) Wallace died, and ten 
\\illiam married Hannah Woods; Andrew nnirried when his f^randfather Teter Wallace died. .Mrs. 
.Margaret Woods.* * * ir^aninel ^^■allace, one of Onld and .Mi-s. ("nmminns were vonnji ladies 
the five brothers,married Esther Baker,of Charlotte twent.v-fonr and eiiihteen years idd, respectively, 
county, Virginia, and was the father of Jndge Caleb when .Mrs. .Magdalen Campbell died. .Mrs. Camp- 
\\'allace, of the Snpreme Coui-t of Kentucky, f hell was intimately known to both of them — one 
ha\e so far been uiuible to get any infoi-nnition of of them was named for her. .Mi-s. Campbell was 
Adam ^Vallace or his possible descendants. It is born in 17.")."> ;ind died in ls:!(l; she was a nnirried 
thought by sonu' who have written on the subject wonuiu when I'eter and .Martha Wallace died, and 
that the author of that popular novcd, "]>en llnr," she never visited a hou.se that she did not recount 
is descended from .Vndrew AVallace and his wife the deeds and the death of the Wallace IJevolntion- 
Margaret A\'oods. In fact General A\'allace, in a ary soldier brothers. She was a young lady when 
letter about the old sword, wrote nu' that such was they went to the wars. It would seem strange, 
his belief, he being descended from an .Vndrew after all that has been stat<'d, with such favorable 
Wallace. * * * j ;|j,i fully satisfied that opportunities for ac<|uiring family history, that 
.Michael A\'oods, of Botetourt, was a brother of Mrs. Onld and .Mrs. ("ummings did not know all 
Martha Woods, wife of Peter Wallac<', and that he about their father's peo]tle. 

was a sou of Michael Woods, who died in 17(52, and "Two or three years ago I wrote to Mrs. Cum- 

I am also fully satisfied that Magdalen Woods, who niings, of lmliana,for information in regard to fani- 

married McDowell — Bordeu — Bowyer, was both ily history, for reply to a letter from a distant rela- 

the daughter of Michael Woods, of Albemarle, and five in Kentucky. Cmler date of August 20, ISOO, 

sister of Michael Woods of Botetourt. she Avrote me; and from her letter I take the fol- 

".Vnd now for my reasons for the above state- lowing extracts: 

nu'uts : .My mother's uncle, James Wallace — "'Our great-grandmother was named .Martha 

brother of .Vndrew Wallace, her father — was Ixu'u Woods. She had six sons and three daughters — 

in 1774 and died in 1816. He left a widow and a ilalcond), Samuel, James, Adam, Andrew, John, 

large family of children, among the latter, two Elizabeth, Janet and Susannah.* * * Our 

daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Wallace Onld, of Camp- great-grandmother had two sisters, they all lived 

Itell county. Virginia (born in 1806), and .Mrs. on adjoining farms near Lexington — Magdalen and 

^Magdalen Campbell Wallace Cummiugs (born in Sarah, ilagdalen married General Bowyer and 

1812), wife of Rev. Parry Cummiugs, a Methodist Sarah married Joseph Lapsley. Your nH)ther 

minister of the State of Indiana. Both of these (Sarah Lapsley AVallace) and sister Sally were 

ladies are now dead, having reached the ages of named for her. * * * ^)\^\ aunt ilagdalen 

eighty-seven and eighty-one, respectively. They Campbell, as all us children who were kin to her 

were both very intelligent women, had wonderful called her, was a niece of great-grandmother.' 

memories, ami were in possession of their mental "The above exti-acts, I think, are conclusive, ami 

faculties to the last. At the death of their parents prove everything: 1. .Michael Woods, in his will, 

both had reached middle life, and that time of life mentions his daughter Sarah ( Lapsley) ; 2. Jlrs. 

when people of resiiectalile parentage and intelli- Cummiugs says that Sarah Lapsley was a sister 

gence take great interest in matters genealogical, of Magdalen .McDowell — Bordeu — Bowyer, and 

especially when they know they come from good, Martha Wallace; and 3, that ilrs. Magdalen 



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Caiuphcll, who was the dauiihtcr of Aficliacl AVoods 
of liotelouit, was a uicco of Mis. Martlui Walhux', 
i. ( .. that she was her hi-otli('i-"s chihl an<l (hiusihter." 

It wouUl si'ciu iiUc to seek for furthev pi f 

than the h'tters just quoted from contain. Thev 
not only make it ]ilaiii lliat Micliael Woods of 
Botetourt was one of the chihlren of .Alicliael 
of Bkiir Park, hut that Magdalen, wiio married 
MeDowell, and Martha, wlio married Peter Wal- 
lace, Jr., were likewise. Thus it seems to have 
heen settled that old .Michael of ISlair Park had at 
least three children who are not named in his a\ ill — 
Michael, Jr., ^Magdalen, and :\iartlia; and having 
estahlislie<l this fact, an effectual breach has heen 
made in that line of reasoning which held 
that he had no children hut the six expressly 
referred to in that instrument. When the writer 
became t]u>roughly satisfied of the soundness of the 
evidence adduced by Major N'arner he Axrote him to 
express his satisfaction. In reply to his letter 
Major Varuer wrote back, under date of ?ilay 2."), 
1895, as follows: "I assure yt)u I am glad to know 
that you are now fully convinced that the two 
Michael Woodses were father and son. I never 
entertained a doubt of that relationship from the 
time the matter was first brought to my attention, 
and I had investigated the question." 

This was the conviction, also, of the late Mich- 
ael Woods Wallace, who died at a ripe old age some 
years ago in Albemarle county, Virginia. This 
gentleman was a descendant of ^lichael Woods of 
Blair Park, through his daughter Hannah, who 
married William Wallace. He was an elder in the 
Presbyterian church, and spent his life, as the 
writer understands, within three miles of the old 
Blair Park homestead. He was a man of great in- 
telligence and high character, and could have no 
motive for attributing to his ancestor any children 
he did not really have. He inf(n'med (leiieral 
Micajah AVoods, of Charlottesville, that he was 
satisfied ^Michael of Botetourt was a son of lUair 
Park Michael. It was the privilege of the writer 
to call on Mr. AVallace at his lutme near Blair I'ark 
in 1803, and to converse with him concerning the 



ancient AX'oodses and Wallaces, with the view of 
gathering information for this work. 

It may not lie amiss to mention here. also, the 
opinions and convictions of the late H. P. Cochran, 
of Charlottesville, Virginia. Concerning this gen- 
thiiian, the late Major ^'arner. mentioned and 
(pioted from on the foregoing i)ages of this volume, 
wrole to the present writer May 25, 1895. It ap- 
pears that Mr. Cochran and the late Judge AVilliam 
ilcLaughlin, of Lexington. Virginia, had both been 
making investigations relative to the question now 
under consideration, and after considerable re- 
search they had both reached the conclusion that 
.Micliai'l AX'oods of Blair Park had a numlier of chil- 
dren who were not referred to in his will. In a let- 
ter dated .March 1, 1892, 'Slv. Cochran wrote Judge 
^icLaughlin as follows: "I thank you for your 
favor of 21st nlto., with enclosure. I think you are 
correct in what yon say in regard to Magdalene 
Woods and her sisters. I believe Michael Woods, 
Senior, had three daughters to marry Wallaces. 
.Michael A\'oods, Senior's, wife was named ilary 
Campl)ell, and it is remarkable how often in all 
the \\ills of his sons, sons-in-law and grandsons 
\\liich I have been able to come across, we find the 
family names, William, 3Iichael, Hannah, Sarah, 
etc. 

"I have gotten ^Ir. AA'oods to confess that 
.Michael AVoods of Botetourt and .Magdalene Woods 
were lirother and sister. There is no doubt in my 
mind as to Micliael of Botetourt being son of 
.Michael of .Vlbemarle. I still think Bichard 
AA'oods, of Augusta, sheriff circa 1757, was Mag- 
<lalene's brother. The only evidence, however, 
which I have is the name, that he was guardian 
for Samuel ^IcDowell, and Samuel .McDowell was 
security on his sheriff's liimd. I hope yet to hap- 
jicii on further evidence. The aliove mentioned 
I'ichard had a son-inlaw of the same name, as I 
found out from a deed in Augusta county clerk's 
office. I can not find the name Martha and Mag- 
dalene among any of the grandchildren of Michael 
AA'oods, Senior, except in one case each, namely: 
^[artlia Borden, and Magdalene (Woods) Camp- 



[MICHAEL WOODS OF BLAllJ TAKK. 33 

bell, (lauiihtcr of [Micliacl >\'(i()(ls of I'.otctourt. saiiK' iiiiiiics as Hvc of the cliildrcii of [Michai'l 

May not [Michael, [Martha and .Majidalene have heen \\do(ls. of Allieniarle. 

the oldest children and Ihc first (o inan-y and move "I \\ ill add here in addition to a statement 

away? I enclose yon some mems. in ])cncil, which lieretofore made. lo-wil : Tliat .Magdalene AVoods' 

nniy i)rolialdy interest yon. three da niihters. Sarah .McDowell. .Marllia P.or<len, 

"Yours very trnly, and Hannah IJorden Imd the same Christian names 

'•11. 1'. CoriiuAx." as those of the dan.nhtei'S of Michael Woods, of 

"Michael Woods's will, dated Nov. 24. 1761, All.eniarle. 

proved June, 1762. He mentions in his will his "I am satisfied that [Michael Woods, of Alhe- 

sons Archibald, William, and John; his danjihters marie, who died in 1762, had at least the following 

Sarah, Hannah; his son-in-law AVilliam Wallace; iliildren: 

his deceased danghter .Mariiaret's cliildren; his "Archibald Woods, who married Isabella 

grandson [Michael, son of William; and his grand- ; .Micliael ^Voo(ls, wlio mari'icd Anne ; 

son [Michael, son of Archibald. Execnt(n*s : Archi- John A\'oo(ls, who married Susannah Anderson; 

bald Woods, John Woods, and "William AVallaoe. William AVoods, who married ; Magdalene 

AA'itnesses: [Michael AA'oods, minor, and .Micliael A\'oods, wlio married .AIcHowcil — IJorden — P.ow- 

AA'allace. yer; Sarah AVoods, who married Joseph Lapsley; 

'"Did [Michael AV Is have other children than Hannah AA' Is. who married AA'illiam AA'allaoe; 

those mentioned in his will? [Margaret AN'oods, who married Andrew AA'allace; 

'•I think he had several nnn'e, viz. : [Michael, and [Martha AVoods, who married Peter AA'allace, [Jr.]. 

probably .Vndrew and Kichard, [Magdalene and As to [Margaret, whom I pnt down as having niar- 

[Martlm. ried .Vndrew AA'allace, I have this to say: In 1748 

''It appears from the records of Goochland [Michael A\'oods conveyed to Andi-ew AA'allace 400 
connty that Michael AA'oods, Senior, had large acres of land, 200 acres of which was in way of 
laniled possessions on Ivy Creek and [Mechnni's dowry with his daughter. In 1762 [Margaret was 
river — one tract will be particularly noticed — 2,000 dead. I have come across a will of one Andrew- 
acres from Charles Hudson by deed dated June 10, AA'allace, who died in 178."), mentioning in his will 
1737. In 1743 Michael Woods deeded a tract of his children [Michael, Samuel, Elizabctli, Pusco, 
land to John Woods; one to Archibald AA'oods; one [Mary Henderson, Ilannali AA'allace, Susannah Col- 
to AVilliam AVoods. In 1743 [Michael AA'oods, Sr., lins, .Alargaret AVallace, Jean AA'ilson (in two other 
conveyed to Michael AA'oods, Jr., both of Albennirle, places AA'allace). This .Andrew may have been the 
200 acres of land, being part of 2,000 acres con- son of the Andrew who married [Margaret AA'oods, 
veyed by Charles Hudson to [Michael AA'oods, Sr., he may have been married a secoml time, or he 
[by deed of June 10, 1737], and in 1773 [Michael may have been married long before 174S." 
AA'oods, [Jr.], of Albemarle, and Anne, his wife, Concerning the [^[r. Cochran, the author of the 
conveyed to Thomas Pird, of Caroline, 200 aci'es, a abo\'e (pioted letter, [Major A'ariu'i- has this to say 
])art of 2,000 acres granted to Charles Hudson by in his commnnication to the writer in [May, ISlt."), 
]iatent dated July 24, 1735. This, I think, shows aliove referred to: "The writer of the letter to 
that Michael AVoods, of .Vlbenmrle, had a son Judge .AlcLaughlin, ilie late Howe Peyton Cochran 
[Michael. The wife of [Michael AA'oods of Botetourt ( I think that was his full namci. who was a mem- 
was named .Anne. Resides this we find from the be r of llic "ancient and honoralilc clan of A\dods- 
will of [Michael A\'oods of Potetonrt that he had men," was a lawyer, a man of aiiility. of high 
five children, to-wit : AVilliam, .Alagdalene Cam])- character and nns|)otted reputation." The oi)in- 
bell, [Martha, Sarah and .Margaret, who had the ions of sud ; man as .Mr. Cochran, who was him- 



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self :i (lestendant of Michael Wootls of Rlair Park, 
aud who gave the questiou now uiuler eousidera- 
tion a very careful investigation, would, of them- 
selves, almost settle the matter in a case like this 
in which there is not one particle of adverse testi- 
mony; hut when taken in connection with much 
strong circumstantial evidence, the positive asser- 
tions of Mrs. Ould aud Mrs. Cumniiugs, and the 
concurrent opinions of various pei-sons of high in- 



first of all, that not one particle of evidence adverse 
to his claim has ever heen ])ut ft)rward, so far as we 
have ever been able to learn. There is absolutely 
nothing against his claim liut the bare fact that the 
will does not mcnrion his name. If his claim shall 
be substantiated, as we feel reasomibly confident it 
will, that would only make Michael Woods of Ulair 
Park to have had ten children; and all will con- 
cede that even a dozen children was nothing at all 



telligence and reliability, they seem to render uncommon in that period — it is nothing very re- 
further argument useless. That Michael Woods markable even in onv own time. 
of Blair Park had a number of sous and daughters In the next place, we find two gentlemen of high 

whom he did not mention in his last will would character and intelligence wl>o, after very careful 
seem to have been proven beyond all reasonable investigation of the whole sul)Ject, have reached the 
doubt ; and unless some one shall hereafter be able conclusion tliat Andrew Woods was a s(m of 
to })r()duce some very convincing proof to the con- Michael of P.lair Park. These gentlemen are the 
trary, it would seem to be but just that the conten- late H. P. Cochran, whose letter to Judge Mc- 
tion of :^lajor Varner, Mr. Michael W. Wallace, Laughlin is given on a preceding page; aud the 
Mr. II. P. Cochran, the present writer, and various Pev. Edgar Woods, of Charlottesville, Virginia. 
other persons who could be mentioned, has been Mr. Cochran, as quoted above, says : "Did ilichael 
fully established, certainly so far, at least, as con- Woods have other children than those mentioned 
cerns Michael Woods, Jr., JIagdalen Woods, and in his will? I think he had several more, viz.: 
jMartha Woods. Michael, aud prol)ably, Andrew," etc. Let it be 

The three pers(ms just mentioned, however, are I)orne in mind that this is the opinion of a descend- 
not the only ones not referred to in the last will of ant of 31ichael ^Voods of Blair Park, a very intel- 
ligent and trustworthy gentleman, who was auxi- 
ious to know the truth, and who, so far as ai»pears, 
c(mld not have had the remotest interest in misstat- 
ing the relationship of Andrew to ^Michael Woods. 
The Rev. Edgar Woods, above mentioned, is a 
lineal descendant of Andrew Woods, aud he prob- 
ably knows more of the history and connections of 
the Virginia AVoodses than any man living. He 
or less force upon the cases of the other two. It is has spent, probably, more time searching the c(mrt 

records for items about the family, and correspond- 
ing with the scattered descendants of the Virginia 
AA'oodses, than any other person of this generarion. 
He is known to be a conscientious and impartial 
man, of judicial temperament, and one wlio meas- 
ures his words with care, lie is the author of a 
booklet giving the names and genealogical connec- 
tions of hundreds of the Woodses. aud of a history 
of the county of Albemarle, containing much re- 
liable infornuition in regai'd to all the AVoodses in 



ilicliael of Blair Park who are, with good 
reason, believed to liave been his children. The 
like claim is made for at least two more sons, 
namely: Andrew Woods and Richard ^Voods. The 
cases of the three children we have just consid- 
ered Avere so intimately related to each other that 
the arguments adduced for any one of them being a 
child of old Michael of Blair Park bore with more 



somewhat otherwise as respects Andrew and Rich- 
ard Woods. Now that it has l)een proven that the 
mere failure of ilichael's will to mention individ- 
uals does not in the slightest degree militate 
against their claim to be his children, we may feel 
the more confident that any reasonable evidence 
which can be presented in behalf of Andrew aud 
Richard will at once command full and unpreju- 
diced consideration. 

Concerning Andrew A\dods it may be affirmed, 



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MICHAEL WOODS OF. BLAIU I'AltK. 35 

Viri!;inia and luauy otlu'V States. It is not liclicvcd wlieu llic father, as in this case, is a man of im- 

(liat Dr. AVoods ronld reap tlu' sliji'litcst advantaf;e, portancc and considcvalilo estate. So far as the 

pecuniarv m- otlici-wisc, innw \\i\\\\\ix pnivcd that records j;(i it appears llial not one of old .Micliaers 

Aiulrew Woods was a son of .Mirliael of JJiair I'ariv. sons renioNcd from Alheniarie during- tlieir fatiier's 

And vet this geiith'nian. after nmcli weijihinji' of lifetime. John ii\c(i all his life there; Andrew did 

all the facts at his comnuind, has reached the con- not mo\'e, as we ha\'e seen, till ITti."), or ]7(j(i; Micli- 

clnsion tliat, beyond reasonable donlit, Andrew was ael, dr., went alioiit 1770; Arcliibald and William 

a son of Michael of Blair Park. left abont 1771. If Andrew was not a son of old 

In the case (d' Andrew Woods, as in that of IMichael he certainly liad a way (d"acfin^ wonder- 

Micliael AVoods, Jr., there is tin- sijiiuticant fact fnlly liice a son. 

that for many years of his life lie made his home Then, when we come to consider the i)articnlar 
within a very fcAV miles of [Michael, his alle<i'ed region in which the fonr several sons of (dd ^lich- 
father. It is certainly known from the Albenmrle ael chose homes on leavini;- Albemarle, we find them 
conidy records that from tlie year \~'){) to 17()(i — a iloini^' about what one would e.xpect full brothers 
jieriod of sixteen years — Andrew Woods resided to do. AA'e not oidy find all four <>ettinf> away from 
within three miles of the I'dair I'ark homestead, Albenmrle after their parents had died, but we see 
nearer to ^lichael than any other of his cluldren, them settlim; near to each other. First, Andrew, 
with ]terhaps a single exception. His farm was in nti.l (then a man of abont forty-five years of 
within sight of what is now (Jreenwood Station, ou age), goes down across the James river into what 
the Chesapeake & Ohio K. K., just sotith of the old was, a few years later, Botetourt county, and 
brick mansion long owned by Michael AVallace, pitches his tent, so to speak, nine miles south of the 
wlio was a grandson of Michael Woods of Blair site of the present town of Buchanan. Then, only 
Park. This fact, it is conceded, would not, of it- a few years thereafter, Michael, Jr., pulls u]) his 
self, settle this question, but it is highly signilicaut; stakes and locates right (m the south bank of the 
and, takeu in connection with other known circuni- James, in P>otetonrt c(mnty, about five miles north- 
stances of the case, goes a long way towards a con- east of Buchanan, or about twelve miles, ou an air- 
elusive demonstration. Men do not choose a home line, fvom Andrew. About the same time Archi- 
next door to other people merely because they hap- bald (1771 i btiys a farm from the ^McAfees down 
l)en to bear the same name. Michael Woods had a on Catawba Creek, abimt twenty miles south-west 
nnndier of known sons and sons-in-law living of Andrew's jdace. William, we know, was in 
around him in tliat community, and there was this 1773 living somewhere in that region. Thus we see 
nmn Andrew Woods living closer to his plantation two sons whom Michael mentioned in his will 
than almost any of them. We insist that this is a (\Villiam and Archibald!, and two whom he omit- 
very signiticaid fact, tlnmgh not necessarily con- ted to mention (.Michael, Jr., ami Andrew ), wliilst 
elusive. yielding to the adveidnrous sj^irit which prompts 

Then, again, it is w(U-th noting that Andrew sturdy men to seek new homes in a frontier portion 

AVoods did not remove from Albemarle county of the c(mntry, managing to keep within a few 

until some time after old Michael had passed away, hours' ride of each other by choosing locations near 

:\Iic]iael died in 17(12 and Andrew removed to together. If Andrew and Michael, Jr., had not 

P.otetourt county in 1703 or 17()(). Of course the been brothers to Archibald and William, as well as 

sons in a family often move to a distance before the brothers to each other, we would have expected to 

death of the father, lint tliis is not the rule. The lind at least one i)air of brothers going farther 

sons generally remain within reasonable distance down into Southwestern Virginia, which was be- 

of the head of the family till he is dead, especially ginning to settle up rapidly by 1770, and which 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



presented many inducements to men of enterprise, tilings Avhicli a son of that worthy old gentleman 

I'lirthermore, when we in(inire as to the names would be expected to do. 

Andrew Woods gave to his children there is a very But we have yet one or two additional reasons 

strong suggestion ot his close kinship to old Mich- to present in support of our contention, and they 

ael. It is r(>garded as certain that Andrew had sev- are not mere coincidences or of the nature of cir- 

eral children whose names are not known to us. cunistantial evidence, hut reliable family tradition 

and did we but know all of their names, we might — testimony of a kind which usually convinces the 

be able to make (uit a stronger case than is now average fair-minded person. Professor A. W. Wil- 

possible. Still, the names actually known to us are liamson, of Rock Island, Illinois, is a descendant 

verv significant. For instance, Andrew named one of Andrew Woods, and a gentleman of intelligence 

of his sons Archibald, which was the name of that and high charact(>r, whose statements are entitled 

son of old :^Iichael who was mentioned in his to great weight. This gentleman has (or recently 

father's will, and who moved down to Catawba had | an aunt ninety-odd years of age, who was per- 

Treek about 1771, a day's journey to the south-west fectly familiar with the history of her family. She 

of Andrew's last home. One of his daughters bore was born very early in the last century, probably 

the name of ^lartha, as did one of the daughters in 1805. This lady distinctly recalled the fact that 

of each of the ;Michaels. We know that :Michae] of it was well understood in the family that Andrew 

Blair Park had a sister named Elizabeth, who mar Woods, whose home was for years in Botetcmrt 

ried Peter Wallace, Sr. Three of her sons married county, Virginia, niiu' miles south of the town of 

daughters of her brother :\li(hael, and one of her Buchanan, had an own brother living near him. It 
daughters nmrried [Michael's eldest son. She lived 



over in the (Ireat Valley, near where the town of 
Lexington now stands — less than two days' ride on 
horseback from Blair Park — and the intercourse 
between the families of ilichael and Elizabeth was 
very intimate. Now Andrew Woods named one of 
his girls Elizabeth — in honor of his worthy aunt, 
as we can hardly keep from believing. Then An- 
drew named a daughter [Mary, and was not that the 
very name of his dear old Scotch mother, the wife 
of old [Michael? Some may say all these little mat- 
ters are only coincideuces; but there must not be 
too many striking coincidences, lest they come to 
constitute tliat circumstantial evidence which noAV 



is a fact that Michael Woods, Jr.. Avhom we have 
proved to be a son of the Blair Park ^[ichael. lived 
for some years only fifteen miles from Andrew, and 
Archibald Woods lived twenty miles from him. 
And we know of no other pers(m in all that region 
at that period (17()fi to 1781), besides [Michael 
Woods, Jr., and Archibald "Woods, who can fairly 
be regarded as ineeting the re(|nirenients of the 
case. In line with this fact is the testimony of an- 
other lady, Mrs. Snidow, who is also a descendant 
of Andrew Woods. [Mrs. Snidow resides at Pem- 
broke. Giles county. West Virginia, and she com- 
municated to the Rev. Edgar Woods, of Charlottes- 
ville, Virginia, the information about to be given. 
[Mrs. Snidow (whose maiden nauu^ was Walker), 



and then avails with courts and juries to secure .Ustlnctly recalled a journey she made in 183(1 with 
verdicts of the most momentous kind. In other ],,,j. father, Mr. Henry Walker, through the region 
words, coincidences, when they become too numer- ^.ontiguous to Catawba Creek in what are uoav the 
ons and striking in a particular case, only prove ,-,,nnties of Botetourt and Roanoke. They spent 
themselves to be no accidents at all but the natural the night with Josei)h Woods on Catawba Creek. 
and inevitable accomx)aninients of actual fact. If This Joseph AYoods, long since deceased, was a son 
Andrew Woods was not, in deed and truth, a sou of i.f Archibald Woods, one of the children of Mich- 
Michael of Blair Park, he certainly has displayed ael of Blair Park referred to in his will. [Mr. 
a most abnornuil aptitude for doing exactly the ^^'alker's mother was a daughter of Andrew 



MICHAEL WOODS OF BLAIR PARK. 37 

Wddds, iuid Joseph was a son of Arcliiliald. Aud, cliildrcu whom lie expressly named in his hist will, 

of course, if Aiidr( w and Arcliihald were lirotli- Tlie only remainin5»' pei-son to he considered as 

ers tlieir children would he tirsi cousins lo each heinii' one of Ihe cliihli-cn of .Michael of Hlair Park, 

otliei'. .Mrs. Suidow says she reuieuihers that in though not refei-red to in his will, is one Richard 

all their conversations to,i;vtlici' they addressed Woods, Avho was once the sheriff of Augusta countj', 

each other always as "cousin." The impression Virginia. Whilst we have not the same amount 

nuule upon ^Irs. Sni(h>w, then a young wonuui or kind of evidence in support of his claim that we 

])ast thirty years of age, was that her great-grand- have adduced in the case of several other iudivid- 

father, Andrew AVoods, was the hrother of Archi- uals, there is enough to warrant us in helieving 

l)ald A\'oods. There does not seem ever to have that he was prohal)ly a son of Blair Park Michael, 

heen any doubt of this in .Mrs. Snidow's mind. For him, as for the others, it can he affirmed that 

That an intelligent lady above thirty years old no adverse testinuiny has been ottered, so far as we 

could sit and listen to the conversations between have heard. The only thing unfavorable to his 

her father and Joseph Woods, and then be all her claim is the silence of the will respecting him; 

life in utter ignorance of the relationship existing aud this, as we have seen, is a kind of evidence 

between these two men seems incredible. The fact which yields to almost any positive proof what- 

th.at she was at a distance from her own home, and ever. 

on a visit to her father's "cousin Josei)h," renders The .Major J. A. R. ^'arner, late of Lexington, 
it far more likely that she would clearly under- Virginia, from whose letters copious quotations 
stand exactly what kin she was to Joseph Woods's have already been made, has this to say about Rich- 
family than if she had simply overheard a discus- ard Woods, writing unth'r date of August 10, 1893, 
sion in her own home about kinfolks at a distance, to-wit : "That Richard Woods was a son of old 
The very purpose to visit the distant home of a Michael Woods of Albemarle I verily heliev(^ — ■ 
blood relation would sharpen all her thoughts everything that I can hear or find of him goes to 
about that family; and as they drew near to the prove this as certain. The farm of Richard Woods 
home of Joseph Woods, and finally were ushered adjoined the plantations of General Bowyer [the 
into his house aud welcomed to its hospitality, and third husband of Mag(hileu AVoods],aud Peter Wal- 
the usual salutations were exchanged, and the con- lace [the husband of Martha Woods] ; the farm of 
versation turned upon the question of kinship, she Joseph Lapsley [the husband of Sarah Woods], 
would have had to be one of the most stupid of adjoined that of General Bowyer. Here we have 
listeners not to have understood the situation fully, a little colony consisting of a brother and three 
The impressions she received at that home in 1836, sisters almost in siglit of each other. The will of 
which have lingered in her memory through life, Richard Woods is dated June 2, 1777; he died sev- 
and which she communicated to Dr. Edgar ^^'oods eral years later and was well-to-do, having a good 
about ten years ago, constitute the nutst valuable farm, negroes and a couple of thousand pounds in 
of all items of family history next to written doc- Virginia money (|3.33 1-3 x 2,000), to give, de- 
uments, and to deny their accuracy is to he uu- vise and becpieath to his wife Jenny (Janet or 
reasonable, aud to cast doubts upon the larger part Jean), and his sons Benjamin and Samuel. Samuel 
of all the family records now in existence in the is named as executor in the will. When he quali- 
world. The conclusion, therefore, seems irre- tied, General Bowyer, his uncle by nuirriage, and 
sistilile that the Andrew M'oods who lived in Albe- Colonel Samuel Wallace, his first cousin, were his 
nuirle many years, and later on moved to Botetourt, bondsmen. The court appointed his two brothers- 
aud there died in 1781, was jiist as really a child of in-law, Joseph Lapsley aud Peter Wallace, ap- 
]Michael Woods of Blair Park as any of the six praisers of the estate of Richard Woods. These 



38 THE AVOODS-McAFEE :\[EMORIAL. 

facts im.vc kiiishi]) beyond a doubt. Blood-kinship himself in the letter he wrote Judge McLaushlin 

•told' in those times. It was more than a jiossa- :March 1, lSil2. 

mer scarh t (hrea<l; it was a cliain that bound the There is some conliision created eoueernins this 

clan toiivther and stood any tension put upon it. Kichard ^Voods. however, by the account of a cer- 

In noinsi- over the (dd records [of IJockbridge tain Richard Woods, of Alliemarle, given by Dr. 

conntv. \'iruinia]. I was struck with the closeness Edgar Woods in his History of Albenuirle (pages 

with which these families were in (ouch with each 355 and :}5(>). Dr. Edgar Woods says a Kichard 

other. If anv of them re(|uired to give bond as Woods lived in Alliemarle, north of Taylor's (Jap, 

administrators, executors, guardian, or as an and speaks as if there he died in 1801. If the two 

official, you will find the mimes of Bowyer, Mc- are one and the sanu", then he must have been 

Uowell, AVoods, Lapsley or Wallace as bondsmeu eighty to eighty-tive at death. The Bichard 

to the instrument. Y(m will lind the same names AVoods of Kockbridge County of wlnnn ^lajor 

attached to deeds and wills as witnesses. All this Varner speaks nuule his will in 1777, and died there 

shows a survival of the ohl (dan touch and feeling, about two years thereafter. These two sets of 

ilv nearest neighbor, iliss Betty Alexander, is a statements could scarcely refer to oik' and the same 

descendant of John McDowell, the first husband of man. Both Dr. Edgar Woods, in his History of 

Magdalen Woods (the fourth remove from her), Albemarle (page 35(5), and Mr. Waddell, in his 

and a niece of that great preacher and theologian, Annals of Augusta County (page 117), speak of 

Archibald Alexander, of I'rinceton College. Her this Albemarle Kichard Woods as having married a 

mother died since the close of our Civil War, and Miss Stuart, a sister of Col. John Stuart, of Greeu- 

she says that her mother remembered her ()'. v.. brier. Mr. A\'addell gives her Christian name as 

3h"s. Alexander's) grandmother, .Magdalene Bow- "Betsy," whilst Dr. Edgar Woods gives it as "Eliza 

yer, well. Miss Alexander has this to say, that Ann." The "Eliza," however, may have been only 

.she heard her mother say that her ( /. <:, Mrs. Alex- an abbreviation of Elizabeth for which "Betsy" was 

ander's) grandmother (IMagdalene Bowyer), was a common alternative or pet-name. The children 

witli her brother, who lived l)ut a short distance— of Kichard Woods, of Albemarle, as given by Dr. 

a siiort- walk — from her house, when he died. Edgar Woods, were AVilliam, " Kichard, George, 

* * * Now, the brother could have been none Matthew and Elizabeth, whereas Major Yaruer 

other than Kichard Woods, as his house was less speaks of but two children of the Kockbridge Kich- 

than half a mile from the houu- of .Magdalene Bow- ard, the one being Benjamin, and the other Samuel. 

yer. No other AVoods lived within less than twenty The Albemarle Kichard is designated by Waddell 

miles of her. This, 1 think, settles the (luestion as as Ccdonel Kichard Woods, whilst :Maj(U- Varner 

to the degree of relati(mship of Kichard >V()ods to omits all title in referring to the Kockbridge Kich- 

JNUchael Woods, Sr." ard. Then still further complications arise from 

The :Mr. Cochran who has, like Major Varner, the fact that the IJockbridge Richard was sheriff of 

been so frecdy (pioted on foregoing pages, was of Augusta about 1757 (Rockbridge county was not 

the same opinion as Major Varner in regard to carved out of Augusta and Botetourt until 

Richard Woods being a son of old Michael of Blair 1778), and from the further fact that, according to 

Park. He had no knowledge, doubtless, of the con- AVaddell (page 132), a Richard AVoods was made 

vincing evidence of that fact which has just been the tirst sheriff of Botetcmrt at its erection in 1770. 

quoted from .Major A'arner's letter. Even without The writer ctmfesses that he is unable to disen- 

it, however, he considered it extremely probable tangle these various Richards, and contents him- 

that Richard was, along with Andrew and Michael, s(df with saying that it is reasonable to believe that 

Jr., a son of lUairPark .Alichael,and he so expressed the one referred to by :Major A'arner was a sou of 



MICHAEL m)<^DS OF BLAIR TARK. 39 

.^licliiU'l \\'()()(ls of r.lair Park. As, acc(mliii!K4jT_iui (>])iiii(in. We iiiiisL tlaTi-forc limit the uuiuber 
Dr. p](liiar Woods, tlic Allpcinarlc Kiclianl lia<l a (MotTt-A ti«li;u'r K.cli .ildreii to t'lcven, s ix of whom he 
son iuuiuhI Kioliard, and court rccords^rncn fail to iiicnlioncd in liis last will, and tivc as to wliom he 
(listinj^'iiish two men of the same iKuuc from each was silent wlicn lie jx-nucd that instrument, for rea- 
otlier, it may he that the Kicliard. ir., of Alhemarle, sons which to him seemed sat isfactoi-.v and i)ro])('r. 
has sometimes h(>en confounded Vith either his Tiie foUowinj;- exhibit of the cliiidren of .Michael 
father or with still another nnin of the same name. Woods and his wife Mary I )irc Camphell), is pre- 
Anotlier fact to he borne in mind is llial the wife of sented as the result of the writer's researches ex- 
the Rockbridjie Richard Woods, acco^din^ to Major tending- throniih the last ten years. The one aim 
Varner, was not I>etsy or Elizabeth, but Jenny has been to net at the truth, and then to state it 
(Janet or Jeau). But Betsy nmy have died and fairly, regardless of the predilections and prefer- 
he may have married later a lady l>y the name of ences of himself or others. Tlie exact date of the 
Jenny. These confusing details, however, do not birth and death of the several children is not 
in anywise atfect the argument intended to prove known with any certainty in many instances, 
that old Michael of Blair I*ark had a son Richard Where there exist doubts, and mere coD-jecture and 
\\ho lived for many years in Augusta (later on, inference have had to be resorted to, that fact is 
Rockbridge). We feel pretty sure as to where this indicated by interrogation mai'ks enclosed in pa- 
one came from, tlumgh we are unable to locate him rentheses. Unly those dates which the ^-riter con- 
throughout his entire career or to distinguish him si(hn"s to have been satisfactorily proved are left 
from one or two other men of the same name, without such signs of doubt. That some errors 
Hence, it is but fair to set down a Richard among should l)e f<mnd in any exhibit thus made up is in- 
the children of ilichael AVoods of Blair Park. evital)le. The writer has simply done his best to 
There are not wanting intelligent and well-in- ascertain the facts, and is well aware that iu many 
formed persons who incline to the opinion that old cases an inference or conjecture was all he had to 
^(ichael liad several other sons l)esides all those al- build upon. He had to sift the few grains of truth 
ready mentioned — Sanuiel, Nathan, James — but oftentimes from a great nmss of wild guesses and 
the writer knows of no satisfactory evidence of the utterly self-contradictory si)eculati()ns. If there is 
truth of such surmises. There Avere, indeed, sev- any person alive who possesses reliable data for a 
eral men of the A>'oods name who lived very close more accurate exhibit than that which is here pre- 
to old ^lichael in .Vlliemarle, and Axiio were, no sented, it is a thousand pities that the writer could 
doubt, in some way related to him by blood, Init so not have had the privilege of availing himself of 
far as the writer has been able to learn nothing such information; but he does not now know of 
jiositive is known ujion which we could fairly base such a i)erson. 

EXHIBIT. 

Children of ^Michael and Mary Campbell Woods. 

A.— MAC.DALEX 15. 1700 ( ?) M. McDOWELL-BORDEX-BOWYER D. 1810 ( ?) 

B._.WILLIA:\1 B. 1707 ( ?) .M. SISANNAH WALLACE I). 

C— MICHAEL, JR B. 1708 ( ?) M. ANNE — I). 1777 

I).— HANNAH B. 1710 ( ? ) .M. WILLIA.M AVALLACE U. 

E.— JOHN B. 1712 .M. SUSANNAH ANDERSON D. 1791 

F.— :\IARCrARET B. 1714 (?) M. ANDREW WALLACE I). 

(l.—KiniARD B. 171;") ( ?) 'SI. JENNY D. 1779 

II.— ARCHIBALD B. 1710 ( ?) M. ISABELLA D. 178:5 

J. —MARTHA B. 1720 M. I'ETER WALLACE, JR D. 1790 

K.— ANDREW B. 1722 ( ?) M. MARTHA POAtH'] D. 1781 

L.— SARAH B. 1724 (?) M. JOSEPH LAPSLEY D. 1792 (?) 



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THE WOODSMcAFEE MEMOPJAL. 



Conceruiug each aud all of the eleveu cLiklren 
of Michael and Mary there is a great multitude of 
details we would gladly kuow if we could, but 
which it is uow impossible to recover, and yet from 
various printed books, and court records, and ec- 
clesiastical registers, and State papers, aud ancient 
tomb-stones, and family traditions we are able to 
gather quite a number of interesting items of a 
trustworthy character. Such of these as the au- 
thor has had the opportunity to discover will now 
be presented, many of which have never before 
been in print : 

A— MAGDALEN WOODS. AND THE MCDOW- 
ELLS, AXD BOEDEXS, AND BOWYEKS. 

Of her early life next to nothing is positively 
known. That she was a child of :Michael Woods 
by his wife 3Iary. m r Campbell, has been, as we 
believe, satisfactorily demonstrated. That she was 
born in Ireland about the year 170(5. is the convic- 
tion of the author, based upon various well-ascer- 
tuined facts. It seems equally probable that she 
was the first child of her parents. Her father, as 
is known, was born in 1<)S4. and it is extremely 
likely he did not marry till he was twenty-one 
years old (say in 1705), and was not a father until 
1706. It is also reasonably certain that her pa- 
rents migrated to America in 172-f, at which time 
she was about eighteen years of age; aud it is cer- 
tainly known that she did not leave Great Britain 
when her parents removed to the New World. It 
is positively certain — from the best of evidence, 
soon to be given — that she came to Virginia from 
Great Britain in 1737. at which time she Avas the 
wife of John McDowell, and the mother of at least 
one child, Samuel. When she came to Virginia 
she was about thirty-one years old. and there she 
si)ent I in Bockbridge county ). the whole of the re- 
mainder of her extraordinarily long life, dying, as 
is believed, in 1810. at the great age of 104 years. 
She was a Presbyterian, and was probably a mem- 
ber of Timber Eidge Church from its first organ- 
ization, not hmg after her arrival in the neighbor- 
hood, until her ileath — a period of at least seventy 



years. She must have been a woman of remark- 
able physical vigor, and of great strength of char- 
acter. 

She was three times married, and at the death 
of her second Imsliand (Borden), became the 
wealthiest lady west of the Blue Kidge, Borden 
having fallen heir to a part of his father's vast 
landed estate of .^OO.OOO acres in the Great Valley 
before his jnarriage with INIagdalen. She was 
widely known througluait a wide circle of connec- 
tions, and was fretpiently honored by having the 
children of relatives named for her. 

The correct spelling of her name is a matter of 
no great moment, and yet it is one worthy of at 
least a passing notice. The author has adopted 
the orthography employed herein i Magdalen) be- 
cause it seems that was the preference of the good 
lady herself, aud is the one followed by some of her 
best informed kinsfolk. It is one of those names 
which is certain to l)e variously si)elled even by the 
different members of the family connections to 
which the wearer of it belongs. We find ilagda- 
lena. Magdalene. Magdaline, besides Magdalen, 
used by different writers; but in the year 1753, 
during her second widowhood, we find her name 
signed to a call which the Tindter Bidge Church 
extended to a Rev. John Brown, and she spelled 
her Christian name Magdalen, if Ave are to accept 
what Ave find in Dr. Foote's alleged copy of that 
document. ■■' This ought to settle the matter, though 
even a lady may not be invariably consistent with 
herself, and this one may in some instances, or at 
dift'erent i)eriods of her long life. liaA'c varied the 
orthography of her name. * 

Skction Oxe — The McDowells. 
The earliest authentic account of John Mc- 
Dowell. Magdalen's first husband, consists of a 
brief record in the court house of Orange county, 
Virginia. It bears date February 28. 1739. and 
reads as folloAvs: "John McDowell made oath 
that he imported himself. Magdalen his wife, 
Samuel McDoAvell his son. and John Butter his 
servant, at his charge from Great Britain, in the 



MICIIAKL WOODS OF P.LAIR PAUK. 



41 



voar 1737 to dwell in this cojdiiy." Ja-I it he home 
ill iiiind that whilst tlie act (if the Colonial Legis- 
lature for the creation of tlie county of Augusta by 
dividing Orange county was passed in 17:?S — one 
year before John McDowell took the oalh j\ist re- 
f<'iTed to — the county was not fully organized until 
174."). This explains why the record aliove (pioted 
was made at ( trange court liouse. Fnrtherniore, the 
records (;f the land ofitice at Kichnuuid sho\\- that on 
the lOtli of November, 1742, ^loDowell secured a 
grant of 40(» acres of land on account of the imi)oi'- 
tation of himself and family into the colony at his 
own clsarges tive years before.^' This one sworn 
statement, recorded in Orange county, fni-nishes us 
a very detiniti* and iin-ontrovertible basis for a re- 
liable account of lioth John ^FcDowell and .Mag- 
dalen ^^■oolls. It clears up scA'eral disputed (pies- 
tions, and it r<neals the worthlessness of a good 
many speculations which have been written in re- 
gard to this couple. It shows that John McDowell 
and Magdalen did not reach Virginia until thirteen 
years after .Magdalen's parents had left Ireland, 
and three years after the settlement of the Woodses 
in Virginia. It shows also that John ilcDowell 
and wife never were citizens of the c(dony of Penn- 
sylvania, and that their sou Samuel was not born 
there, but in Great Britain. Of course, John and 
family may have landed first on the Delaware, and 
may have passed through Pennsylvania on theirway 
down to Virginia, but that colony \\as never their 
home. According to Waddell that was the route 
of all the earlier settlers going to the Great Val- 
ley.'"* For some reason none of them landed at a 
^'irgillia port and then came across wi^stwardly to 
the \'alley. 

The date of John McDowell's birth has been 
given as 1714 by some, but this must be too late a 
•late by at least ten or eleven years. He was al- 
most certainly older than his wife, who was born 
about 170G. He died at the close of 1742, and, even 
if born in 1703, he was only thirty-nine at the time 
of his death. He was recognized as a surveyor in 
1737, and all indications point to his having been 
born not later than about the year 1703. This would 



make him just about twenty-one when he married 
Magdalen \\'oods, thirty-four when he came to Vir- 
ginia, and lliirly-nine when he was commissioned 
i-ai>tain of liic militia com]iany of which he was in 
command when kiJIeil by the Indians. 

\\licllier Ephraiin McDowell, J(din"s father, 
came lo America prior to 1737 is a nuitter which 
the records within reach of the present writer do 
not satisfactorily determine. If what we find in 
most of the books ccuicerning the date of the mi- 
gration of the father be as unreliable as some of 
the statements which are here seen touching that 
of the son, not nuich dependence can be placed 
upon it. P>ut there are some reasons for believing 
that Ephraim and most of his family iireceded 
John and family by at least a few years. Gol. 
Green surmises that the McDowells and a goodly 
comi)any of their kinsmen and co-religionists mi- 
grated from Ireland at one and the same time, and 
he inclines to the view that it may have been the 
year 1721).*" This is certainly inexact so far as re- 
lates to .Tohii and family, but is probably true as 
to his father and the other members of the .Mc- 
Dowell colony. Ephraim and his party seem to 
have settled first in Pennsylvania, and then later 
on to have nuived on down into the Valley of Vir- 
ginia. If this southward move occurred in 1737 
John and family may have been in the company. 
The wife of Ephraim, who was his full first cousin, 
was ^largaret Irvine. Col. Green infers that 
she was dead when the family left Ireland, be- 
cause her daughter, ^Irs. Greenlee, in her famous 
deposition, taken in 1800, when she Avas ninety- 
five years (dd, sjieaks as if her mother was not with 
the family at the time of the migration to 
America.*' I The reader will please turn to note 
41, and read it before going further.) Ephraim 
and wife were genuine Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, 
like the itarents of the lady their son John mai"- 
ried, and we may rest assured that John could re- 
cite the Shorter Catechism, proofs and all, before 
he was sixteen years old, and was familiar with his 
Bible and I'salm Book. One reason for surmising 
that Ejdiraim came (o America some yeai'S prior 



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to 1737 is his known intimacy in Ireland with John 
Lewis, tlic man wlio. in 1732, settled what after- 
wards became Augusta county. LeAvis had mi- 
grattxl to PennsylA-ania, and then in 1732 settled in 
the (ireat Valley near where Staunton was after- 
wards built. Col. Green believes that Ephraim 
ilcDowell and John Lewis came to America to- 
gether in the year 172!». and tliis seems quite likely, 
though it seems quite strange that Ephraim, who 
was then a man of fifty-seven, should umke so seri- 
ous a move as was involved in his migration to an- 
other continent beyond the sea, leaving behind him 
his eldest son, John, then a young man of about 
twenty-six years, who did not follow till eight years 
later. This certainly calls for some unusual ex- 
planation. The children of Ephraim McDowell 
and his wife ilargaret, iicc Irvine, were the follow- 
ing: 1, John, who married Magdalen Woods; 2, 
James, who is thought to have been the first mem- 
ber of the family to go to Virginia, having raised a 
crop of corn in Beverly Manor in the spring of 
1737, who was a gallant soldier of the "S'irginia 
militia during the French and Indian Wars, who 
married a lady near ^^'illiamsburg, and who died 
without nuile issue; 3, Mary E., who was born in 
1711, who married James Greenlee, who came into 
Borden's Grant in the fall of 1737, and who gave 
her famous dejjosition in the case of Borden vs. 
Cueton et al., in 1800 when ninety-five years old; 
and 4, ]MAU(;AitKTTA, who married James Mitchell, 
who moved to North Carolina and later to South 
Carolina, with her husband, and from whom was 
descended the late ^Ir. Thomas Mitchell, an hon- 
ored banker of Danville, Kentucky, whose only 
daughter, Louisa, is the wife of the Ifev. Thomas 
Cleland, of Springfield, JMo. 

What was known as Borden's Grant in- 
chided a large ])art of the present counties of 
Augusta and Bockbridge. John Lewis, the old 
friend and kinsman of Ephraim McDowell, Imd 
settled in Augusta ( or what afterwards came to be 
Augusta) in 1732, and about five years thereafter 
(1737) we find Ephraim ilcDowell and the Green- 
lees and John jMcDowell and family coming up the 



Valley from Pennsylvania (John and family hav- 
ing just arrived from Irelandj with the intention 
of settling close to John Lewis. When nearly at 
their destination the party accidentally fell in with 
one Ben Borden. Sr., of New Jersey, who had 
recently secured from (io\\ G(»och a large grant of 
r)00,()00 acres on the Shenandoah and James rivers 
in parts of the territory now included in the 
counties of Augusta and Kockbridge. Producing 
his patents, he soon satisfied the McDowells that 
his claim was lawful and sound. He told the Mc- 
Dowells that he had located 10,000 acres in the 
Fork of James river, but was not able to make his 
way to the place, and he ottered to give 1,000 acres 
to anyone who would direct him to the spot. John 
McDowell, \\ho was an educated man and a prac- 
tical surveyor, accepted the otter, and a written 
agreement was entered into between the parties. 
The next day the \\liole party reached the home of 
John Lewis. McDowell piloted Borden to the de- 
sired locality and the whole colony concluded to 
settle in Borden's Grant. When and how John 
acijuired his knowledge of that region Ave can not 
even guess. Cabins AAere soon erected for Ephraim 
ilcDowell, the Greeulees, and John iMcDowell, near 
where Lexington, Virginia, now stands, and the 
men of the colony — one of the first in all that sec- 
tion of country after that of John Lewis — at once 
began writing to friends in Ireland and perhaps in 
Pennsylvania, to come and make homes in the beau- 
tiful Valley. The result was that in a few years the 
Woodses, AVallaces, Walkers, ^IcClungs, Saw- 
yerses, McCues, McCowus, Hayses, McElroys, 
McKees, McCauslands, McCampbells, iMcPheet- 
erses, Campbells, Stuarts, Paxtous, Lyles, Irviues, 
Caldwells, Cloyds, etc., were induced to settle in 
that charming Avilderness and ))ecome the pioneers 
in establishing one of the most prosperous and en- 
lightened agricultural communities eA'er founded 
in the New A\'orld. Presbyterian churches soon be- 
gan to be established in all that region, and for a 
long period they were the only churches of any 
kind in the Valley; and now, after the lapse of a 
centurv and a half, they are among the most pow- 



MICHAEL WOODS OF BLAIR PARK. 43 

ci'ful and beiipfieent ap,enci('s for tlic intcllcctnal miivrs dnwii in tlic twentieth century considerable 
and spiritual traiuinii' <>f tli(> inhaliitanis of tlie i)erplcxit,v if he shuiild in some Avay manage to liave 
(ireat \'alley. Epliraini Mel )owell li\'ed to be that petit i(Hi i-ecast. It any one feels enough inter- 
more tlian a Inindred years of aiic onlliving his est in the matter to want to read it for himself, he 
son John more than a whole generation, and dying can find it in fnll in NNaddelJ's Annals (page 482). 
at the ontbreak of the American Kevohition, in It wonld have made Josh Billings, Artemus Ward 
which so many of his descendants were destined to and Kill Nye feel very small. We can rest assured, 
play a prominent and honorable ]»art. however, that John .McDowell was in no way re- 
lohn -McDowell's career in Virginia was a brief sponsible for the wording and spelling of the peti- 
one, and had a terrible ending. He lived but a tion, for lie was an educated man, and must have 
little more than five years after settling in the felt a little (Mnbarrassed by its make-up if he ever 
Valley. In July, 1742, a jietition was gotten up by did read it, which is doubtful. It accomplished 
his many friends and admirers, and addressed to its purpose, lutwever; it secured him his commis- 
(iov. (iooch, asking that he be apixiinted cajdain sion from the (iovernor, and he was made captain 
of the colonial militia for .Vugusta county, as a of the .Vugusta militia. 

defence against the Indians who fre(|uently visited Rut, alas, liow lirief was the period for which 

the Valley, their main war-path from the north to he was to wear his honors and continue to serve his 

the south passing right by the site of Staunton, and comnninity ! Late in I)ecend)er, 1742, tidings came 

crossing the Blue Ridge at AVoods"s (iap. That pe- to the settlement (on Christmas eve) that a baud 

tition, by the way, which is given in full by ^^'ad- f>f Idood-thirsty Shawnee Indians from beyond the 

dell,^- is one of the most remarkable examples of Ohio were already i>rowliug in the neighborhood, 

"stunning" orthography to be found in all litera- inti'ut u\nm deeds of plunder and blood. At his 

ture. The wonder is that the educated men of the call the men of his company quickly assendiled at 

community, of whom there were not a few, should his home on Tind)er Ridge, and a council of war 

have allowed such a ridiculously illiterate docu- was held. Captain ^IcDowell was a comparatively 

ment to be sent to Governor (iooch. The only way young man, and almost without experience in 

in which we can account for the presentation of Indian warfare, lie was not very .familiar with 

such a paper to the c(donial government is that it the cunning tactics of his foe. But he was fearless 

was written and mainly gotten up by some warm and enterprising, and soon the company of militia 

admirer of John .McDowell, who, though destitute under his lead started in pursuit of the savages. It 

of education, may have been a nuin of excellent was on Christmas day. AVhen they had reached the 

character and influence in the community, as point where the North i-iver comes into the James 

wi' sometimes tind illustrated in our own day; at Balcony Falls, not nuicli m(U"e than twenty miles 

and for fear of giving him offence, the peti- from their homes, they marched all unconsciously 

tion was allowed to go for,.'ard to Williams- into a deadly aud)uscade, skilfully laid for 

biirg as it was originally jirepared. Perhaps them by the wily and murderous Shawnees; and 

(uly a few of the signers ever read it. But the first intiuuition the whites had of the presence 

if we could have been near eninigh to the gallant of the foe was a sudden volley from the ritles of the 

captain-to-be we would have been tempted to sug- Indians which instantly laid Ca])tain .McDowell 

gest to him that as that pa])er w(.uld be read and and eight of his men low in the dust. The savages 

discussed generations after, when he would not be at once l)roke and ran, as if themselves astonished 

at hand to make the necessary explanations, he .^t the fearful execution they had wrought, and 

would doubtless save some of his kinsmen and ad- ,ireadiug the wrath of the whites. The men of the 



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militiii were so completely takeu by surprise, and 
so shocked to see their brave leader and eight of 
their ((niipany prostrate upon the earth in the 
agonies of death, that they did not attempt to pur- 
sue the rapidly retreating foe, but tenderly gath- 
ered up the dead bodies of their comrades, placed 
them upon horses, aiid in sorrow and gloom began 
their march back ti» Timber Ridge, twenty miles 
distant, there to be compelled to Avitness the grief 
and distress now to fall upon so many stricken 
families. Magdalen :McDowell had doubtless that 
Christmas morning kissetl her beloved husband a 
tender farewell, and in prayer commended him and 
his companions to the care of God's gracious Provi- 
dence only a few hours before. But what a fear- 
ful spectacle for Magdalen it must have been — that 
doleful company, slowly returning with nine 
bloody corpses dangling across the saddles of their 
horses, and one of them her own dear husband, 
whom she had seen go forth with such a brave 
heart only one day, or perhaps a few hours, before ! 
[Magdalen was now a widow, and her house the 
house of mourning, and her three little children 
fatherless. To her broken heart it must have been 
no small comfort to have near her many of the near 
kin of both herself and her departed husband. Her 
father's home was just across the Blue Ridge, 
about thirty-fiAe miles to the northeastAvard. 

Nine graves, side by side, Avere dug near Mag- 
dalen's uoAV desolated home, and the Ijodies Avere 
prepared for burial. It Avas indeed a strange 
Christmas season. The dead Avere laid aAvay Avith 
the solemnity of Christian rites, and their murder- 
ers escaped beyond the mountains towards their 
far northern homes beyond the Ohio. The burial- 
place of these nine men, Avhom Dr. Foote supposed 
to have been the first of the Saxon race ever com- 
mitted to the dust in Rockbridge county, can be 
seen to-day near the Red House, or Maryland Tav- 
ern, on the west side of the road leading from 
Staunton to Lexington. As (me enters the iron 
gate and turns a little to the left he Avill observe a 
low, unhcAvu limestone slab about tAvo feet high, 
on wliich is a rude inscription reading thus:*^ 



HEER LYES 

THE BODY OF 

J O H N :\I A C K 

D O W' ELL 

DECED DECEMBE 

1743 

^lagdalen Woods is known to have bad at least 
three children by her first husltand, John ilcDow- 
ell, namely; tAvo sons, and a tlaughter. 

(I) The first-born of their children, so far as 
existing records shoAv, Avas named SAMUEL, and 
it is certainly knoAvn tlmt he came over Avith his 
parents from Great Britain to Virginia in the year 
1737. His age at the time of the migration is not 
referred to in the SAVorn statement of his father, 
previously mentioned as being on record at Orange 
Court House, Virginia; but Col. Green giAes 1735 
as the year of Samuel's birth. If he Avas the first 
child of his parents, then Magdalen and John had 
been nmrried more than ten years Ijefore they had 
issue. Tliey may, however, have had several chil- 
dren prior to Samuel's birth avIio died in infancy. 
His death occurred in Kentucky, in 1817; and if he 
Avas born in 1735, he Avas eighty-tAvo years old when 
he died. 

Samuel McDowell (Avhomwe shall presently begin 
to refer to as Judge Samuel McDowell, in order to 
distinguish him from other persons of his name) 
was educated in Avliat is now Rockbridge Coiinty, 
and in part by Archibald Alexander, the head of one 
of the most distinguislied and scholarly families 
this country has ever produced. For companions 
he had the McClungs, Paxtons, Woodses, "Wallaces, 
Lapsleys, Stuarts, Lyles, Reids, Moores, Campbells, 
etc. Left fatherless AA'hen perhaps only scA-en or 
eight years of age (December 25, 1742), his boy- 
hood and much of his manhood were spent on the 
Virginia frontier, AAliere Indian raids had con- 
stantly to be guarded against, and Avliere the condi- 
tiims of life AAcre such as to train him to endure 
many hardships and play the part of a sturdy and 
adventurous man. Reared by a Scotch-Irish 
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wlioUy (if tlic PrcsUytcriiui faitli, lie oarly learned 
to tear <iii(l, and licraiiic iiulnicd with tliose souud 
rcliiiioiis principles wliicli characterized liis siil)se- 
qncnt careci-. I'roni I Icnninn's Statutes \\x' learn 
that in IT.'iS, when only ahont -'■> years of a^'e, he 
was a siildier of the colony against the French and 
Indians; ami in ITT.') a lariic tract of land was 
iiranted to him in I'ayettc Connty, Kentucky, for 
his military services, lie commanded a comjiany 
of the Augusta militia at the lireat battle with the 
Indians at Point Pleasant, A'iryinia, in October, 
1774, and ren<lered valiant sei'viee. In the Revolu- 
tion he commanded an Au,i;usta regiment, and took 
part in various canipaii;ns. 

Samuel McDowell was also prominent in civil 
life, liavinc, served several terms as tlie rejjresenta- 
tive of Augusta County in the Virginia House of 
I'urgesses ]U'ior to the Revolution. There he took 
a hold stand against the aggressions of the ^Mother 
rountry which Patrick Henry so eloquently op- 
posed, and which led on to the gigantic stniggle of 
1775-81. In 1783, after Ameri<-an Independence 
had been won, we find him surveyor of public lands 
for Fayette County. Kentucky, and also a judge of 
the lirst nistrict Court of Kentucky, which was 
held at Harrodsburg. In 1784, wl\en he was a man 
nearly 50 y(>ars old, he removed his family to what 
was afterwards .M(rcer County, K( iitucky. In 178<>, 
he was chosen to be one of the presiding justices 
of the first Ccninty Court held in the District of 
Kentucky, and from that time on he was known as 
Judge McDowell. In the discussions and gather- 
ings which tinally paved the way for the separa- 
tion of Kentucky from A'irginia and its erection 
into a se])arate State in 17!)!', Judge ilcDowell took 
a leading part. He ju'esided over all of the nine 
Conventicms which met to discuss the separation 
of Kentucky from the parent State, and also over 
that of 17!)!', which framed Kentucky's first con- 
stituti(m. He was distinguished for his incorrupt- 
ible integrity, strong common sense, and coura- 
geous adherence to what he deemed to be right. 
He died near Danville, Kentucky, in 1817. at the 
advanced age of eighty-two. 



Judge McDowell liad married, when scarcely 
nineteen years of age, :Miss .Mary McClung, of Vir- 
ginia — January 17, 1754. The fruit of tiiis union 
was a family of eleven children, as follows: 

(a I Joii.x. who was born in N'iiginia, in 1757, 
took an active part in the Revolutionary struggle; 
nuirried Sarah McDowell, his first cousin, a 
daughter of bis uncle James ilcDowell; after the 
death of his wife, Sarah .McDowell, lu' married Lucy 
Le (Jrand; removed to Fayette County, Kentucky, 
in 1784; and was a major in the war (»f 1812. The 
children of Major John McDowell by his first wife 
Sarah, were the f(dlowing: 1, James, who nmrried 
Susan Shelby; 2, John (3d), who married Sarah 
JIcAlpine; 3, Samuel 1 2d ) who nmrried IJetsy 
Chrisman; 4, Betsy, who married AA'illiani Mc- 
Pheeters; and, 5, Mary, who married Major 
Thomas Hart Shelby. The children of Majtu- John 
McDowell by his second wife, Lucy Le (xrand, were 
the following: 1, Joseph Naslie, who married a 
Miss Drake; 2, Charles, who married a .Miss Redd; 
3, Betsy, who married Henderson Bell; 4. Sallie, 
who marrie<l James Allen ; and, 5, Lucy, who mar- 
ried David ^I. Woodson. 

(b) J.VMi:s, second son of Judge Samuel ilc- 
Dowell and ^lary ;McClung, was born in what is 
now Rockbridge County, A'irginia, in 1700. James 
enlisted as a private soldier in the Continental 
Army when but si.xteen years old, and continued in 
the service till victory crowned the American arms 
at Yorktown. While at Innne on furlough during 
the war, and when only nineteen years of age, he 
married ^Mary Paxton Lyle, daughter of Captain 
John Lyle. His sweetheart's i)arents were 
alxuit to renn)ve to North Carolina, and he 
wished to make sure of his \n-\'/A' and have 
her remain at the home of his own par- 
ents. The Lyles were of the Scotch-Irish, who 
had settled in Borden's Orant along with the ear- 
liest families. Col. (Jreen gives it as his opinion 
that the se^•eral names I^yle, Lisle, and Lyell are, in 
reality, identical. The name is one of high rejuite 
in both Virginia and Kentucky. Cajitain John 
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Paxton ami Martha Ulair — most cxct'llcut Scotch- 
Irish luircntaiic. 

In 1784, James McDowell removed with his fam- 
ily to Fayette Conuty, Kentucky, along with the 
mighty title of N'irginians who at that period 
])onred into the fair wilderness to the west of the 
mountains. lie chose a location in the very 
choicest portion of the Blue (Jrass, three miles out 
from Lexington on tlu' (Jeorgetown road. He de- 
voted his energies to fai'ming and stock raising, 
lie was active, nevertheless, in the military move- 
ments of the period against tlie Indians, and was 
commissioned major by Gov. Shelby in 1792. 
AVheii the war of 1S12 broke ()Ut, he was i>ast the 
age for enduring the usual hardships of military 
life, but his patriotic spirit was not to be hampered 
by that circumstance. He was at the time in com- 
mand of a company of cavalry raised at Lexington, 
and this body soon developed into a battalion. He 
was made a major, and his command consolidated 
with that of <"(>1. Simrall. He saw service umler 
(ieneral Harrison, and distinguished himself in tlie 
hotly contested battle of tlie iNfississinewa. Wlien 
the war ch)sed he held the rank of colonel. He re- 
moved to ilason County. Kentucky, where he spent 
the evening of his life, dying at a ripe old age. He 
was a man of splendid physique, and great force of 
character, and left a tine estate and an honoral)le 
name to his children. 

Col. James ^IcDowell and his wife, .Afary Paxton 
Lyle, had seven children, as follows: 1. Isabelhi, 
who married Dr. Jolm Poage Campbell; 2, Sallie. 
who married ( )li\-er Keene, of Fayette County, Ken- 
tucky; 3, Samuel, who was a sergeant in Ca])tain 
Trotter's comjiany in the war of 1812. and nmrried 
Polly Chrisman. of Jessamine County, Kentucky; 
4, Juliet, Avho married a Dr. Dorsey, of Fleming 
County, Kentucky ; o, Hettie, who married John 
Andrews; G, Captain .lohn Lyle, who was a soldier 
in the war of 1812 along with his father, nmrried 
Nancy Vance Scott, died in Frankfort, Kentucky, 
in 1878, at the age of eighty-four, and one of whose 
sous was the late ^[ajor Ilervey McDowell, of Cyn- 
thiana, Kentucky, who raised and commanded in 



the late ('ivil War one of the companies composing 
Col. Poger W. Hanson's Second Kentucky Kegi- 
ment of the Confi'derate Army; and, 7, Ephraim. 
of Mason County, Kentucky, who married, first, 
.Vnn I'oage, and, secondly, Lucretia C. Feemster. 
This Ephraim .MiDowell was a physician and a 
nei)hew of the world-famed surgeon of the same 
name. 

(c) The third sim of Judge Samuel McDowell 
and Jiis ^\•ife, Mary ^[cClung, was named WiL- 
I.I.VM, who came to be known as Judge William 
McDowell. He was born in Rockbridge County, 
Mrginia, ^Farch 9, 17(12. He was quite young 
when the Revolution opened, but he was in the Vir- 
ginia militia for a time during the war. He is said 
to have been the most highly educated of all his 
father's children, and was an able lawyer. He 
came to Kentucky with his father in 1784, and set- 
tled near Danville. There he soon rose to promi- 
nence at the liar, and was tlie intimate associate of 
the ablest and most distinguished men of Ken- 
tucky. And let it be borne in mind that despite 
the distance of Danville from the cultured centers 
of influence in the older sections of the country 
at the East, there were, even at that early day, a 
c<msiderable number of learned and brilliant men 
there who would have adornid the highest circles of 
Virginia. In 1787 Judge McDowell represented 
Mercer ('(Hinty in the Virginia Legislature. He was 
api)ointed to various official positions, and finally 
was made, by President Madison, United States 
District Judge for Kentucky, a position he filled 
witli distinction for eight years. At Bowling 
< Jreen, whither be had removed on account of his 
duties as judge, he died, full of honors. 

Judge William ^FcDowell married ilargaretta 
.Madison, whose father, John Madiscn, was an uncle 
of PrcsidenI Madison. The fruit of tliis union 
was a family of six children, as follows: 1, Samuel 
T. ^NfcDowell, who married :\riss Nancy Rochester, 
and left issue; 2, Lucinda. who married Dennis 
Brashear; 3, Mary, wlio was the first wife of the 
late ^fajor George C. Thompson, of ^Fercer County, 
Kciituckv; 4, William ^FcDowell, who married a 



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;Miss Cartlirao ; 5, Agatha, who niarricd .Tames (1. 
liinicy; (i. Eliza, who iiiarvicd Xathaiiicl llochcs- 
tcr, of r.owliiii; <;ir('n, Kciitncky. 

(d) The fourtli sou of Judge Sauiuul .McDow- 
ell and his wife, .Ahiry .\fc(Muug, was uauied Sam- 
IKL. who, in Older to distiuguish him from his 
father and nephews, was called Samuel McDowell, 
(:{' .M(i((i- Ciainty. lit was horn in Kockhridge 
Tounty, \'iri;inia, ^Nhu'ch S, 17(U. He was, like all 
the McDowells, naturally iucliued to a military 
life when the country needed soldiers; and though 
hut twi'lve years (dd when the Detdaration was pub- 
lished, he stole away from home in 17S1, wheu only 
seventeen, and joined Lafayette in time to fake part 
in the closing compaigu at Yorktown. In 1784 he 
moved to Kentu(dvy with the McDowells, settling in 
Mercer ( 'ounty, where he s]ient the remainder of his 
life. He ser\ed in various expeditious against the 
Indians after settling in fiercer, and Geu'l Wash- 
ington apiiointed him the first Enited States ilar- 
shal for Kentucky, in 1792. That ottice he held 
un<ler Washington, John Adams and Jefferson. 

Sannud McDowell, of Mercer, married Anna Ir- 
vine, a kinswoman, the daughter of Ahram Irvine, 
a Sc(;tcli-li-ish IM(shyterian, and to them were lioru 
eleven children, to wit: 1, John Adair McDowell, 
who was horn in Mercer County, ^lay 2(\, 1780, and 
married Lucy Todd Starling; 2. Al»ram Irvine ^lo- 
Dow(dl, who was hoi'u Aju'il 24, 1793, and nmrried 
Eliza Seidell Lor<l ; 3, William Adair :McDowell, 
who was Ihu'u in Mercer Tounty, ilarch 21, 1795, 
who married ^laria Hawkins Harvey, his kins- 
woman, of Fincastle, Virginia, and a grand- 
daughter of ^lartlia Borden, tlie said ^Lirtha 
heing a daughter of ilagdalen ^^'oo(ls by her 
second husband, Ben Borden, Jr., and having run 
away and married Ben Hawkins. The said Wil- 
liam Adair .McDowell was educated in part at Lex- 
ington, ^'il■ginia, was for a time in the war of 1812. 
studied medicine for a time with his distinguished 
uiude. Dr. Ephraim ^IcDnwell, graduated from the 
^fcdical College of riiilad(di)hia, ])ractised for a 
time with his renowned uncle. Dr. Ephraim, at 
Danville, moved to Fincastle, Virginia, in 1819, 



where he lived till 1838, then afterwards practiswl 
in Louisville, Kentucky, and Evansville, Indiana. 
The children of Dr. .McDowell and his wife Maria 
Hawkins Harvey were: Sarah Shelliy, who mar- 
ried Bland IJallard, a noted Louisville lawyer; 
Henry Clay, who married .Vnnette Clay, daughter 
of Lt. Col. Henry Clay, who fell at Bueua Vista; 
William Breston, who married ^liss Kate Wright; 
Edward Irvine, who fell in battle during our late 
T'ivil War, he being at the time a captain of a com- 
jiaiiy in the Fifteenth Kentucky (Federal) Regi- 
ment; 4. of whom no particulars are available, so 
far as the writer is awai-e; .">, Joseph, who married 
Anne Bush, and settled in Alabama, one of their 
daughters ( ilary ) marrying a Judge Clarke, of 
^lississipjii, and the other (Bettie) marrying a Dr. 
Welch, who moved to (Jalveston, Texas; 0, Alexan- 
der Keith ilarshall, who married, first, I'riscilla 
;\fcAfee, a daughter of (Jeneral Roliert B. ^Ic.Vfee, 
of fiercer County, Kentucky, and, later on, Anna 
llaupt ; 7, ilary, who was born in Mercer County 
in 1787, and married William Starling; 8, Sallie, 
born in 1801, who married Jeremiah Minter. 

(el The fifth son of Judge Samuel McDowell 
and his wife, ^lary .McClung, was named Joseph, 
who was 1)orn September 13, 17(58, and was but six- 
teen years old when his parents migrated to Ken- 
tucky. He was known in his mature years as Col- 
onel Joseph McDowell. In Kentucky, after reach- 
ing a suitable age. he took an active part in the 
campaigns against the Indians. lie was in 
Brown's company with Scott's expedition in 1791, 
and in both of the expeditious under Geu'l Hop- 
kins in 1812. He attracted the favorable notice of 
(Jovernor Shelby, who made him a member of his 
staff as adjutant-general, and he was with him at 
the battle of the Thames, in the fall of 1813, and for 
his services received special complimentary men- 
tion from Geu'l Harrison. Col. .MiDowidl devoted 
his energies to farming. He was a devout Chris- 
tian and an elder of the Presbyterian Church in 
Danville. Kentucky, wliere he died, June 27, 185fi, 
at the ripe age of eighty-eight years. 

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of the wife of his brother, Samuel. Their childreu 
were as follows: 1. 8aiiuiel. who married, first. 
Aiiiand;! liall, and, later on. Martha Hawkins; 2, 
Anna, who married Ahram I. ("aldweil; :J. Sarah, 
who married [Michael Sullivaut, of Columbus, 
Ohio; 4, [Margaret Iniue, who nmrried Joseph Sul- 
livaut, of Columbus, Ohio, a younger brother of her 
sister Sarah's husband; and, 5, Magdalen, who 
married Caleb Wallace, of Danville, Ky. 

(f) Ei'iiHAi.M — the famous surgeon, and the 
most widely known member of his family — was the 
sixth sou of Judge Samuel [McDowell and his wife 
Jlary McClung, and was born in what is now Rock- 
bridge County, Virginia, Xovendier 11, 1771. In 
178-1, when only thirteen years old, he came with 
his parents through the great wilderness to Dan- 
ville, Kentucky, wliere his early life was spent. He 
was educated there, and at Bardstown, Ky., and 
Lexington, Va. He studied medicine at Staunton, 
Virginia, under a Dr. Humphreys, a graduate of 
Edinburg Fniversity. Later, he spent two years 
studying medicine ( 1703-1704 ) at Edinburg, where 
he had as i)receptor and friend the great surgeon, 
John Bell. On his return to America Dr. Mc- 
Dowell began jyractice at Danville, Ky. He rose 
to prominence and fame rapidly, patieuts seeking 
his services from all ]iarts of the South and West. 
It was in the year 1800, when Dr. [McDowell had 
been i)ractising only twelve years, that he per- 
formed an operation upon the person of a Mrs. 
Crawford wh'uh marks a new epoch in surgery — 
the successful removal of iin ovarian tumor. In 
this operation he blazed tlie way for the profession 
of all after years, for he was virtually without a 
guide or a precedent in this difficult and delicate 
undertaking. He employed no amp.sthetics, and had 
no assistance, and yet his ]>atient made a complete 
recovery, and lived nearly a third of a century there- 
after. The British Cyclojiiedia (Xintli Edinburgli 
Edition, Volume XXII, page (500 I , which never dis- 
plays any excess of zeal in praising the achieve- 
ments of workers in the New World, in discussing 
abdominal surgery and the results gained by ova- 
riotomy, has this to say : "lu 1800, Ephraim Mc- 



])<;\vell, of Kentucky, inspired by the lectures of 
John Bell, his teacher in Edinburgh, performed 
o\ari(:t(.niy. and ciiutinuing In n])crare with suc- 
cess established the possibility of surgical inter- 
ference, and was followed in the T'nited States by 
many others." Dr. [McDowell opi i-;iicd thirteen 
times, and was successful eight limes, as Johnston's 
Cyclo])a*dia states. When, after some years' 
silence, he finally nuide a public report of his suc- 
cesses, the great surgeons of both America and 
Europe discredited his statenu'uts, considering 
such results impossible. He was assailed vigor- 
ously l>y Dr. James Johnson, the learned editor of 
tlie Ijondon [Medico-Chirurgical Review, but Dr. 
Johnson 'dived to ask i)ardon of Cod and Dr. Mc- 
Do^^'(dl for his uncharitableness," and in 1827 con- 
fessed that he was wrong. Of course, the subsecpient 
discoveries in medicine and surgery, and the multi- 
]dication of all manner of facilities in handling 
such cases have greatly developed and improve<I the 
M'hole science of gyniTpcology, but the luiman race 
at large, and wonian in particular, owes Dr. Mc- 
Dowell a debt which can never be fully paid. The 
celebrated American surgeon, Dr Gross, said : 
"Had McDowell liv(^d in France, he would have 
been elected a member of the Royal Academy of 
Surgery, received from the King the Cross of the 
Legion of Honor, and obtained from the govern- 
ment a magnificent reward — as an acknowledgment 
of the services he rendered his country, his profes- 
sion, and fellow-creatures." A handsome monu- 
ment in his honor was erected over his grave in 
Danville by the uu'dical profession of Kentucky. 
His death occurred in 1830. [He was a man of com- 
manding presence, six feet high, florid complexion, 
black eyes, and of great muscular power. 

Dr. [McDowell chose for his wife Sarah, a daugh- 
ter of Governor Isaac Shelby, whom he married in 
1S02, and by wliom he liad the following children: 
1, Calelt Wallace, who was named for the distin- 
guished judge of that name, descended from [Mich- 
ael AVoods's sister, Elizalieth, who was an aunt of 
[Magdalen Woods. Said Caleb Wallace [Mc- 
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Keutm-ky, and ivinovcd to Missouri, wliero 
lie died; 2, .Man, who iiiaiiic.l a .Mi-. Vouiii;, 
of Sladbyviili', Ky. ; :!, a second (huniiiler. 
whose name is not known to llie writer, married a 
Mr. Deaderick, of Tennessee; 4, a tliird daughter 
married Major David ('. Irvine, of ^[adison 
County; 5, a fourth married J[ajor .Vuderson, of 
Boyle County, and ino\ed to Missouri. 

(g) C.\i,i:r, ^^ALL.vl'l■: :M(I)()\vi:i.i. was the sev- 
entli son of Judge Samtud .M(i>o\\(dl and his 
\\if< .Mary .McCluiig, and was horn .\|iril 17. 1774. 
He married a relative, .Miss Elizal)etli, the daugh- 
ter of Colonel Joe ileDowell, of North Carolina, by 
his wife, :\[argaret iloffett. 1. The only daughter 
of Caleb Wallar-e McDowell and his wife, Eliza- 
beth (her nanu' unknown to the writer), married a 
kinsman, Joseph Chrisman, Jr., of Jessamine 
County. Kentucky. The McDowtdls and Chris- 
mans se( nied to have intermarried fm- several gen- 
erati(ms after the first alliance was effected about 
the middle of the seventeenth eentury, and the re- 
sult is an unnstial combination of connections and 
relationships wliicii might well confound anv but 
the professional genealogist. 

(hi and (j) Sai;a!I and .MA(a>Ai.i:x. twin chil- 
dren of Judge Samiud iIcl)ow(dl by his wife, 
3fary ^rcClung, were born October 9, 17"). Sarah 
became the (first) wife of the Caleb Wallace, who, 
in after years became one of the first three justices 
of the Kentucky Court of App.'als. Dr. \\'liitsit( 
believes that Caleb and Sarah were married in 
^Farch, 1774. He was 13 years her senior. Caleb 
AX'allace was then a candidate for the Presbyterian 
nuuistry, ami in Octobei- of that year was ordained, 
and installed i)astor of two churches in S(mth Side. 
Virginia, one of which (Ctdt Creek) was in Char- 
lotte County, and the other ( Falling IJiver) only a 
few miles distant. Sarah died in tlie early l)b)om 
of womanhood, and left no child. Her twin sister, 
^lagdalen, married .Vndrew Beid, ^larch 4, 177('). 
and remained in A'irgiina \\hen her ]iarents and the 
rest of the children movi^d to Kentucky some yeai's 
later. Andi-ew Tfeid was of Scotch-Irish descent, 
and was born Febrtiarv 13. 11~>\. He di;'d Octo- 



lier. 1S37. He was nnule clerk of Rockbridge 
<'oiiiity at the dale of its organization in 1778, and 
held the posit icm continuously for fifty years. His 
home was known as .Alulberry Hill, an attractive 
idace west of Lexington. Eleven children were 
born to Andrew and .Magdalen. Two of the sous 
died in infancy. The eldest daughter, Sarah, mar- 
ried .\ndre\\ .Moore. .Vnotlier daughter married 
a -Mr. .McCampbell. Two other daughteis married 
Venables. Yet another married Judge .Vbraham 
Smith. .V tiftii daughter id" Andrew ainl .Magdalen 
married Major John Alexander, of Lexington, Vir- 
ginia, and their daughter. Agnes, married the late 
Lev. Dr. Beverly Tinker Lacey. The only .son of 
.Vndrew and .Magdabqi who grew to manhood was 
Samuel -M( Dowell Held. He was the last to bear 
the name of his family owing to the early death of 
all three of his sons as well as both of his brothers. 
:\Ir. Beid was adjutant of the Fifth Virginia Mili- 
tia in the war of 1812, commanded by Col. James 
McDowell. He succeeded his father as clerk of 
Bockbridge County and hidd the jyosition for 25 
years. He was also the clerk of the Circuit Court, 
colonel of the Virginia militia, and a member of 
the A'irginia Legislature. February 22, 1821, he 
married SaraV. Elizabeth Hare, l)uilt him a home 
ill Lexington, which is still the treasured posses- 
sion of his grandchildren, and died September 15, 
18()0, honored and respected by all who knew him.^' 
Samuel ^fcDowtdl Beid was of Scotch-Irish 
blood, but ^liss Hare, whom he married, was of 
Cavalier stock. Thus was brought about, in their 
offs])ring, that commingling of (|iialities \\hich, ac- 
cording to ilr. John Fiske, the historian, produces 
such welbbalanced characters. She was the 
daughter of Dr. William Bordley Hare, of King 
and (iiieen ("(uinty, ^\■ho served his State in botli 
branches of (he A'irginia Legislature, in turn, and 
also ill the Council of State. Dr. Hare's wife was 
.Miss Elizabeth Cabell, daughter of Co\. Nicholas 
Cabell and Hannah Carrington, of Nelson County. 
"Sallie Hare," as Jlrs. Beid was called, was a wo- 
man of deeji piety, and rare beauty and refinement; 
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Cabells. It was when she came, a little motherless 
girl, to the Ann Smith Academy at Lexington, that 
she won the heart of young "McDowell Keid." She 
was born August 5, 1800, and died on her thirty- 
ninth birthday, August 5, 1839. Of the seven 
children born to Mr. and Mrs. Eeid only two 
reached uuiture years, viz. : 1, Mary Louisa, who 
married James Jones White; and 2, Agues. 

(k) Martha was the third daughter of 
Judge Samuel IMcDowell and Mary jMcCluug. She 
was born Juue 20, 17(56, seventeen or eighteen 
years before her parents migrated to Kentucky. 
In October, 1788, several years after the migration, 
she was married to Colonel Abraham Buford, who 
was at the Battle of Point Pleasant, in October, 
1774, as a lieutenant in the company of militia from 
Bedford Couuty. Duriug the Revolution he was 
the Lieut.-Colouel of the Tenth Regimeut of Vir- 
ginia ^lilitia, and took part in the affair at Wax- 
haw, South Carolina, in May, 1780, where he lost 
three hundred of the four hundred men of his com- 
mand at the hands of the British Dragoons under 
the blood-thirsty Tarleton. Col. Buford and his 
wife IMartha McDowell had issue, as folloAVs: 1, 
Charles S. Buford, who married, first, a daughter 
of Gov. John Adair, and, secondly, Liicy Duke, 
daughter of Dr. Basil Duke and Charlotte Mar- 
shall ; 2, William S., who married a daughter of 
TTon. ( icorge Robertson ; and, 3. Mary:, Avho married 
James K. Duke, a brother to the second wife of her 
brother, Charles S. Buford. 

(1) Mary or Polly was the youngi^t daugh- 
ter of Judge Samuel jMcDowell and ^lary Mc- 
Clung, and was born in Rockbridge Couuty Vir- 
ginia, January 11. 1772. In 1784, she came through 
the wilderness to Kentucky with her parents. She 
was a woman of deep piety, marked amiability, and 
uncommon loveliness of person. In October, 1794, 
she married Alexander Keith ]\Iarshall, who was 
the sixth son of Colonel Thonms Marshall, of Revo- 
lutionary fame, and a nephew of Chief Justice 
Marshall. Col. Thomas Marshall's wife, by whom 
he had fifteen children, was Mary Randolph Keith. 

Tlie children of Alexander Keith Marshall and 



Mary (Polly) IMcDowell were the following: 1, 
Charles Thomas Marshall, who was born July 14, 
1800, and who lived and died on his handsome 
patrimonial estate in Mason County, Kentucky, 
whose wife was Jane Lidce, l)y whom he had four 
sons; 2, James K. Marshall, who married Catherine 
Calloway Hickman, daughter of John L. Hickman, 
of Bourbon County; 3, Maria ^larshall, who was 
born in ^lason Couuty, Kentucky, July 20, 1795, 
and when only sixteen married her kinsnmn, James 
Alexander Paxton ; 4, Lucy Marshall, a\ ho was born 
iu 1790, and in 1818, married her cousiu John ^lar- 
shall, sou of Captain Thomas Marshall ; and 5, 
Jane Marshall, who was born in 1808, and in 1824 
married William Starling Sullivant, of Columbus, 
Ohio. 

(IT) JAMES MCDOWELL was the second 
child of Captain John IMcDowell and Magdalen 
Woods, and was Itorn at the Red House, near Fair- 
field, Rockbridge County, Virginia, in 1739. He 
was the sheriff of his county ; and in 1771, the year 
he died, he was on his way to Richmond on business 
connected with his office. Hence he lived to be 
only about thirty-two years old. He married Miss 
Elizabeth Cloyd, by whom he had six children. 
His wife lived until 1810. Their children were the 
following: (a) Sarah, who married her cousin. 
Major John ^IcDowell, a son of her uncle. Judge 
Samuel ilcDowell. This couple had five children, 
who are mentioned where Major John McDowell's 
liistory is given, in brief, in its proper place. (See 
under the children of Judge Samuel McDowell and 
IMary ^IcClung. ) (b) Eliz.vbeth. who married 
David ■McGavock, and with him moved to Nash- 
ville, Tennessee. She became the maternal ancestor 
of a most extensive and influential family, whose 
representatives are to be found in Tennessee to 
this day occupying high social positions, (c) 
James (2d) was the youngest son of James Mc- 
Dowell and Elizabeth Cloyd. He inherited the 
fine estate left by his father (1771) and there 
spent his whole life. He was a colonel in the 
American Army in 1812, and won honor and fame 
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Sarah rrcston, the dauiililcr <>f Colonel William 
Preston, who was (he surveyor of l''iiicas(le Coiintv, 
and who had as his assistants and deimlies John 
Floyd, John Tod<l, Douglas, Hancock Taylor, Han- 
cock Lee, and others w lio surveyed vast tracts of 
laud in Kentucky for numerous settlers from 177.3 
to 17Sr>. Colonel James McDowell and Sarah 
I'reston had three cliildren: 1, Susan, who mar- 
ried Col. William Taylor, a lawyer of Alexandria, 
Virginia; 2, Elizaheth, who became the wife of the 
lion. Thomas II. l>entoii, so long known as the 
V. S. Senator from ^lissouri. Thomas IF. Kenton 
and Elizabeth ilcDowell had one daughter who 
nmrried (Jen'l John C. h^remont, and another, who 
married Col. Richard T. Jacob, of Kentucky. 3, 
James (3rd), (h(> only son itf James ^IcDowell 
(2d I and Sarah Prest<m, was a member of the U. 
S. House of Representatives, then of the U. S. Sen- 
ate, and lastly the beloved and distinguished chief 
executive of Virginia. Governor jMcDowell 
(James 3rd) was an eloquent orator, and also a 
cogent reasoner. The lady he married was a Miss 
Preston, liis first cousin, and a daughter of Oeiieral 
Francis Preston. Gen'l Preston's wife — the 
mother of Governor McDowell's wife — was a 
daughter of the Col. Wm. Campbell who com- 
manded at the battle of King's ilouutain. Sarah 
Preston, the wife of Gov. ^McDowell, was a sister 
of the wife of Rev. Dr. Robert J. Breckinridge, and 
of William C. Preston and Geu'l John S. Preston, 
of South Carolina. 

( III) SARAH, the only daughter of :\[agdalen 
Woods by Cai)tain John ^fcDowell, her husband, 
mai-ried Colonel George ;^[offett, a soldier of great 
]>romineiic<' in Virginia. Col. Green regards it as 
]>robable that this gentleman was a son of the Cap- 
tain John ;Moffett Avho was among the Scotch-Irish 
settlers who at a very early day came into the 
Great Valley. Col. George ^lotTett's mother hav- 
ing become a widow married John Trindde, the 
grandfather of Allen Trimble, Governor of Ohio, 
(leorge Moffett took an active part in the French 
and Indian Avars and in many border encounters 
with the savages. In one of these conflicts his step- 



fat lier was slain, and several members of his family 
were cai-ried olT \>y the Indians. George MolTett 
promptly organized a com|)any of men and pursued 
the sa\ages; and having overtaken them at Kerr's 
Ci-eek, lie attacked and defeated them, and rescued 
the captives. Among the men thus released was 
.lames Trindde, the half brother of Moffett, and the 
falhei' of (iov. Trindile of Ohio. The mother of 
<'ol. Moffett was ilary Christian, daughter of Rob- 
ert Christian and Mary Richardson, of Ireland. 
Col. iloffett was an active participant in the Revo- 
lutionary struggle, and saw service as a colonel at 
King's Mountain, the Cowpens, and Guildford 
Court House. He was a friend and ]tromoter of 
education, and was one of the founders of the acad- 
emy at Lexington, which has grown to be AVash- 
ington and Lee University. 

Col. George Moff(>tt and Sarah JIcDowell had 
eleven children, as follows: (a) ^Lvucjauiotta, 
who married her cousin. Col. .Joseph ^IcDowell, of 
North Carolina, who was a younger brother of the 
Gen'l Charles ^McDowell who was the second hus- 
band of Grizelle (or Grace) Greenlee. The father 
of Col. .Joseph and Gen'l Charles McDowell was 
-Joseph JMcDowell (senior), who was born in Ire- 
land in 1715, and whose wife was Margaret O'Neil. 
The ^IcDowells wei'e Presbyterians, and the 
O'Neils wei'e Catholics. .Joseph McDowell, Sr., 
and his wife, Margaret O'Neil, migrated to Amer- 
ica and settled in the ^'alley of Virginia, near Win- 
chester, where .Joist Hite had just made the first 
settlement west of the Blue Ridge. Here Col. Joe 
and Gen'l Charles JMcDowell were born, the former 
in 1743, and the latter in 17.50. -Joseph McDowell, 
Sr., had a bi'other known as "Hunting .John" Mc- 
Dowell, who came with him to Virginia, but who 
later moved on down into North Carolina (after 
1758) and settled on the Catawba, in a lovely spot 
which he named "Pleasant Garden." Not long 
after, .Joseph ^IcDowell Sr., followed him, and 
settled at a place called "Quaker Meadows." There 
his sons grew to manhood. The exact relationshi]) 
existing between these two brothers and the Eph- 
raim ^FcDowell whose son -John was slain at Bal- 



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cony Falls by ludiaus, iu 1742, is uot certainly as- 
oertaiuable. It seems very likely they were close 
kiu. These North Carolina McDowells were men 
of courage and patriotism, and bore an honorable 
part in the IJevolutionary AVar. Joseph, Jr., ( wlio 
later married Sarah McDowell) when only twenty 
years of age, Avas major of his brother Charles's 
rfigiment on the expedition against the Scotch 
Tories. Besides this campaign, he was iu many 
others. At King's ilouutain he commanded the 
regiment from Burke and Rutherford counties, 
North Carolina. Later on, he was prominent in 
civil attairs iu his State, and also was a member (if 
the r. S. Congress. He died at his home at Quaker 
Meadows in 1801. 

Among the children of Col. Joseph and Mar- 
garetta the following may be uuMiti(med, viz. : 1, 
Hugh Harvey, who moved to Missouri, and there 
died in 1859; 2, Joseph Jefferson, who moved to 
Ohio, and there became a member of the F. S. Con- 
gress, and whose wife was Sarah Allen McCue, 
daughter of the Rev. John :McCue, an eminent Pres- 
byterian minister ouce pastor of Tinkling Spring 
Church, Virginia; 3, Sarah, who married John 
Matthews and moved with him to Fayette County, 
Kentucky; 1, ^Margaret, wlio Itccamc the wife of her 
distant kinsman. Gov. Allen Trimble, of Ohio; 5 
and 6, Celia, and Clarissa, both of whom married 
distant relatives, Chrismans, some of whose de- 
scendants are to be found to-day in Jessamine 
C(uinty, Kentucky. After the death of Col. Joseph 
JIcDowell at his home ("Quaker Meadows") his 
wife, Margaretta, removed to Virginia, and then, 
later, to Woodford County, Kentucky, where she 
died in 1815. 

(li) r^lAUY. second daughter of Sarah McDow- 
ell, by her husband Col. George ^Moffett, who — like 
so many of her relatives — married her distant kins- 
man, a Major Joseph McDowell, son of "Hunting 
John ^FcDowell," of Pleasant Garden, North Caro- 
lina. This "Joe'' was a first cousin of the other 
Joe who married Margaretta ^loffett. The Joe 
who married Mary Moffett was born at Pleasant 
Garden, February 25, 1758, and, like all his kins- 



men, took an active part iu the conflicts of his day 
with the Indians and the British. He also became 
prominent in civil atlfairs. He died in 1795, leav- 
ing the following children: 1, Col. James Mc- 
Dowell, of Vancey Cimnty; 2, John McDowell, of 
Rutherford Ccmnty; 3, a daughter, who married 
her cousin, Capt. Charles McDowell, of Burke 
County; 4, another daughter, who married her 
cousin Caleb ilcDowell, sum of Samuel McDowell 
and Mary McClung. After the death of ilajor Jo- 
seph ^IcDowell his widow ( Mary Moffett) married 
Captain John Carson, the noted Indian fighter, by 
whom she had a number of childreu : 1, Hon. Sam- 
uel P. Carson, of Burke County, North Carolina, 
wlio, in a duel at Saluda Gap, in 1827, with a Dr. 
Robert P. Vance, inflicted upon the latter a w(mnd 
from the effects of which Dr. Vance soon after 
died. 

(c) M.V(;n.\LKN. the third daughter of Sarah 
ilcDowell by her husbaud Col. George Jlolfett, 
who married Jauu's Cochran. George ^I. Cochran, 
of Staunton, and James Cochran, of Cliarlottes- 
ville, were their sous. 

(d) il.vuTHA. who married Captain Robert 
Kirk, of the T". S. Army. 

(el Elizaketii, who nmrried James Miller, 
the owner of a large iron works in Virginia. 

(f) (tEORGE, Ju.. who married a ^liss Gilker- 
son, and movwl to Kentucky. 

(g) James, who married Hannah sillier, a 
sister of the gentknnan whom Elizabeth Molfett 
nmrried. Col. Henry McD(»well Moffett was a son 
of this c(mple. 



Section Two — The BoniiExs. 

It is not certainly known how long ilagdalen 
Woods McDowell remained a Avidow after the 
tragic death of lier tirst husband (Captain John 
^IcDowell I, iu December. 1742. but it was probably 
al)out six or seven years. It is known that her 
second husband. Benjamin Borden, Jr., died in 
1753, leaving two daughters \Ahom ^lagdalen had 
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llapdalen we liavc considerable iiifonnatiou/" the 
mure ])ertinent itenisi of Avhich will here be pre- 
sented, without attemptius' lo indicate separately- 
the precise authority for each. The reader will 
find anij>Ie warrant for what is given by consulting 
the authorities referred to in Note 47. 

There is some difference of oi)inion as to the 
jtroper spelling of .Magdalen's second husband's 
surname. AVaddell thinks the correct spelling is 
Horden. The town in Xew Jersey which was 
named for a mendier of tlu' family is siielled Bor- 
dentowu. The Central rresl)yterian for May 16, 
lllOO, contained an interesting historical sketch of 
Tind.er Kidge Church 1 1740-11)00) by the Rev. Dr. 
Henry Alexander White; and we know enmigh 
of that scholarly divine to feel sure that he used 
great cai'c. in the preparation of his sketch, to give 
proper names exactly as the official records had 
them. In 1753, Timber Ridge made out a call for 
a pastor, and to that call, as it would seem, all the 
nuMubers of the church signed their names. Among 
the signatures we find this one: "Magdalen Bor- 
den ( widow )." The t)rthography of that signature 
would seem to settle what that lady considered the 
proper spelling of her own Christian name, as well 
as that of her second husl)and's surname. She 
was, beyond all reasonable doubt, a communicant 
of Tind)er Kidge Church from its organization in 
1740, to her death in 1810 — a period of about sixty- 
six years — and even if some officer of the church 
made the co])y <d' the call and list of signers ( \\hich 
is still on record ) we may assume that the name of 
a woman of her ])romiiience and long residence in 
the immediate vicinity would be generally and ac- 
curately understood. 

Benjamin Borden, Sr., the father of the second 
lnisl)and of ^Fagdalen, was the agent of Lord Fair- 
fax ; and in 1730 he came across the colony from 
Williamsliurg to ])ay a visit to John Lewis in the 
(Jreat ^'alley. Borden was, so Waddell thinks, a 
native of New Jersey. He was a rather extensive 
spcculatoi' in wild lands. He had iii-ocured, in 
October, 1734, a grant of a tract of land in Fred- 
erick Coimtv from (!ov. (ioocli, and tills bodv of 



lands is known in history as Borden's Manor. He 
also got a promise of 100,000 acres of laud on James 
Kiver, to tlie west of the Blue Ridge, as soon as he 
should locate one hundred settlers on the tract. 
I'eytou says Borden was an Englishman who set- 
tled in New Jersey and liecame a trader there, 
having c(mie to America as an agent of J.,ord Fair- 
fax. ^Vhile on a visit to Williamsburg Borden 
met John Lewis, and made such a favorable 
impression on him that Lewis invited him to come 
over to the Valley and pay him a visit. Borden 
accepted the invitation, and s[)ent several months at 
Lewis's home, occupying much of the time in hunt- 
ing and tishing. While out on one of his excur- 
sions with the sons of Lewis, the party captured a 
buffalo calf, and when Borden returned to Wil- 
liamsburg he took this calf and presented it to Gov. 
Gooch as something quite novel to his excellency. 
Borden was evidently enterprising and shrewd, 
and he maile that buft'alo calf do him much service. 
The Governor was so much pleased with Borden 
and his present that he ordered a patent to be made 
out authorizing Borden to locate 500,000 acres of 
land on the iSherando (8henandoah) and James 
River west of the Blue IMdge. This large grant — ■ 
known ever afterwards in history as "Borden's 
Grant" — covered a considerable part of what are 
now the counties of Rockbridge and Augusta. 
Beverly Manor, another famous grant, lay to the 
north of Borden's. The sole condition required of 
Borden in order to make his title good for this vast 
body of beautiful and fertile lands was, that he 
should, A\it]iin the next ten years, settle not less 
than one hundred families on it. The date of this 
grant was about 1730. Borden immediately set to 
work to induce settlers from Great Britain, and 
probably from Pennsylvania and other northern 
colonic s, to locate on his grant in the Valley. The 
zealous efforts of men like Hite and Lewis and 
Beverly and Borden to fill uj) the country with .set- 
tlers on their respective tracts did moi-e than any- 
thing else to hasten the opening up of the Great 
Valley of Virginia to civilization. Soon a vast 
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from the North of Ireland, and Tennsvlvania, and 
an overwhelming proportion of these early settlers 
were Seoteh-Irish Presbyterians. 

The first acquaintance of Magdalen Woods Mc- 
Dowell with any of the Bordeus was in the fall of 
] 737, when the McDowells and Greenlees were on 
their way to some locality on the South Fork of 
the Shenandoah River, intending to settle there. 
James :McI)owell, brother to Captain John, and 
sou of Ephraim, had, in the spring of that year, 
raised a crop of corn on the South Fork of the 
Shenandoah near Woods's Gap. When the Mc- 
Dowell party had reached Lewis's Creek, and were 
just about making camp for the night, Benjamin 
Borden, Sr.,canie up and asked leave to spend the 
night there. Borden told the McDowells that he 
had a grajit for a large body of land on the waters 
of James River, and exhibited documents which 
satisfied the McDowells he was telling the truth. 
He said he was at some loss to locate his lauds ex- 
actly, and offered to give one thimsand acres to 
any one who should conduct him to the right spot. 
Tliereupon John 3IcDowell — his wife Magdalen be- 
ing present with the cinnpany — accepted his propo- 
sition, and a written agreement was tlrawu up. 
John McDowell was a surveyor, and of this fact he 
soon satisfied Borden, having his surveying instru- 
ments with him ; and he and Borden went in search 
of the locality the latter was seeking, and they 
found it. It was soon ag7"(M-d that the McDowells 
should all settle iu Boi-den's Grant, and the region 
they selected was near to where Lexington now 
stands, and in between the North and South Rivers, 
which unite a few miles Ijelow Lexington and enter 
the James at Balcony Falls. John McDowell liuilt 
his caliin at what is called the Red Hou.se near 
Fairfield. The McDowells and Greenlees were the 
first peoiile to settle in that locality. Borden re- 
uuiined in the grant for about two years or more 
and secured the requisite one h.undred settlers, and 
made good his claim to the laud granted to him 
by Gov. Gooch. When Borden left the settlement 
about the fall of 1730, he committed his interests 
largelv to John McDowell, who attended to them 



in his absence. He got his patent for his land No- 
vend ler 8, 1739. 

Later on, Beujanun Borden, Jr., came into the 
grant, and boai-ded for a time at John ilcDowell's 
house. He came as his father's representative to 
complete titles and nuike deeds. While there, of 
course, y«mng Borden came to know the McDowells 
well. He returned to his father in New Jersey be- 
fore John [McDowell was kille<l. John [McDowell, 
as already sliown, was slain at Christmas, 1741'. and 
at the close of 1743. the elder Borden died, leaving 
Benjamin Borden, Jr., his heir-at-law, Ik sides two 
other sons, John and Joseph, and several daugh- 
ters. Some tinu' after the death of both John Mc- 
Dowell and the t'lder Borden the latter's son, Ben- 
jamin Borden, Jr., rctuvm-d to the grant, he being 
then, more than ever befcn-e, deeply interested in the 
lands his father had owned. From old Mrs. Green- 
lee's account ( found in her famous deposition) 
it would appear that the younger Borden had not 
nmde a favorable impression on the [McDowells, 
especially on [Magdalen. Mrs. Greenlee said he 
was not at all prepossessing, and that she consid- 
ered him (juite illiterate. But this estimate of the 
man was completely changed. He not only became 
popular, but such was his reputation for integrity 
that the saying "as good as Ben Borden's bill'' 
passed into a proverb. It was not many years till 
he won the confidence and affections of Magdalen 
McDowell and made her his wife. Their marriage 
must have occurred about the year 174S. [Magda- 
len was then al)out forty-two years old, aud had 
with her John [McDowell's three children, namely; 
Samuel, James, and Sarah, whose ages varied from 
fourteen to eight years. [Magdalen continued to 
reside at the Ri'd House. In 1753, her husband 
died of smallpox, leaving an estate which, in 
that day, was considered very large. His younger 
brother, Josejili, came into tlie grant after the 
death of Benjamin, Jr. Later on, he institntetl the 
noted chancery suit (Borden vs. Bowyer) out of 
which grew other suits which have been pending in 
Augusta County courts for about a century. After 
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pousidorofl tlip wi'iilthicst woman wost of tlie l>lno 
Ridge. 

}'y her second Inisliand .Miig<lalen liad two eliil- 
dreu. 

(I) .AIARTIIA IJORDKX, first child of I'.enja- 
niin Borden, Jr., and his wife .MagihUen, wa.s prob- 
al)l_v horn at tlie Jled Ilonse, Kockl)ridge Connty, 
^'irginia, ahoiit tlie year i7.~)0. ^lartha Borden 
hecanie tlie wife of I>enjaniin Hawkins, hy wlioni 
she had a nnmher of children, (a) A (huighter 
was born to Martha and Benjamin who married the 
-lohu Todd who fell at the Battle of the Bine Licks 
in Kentucky. ( li | A danghter, ^Lvgd.vlexa, was 
born to them who married Matthew Harvey, and 
had Maria Hawkins Harvey, who married William 
A. McDowell. After the death of her tirst hus- 
band (Ben Hawkins) ilartha Borden married Rob- 
ert Hitrvey, an older l)rother of the Matthew Har- 
vey who married her daughter iNlagdalena. 

(II) Magdalen had a second daughter by her 
secoud husband, Benjamin Borden, Jr., whose 
nanu' was HANNAH. This daughter seems to 
have died in childhood, and she was ijrobablj' the 
last child her nutther ever had. She was probably 
born about 17.52. It is known her father died of 
the smallpox in 1753. 



Si;('Ti(ix TiiuicE — The Bowyeus. 
Concerning the third marriage of Magdalen. (?(cc 
Woods) not much is known. How long she re- 
mained a widow after the death of Benjamin Bor- 
den, her second husband, is not known. It is 
known that Col. John Bowyer, who was her third 
husband, was a man of priuninence in the Valley 
of Virginia. He was, as Col. ( Jreeu asserts, twenty 
years younger than Magdalen. This last matri- 
monial venture of ^lagdalen's was prol)ably not in- 
vested with a great deal of sentiment on either side, 
and may not have had much to recommend it. She 
was, for that day and community, a rich woman, 
and blessed with the most remarkable vitality, and 
with decided force of character. Col. Green men- 
tions a "tradition," which may have only a slender 



foundation, to the effect that Magdalen had pru- 
dently made a marital settlement with Col. Bowyer 
befoic tjicir marriage, liut that he, bj- some means, 
managed to destroy it. ilrs. (jreenlee, in her fa- 
mous deijosition, says that Bowyer settled Borden's 
business after the latter died in 1753. Bowyer, 
she states, laid claim to all the lands Borden had 
owned, and .sold and gave away a great deal of it. 
]iut we nuist bear in mind that ilrs. tlreenlee was 
the sister of Magdalen's deceased liusl)and. Among 
the subscriijtions to the salary of Rev. John Brown, 
pastor of Timber Ridge, in 1751, was that of a "Mr. 
Boyer" who gave twice as much as any other per- 
son named. It is extremely likely this subscriber 
was Col. John Bowyer. In 17G3, we find him a cap- 
tain of one of the companies of Col. Wm. Preston's 
regiment, raised to resist the Indians, some of 
whom had just devastated the Kerr's Creek neigh- 
borhood, and tilled the whole Valley with alarm. 
In January, 17S1, we find him leading a regiment 
of Rockbridge men to Richmond to resist the in- 
vasion which was led by Beneilict Arnold. When 
Augusta County was divided, by cutting off from it 
the greater part of its territory to create the county 
of Botetourt (in 17(it) ), we find him constituted one 
of its justices, ^^'addell, Annals of Augusta, Page 
66, recites an entry from the Diaiy of Rev. Hugh 
McAden, dated July 13, 1755, which sets Col. Bow- 
yer before us in most enviable and agTeeable 
light. That he was not only an active and 
prominent citizen, and a Christian, but also a 
man who conunanded the respect and good-will of 
the brothers and other relatives of ^lagdalen, his 
wife, .seems practically certain, because he and the 
A>'oodses and Lapsleys were constantly associated 
together in going on each others' l)onds, and in 
those acts of intimacy and good neighborhood 
which do not obtain where there is alienation and 
dislike, ilagdalen's brother Richai-d was with Col. 
Bowyer on the first bench of gentlemen justices ap- 
pointtnl for Botetourt County, and when his wife's 
bri^ther, Michael Woods, Jr., nxmc to write his last 
will in 1776, he names this brother-in-law one of 
his executors in terms which imply not only affec- 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



tiouate regard, but perfect confidence. In view of \\'()ods's descendants, who has i)roliably expended 

all these facts it would seem hnt reasoualile and more labor in elVorts to olitain full inFoniiation cou- 

charitable lo wilbliold damaiiino- criticism of Col. cerniii- iiis W is aiiccslors than any other per- 

Bowyer's character and condnct and be willing to sun. In iiis sketch i t(, be fiMind in Part 11! of this 
believe that any ditl'erences which may have arisen volume i the reader will hnd a number of interest- 
between him and his wile were only such as often ing details which Col. Woods informs the writer he 



exist between high spirited but honorable partners, 
and which do not argue either heartlessness or dis- 
Iionesty. In truth, tliere is nothing certainly 
known concerning their relations to re(|uire us to 
believe that there ever was any dilTereiice or tin- 
pleasantness between Jlagdaleii ami her third hus- 
band."* They evidently had no children as the 
fruit of their union. 



has gathered from vari(Uis sources, and foi' the accu- 
racy of which he \(Uiches. 

AVilliam Woods was a youth of about seventeen 
when his i)arents migrated to Aiaerica, jtrovided 
the author's calculations and conclusions relative 
to the dates of the more important events in the 
history of the remoter Woodses are sid)Stantially 
correct. It is assumed that lie spent ten years of 



.Magdalen AVoods, the first child of .Michael of his life in the colony of Pennsylvania — 1724 to 

I'dair I'arU and Mary (^imi)bell, lived till 1810, it 1734— and tlien came to Virginia. Before migrat- 

is said, attaining the remarkable age of 104 years. ing to the latter colony, however, it is conjectured 

She was one of the pioneers of the Valley of Vir- that he had married Susannah Wallace, his first 

<>inia, and one of the founders of Tind)er Kidge cousin lids iallHi's ni( ce I say, ab(Uit 17;?li, when 

Church. There are probably now living several he was about twenty-five, and she was about one 

thousand jiersons in whose veins her blood is cours- year younger than himself. It would be nu)st rea- 

iuii'. Ili'r ashes reiiose, almost certainly, in the s(Uial)le to sui)])ose that William and his wife ac- 

Tiiidier Uidge Church-Yard waiting for that last com](ani((l his i)arcnts when, in 1734, they came to 

(ail which will summon the dead to rise to die no Virginia, but sonu' of his descendants believe that 

more. The S(mrces of informal ion concerning her he did not leave Pennsylvania till IMarch, 1744. 

character and life are so meager that only the AA'hen he did migrate he settled at the eastern base 

dimmest (mtline of her picture can be discerned, of the Blue Bidge near Woods's Cap, in what is 

Itut she has left her imju'ess on soiue of the worthi- now .Vll)emarle County. 

est characters that have adorned the history of our William Woods ilMl, the first son of .Michael 
conunon country, and we have good reasons for be- and .Mary, succeeded his father as the owner of the 
lievinu that she was a child of Cod, and that, as old "Woods homestead, "^lountaiu Plains," after- 
such, she has inherited the life everlasting. wards called Blair Park.'" The date of this change 

of 'ownershii) is unknown to the present writer. 

B— WILLLV.AI WOODS I 2d). William I 2d ) was not very successful in the man- 

AVe have good reasons for believing that the sec- agement of his estate, it would seem, as we find 

(Hid child I and first sou 1 of .Michael Woods by his him mortgaging his lu-operty, first, to Thonuxs 

wife, Mary Campbell, was their soil A\'illiani, who Walker, and again, to some nu-n over in the Valley, 

Avas probably born in Ireland in the year 1707. aiuong them being his brother-in-law Col. John 

Concerning hitu the author has not been able to Bowyer, and his nephew Samuel .McDowell, 

obtain nuiny items of positive inf(U'nKVtiou. The The oflicial records of the c(dony for the 

few details which he has gathered together from year 175S show that he had been a lieu- 

sources deemed reliable will here be presented, but tenant of the .\lbemarle Militia."" At least 

the reader is respectfully referred to the sketch of there was in .Mbemarle a William Woods who, in 

Colonel Charles A. R. Woods, one of William that year, received pay as a commissioned officer. 



MICIIAKL WOODS OF J51.A1K I'AKK. 57 

and we know of no otlicr person (if tliat iiiiiiic wlio I i \' ) -lOlIX (;?(li, who iiiai-ried Abigail Es- 

at that (late was old en(Hij;li to l)e a soldier. W'il- lill ; 

liaui Woods CJdI. often called "I'.eaver Creek [V \ AXDKIOW (.'idi, who married Hannah 

Hilly," was liis son, lint in IToS he was onlv four- Keid ; 

teen years old. In 1773 ((irl771| we find William (\'I| AK(Mlir.AlJ> I I'd ), who married Mouru- 

>\'oods (2d) niakinii sale of the old homestead innShelton; 

( .Alonntain riains I . he lieiiiii at that time a citizen I \'li I WILUAAI (."Ml, known as "Reaver 

of I'Mncastle County. In old .Micliaers last will, ( "i-eek I'.illy Woods"; 

written in 17til, \\'illiam is expressly mentioned, (VllI) SAIfAII, who maii'ied a Mr. Shirkey; 

lint we know of no ceitain means of determininju' (IX) SUSAN, of whom nothing- is known ; and 

wluthev or not he r(inain((l in Alliemarle inilil (X) ilAlJV, who manied (icoriic Davidson, 

after the death of (dd ^Michael, which occurred in Dr. Kdinar Woods states that all of the liefore- 

17(il*. The fac-siniile of Ills receipt, fiiveu July 15, mentioned children of William (I'd) and Susan- 

17(17, to lie found in this volume, seems to jirove he nah, with the exceiilion of William ( 8(1 ), emigrated 

was then livinji in AUk niarle. Win n AVilliam dis- to Kentucky; ami that from thence some of them 

jiosed of tlie old liomestead in 177:> (or went to Tennessee, and others to Missouri. Dr. 

1774) to Thomas Adams, of Anj;nsta Ccniidy, he AVoods is also of the opinion tliat three of the sons 

took care to reserve the ri,nht of ingress and egress were Haptist ]ireachers, luimely; Adam, Peter and 

as to the old family liurial-ground, and to jmihibit Andrew (3d|, though there nmy be .some (piestiou 

any one from ever cultivating tlie ground within as to whetlun' this is correct as respects Adam.^''' 

that enclosure. This se(iuvs the preservation of (I) ADAM WOODS, the first named of the ten 

this sacred plot of grcmnd, to some extent; hut un- children of ^Villiam (I'd ) and his wife Susannah, 

less it shall, in the near future, he enclosed with a was probably horn in Albemarle County, and possi- 

snhstantial iron fence and otherwise cared for, the hly aliout the year 1742. If he were the first horn 

jn'obabilities are that the graves of the older <hil(l of his parents, and his parents married about 

AA'oodses will soon be utterly obliterated. For two years before the migration of the AVoodses and 

about a thousand dollars a suitable monument and Wallaces to Virginia, as has betm conjectured, then 

iron railing could be provided, which would last for AVilliam and Susannah had no children until about 

generations; and when we consider what a multi- <^i'" yeavi^ after their marriage. It may be, how- 

tude of the descendants of Michael Woods of Blair •"*'''!"' ^I'^i* William did not marry till about 1740, 

I'ark are now living, and liow many of them are ^^■'•''» '"' ^^'^^ thirty-tlave years old ; but we are left 

blessed with a c(msi(leralile share of worldly goods, '■'''''^' ^'"'-^^'•^' ^^ """"' ^'''Hlfi'tnre and guessing in 

it will be no STuall reproach to the "Woods Clan" ^''''^l^'^'-* ^'' "^''^^ "'^ ^1'^' *^^'^«il« ^-^^'^^ti"^' *'» '"« ^'f*^- 

if that sacr( (1 burial-plot is much long, r allowed ''^'•*' inc'vitable result is that we find his lineal de- 

, .... J. I 1 , n , i 1 scendants of the iiresent genei-ation entertaining 

to remain in its present shabby and neglect(Hl con- . _ *' 



dition.''' 

William Woods ( 2d l se( nis never to have had 
any other wife than Susannah AVallace, and by her 
he had ten children, as follows:"'" 



widely divergent theories in regard to some of the 
stejis in his career. These, however, relate to mat- 
ters about which differences of opinion do not im- 
]iugn the general accuracy of the narrative.'*^ 

What(wer may have been the date of the marriage 

(I) ADAM, who married Anna Kavenaugh; of his parents, or of their migration to Virginia, 

(II) :M1(11AEL (:5d), of whom little is it is certain tliey had a son named Adam, who was 
known; probably liorn about 1742. Dr. Edgar Woods says 

(III) PETEK, who married .Tad Kavenaugh; he became a Baptist preacher, hut Col. Chas. A. K. 



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THE WOODS McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



Woods (in his sketch to lie fouml in Part III of Jad Kavenan<ili, sister to the wife of his l)rother 
tills work) speaks of him as soldier and a man of Adam. lie had prohablv settled in Kentucky be- 



large landed estates, neither of which conditions 
are found to he true of the average preacher then 
or now. Adam migrated to .Madison County. Ken- 
tucky, ])i()lialily after the close of the ]{evolution, 
for it seems he acquired a farm there in December, 
1781. lie married iliss Anna Kavenaugh by 
whom he iiad a family of ten children, as follows: 
(a), AViLi.iAM (4th I. who married Susan B. 



fore his marriage occurred. I?orn and reared a 
strict I'resbyterian, he became a Baptist and en- 
tered the ministry of that Church. In 1808 he 
moved to Tennessee and in 1819 to Cooper County, 
.Missouri. He was active in evangelistic work, and 
was prominent in the large denomination to which 
he went from the Church of his fathers. He was 
a useful and earnest servant of Christ, and is re- 



Clark; (bi, I'.vTitH'K. who married, tirst, Rachel membered, especially in Missouri, with admiration 



Cooper, and, second, Frances Dulaney; (c), 
AU("HIi:ali> (3d I, who married his cousin, 
Mary Wallace; (d), Mk'H.vkl (1th), who served in 
Col. Slaughter's regiment of Kentucky mounted 
men in the war of 1812, and was never married; 
(e), Petcu, who moved from Kentucky to Clay 



by all who know of his life and labors there. He 
left a large family, but unfortunately the author 
has not been able to procure their names. 

(IV) JOHN WOODS (3d) was a son of Wil- 
liani3A'oods (2d) and Susannah Wallace, and was 
probably born in All)emarle County, Virginia, 



County, ilissouri, in 1815, and here reared a large about ITol. There he resided till the migration of 
family; (f), John (3d), who migrated to Cali- 
fornia after the Mexican AVar, lieiug a physician; 
(g), n.\XNAii. who married (Colonel Barbe J. 
Collins, she being his second wife ; and a cousin to 
bis first wife; (h), Ann.v. who married a Mr. 
Browne in Kentucky prior to the removal of the 
family to ^Missouri in 1815; (j), SusAX. who mar- 
ried Colonel ;Mullins and moved to California; and, 
(k), Sali.ie. who married Judge Austin Waldeu, 
of Missouri. 

Adam Woods died in Howard County, Missouri, 
in 182(), at the age of eighty-four, while on a visit 
to his relatives, and Avas there buried. His wife 
had died many years before he passed away. 

(II) MICHAEL WOODS (4th) was a son of 
William Wocsds (2d) and Susannah Wallace. He 
is stipposed to have been born in All)emarle County, 
Virginia, in 1T4G. It is thought he was a Revolu- 
tionary soldier, and that he migrated to Kentucky 
towards the close of the eighteenth centnrA-, and 
died there. Little seems to be known of him. 

(III) PETER WOODS was a son of William 
(2d) and Susannah Wallace, and it is said he was 
born in Virginia in 17(i2. and died in Cooper 
County. ^Missouri, in 1S25. In 1782, when 



the family to ^ladison County, Kentucky. He 
married Abigail Estill, the daughter of Captain 
James Estill who built the fort in Madison County, 
Kentucky, which bore bis name, and who was slain 
by the Indians. John Woods had taken an active 
part in the Rev(dutionarv War prior to leaving Vir- 
ginia, and had rendered gallant service against 
the Indians. In 1808, he, in company with three of 
his brothers (Archibald, Peter and Andrew 
AA'oods) moved to Tennessee. In that State he die<l 
in 1815. He left a family of children, but their 
names are not known to the writer. 

(V) ANDREW WOODS (3d) was a son of 
AVilliam Woods (2d) and Susannah Wallace, and 
was jn'obably born abotit the year 1747, and in Al- 
bemarle County, Virginia. He married ^liss Han- 
nah Reid of the Valley of Virginia, a distant kins- 
woman, but his wife never bore him any children. 
He was reared, as all his fathers family had been, 
a Presbyterian, but like his brother Peter he 
changed his views of the ordinance of baptism, and 
unite(l with the Baptist Church, and became an ac- 
tive preacher of that denomination. He lived for 
some vears in Madison County, Kentucky, and in 



a little past twenty years of age, he married 1808, along with his brothers Peter and John an^ 



MiCllAKL WOODS OF lil.Ali; I'AUK. •'>9 

Archiliiild, iiiovcd to Tciiiicsscc wlicrc lie died in wliicli rolilicd liiiii of the fruits of liis labor, dis- 
181."). iiiistcd liini witli KcntucJcy for the tinic, aud he 
(\'I) AiJCUir.ALl) WoohS (I'd I was ilic tlicicupoii iiiii;ratcd, in lS(l!t, to Williamson 
sou of William Woods (lid) and Susanuali Wal- County, Tcnncssci'. There his wife die<l in 1817. 
lace, and is said to lia\c hccn horn in Alhenuirle Not loni;- after her death he nmrried a .Miss Dorcas 
County, >'ir,iiiiiia, .Tanuary ill), ITl'.K This uiem- lieuilerson, and lived for a linie in I'i-aid<lin Coun- 
her of the family was one of its ablest representa- ty. Tennessee. This second marria,i;<' ]>ro\in>j,' a most 
lives, and was for many years ])rominent in Ihe unha|)i)y one, a se])aration occni-i-ed, and in 1S20 
early ])eriod of the history of .Madison County, he i-elurned to Madison County, Kentucky. In 
Kentucky. He was, it would seem, of a sonu'what IS.".:!, when eiiihty-four years old, feeble ami about 
restless temiierameni, judiiinii by the several moves strii)])ed of all his proju-rty, he sou.nht a pension 
he made. In ITTi, he moved to Monroe County, from the Cnited States Ciovernment on acc(mnt 
Virsiinia. In the fall of 177(1, we find him a cap- of his valuable services in the devolution, and he 
tain of Vir,!.;inia militia in an exjiedition against was ])romptly jiensioned at the rate of $480.00 a 
the Indians for the relief of Fort Watauga, in Ten- year, beginniui; with March, ls:jl. The affidavits 
nessee. Col. Kussell commanded this expedition. he made in securing this pension furnish nuiny of 
Captain Woods was constantly in service against the facts now presented herein. lie died Decem- 
the Indians and I>ritish till the surrender of Corn- her 13, 1830, in his eighty-eighth year, at the home 
wallis in October, 17S1. In Decendier of that year of his sou Archibald, aud was buried in ^Madison 
he visited Kentucky, and in 178:.' he brought his County. Cohmel Charles A. K. Woods, of Xor- 
family to Madison County. In 17S4, he jmrchased borne, Missouri, who is a descendant of Archihahrs 
a farm on Dreaming Creek, and there he built brother Adam, paid a visit to Madison County last 
Woods's Fort or Station, and made his home there year (1903), aud nuide diligent search for Archi- 
for about twenty-five years. His first farm was on bald's grave. Several old burial-grounds A\-(M"e ex- 
Pumpkin l{un, a tract of (uie thousand acres of ex- amined without success, but finally liis grave was 
cellent land, for which he i)aid Captain Estill "one found at the old Goodloe place, about three and a 
rifle gnu,'' as he testified, in after years, under oath, (piarter miles from Riclnnond. The tombstone was 
It is needless to renmrk that there are no bargains lying under six or eight inches of grass and soil, 
exactly like that one now to be had near Kichmond, but the inscription was clear and comjdete. The 
Kentucky. When ^ladisou County was organized County of ^ladison, with whose early history Arch- 
in 1785 Captain Woods and nine other men were ibald Woods was so intinmtely connected, and his 
commissioned "(lentlemen Justices of the Peace" numer(uis descendants, should see to it that his last 
liy (tov. I'atrick Henry. He was a magistrate in resting ])lace is properly marked and duly cared 
1708, when the removal td' the counly seat of ^ladi- for. for he was one of Kentucky's worthiest 
son from .Milfoi'd to Kichmond was decided. He pioneers. I"'rom him ami ^fourning Shelton has 
ju'esided over the coui't when Kichmond was named descended a long line of judges. statesnu'U. soldiers, 
ami made the county seat, was made one of its first lawyers, and fiimiuMers. 

trustees, and in 1801 was chosen to be the sheriff Hy his wife Mourning Shelton Captain Archibald 

o£ his county. His life was greatly (Mubittered l)y Woods had a, family of ten children. His wife 

a long and vexatious law-suit which resulted in died Septend)er 7, 1817. By his second marriage 

depriving him of his farm on Dreaming Creek he seems to have had no issue.''' 

where he had lived about a quarter of a century. (a) Lfcv. their eldest daughtei-, was Ixu'ii 

"his decision, which seems to have turned upon a October 2."», 1774, and nmrried Colonel William 

're technicality of the Kentucky Laud Law, aud Caperton December 13, 1700. She had by him the 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



followiiijj; childivii. to wit : 1, Archibald ; 2, Hugh ; Arciiihald Woods {2d) and ^lonrninii Sliflton, 

3, Tlioiiias Sliflron; 4, William II., who married was horn Fchruary 10, ITSo. and married Elizabeth 

Eliza Estill; .">. (ircen; G, John, the father of Dr. Shackleford October 1(1, ISIO. lie resided on a 

A. C. Cai)erton, a Baptist minister of Louisville, tine blnijirass farm two miles east of IJichmond, 

Kentucky; 7, Andrew; 8, Ilulda, who married An- Kentucky, and was one of the earliest practitioners 

drew Woods, her cousin; !), t>usan, wlio married ctf law at the Kichiuond bar. The only issue of this 

Wallace Wilson. an<l 10, Milton T.. a Baptist min- marriage was a daughter, Marth.a, who married 

ister of Austin, Texas, now living at tlie advanced James M. Estill, of Madison County, Kentucky, a 

age of ninety-three. Col. William Caperton with grandson of the note<l pioniM-r, Captain James Es- 

Lucy his wife migrated to Tennessee in 1812, and till. In 1850, Arciiihald I 8.1 1 and his son-in-law 

tlieir descendants are mainly scattered through the Tames M. Estill went to California overland across 

South and Stmth-west. the plains. I-^still's wife, Martha, and their chil- 

(b) AA'iLMAii (5th), their second child, was dren, followed him in 1851, going by way of the 
born March 22, 177(!, and married ^Mary Harris Isthmus of Tanama. In this arduous journey they 
January 1:3, 1802. He died July 8, 1840, and she were safely conducted by their faithful slave. Jor- 
died January 17, 1838. They left the following dan, and the i)arty crossed the Isthmus on mules, 
children, to wit : 1, Nancy, who was born January Estill rose to prominence in Califcn-nia, and was 
21, 1803; 2, Archibald (4th), who was born Feb- elected to the State Senate. A few years later both 
ruary 20, 1804, and married Sallie G. Caperton; 3, Archibald Woods (3di and his son-in-law, Estill, 
Semiramis Shelton, \\ho was born September 1, died in California. 5Ir. Estill was a gentleman of 
1805, and married John ;M. Kavenaugh December brilliant gifts, and took a position in the best ranks 
10, 1822; 4, Lucy, who was born February 22, 1807; of society. James :M. Estill and Martha Woods 
5, Mourning, who was born October G, 1808; G, left five daughters and a sou, as follows: 1, Eliza- 
Thomas Harris, who was born August 31, 1810, beth, who married, in Califcu-nia, AA'illiam R. Gar- 
aud married Ai)])eline Miller; 7, Robert Harris, risou (son of Commodore Garriscui, a millionaire 
who was born May 29, 1812; 8, William Crawford, of New York City) and had three children. The 
who was born April 1, 1814, and married Sarah first of these three children of AA'illiam R. Garrison 
xVuu Royce; 9, John Christopher, who was born and Elizabeth Estill was Minnie, who married Gas- 
February 8, 1817; 10, 3Iary Ann, who was born ton De Chandou, of France, and now resides at 
February 20, 1819, and married John M. ^liller; Nice; the second was Estill, wh.o nmrried Charles 
and 11, James Goodloe, who was born February Ramsey (uncle to the present Earl of Dalhousie) 
2, 1823, and married Susan Jane Boyce. and now resides in London; and the third was 

(c) Sl'S.VNX.vii, the tliird cliild of Archibald William Garrison, Jr., who married Catharine C(m- 
Woods (2d), was born June 13, 1778, and nmrried dert ( I'ro Coudare) daughter of Frederick R. Cou- 
William Goodloe Februai'y 23, 179G, and died Oc- dert, the eminent lawyer of New York City, recently 
toiler 2, 1851, leaving thirteen children. deceased. ^Irs. ^lartha Woods Estill, only daugh- 

(d) M.vuY, the fourth child of Archibald tcr of Archibald Woods (3d) and Elizabeth 
Woods I 2(1) and Mourning Shelton, was born July Shackelford, and widow of James M. Estill, is now 
31, 1780, married Barbee Collins June 25, 1795, and living, at a very advanced age, in New York City 
died July 23, 1S22. with her daughtei-s. The second child of James ^I. 

(e) S.Mt.vii, the fifth child of Archibald Estill and Martha Woods was Josephine; the third 
Woods (2(1) and Mourning Shelton, was liorn Jan- was Martha, who nuu-ried W. W. Craig; the fourth 
uary 31, 1783, and died April 24, 1785. was Rodes; the fifth was Florence; and the sixth 

(f) Ai!('Hii"..\i.i) (3d), the sixth cliild of was ilaud. who married Dana Jones, of California. 



-MICHAEL WOODS OF HLAIK I'AKK. til 

(g) Anna, tlu- scviiitli child of Aicliiliald . jin-jit-iirandsdiis (if Micliai'l (if Hlair Park — came 

Woods (2d) and .Moiiniiuii Slulidii, was hmii uikmi llic staiic li(si(l(s William llic survivoiM-allcd 

Jauuary 27, 1TS7, and mariicd Tlinmas 11. Miller ••Snrvc.vor >\"illiaiii AVoods." The result was that 

.Tilly 2!t, 180(1. the indi\idiial now under considcratioii, (who was 

(hi TiKiM.vs. the eighth child of .Vrchiliald tli( snn of William I'd and Susannah Wallace ), be- 

\\'(;ods (I'd) and his wife .Mournin;Li Shellon, was cause his home was on I'.eaver ("reek, came To lie 

horn .Ma.v .1, ITS!), and died Oclolier I'lt, ISCKi. kmiwn as '•lU-avei- ("reek I?ill.v." The relief, liow- 

(jl Ax.N, the ninth child of Aichihald \\"oods ever, was hut temjiorary and jiai'tial, for ''Beaver 

(2d) and .Mourniiiu Shelton, was horn and died ("reek William Woods" was so uufortunate as to 

May 1."), IT'.ll. have named one (d' his own sons William; and as 

(ki .MoiitMNc. the tenth an.l last child of this son lived on lieaver ( "reek with his fadier he 

Archihald \\'(^(:.ls (2d) and Mournini; Sludton, in the coui'se of tiiue, had to he duhlied "IJeaver 

was horn April 2, 17'.I2. married (larland .Miller ("i-eek William The Secoml." Then anotlu^r 

January IS, ISIO, and die(l Se])tendier 7, 1S17. jirandson of old .Michael, named William, came into 

(VII) WILLIA.M WOODS (;!d), son id' Wil- iirominence, thereliy imreasiui;- the comiilications 
liam Woods (2d) and Susannah Walhice — known which already were enouiili to try tlu' jiatienee of 
for many of the later years of his life as "ISeaver the community. This last mentioned i^-entleman 
("r(ek William Woods The l'"irst"" — was horn ) ac- hecame a jironnnenl minister of (he liaptist 
cording to ("ol. ("liarles A. Iv. ^^■oods ) in Alhemarh' ("hurcli, and a man <d' intluence in Alhemarle; and 
County, Virjiinia, December 2."), 1744; but accord- in sheer desperation his friends bejian calling liini 
ing to ilrs. [McChesney (Joodall he was born De- "Bai)tist William Woods." Tiu're still remained 
cember 31, 1744, near the ])resent town of West several other men of the same name in Albemarle, 
Chester, rennsylvania, and brought to Albenmrle and (•(^ntiguous counties, for wlnan no such familiar 
("onuty, Virginia, the March following.'^' The appellatives were invented, and to several of them 
]{ev. Dr. Edgar AVoods, who resides in Charlottes- we shall be comp(dle(l to refei- in this narrative, 
ville, Virginia, and has given very careful attention AVilliam Woods ("Beaver ("reek r.illy" ) (.'>d) 
to these (luestions, positivtdy states that AVilliani was a zcahuis IMrsbyterian, and a leading 
Wo(!ds (3d ), long known as "Beaver ("reek I'.illy,"' mendi( r of the .Mountain I'lains ("hurch. He 
died in 1S3(!, at the age of ninety-two, making the was a man of tine sense, natural leader- 
year of his birtli 1744; Imt he gives no opinion as shiji, and excellent charact( r. He disjilayed 
to the i)lace of his birtli, or the date of his coming some little eccentricities of mind and manner which 
to Virginia. The present writer lias no (hicu- caused him to be w(41 known in all the region 
menfary evidence at hand to warrant ]iositive as- round about. He took a sp(M-ial interest in his 
sertious on this ])oint, but he decidedly inclines to ("hurch, and exercised over it a sort of paternal 
the view that Beaver Creek William Woods was guardianship. He would not liesitate to utter his 
born in Albemarle, and that his jiai'ents came there disapproval of what he conceived to be a ])ei'nicious 
in 1734, with Blair I'ark 3Iichael. sentiment from the lips of the pi'eaclun* in the pul- 

Tlie AVilliam W(iods(>s came to be so numerous in pit by giving audible dissent from his place in his 

Albemarle that sonu-thing had to be done to con- pe\\'. Many a tinu', when he thought the preacher 

\('niently distinguish tlieni fr(MH one another. The was luissing the nnirk in sonie of his statenu'uts lie- 

A\'illi;im A\dods, who was the son of William 2d fore the assembled congregation, he W(Uild shake 

and Susannah Wallace, gradually develo])ed into a his head, and say, aloud,— "Not so, sir; not so." 

conspicuous personage in his county; and then 'Tis said he Mas very tall and handsome, and of 

several other \\'illiam Woodses — grandsons and gi'aceful manner; and in his latter years, he wore 



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his uray hair lony, and <(»mi)eil straight back from tlie iiiecc of the Jarniau whose uauu* supphmteil 

liis tine forehead. All in all. he must have been a that of Woods for the ga}) in (juestion became a Mrs. 

most intcresliuji and niiii|ii(' charaeter in his day, AVoods.'" We loicw nothinjiof tlie date of the birth 

and it seems a great ])ity tliat we have no portrait (d' this \\illiaiii WimkIs I 4th), but we know 



of him. To be able to gaze ujion a good like- 
ness of his faie would earry us baek to th;- Yir- 
giuia of a eentury ago, with its charming social life 
long prior to the days of railroads and other mod- 
ern inventions. He was, according to Dr. Edgar 
Woods, the (mly one of all the children of William 
Woods (2d) and Susannah Wallace that re- 
mained in Albenmrle, all the others having mi- 
grat(Hl to the West at the close of the Iievolution. 
His home was on Beaver Creek, about a mile north 



he died in 182!), leaving the f(dlo\ving chil- 
dren: 1, James, who married iUldred Jones, 
lived on Beaver Creek, and died in 1S68; 
•_'. \\'illiam, who married Nancy Jones, lived 
near Crozet, and died in 1850; 3, Peter A., who was 
a nu'rchant in Charlottesville, and in IJiclimond. 
married Twymonia AN'ayt, anil afterwards Mrs. 
Mary IViage Hourland, and died in ISTO; 5, Thomas 
Dabney, who married ^liss Ilagan, lived near I'ed- 
lar :Mills in Amherst County, and died in 1894; and 



of the ])ri'sent railway station called Crozet, and 0, Sarah T., who married Jesse P. Key. The said 



some of his descendants are living in that imme- 
diate vicinity to this day, and are among the best 
people of Albemarle. 

William Woods (:;5dl was tliree times married. 
II is first wife was his cousin, Sarah Wallace; his 
second was his cousin, Ann Keid ; and his third was 
Mrs. Xancy Jones, ucc Pichardson. He took part 
in the IJevolutionary struggle,and in ITKJ was com- 
missioned an ensign, and almost immediately there- 
after a lieutenant, in tlu' A'irginia Line. It seems 
to be generally agreed that he had but one son. and 
to him he gave that extremely poimlar name AA'il- 
iA\M. who was known in Albermarle as "Beaver 
Creek Billy the Second." The writer is not in- 
formed as to which of the three wives of William 
AVoods (3d) was the mother of William Woods 
(4th ). Nor does the writer know whether the lat- 
ter bad any sisters or half sisters. It seems likely 
that his father's first wife, Sarah Wallace, Avas his 
mother, and that he was the only child his father 
ever had born to him. 

(a I WiLLi.VM Woods ("Beaver Creek Second") 
the only son of William Woods (3d) nmrried ^lary 
Jarmau, a daughter of William Jarman. Said Wil- 
liam Jarnian was a brother of the Tbonnis Jarman 



James Woods, first child of Wilham WoikIs (4th), 
who married Mildred Jones, a daughter of Captain 
William P. Jones, had several children, the eldest 
of which was AVilliam Price Woods, who married 
Sarah Ellen Jones, his cimsiu. ilr. William Price 
Woods lived at Crozet, Va.. and there died August 
8, 1900. :\[rs. Goodall. who has a sketch of her 
family in Part III of this volume, is his grand- 
daughter. ( See her sketch.)'' 

(VIII) SARAH WOODS was a daughter of 
William Woods f2d) and his wife Susannah Wal- 
lace. Sarah (or Sallie, as some prefer to call 
her,) married a Col. Nicholas Shirky, of Bote- 
tourt County, as Col. Chas. A. R. Woods states in 
his sketch in Part III of this work. Col. Woods 
says she was born in ITril, and died in 1851. If 
she had any children the author has been unable to 
ascertain the fact. 

(IX) SrSAX is mentioned by Dr. Edgar 
Woods in his history of Albemarle as one of the 
daughters of William Woods (2d) and Susannah 
Wallace, but no details of her life are furnished. 

(X) ]MARY is referred to by Dr. Edgar Woods 
as if she wer(> tli(> last of the childx'en of William 
Woods (2d) and Susannah Wallace, but the only 



whii ]mrchased laud on the crest of Woods's (Jap, piece of informal ion he gives concerning her is that 

and f(U' whom the name of that jtass was trans- she married one fJeoi-ge Davidson, 
fcrred, from the man who first settled at its base Col. Charles A. R. Woods ('see his sketch) makes 

(.Michael Woods) and called Jarnian's (iaji. Thus no reference to either Susan or Mary in his list of 



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llu' chiltlivu (if Williaiii AVoods (iM), ami Susan- 
nah Wallace; Imt he does iiu>ntii)ii a Ilaiinah 
\\'(i()(ls, \\1ki is said by some jk'I'soiis to have heeii 
one of tlieir childven. an<l to lune married one Wil- 
liam Ka\('nan,nh and moxcd to Madis()n County, 
Kentucky. That there should he considerahle nu- 
certainty in rejjard to sonu^ of the children of AVll- 
liam Woods {'2d) is not at all sui'iu-isin.i:, for he 
himself seems to have disappeared from view en- 
tirely ahout the year 1773, when he was living in 
I'incastleCounty.Viruinia. When we rellect that the 
short-lived county of Fincastle, which existed from 
1772 to 177(i, comprised a small empire within its 
hounds, viz. : all of Southwest Virginia; nearly all 
of what is now the State of West Virginia; and 
the wlude of Kentucky — when we think wliat a 
vast area it included — we can und(>rstan(l how ex- 
tremely vague is the statement that in 1773 tliis 
AX'illiam Woods ( 2d 1 was "living in Fincastle 
County." In what part of it he resided we have 
no idea, except that it was prohahly near New 
Kiver. Xor have we any means of knowing when, 
or where, or how either he or his wife died. We 
know that hefore the IJevolntion began he had left 
Albemarle, and that at the close of that great strug- 
gle all of his children except A>'il!i;!iii had 
migrated to Kentucky. Ih'Vond this liis his- 
tory is veiled from our view, and it is likely we can 
never know what the closing years of life were for 
him. Born in 1707. he is abcmt sixty-six when he 
vanishes from our sight. Fortunately he has left 
many worthy descendants who have ])erpetuatetl 
his nanu' among nn'u. and not a few of them have 
made sucli names for themselves as reflect credit 
upon the whole Woods Clan, and reveal the excel- 
lence of the stock whence they sprang. 

C— MICHAEL WOODS, .irXIOU. 

The third child of Michafd Woods of I'.lair Park 
and his wife ^fary Camjibell was named for his 
father, ^fichael ; and, as was shown on a previous 
jiage, he was ])robably born in Ireland about the 
year 170S. We feel next to certain that he mi- 
grated to America witli his {larents and kinsfolk in 



1724, tarrying ten years in the colony of I'enusyl- 
vania. and then going with the Woodses and some 
of the Wallaces to Virginia in 1734. As he was a 
man of twenty-six when he settled in Virginia, and 
only a yoiith of sixteen when lie left Ireland, we 
might snit])ose that he man-ied his wife, Anne, in 
IVnnsylvania. We have no nutans of knowing 
what his wife's surname was. as the only UH'ntion 
we have of her is in the deeds of her hnsi)and and in 
his last will, in all which he calls her Anne. Hence 
the strain of which she was a representative must 
])robably remain forever hidden from her descend- 
ants. Knowing what we do of the man she mar- 
ried, however, we may safely indulge the confident 
hope that she was a good Christian woman, and 
most probalily a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian as was 
:\nchael. Junior, himself, (ieneral :Micajah Woods 
thinks she was a cousin to Michael. AVe shall de- 
signate this nuMuber of the family as "^Micliael, 
Jnnior." because his father bore the nanu- Mich- 
ael, and described him as ":Michael Junior" in a 
deed he executed in 1743. He is often referred to 
as .Micluud Woods of Ilotetourt, but his honu' was 
in Albemarle, at least thirty-five years, whilst in 
Botetourt he lived scarcely seven years. Besides, 
the name ":Michael Junior" describes him Avith 
snfticient accuracy. 

The first allusion to this son of :Michael of Blair 
Park seems to be that which we find in the deetl 
which his father execut<'d to him August 3. 1743, 
<ouveying to him 200 acres of the Hudson tract. In 
this deed the grantor signs himself :Michael Woods, 
Sr., and refers to the grantee as :Michael Woods, 
Jr. At this tinu' the father was 59 years old, and 
the son was abcmt 30. Twelve years later (Sep- 
tendier 10, 17r)."i) we find Jlichael, Jr.. obtaining a 
Crown Grant for himself of 300 acres on Ivy Creek 
adjoining the 200 acres his father deeded to him in 
1743. Assuming that Michael, Jr., made his home 
on this land for about 2."> years of his life (which 
is i)racticaliy certain I. he veside<l near Ivy DejHit, 
and only about six miles distant from his father's 
homestead at Blair Park. The date of the removal 
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taiulv iiiiulf out, but it was pvobablv about tlie year 
17G0. or shortly tliiTeaftcr. This is iuf erred from 
the known fact that in tliat year .Afichael. Jr.. and 
Anue his wife deed to their son William 
the before-mentioned 300 acres of laud, and 
iu 1773 they conveyed another tract to oue Thomas 
Berch. In 17G9 Jlichael. Jr., was only about 61 
years of acte, and his undertaking to make a new 
start in life iu another part of the colony some 
distance away, and in a frontier re,2;iou, showed 
that his reason for disposiuii' of his lands in Albe- 
marle was not that he was feeble and considered 
his end near. He is said to have been a large man 
aboA-e six feet in height, and of unusual vigor of 
both, body and mind. His removal to Botetourt, 
therefore,nuiy be set down as having occurred some- 
where between 1709 and 1773, but the earlier of the 
two dates seems to be the more probable oue. His 
father's death, in 1702, had d(mbtless made him the 
more willing to leave the old home neighborhood, 
and his brothers Archibald, Andrew and William 
are known to b.ave moved fi-om Alliemarle about 
the same pei-iod. Laud to the southward was ipiite 
as fertile as in Albemarle, and cheaper, and there 
was a spirit of enterprise and adventure abroad in 
the older ])arts of the colony at the time which 
caused many to turn their eyes towards the South- 
west Avith the view of making new investments in 
promising fields — of "going West to grow up Avith 
the country," as Ave Avonld say in our day. 

The location Avhich :Michael, Jr., chose for himself 
on James Kiver in Botetourt County, Avas one well 
adapted to agricultural puri»oses, and Avas, besides, 
((uite picturesque and interesting. The engraving 
giving a vicAv of the river in front of his farm, 
(which Avill be found iu this A-olunu>) shoAAS hoAV it 
appears to one standing on the ncn'th bank of the 
river at Indian Rock, a station of the Chesapeake 
& Ohio RailAvay. At that point the James sweeps 
around the farm iu a graceful curve, forming an 
almost perfwt letter F one or two miles in extent, 
the opening of the semi-circle being toward the 
South. The north bank of the riAer here is 
croAvned Avith beautiful hills, coming close down 



to the waters edge, Avhilst the farm, which is on the 
opposite side, consists mainly of Aery gently un- 
dulating loAvlands or meadoAv. Just here a little 
mountain stream, known as Jennings Creek, puts 
into the river from the south, its head springs be- 
ing right at the northern base of the fauunis Peaks 
of Otter, a few miles south of the farm. Xow and 
then, after heavy rains, A\hen both river and creek 
are high, the swollen waters back up and overflow 
the low grouuds, so as to make the place look like 
an island ; and as a gentleman by the name of Shep- 
herd long owned the place after the death of Mich- 
ael, Jr., it came to be called "She])herd's Island 
Farm." It also had the name of "Hollow Ford 
I'^arm," suggested, no doubt, bv scmie peculiaritv 
of the ford of the James on the north line of the 
place. The Peaks of Otter, eight miles to the 
south ; the marvellous Natural Bridge, only seven 
miles to the northeast, and the grand Avater-gap of 
the James at Balcony Falls, tAvelve miles below; 
constitute a combination of attractions not often 
(■([ualled in any ])arr of the land. In Michael's day 
none of tlie noises and commotions of our modern 
life disturbed the peaceful valley in Avhich he re- 
sided ; but now either bank of the noble James 
l)oasts a great trunk-line — the Clie.sapeake c& Ohio 
on one side, and the Norfolk & Western on the 
other — and the Avhistle of the loccmiotiA^e and the 
roar of trains are constantly Avaking the echoes iu 
the grand mountains and chaniiing hills of that 
bciutiful region. The farm c<nisisted of about 400 
acres when ^[ichael oAvned it, and it uoav belongs 
to a Mr. Starkey Robinson, in Avhose hospitable 
jiome the present Avriter Avas kindly entertained iu 
the summer of 1895, Avhilst in the ueighborhoo:l 
making obserAations and researches preparatory to 
ilie ]mblicatiou of this AA'ork. The ]>resent dwell- 
ing — a comfortabl(» brick house' — staurls, as Mr. 
Robinson stated, on the exact site of the old AVoods 
homestead of (uu' hundred and thirty yeai-s ago. A 
few Jnindnd yards to the east of the house is tlH> 
private burial-ground of the farm covering a little 
knoll. The only graAcs there in 1895, marked Avith 
headstones liaving inscriptions were of recent date. 









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FAC-SIMILE OF LAST WILL OF MICHAEL WOODS, JR.. WHO DIED IN 




FARM OF MICHAEL WOODS, JR . ON JAMES RIVER, BOTETOURT CO , VA.. WHERE HE DIED IN 



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but there were many iiuniarke<l, sunken graves, in 
one of which we can scarcely doulit the hody of 
Michael Woods, Jr., has been sleeping since 1777. 
In the morning of "the day without clouds," when 
the last trumpet echoes through those hills, the 
angels will know where to find the dust i»f those 
the}' seek. 

After .Michaers death this farm, as his will pro- 
vided, became the pro^jerty of his son David, and in 
1779 he sold it to his brother-indaw, William Camp- 
bell, for three thousand five hundred pounds. A 
man by the name of Shepherd afterwards owned 
it, and he may have been the Dalertus Slu'pherd 
who married one of Michael's daughters. About 
thirty-three years ago Mr. Starkey Robinson, the 
present owner, came into possession of it. The 
exact location of this farm is indicated on the 
"Map of the Parting of the Ways'' to be found in 
this volume. In 17G9, the year Michael seems to 
have purchased this place, that region was yet a 
frontier settlement, and exposed to the depreda- 
tions of Indians from the northwest. The savages 
continued to annoy the settlers in that part of the 
country well on down to the close of the eighteenth 
century. Indeed, Southwestern Virginia, and what 
is now the state of West Virginia, were exposed to 
troubles of this character longer than even Ken- 
tucky was. It must ha^•e been, therefore, no small 
comfort to ^lichael that his brother Andrew lived 
only about twelve or fourteen miles southwest of 
his home, and his brother Archibald still farther 
down in that direction on Catawba Creek. His 
brother William was also down below him some- 
where in Fincastle County; and the McAfees, one 
of whose daughters became the (second) wife of 
his sou David in after years, were also residing on 
Catawba Creek. All of these families were near 
enough to him for purposes of social intercourse, 
and also of mutual assistance in times of danger. 
Michael was, lieyimd all reasonable doubt, a devout 
KScotch-Irish Presbyterian; and as both Falling 
Spring and High Bridge (Presbyterian) Churches 
were in existence all the years he lived on James 
River — the one being sixteen miles distant, and the 



other only eight miles — it is extremely likely that 
he and his family held their meudjership in one of 
them, and probably attended both quite often. The 
four Bibles and four Catechisms and one copy of 
the Confession of Faith, listed by his executors 
after his <h'ath as among his personal effects, as 
well as the devout preface to his will, indicate 
l)retty clearly that his was a home in which religion 
had a large place. It was not thirty miles from 
his home on (he James to that "nest"' of Woodses, 
McDowells, Lapsleys, Campbells, Bowyers, etc., up 
in Rockbridge County, and there are indications 
that he kept in close touch with these relatives and 
connections to the close of his life; and when he 
comes, a few months before his end, to write his 
last will, he names, as one of the executors of his es- 
tate "my loving friend, John Bowyer, Esq." — the 
man who was the third husband of his own sister 
Magdalen. 

Michael Woods, Jr., wrote his will [May 29, 1776, 
— just as the Revolutionary storm was beginuing to 
rage — and it was proved in court March 11, 1777. 
He probably died verj- early in the year 1777. The 
original document is on file now in the clerk's office 
at Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia, and 
through the courtesy of the obliging clerk, Mr. 
Matheny, the writer was allowed to have it photo- 
graphed expressly for this work. A faithful fac- 
simile of the will, made from the photograph thus 
obtained, will be found in this volume. He made 
his son David his "heir," and one of the two execu- 
tors of the will; and Col. Bowyer, his brother-in- 
law, was made the other executor. His wife Anne 
was living at the time, and is mentioned by name. 
It is kuown that she joined her sous David and 
Samuel, a few years later, iu their migration to Ken- 
tucky, where she died not long after the removal. 
Three men signed as witnesses to the will, to wit: 
John Logan ; George Dougherty ; Charles Lambert. 
Of the first two the writer knows nothing Avhatever. 
Concerning the Charles Lambert, General Micajah 
Woods expresses the opinion, based on facts known 
to him, that the family to which this gentleman be- 
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Woodses; autl he thinks a luau of this name mar- 
ried either a sister or a daugliter of .Miehael, Jr. 
It is hardly possible that .Michael had a sister who 
married a Lambert. But he left two youug ladv 
daughters, Anne and Sarah, one of whom may 
have married this Mr. Lambert. General Lambert, 
once Mayor of Richmond, was, as General Woods 
believes, a descendant of one of the near kinswomen 
of Michael, Jr. — a sister, or daughter. The Charles 
Lambert, above mentioned, was evidently closely 
connected with him in some way; for, prior to 1770, 
he was a witness to various legal documents for 
Woodses in Albemarle County. It would there- 
fore seem that he came to Botetourt County about 
the time Michael himself did, and it may be that 
he married either Auue, or Sarah, one of the 
younger daughters of Michael. 

Michael ^Voods, Jr., must have failed in health 
very rapidly, and from some other cause than old 
age, after settliug in Botetourt. If he had not 
been in very robust health in 1769 — the date of his 
selling out in Albemarle preparatory to removing 
to Botetourt — he would hardly have gone down 
into the then frontier portion of the colony, one 
hundred miles distant from his old home, to begin 
life anew. It is only six or seven years su1)sequeut 
to that migration that we find him writing his will, 
in wliich he speaks of himself as "weak in body"; 
and he was then only sixty-eight years old, and 
died only about nine months thereafter. His 
father had lived to be seventy-eight, and his sister 
Magdalen, Avho was l)orn a couple of years before 
himself, outlived him about a third of a century. 
Our impression of those ancient Woodses is that 
they were, as a rule, an unusually hardy and vigor- 
ous race of people who attained to great age. Hence 
we infer that Michael, Jr., must have experienced 
some sudden and unlooked for shock to his bodily 
health which took him off at least ten years before 
the time he and his friends would have anticipated 
when he took leave of Albemarle. But if we may 
fairly draw inferences from the language men em- 
ploy in making their last wills, it is reasonably 
certain that Michael, Jr., was not at all weak in 



his faith, however feeble he may have been in body. 
The i)reamble of that document reads as follows: 
'•In the name of (Jod, Amen. I, Michael Woods, 
of the County of Botetourt, in Virginia, being weak 
of body, but of perfect mind and memory, blessed 
be God, and calling to mind ye mortality of my 
body, and that it is appointed for all men once to 
die, do, this twent^'-ninth day of May, one thousand 
seven hundred and seventy-six, make this my last 
will and testament, viz. : I give my soul into the 
hands of Almighty God, who gave it me, beseech- 
ing his gracious accei)tance thereof, nothing doubt- 
ing but I shall receive it again at ye General Resur- 
rection by the mighty power of God. My body 1 
recommend to the earth from whence it was taken, 
to be buried in a Christian-like and decent man- 
ner, &c, &c." As for his worldly pi'operty, whilst 
not a man of large wealth at the time of his de- 
cease, he was comfortably fixed, and left a good es- 
tate for a man who had no doubt previously made 
provision for eight or nine children. 

Men often use some pious phrases in drawing up 
their last wills merely as a nmtter of form, but the 
man who dictated that preamble was, beyond all 
doubt, one who lived a truly devout life, and died 
in the faith of Jesus Christ. His descendants 
ought to know these things concerning him. The 
meagre outline of his life which remains for us 
leaves him almost AvhoUy hidden from our gaze 
amidst the shadows of a somewhat remote past; 
but it should be a comfort, and also an inspiration, 
for us that the clearest light which falls upon his 
career illumines the most important phase of his 
character, and gives to us the reasonable assurance 
that he has a place in the Kingdom of Glory above 
where we also may hope, after a season, to meet 
him and share that joy and peace which have been 
his for one hundred and twenty-seven years. 

In his will Michael, Jr., makes express mention 
of eleven children, and there is every reason for 
believing that he had no others living at that time. 
There is some reason, however, for supposing that 
he may have had two or three others who died in 
early life. An interesting question is : Are we to 



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accept the (trdcr in wliicli [Micliacl iiiontious Iiis 
cliiWrou ill his will as iudicatiiii; the order in which 
they were actually horn? Of coin-sc we are ohliiied 
to answer this question not without some hesita- 
tion. Perhaps in most cases men, in having their 
wills drawn up, do mention their children with 
due regard to the matter of seniority, beginning 
with the eldest and ending with the youngest. lint 
it is a fact that there is no very important reason 
for so doing. The will would he just as complete 
and valid, and the intentions of the testator just as 
clear, no matter what order he followed in naming 
the heirs: the only really important point is that 
all the heirs to whom lie wishes to make specific 
be(|uests shall be nieiitinned somewhere in the will, 
and the portion of each clearly indicated. This 
question would not have been raised by the present 
writer but for the fact that, if we adopt the order 
of the names given in ^licliael's will as being the 
exact order of seniority for all the children, we 
raise some very serious difficulties wliidi can not be 
explained away. There are many important de- 
tails in regard to all of his children about which 
we possess no information whatever; in fact, we 
know scarcely anything at all about most of them 
beyond the bare fact that they once lived. But 
fortunately there are a few^ dates and facts which 
are known with certainty, and these enable lis to 
know some other things; and when these are duly 
considered we believe it will be apparent that Mich- 
ael mentioned several of his children without re- 
gard to their seniority. First, we know, with cer- 
tainty, that Samuel was born in 1738; and if his 
sisters Jane and Susannah were born before he 
Mas, and were the first-born of all the eleven chil- 
dren, as one would infer from ^[ichael's will — to 
which su]i]iosition we know of no objection — then 
Me may fix the probable date of the marriage of 
^Fichael and Anne as 1734 — the very year the 
Woodses and Wallaces moved to Virginia. As 
]\richael was leaving Pennsylvania that year, it 
would have been the most natural thing in the 
world, if be had a sweetheart there, to Mant to have 
her go along and share bis f(U'tnnes in the new 



home in the colony of Virginia. That Michael and 
Anne did marry about 1734, we feel confident. 
That he was then aboiit twenty-six, and she about 
seventeen, or a little past, Ave have good reasons 
for believing. Secondly, we know that ^Magdalen, 
who married AVilliam Campbell, was born in 1755; 
and in that year her mother was about thirty-eight 
years old, if our estimates al)ove given are sound. 
But ^[icliael makes ^lagdalen sixth in his list and 
mentions five other children after her. It is ex- 
tremely probable, wlien all the circumstances of 
the case are weighed, that if five children M'ere born 
of Anne after the year 1755, the last of the five was 
born not less than ten or twelve years after Mag- 
dalen was. This would mean that Anne w^as a 
woman forty-eight to fifty years old when her last 
child was born. We do not hesitate to say that 
Ave think it extremely unlikely that there were five 
children born to ^Michael and his wife after 1755, 
she being about fifty years old at the birth of the 
last of her children. Thirdly, we find that among 
the children mentioned in the Avill after iNlagdalen 
is David. As ilagdalen, Me knoM', was born In 
1755, then if David came after her Me must fix the 
year 1757 as about the year of his birth ; and as his , 
father died early in 1777, David Mas not ten yeai-s 
(dd Avlien that bereavement fell n])on the home. 
Now this same son David is expressly named by 
^iichael as one of his executors and his heir — a boy 
Mho Mas scarcely nine years old the day the will 
Avas penned. The al)surdity of such a thing is only 
too a])iiarent. David Avas surely born at least fif- 
teen years before INlagdalen Avas, though in the Avill 
he is named after her. lie must have been a man 
at least tAventy-five years of age, and of good prom- 
ise as a capable business man, for his father to 
have ])ut upon his shoulders such grave responsibil- 
ities. That this child, at least, could not Ikia'c been 
named by ^fichael according to his ])riority seems 
certain. Looking at the list in the Avill AA-e find 
four unmarried daughters: INIartha, Sarah, Anne, 
and Margaret, and all of them are mentioned to- 
gether at the end of the list. This does not mean 
that all four of them Avere born subsequent to Mag- 



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(lalen's birth. Anne and Margaret were, for :Mich- 
ael expressly says tber were his youngest children. 
We are confident that Martha and Sarah were older 
than Magdalen. Just why they are mentioned 
after her we can not positively affirm, but we sus- 
ptH-t that their father just located the four single 
daughters in one place at the foot of the list with- 
out any special reason except that single daughters 
would not be so apt to be as prominently in mind 
wli( n writing a Avill as the niarrit^l ones with whom 
he had already had business transactions connected 
with settling upon them portions of his estate. The 
scheme which we have formulated, and which, 
whilst not claimed to be correct in all respects, 
rests upon rea.sonable deductions from known 
facts, is as follows: 

CHILDREN OF MICHAEL WOODS. JR.. AXD ANNE. 



I- 

II- 

III- 



-JAXE 
-SrSAXXAH 

-sA:MrEL 



IV— DAVID 
V— ELIZABETH 
\I— WILLIAM 
VII— SARAH 
VIII— MARTHA 
IX— :\IAGDALEX 

X— AXXE 
XI— MARGARET 



Born 1735 ( ?t 
Born 1736 (?| 
Born 1738 
Born 1740 ( ?i 
Born 1742 (?» 
Born 1748 
Born 1750 (?i 
Born 1753 (?) 
Born 1755 
Born 1757 ( ? i 
Born 1700 ( ? i 



Died 

Died 

Died 1826 
Died 1786 

Died 

Died 1819 

Died 

Died 

Died 1830 

Died 

Died 



I — .TAXE was, beyond reasonalde doubt, the 
first-born of the eleven children of INlichael Woods, 
Jr., and his wife Anne. She was, in all probability, 
liorn in (Joochland County (now Albemarle I, Vir- 
ginia, about 1735. the year after the Woodses set- 
tled in that colony. She married a ^Ir. Buster. 
His Christian name, some have said, wa.s John. Of 
her and her husband and family we know nothing 
beyond the fact, stated to the writer by General 
Micajah Woods, that Mr. Charles Buster, recently 
clerk of Grwnbrier, Virginia, County Court, is a 
descendant of theirs. Dr. Edgar Woods, in his his- 
tory of Albemarle (page 158 i, tells a good deal of 
the Buster familv. 



II — SrSAXXAH was the second child of Mich- 
ael Woods, Jr., and Anne his wife. She was prob- 
ably born in what is now Albemarle County, Vir- 
ginia, about the year 1736. She married a Mr. 
Cowan. There was a John Cowan to whom lands 
were patented in what is now Albemarle County, 
prior to 1740. This gentleman's son may have been 
the person she marritnl, or a near kinsman of his. 
Of Susannah's siibsequent history we know abso- 
lutely nothing. 

Ill— SAMT'EL WOODS was the third child, and 
first son. of Michael, Jr.. and Anne his wife. From 
sworn documeut-s which he filed in the I'. S. Pen- 
sion Office in 1823, it is apparent he was born in the 
year 1738. Those documents bear date April, 1823, 
and in them h.e says he is "about eighty-five years 
of age."' His parents had been residing in Gooch- 
land County, Virginia, only altout four years when 
he was born. The entire region in the midst of 
which the Woodses then lived was a back-woods 
wilderness, and the Indians often passed along the 
old A\ ar-path which ran through Woods's Gap, in 
sight of the Woods and Wallace settlement near 
the Blue Ridge. As his parents did not migrate to 
Botetourt till 1769, or later, Samuel may have re- 
mained in Albemarle at least to that date, though 
this is by no means certain. Hence, we may say, 
that he was a citizen of Albemarle for a large part 
of his life. From Heniug's Statutes (Volume 7, 
page 203 I we learn that by an act of the Colonial 
Legislature in the year 1758, it was ordered that 
Michael Woods, Jr., and Samuel Woods be paid 
for seiTices they had rendered as members of the 
Albemarle militia. In that year Michael, Jr., was 
about fifty years old, and Samuel his son was 
twenty. That was the period of the French and 
Indian Wars, and it was only three years subse- 
quent to Braddock's defeat which filled the fron- 
tier regions of Virginia with the greatest alarm. 

We have no means of knowing the date or place 
of Sanniel's marriage. All we know of his wife is 
that her Christian name was ilargaret, that she 
joined in various deeds and other instruments of 
writins which he executeil, that she went with her 



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Iiusband and son when they migrated to Kentui'ky, 
and tliat she was living there, in Ilari'odsbnrsj;, as 
hite as 1823. The kite Tlionias (\ Woods, of Leb- 
anon, Ky., (died 1808) wlio was tlie writer's ohlei- 
brother, and who was born abont tlie time Samuel 
died at llarrodsburg, wrote him in 18()G that he 
was positive Samuel and ^Margaret had but t)ne 
son, and was almost as certain that they never had 
a da\ighter. Their sou was Samuel, Jr. We have 
no certaiu means of determining the date of Sam- 
uel Junior's birth. We have i-eason to bidieve, how- 
ever, tluit it was not far from the year 17(!o. Ilis 
father was then twenty-tive years tdd, and tlie war 
of (treat Britain and her colonies with France and 
her Indian allies had just come to end, and the 
equally serious differences between the American 
Colonies and the ^Mother Country were soon to 
emerge and bring on the Revolution. In ^lay, 
176G, as the Botetourt County records show, we find 
Samuel, Sr.. purchasing a little farm of 94 acres of 
land on the South Fork of tlie Roanoke River, in 
what is now ^lontgomery County, Virginia ; and as 
he owned this farm for thirteen years, (he sold it in 
1779) the presumption is not unreasonalde that he 
lived on it several of those years. And as we find 
him buying another farm of 181 acres upon the 
James the very year he sold the one just mentioned 
(1779), this supposition is somewhat strengthened. 
The location on Roanoke River was, in that early 
day, one in which he would be occasionally exposed 
to Indian attacks. The savages had invaded that 
neighborhood only two years prior to 1766, killing 
one man, and carrying away several others and a 
Avoman, into captivity.^" It was no doubt while 
residing there that the Revolution began ; and as he 
entered the patriot army in the spring of 1776, and 
served for three years as a commissioned officerwith 
the Virginia Regulars,resigning in 1779, it is hardly 
likely he left his wife and son alone on the Roanoke 
River farm. Where ^largaret and her little son 
Samuel, Jr., stayed, and hoAv they were carefl for 
during all the years her husband was in the army, 
we have no means of knowing. He enlisted at the 
very beginning, in the spring of 1776, and was with 



the regulars three years, and then later on served 
in the militia, from time to time, to the close of the 
Revolution. This meant an absence of about five 
or six years from his home and family. In 1819, 
Congress having passetl an act to provide pensions 
for the Revolutionary soldiers, and Samuel being 
then past fiuir-score years, and very feeble, and 
without any means of support except that which 
his grandson, J. Harvey Woods, supplied, he made 
application for a pension. It was over four years 
before he actually began to enjoy the.?20.00a month 
which the U. S. Government allowed him as a lieu- 
tenant. The writer has in his possession certified 
copies of all the papers in this case, which he ob- 
tained from the Pension OflEice at Washington. 
These documents show that Samuel Woods enlisted 
in the spring of 1770, in the Twelfth Virginia Regi- 
ment, Continental Establishment, commanded by 
Colonel James Wood, and was a Lieutenant of one 
of its companies; served in that capacity for three 
years, when he resigned ; was at first stationed at 
Fort Pitt, and Intel- at the mouth of tlie Kanawha, 
and still later, marched to the South; after his 
resignation from the Kegiilar Army he served as an 
officer in the Virginia ^lilitia from time to time till 
the close of the Revolution ; and participated in the 
Battle of Guilford Court House, March 15, 1781. 
At the date of making his affidavit (April, 1823) 
he was a man of eighty-five, and so feeble that he 
was iinahle to come before the Court, or even to 
write his name. He stated, in said affidavit, that 
his wife (^largaret) was then alive, and old and 
feeble like himself. He only lived a little over two 
years after his pension (.|240.00 a year) was 
granted him, as his death occurred February 3, 
1826. (See Note No. 60, for fuller details which 
are of more special interest to the descendants of 
Samuel Woods than to the general reader.) 

Samuel Woods was one of that vast company of 
Virginians whose attention was turned to the Ken- 
tucky wilderness as soon as the Revolution was 
brought to a close. The surrender of Cornwallis in 
the fall of 1781 Avas the beginning of the end of the 
war, though the Treaty of Peace, at Paris, was not 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE :MEM0RIAL. 



sioned till nearly two years thereafter. Still, it 
was oenerally understood at least a year before the 
formal withdrawal of (Ireat P.rKaiu from America 
that there was to be no more rtsihting of eouse- 
quenoe, and the tens of thousands of Revolutionary 
veterans bepin to lay their plans for the conquest 
of Kentucky, whose i)erniauent occupation by white 
men had not yet been accepted by the Indians. 
Shaler, in his admirable little volume on Kentucky 
in the American Commonwealth series, says:*' 
"At the close of the Eevcdutionary War, Virginia 
found herself with a large ]iopulation that had been 
long separated from the ordinary pursuits of life. 
Their places had closed behind them ; life in the Old 
Dominion was stagnant. The only chance open to 
her was in the bi-oad fields of her great western do- 
main. The conditions of a comninuity at the close 
of a long and successful war are peculiaidy favor- 
able for the making of new colonies; and it is 
natural that at this time Virginia, no longer herself 
a colony but a State, where the best lands were 
much worn by a shiftless agriculture, should have 
been strongly affected by the colonizing spirit. 
These circumstances led to a very large exodus of 
her population to the westward. The recently 
founded settlements in Kentucky, begun ten years 
or so l>efore, had gone far enough to prove that 
land in abundance and of excellent quality could 
be had for the trouble of possessing it. Every am- 
bitioiis spirit. cAery man who had within him the 
sense of power necessary for the arduous work of 
facing the dangers of a wilderness where he would 
have to battle for everything, with nature and the 
savage, sought these new fields. It is to these con- 
ditions that the new settlements beyond the Alle- 
ghanies owed the most of the population that came 
to them in the year immediately following the 
Revolution. * * * By far the most important 
element of the Kentucky colonists came from the 
soldiers who were disbanded at the close of the 
war with Cxreat Britain. Tlie number of Revolu- 
tionary soldiers who emigrated to Kentucky may 
be judged from the fact that in 1S40, nearly sixty 
years after the termination of that struggle, the 



jiension returns showed that there were about nine 
hundred of these veterans still living in the State, 
their ages, acccu'ding to the records, varying from 
seventy to one hundred and nine years. This, of 
course. Avas but a small part of the host who had 
found a dwelling jdace within the State. Probably 
at least ten times this number had gone to their 
graves. Such men were, by their native strength 
and their deeds, the natural leaders in the neAV set- 
tlements, l)oth in peace and war. Thus the Ken- 
tucky spirit Avas the offspring of the Revidution. 
The combative spirit left by the Revolutionary 
War Avas elsewhere overwhelmed by the tide of 
commercial life; here it lived on, fed by tradition 
and by a nearly continuous combat doAvn to the 
time of the Rebellion." 

Samuel Woods Avas among the earliest of the 
sturdy Virginians who abandoned their homes in 
the Old Dominion and journeyed far across the 
western mountains to the RliTe Grass Region of 
Kentucky. The precise date of his migration can 
not be fixed with entire certainty; but fr(mi all that 
Ave do know, it must have been either the fall of 
17S2, or early in th.e year 1783. Kentucky was 
not, in (me sense, a particularly inviting place to 
settle in at this period. The year 1782 had 
been marked by the most extraordinary activ- 
ity on the part of the Indians. The Battle of the 
Blue Licks, so disastrous to the Kentuckiaus, was 
fought that year, not to mention lesser encounters, 
and the careful estimate of a competent person was 
that during the seven years ending with 1783, no 
less than fift(>en hundred Avhites had been massa- 
cred by the saA'ages, and a vast deal of property de- 
stroyed and stolen."- But this fact did not deter 
the settlers fr(Mu Virginia, Cai'olina, Maryland, 
and Pennsylvania ;tliey came pouring into the conn- 
ti'y by thousands. The population of Kentucky in 
1775 consisted of about one hundred and fifty men. 
By the fall of 1783, as :Monette estimates, it had 
groAvn to be as much as 12,000. In 1784, the 
stream increased so rapidly that ere the year was 
gone there Avere 30,000 ]ieople in Kentucky. The 
hunger for land was so all-absorbing as to render 



MICHAEL WOODS OF BLAIR PARK. 



73 



the settlers reckless in the face of (lanu'ers and liard- 
sliips whieli wonld have utterly appalled men not 
made of the sternest stuff and already inured by 
long experience to the trying conditions of actual 
warfare."^ 

The records of the Land Office at Frankfort, Ken- 
tucky, contain a number of items which throw light 
on tile date of the arrival of Samuel AA'oods. First, 
in IJook 1, i>age 357, (Treasury Warrant ll.*,()l'()) 
we find that under date of February 8, 1783, Sam- 
uel Woods, as assignee of David Woods (his 
brother) , entered 1108 acres lying on the south side 
of Salt River, next to the land of James McCoun. 
As no one would have thought of migrating with a 
family to that wilderness region in winter, we are 
almost bound to conclude that he must have come 
to Kentucky not later than the fall of 1781'. Second, 
the book of entries in the library of Col. R. T. Dur- 
rett, of Louisville, copied from the records at 
I'"'rankfort (])age 254 of his private book) shows 
that on the 15th of January, 1783, Samuel Woods 
entered 800 acres l.ving on Benson Creek, "at the 
county line above the Trace, going to the Falls, be- 
ginning at the first large branch above the Trace." 
This "Ti'ace"' was the Buffalo path which led from 
Frankfort across the Kentucky River just below 
where that city now stands, and on north to Dren- 
non's Lick, and then eastwardly towards where 
Covington now stands. This was under Treasury 
Warrant 7873. As was remarked on the first en- 
try, above cited, he must have reached Kentucky the 
pi'evious fall in order to make this entry in mid- 
winter. Third, we find in Book 14, page 2G, of the 
Land OfiSce, where Samuel Woods entered 3765 
acres of land on the head branches of Benson, Ham- 
mond and Indian Creeks ( altout on the present line 
between tlie counties of Franklin and Anderson). 
This tract was surveyed March 27, 1784 ; and it is 
extremely unlikely that he could have made the 
buig journey from Virginia early enough in 1784 
to be entering land at that date. This tract was 
originally entered December 2, 1782; the survey 
was made in March, 1784. This identical tract 
Samuel Woods conveyed to his son by deed of gift 



in November, 1701. Fourth, the records show (Book 
2, ])age Oil that on April 10, 1784, he made two 
entries, as assignee of one Jacob Froman ; one of 
700 acres, and one of 575 acres, on the South Fork 
of Big Benson; and these tracts cornered on an- 
other tract of 3000 acres which he had previovisly 
entered there. From these official recor<ls it seems 
clear thai Samuel A\u(m1s was living in Kentucky 
l)robably as early as tiie fall of 1782, ami certainly 
not later than the fall of 1783. This places him 
among tlu' earliest settlers and pioneers of Ken- 
tucky. 

The exact locality in which he made his honu' is 
pretty well established as having been on the 
Shaker Fork of Shawne(> Run, within sight of 
where the Shaker Village of Mercer County now 
stands, and close to Kentucky River Itelow the 
moutli of Cedar Run. Here, as official records of 
Mercer County (hereinafter to be fully quoted) 
denKmstrate, he settled and ijre-emi>tetl 1400 acres 
of land, and had his home on it. He probably 
built a cabin there in the fall of 1782, and raised 
there a crop of corn in 1783. He may even have 
reached that spot early enough in the spring of 
1782 to raise a crop that same season. In the rec- 
ords to be quoted farther on he refei's to this tract 
as "1400 acres, ray settlement and pre-emption (ui 
Shawany Run." Such language as this could not 
I)e pro])erly us<'d except with reference to land 
which he himself had acquired by actual settlement 
thereon. This is i»artly confirmed by an entry of 
one Gabriel ^ladison, made September 30, 1790, in 
which he describes his tract as including "all the 
vacant land lying between the lim» of Samuel 
Woods, John Jouett, Francis Jleriwether, and 
Robert Poage." This indicates that Woods's tract 
was well known ])rior to 1700, and that it was prob- 
ably occu])ied by him then as his home i)lace. It is 
known that he gave this 1400 tract to his son Sam- 
uel, Tr., in 1791, and that James Harvey Woods, 
the son of Samuel, Jr., was born there in 1792. Tliis 
1400 acre tract iiichided at least a portion of what 
lias now long been known as Shakertown, and the 
land alone, not counting any improvements, would 



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THE \YOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



In-ini; perliaps one hundretl thousand dollars. 
\\\wu he .cave It to his sou ( lu 1791 ) it was prob- 
ablv not worth four thousand dollars. 

Tlii'rt' were l)ut two possible routes from Ceutral 
Virgiuia to Central Kentn<ky in 1783. One was 
do\\n the Kana\\ha to the Ohio, by pack-horses to 



seven uumi uuiler tlie command of Captain Laugh- 
ery Avere descending the Ohio in boats on their way 
to settle in Kentucky, and just below the mouth of 
the Big ^liami Kiver (not far from Rising Sun, 
Indiana I tlicy were attack cil by Indians, and the 
whole i)ai-ty were killed or captured.''* Thousands 



a point below the most dangerous rapids and falls; of the pioneers from Pennsylvania and Maryland 



and the rest of the way by canoes and liatteaux; 
and then down the Ohio by the latter means alone. 
The other was (me of the trails through South- 
western Virgiuin. down the Holston or the (flinch 
River to I'owell's Valley, and thence through Cum- 



did come that way. because it was. for them, prac- 
tically the only route. But people from Botetourt 
County. Virginia, and other points in the Great 
Valley, could take the overland trail down to Cnm- 
Iterland (lap with far less trouble an<l risk, and 



berland Gap by Boone's Trace into the magnificent this was, beyond all reasonable doubt, the choice of 



wilderness beyond. It is next to certain that Sam- 
uel Woods and his companions went by this last- 
named r(mte; for it was impossible to transport 
provisions and household goods to a point on the 
Kanawha, from which it would be safe to embark in 
boats, without a jcmrney of perliaiis ten days with 



the Woodses. An interesting account of one of the 
most notable companies of emigrants from the Val- 
ley of Virginia to Kentucky in 1783 is given by 
Waddell."^ This account will well repay a careful 
reading, for it presents a vivid ]ucture of the perils 
and hardshi])S our forefathers had to face in com- 



pack-horses; and it was impracticable to construct ing to KcMitucky in that early day. This company. 



boats of sufficient size to accouimodate the reipiisite 
number of horses. Emigrants from the Valley of 
Virginia c(mld not make use of the water-route 
to Kentucky as did those from Pittsburg and 
other i>oiuts on tlie upper Ohio — thei-e was too 
much ti'avelliug with horses necessary to be done. 
Tlicn there was another serious objection to the 
water-route, which was enough to deter prudeut 
nu'U who could possibly go down the trail to the 
southwest: the danger from Indian attacks along 
the Ohio was far greater than by the other way. 
No more defenceless mode of travel could be im- 
agined than that which families in ordinary boats 
pursued. The savages had only to secrete them- 
selves in the brush along the river's bank and await 
the coming of the boats, and then open fire when the 



which consisted of a few dozen people when they 
left Staunton. Va.. in September, 1783, (or 1784), 
was gradually augmented by additions in the up- 
per (Southern) end of the Valley, in Southwestern 
Virginia, and at Beans Station near Clinch River 
in the edge of Tennessee, and numbered five hundred 
souls before reaching Cumberland Gap. General 
Knox, of Revolutionary fame, took command of this 
considerable caravan, which was composed of about 
one hundred and twenty-five men and three times 
that nuud)er of women and children. Sickness. 
Indian attacks, and the natural hardships of a 
journey through a wilderness were encountered ; a 
number of valuable' lives were sacrificed ; but by the 
first of November, Crab Orchard, Ky., was reached. 
Oii(> lady in that coiH]iany was a ^frs. Trimble, and 



most (!])])(irtiin(' monu lit arrived. The occupants in licr arms she carried her baby boy, Allen, then 



of tlie boats could neither anticipate an attack, nor, 
in many cases, get a glimpse of the foe after the fir- 
ing began. Confined to the river's course, the set- 
tlers in their canoes had no clioice of position, 
whilst the savages could deliver their deadly fire, 
and then easily get away. It was in the early 
spring of 1782, that a party of one hundred and 



Imt four years old. That boy in after years served 
the Slate of Ohio as its governor. Before the com- 
pany reached Cumberland Gap eigb.t men on horse- 
back were sent forward as an advanced guard to 
look out for Indian signs : but when the procession 
arrived at a point near the Gap, they found the 
mutilated bodies of those eight men. Indians had 



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77 



waylaid and killed them, and then soaljied them. 
The savajies linnsi' on their flanks for days. Passini;' 
throuiih Cnnilierland Oaji — at wliicli jioinl tlie 
most favorable opportunity imaiiinahle would he 
afforded the Indians for firiuit- into the i»arty with 
perfei-t impunity from the overhaiiiiin^' cliffs — they 
were in constant terror; but the Avhites took every 
precaution, and for some reason the savages al- 
lowed them to pass throuiih without making the ex- 
])ected attack. The three different beautiful 
pictures of this Gap to be found in this volume will 
give the reader a very correct idea of the character 
of the place. Along the very road shown in these 
pictures those pioneers travelled. The two views 
of Wasioto Gaj) (also given herein) which is near 
the present town of Pineville, Ky., and only fifteen 
miles from Cuudierland Gap, present the same sort 
of conditions so favorable to murderous attacks 
from and)usli. Those same rocky and precipitous 
mountain walls wliich aff'orded a safe retreat to the 
savage Indians a century and a cpiarter ago, were 
the hiding places of the equally cruel and murder- 
ous "bushwhackers"' of the Civil AVar period. The 
present writer, who was camped at this spot while 
in the Confederate cavalry service iu 1861, vividly 
recalls, after more than forty years interval, how 
deeply impressed he was, from time to time, as he 
would glance up at those steep, bold prominences in 
that mountain pass, how easy a thing it would he 
for a foe to take position just above our camp and 
deliver a deadly fire with Sharp's rifles to which we 
would be entirely' powerless to respond. The very 
track our forefathers walked along iu the years 1775 
to ISOO by the banks of the Cumberland under the 
shadow of those same grand mountains is there to- 
day. One may plant his foot upon man^' a given 
spot in that road now, and say, with almost certain 
truth — "AVithin a few inches at most of where my 
foot now rests my ancestors walked with cautious 
tread, rifle in hand, watching with utmost vigilance 
for Indian signs." Samuel Woods and family and 
his companions in 1782, or 1783, passed this way as 
they slowly toiled along the road to Central Ken- 
tucky. For his descendants, as for the ten thou- 



sands of the descendants of other pioneers, that old 
"Wilderness Road" on "Poone's Trace" must, for 
all time, |)ossess peculiar interest; and because the 
author of this volume believed this to be true, he 
has been at no small pains to secure several photo- 
graplis of ])o|]i tlie noted gaps referred to, and to 
have them reproduced in fine engravings expressly 
for this work. Those scenes constitute no inconsid- 
erable part of the history of the settlement of Ken- 
tucky, for along through the two mountain passes 
which they illustrate not less than fifty thousand 
settlers came from Virginia and the Caroliuas from 
1775 to 1800. 

As to the exact comi)osition of the little company 
of which Samuel Woods was probably the leader, 
or at least a principal member, we can not state 
with certainty. But it is practically certain it 
contained the following persons, to-wit : Samuel 
AA'oods, his wife Margaret, his son Samuel, Jr., and 
his aged, widowed mother Ann AVoods; his brother 
David Woods, David's (second) wife Mary (nee Mc- 
Afee), David's sou John by his first wife, and prob- 
ably two young children by his second wife. That 
these few persons would not think of undertaking 
the hazardous journey without other company goes 
without saying. From the year 1779 onward the 
tide of emigration from ^'irginia to Kentucky 
steadily increased. It was numbered by thousands 
iu 1782, and was nearly dcmbled in 1783. Xo doubt 
parties were made up every spring and fall, notice 
of which was spread alu'oad over all "S'irginia. The 
general store at Drapers Meadows (now Blacks- 
burg) near New River was a famous point of de- 
parture, and supjjly depot. Here nmny a small 
company assembled to complete arrangements and 
help make up large parties bound for the lovely 
wilderness beyond the mountains. The Woodses 
had a goodly number of companions, Ave may rest 
assured. There was probably not a single wagon 
in the whole company, because for nearly the whole 
way from Ni'w River westward the road was simply 
a. bridle-trail which, for the most part, was just 
wide enough for a single pack-horse to pass with 
ease. The incidents of the journey of the AVoodses 



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to Kentucky we can not undertake to recite, for 
nothing is known beyond the bare fact that they 
migrated in 1782, or 1783. Just wlicve it was they 
first halted in Mhat is now .Mercer County and be- 
gan the erection of their rude cabins, we can not 
say. We only know that Samuel AA'oods made a 
settlement of 400 acres in Jfercer County, in sight 
of where Shakertown now stands; and that he pre- 
empted 1000 acres additional next to that tract." 
This tract, as we infer from an original written 
document now in the author's hands, and presently 
to be quoted in full, was his home-place up to 1791, 
though he had numerous other tracts of lan<l, as has 
already been shown from the records of the Land 
Office in Frankfort. The fair inference is that he 
lived on his "settlement" till after his son's death 
in 1802. 

The records of Mercer County show that Samuel 
Woods, on the 30th day of September, 1786, was a 
witness to the will of his l)rother David, made that 
day, which will was pro))ated at Harrodsburg De- 
cember 5, 1786. He wa.s also nmde the giiardian of 
David's children. That the Woodses were living in 
Mercer County, Kentucky, in September, 1786, is 
thus settled beyond all question. It is almost 
equally certain they arrived there three or four 
years prior to that date. In the fall of 1791, as 
we learn from the records of Mercer County, 
Samuel did what extremely few fathers do in our 
day: he gave the l»ulk of his property, or at least a 
ver}' large part of it, to his only child Samuel, Jr., 
who by this time was evidently a married man ; and 
trusted bis son to care for his parents out of the 
considerable estate thus turned over to him. Sam- 
uel, Sr., makes a deed of gift to Samuel, Jr., of the 
folloAving items of real and personal property, to- 
wit : 1400 acres of land on Shawany Run, Mercer 
CouJity, described as his "pre-emption and settle- 
ment'' ; 37(54 acres of land on the waters of Benson 
Creek about where the counties of Franklin and 
Anderson adjoin, some nnles north of Lawrence- 
burg ; 3000 acres of land located in the three forks 
of Kentucky River, which is described as being part 
of 10,000 acres he owned there, which was near 



where the town of Beattyville now stands; one 
negro woman named Jane; five heifei's; fifteen cat- 
tle ; six sheep ; thirty hogs ; two sets of plow irons ; 
three feather beds ; and a lot of furniture. At the 
same date the two Samuels, father and son, entered 
into a written agreement touching the deed of gift 
just mentioned, the original of which is now in the 
writer's possession, and Avhich will here be given in 
full : "Articles of agreement made and concluded 
by and between Samuel Woods Senior and his son 
Samuel Woods Junior, both of the county of Mercer 
and District of Kentucky, viz : in consequence of a 
deed of gift made and ackuowletlged to me in Court 
of sundry tracts of land, horses, cattle and other 
things — the said Samuel Woods Junior do bind my- 
self, my heirs, executors &c. in the sum of five hun- 
dred pounds lawful money of Virginia to make 
good the articles hereafter mentioned to my father 
Samuel Woods Senior and my mother Margaret M 
Woods in consequence of their maintainance during 
life. 

"Article the First : One hundred acres of land, 
at the north end of the land the said Samuel Woods 
Senior now lives on, tax free, with the benefit of the 
spring pasture and meadow ground, and the half of 
the cleared land that is under fence; Secondly, one 
negro wench named Jean, one breeding mare, three 
cows, two sows, three sheep, horses and plows to 
tend the land and to ride when wanted, them and 
their increase during life; Thirdly, the house and 
its furniture is to be under my father Samuel 
Woods Senior and my mother Margaret Woods 
their direction, their shoes to be made yearly, and 
three bushels of salt per year found ; Fourthly, the 
said Samuel Woods Junior agrees to assist my 
father to discharge a debt due to Mr. Jacob Fro- 
man. Given under my hand and seal this 9th day 
of November one thousand seven hundred and 
ninety-one — 1791." 

"S.\m'l. Woods, 
"Samuel Woods Junr." 

"Signed, sealed nud delivered in the presence of 
us, "S.\ML. McKee^ 

"James McDowell." 



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Tlie above recited agreenieut was written in good 
clear character. The ink used in the body of it lias 
hardly faded at all, but that employed by tlie wit- 
nesses has grown dim, and the paper is yellow with 
age. It was evidently not in the handwriting of 
any one of the four persons Mliose names are at- 
tached thereto. Tlie cliirograi)hy of Samuel Woods, 
Senior, if one may judge by a single signature, was 
poor, Avhilst that of his son is decidedly fair, and 
like that of a man accustomed to writing a good 
deal. The two witnesses used an ink different from 
that employed in the body of the agreement, and 
there is some uncertainty as to the signatures of 
each of them. Tlu^ name of the first one seems to be 
McKee and that of the other to be ilcDowell, but in 
each case the last part of the surname is ol)scure, 
the original formation of the letters having been 
indefinite, and the ink having faded considerably. 
It is just possible the last one was McDaniells, but 
it was more probably McDowell. We know that 
the McDowells were blood-kin of the Woodses, and 
Samuel McDowell (afterwards Judge) was then 
living in Mercer County, having settled there in 
1784. James IMcDowell, an older Itrother to Sam- 
uel, was also living in Kentucky then, having 
moved from Virginia in 17S3, about the time Sam- 
uel Woods did. James McDowell and Samuel 
Woods may have been warm personal friends; for, 
besides being kinsmen, and having migrated to Cen- 
tral Kentucky about the same time, both had been 
Revolutionary soldiers from the Valley of Virginia. 
James might have been in Mercer at the time, visit- 
ing his brother Samuel McDowell, and may also 
have renewed at this time his acquaintance with his 
cousin and fellow soldier Samuel Woods. What 
has somewhat the appearance of a final s in his 
signature here may only have been a meaningless 
curl, such as many persons give to their signatures. 
But there is a dot or short stroke above the middle 
of the surname which looks as if meant to indicate 
the letter i. This witness was certainly a Mc- 
Dowell or a McDaniell. This apparently unim- 
portant matter is dwelt upon because the signatures 
to all authentic ancient documents are, really, al- 



ways important, and suggest ofttimes the most 
valuable historical facts. The deed of gift on 
which this agi*eement was based was signed by the 
same witnesses Avhose signatures are attached to the 
agreement itself with the addition of the name of 
one William Gordon. The present writer has never 
seen the original of the dee<l, but the copy made 
from it on tlic .fiercer County records gives James 
^McDowell (not McDaniell) as one of them. This 
would seem to indicate that the clerk at least under- 
stood the name to be McDowell. It was recorded 
January 2-1:, 1792, a few months before Kentucky 
was admitted into the T^nion as a State. 

Samuel Woods Avas bereaved of his son Samuel, 
Jr., in 1S02, and notliing is knoA\m of him till 1819, 
when the records of ^Mercer County (Book 11, pages 
337-8) show that he and one Cxabriel Alexander 
were engaged in carrying on a tan-yard in Harrods- 
burg. It seems the firm owned four one-half acre 
"inn lots" in ITarrodsburg (Nos. OS, 09, 72, and 82), 
having their homes on one part of the land and 
their tannery on another part. In 1823 Samuel 
Woods Avas pensioned by the U. S. Government for 
his services in the Revolutionary War, as has al- 
ready been shown. He and Margaret his wife were 
then very old and feeble, and they were living with 
their grandson, James Harvey Woods, in Harrods- 
burg. Tliere Samuel died Feb. 3, 1820, at the age 
of eighty-eight. Nothing is known by the Avriter 
as to the time of Margaret's death. Of their re- 
ligious beliefs, professions and hopes the writer has 
no means of knowing anything beyond the fact that 
Samuel was reared in the family of a godly Presby- 
terian, Michael Woods, Jr. 

Before proceeding to treat of Samuel's son 
(Samuel, Jr.) it will be proper to interpose some 
remarks concerning several other men by the name 
of Samuel Woods, who, either in Virginia or Ken- 
tucky, or in both States, were close to each otlun% so 
close, in fact, that now and then it has seemed very 
difficult to discriminate them from each other. 
Some of these Samuels we shall mention, giving 
what information we have been able to gather in 
regard to them. They may be named as follows: 



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(a) SamuelWoods of Augusta ; (b) Samuel Woods 
of Albemarle ; (c) Samuel Woods of Amberst; (d) 
Sauuiel WofMls of Botetourt ; (e) Samuel Woods of 
Kockbridge; and (f) Samuel Woods of Paiut Lick, 
Kentucky. Tbese six individuals do not by any 
meaus exhaust tbe supply of Samuel AVoodses, but 
they are tbe only ones we need to consider in this 
connection. 

(a) First, there was a Samuel Woods in Au- 
gusta County, Virginia, Avho, as the I'ecords of his 
county show, figuretl in some real estate transac- 
tions there at an early day. For instance, he and 
a William Woods conveyed to Peter Wallace a 
tract of 120 acres of land, February 24, 1751. This 
land was in the forks of James River, and adjoined 
that of Richard Woods and Joseph Lapsley, and is 
described as "a part of William Woods's land." 
Then March 5, 1753, Samuel and William convey a 
tract of 263 acres to Benjamin Borden, Gent. This 
land was on Woods's Creek, a tributary of the 
James, and adjoined Peter Wallace and Joseph 
Lapsley. In neither of the before mentioned con- 
veyances is there any mention of either grantor hav- 
ing a wife, whence we infer they were unmarried 
men at the dates named. Now we are nearly cer- 
tain that Richard Woods, whose land the first 
named tract adjoined, was a brother-in-law to both 
Peter Wallace and Joseph Lapsley, and a son of 
]\Iichael Woods of Blair Park, and it is very likely 
that the Samuel and William Woods under consid- 
eration were near kinsmen of Richard Woods. As 
they were passing the title to real estate in the year 
1751, they could not have been born later than the 
year 1730 ; and they could not both have been either 
sons or grandsons of Michael of Blair Park. We 
have no idea who they were, except that they lived 
in the midst of a "nest" of Woodses, no less than 
four of whose occupants were the children of 
^Michael Woods of Blair Park, namely; Richard 
Woods, Mrs. Peter Wallace, ]\frs. Joseph Lapsley, 
and Mrs. Magdalen McDowell-Borden-Bowyer. 
Could they have been sons of one of the three broth- 
ers of Michael of Blair Park who migrated with 



him to America in 1721, namely : James, William 
or Andrew? 

(b) There was a Samuel Woods in Albemarle 
County, Virginia,"" who was one of the original 
purchasers of lots in Chai'lottesville about 17G3. 
He died in 1784. His daughter Barl)ara married 
George Martin; Margaret married Richard Nether- 
land; Mary married Benjamin Harris; Jane mar- 
ried Joseph Montgomery; and Elizabeth married 
William B. Harris. His only son was John B. 
Woods, of whom the writer knows nothing. Dr. 
Edgar Woods thinks this Samxiel Woods was a 
brother of a James and a Richard Woods Avho lived 
in Albemarle, and surmises that these men were 
close kin to Michael Woods of Blair Park. 

(c) There was a Samuel Woods of Andierst 
County, Virginia, the only thing about whom we 
know is that the records at Staunton, Virginia, 
show that on the 19th of ^lay, 1777, one Henry 
Watterson, of Botetourt County, Virginia, deeded 
to him 100 aci"es of land, lying in Augusta County, 
for twenty pounds. There was a family of 
Woodses there, but to what branch this particular 
individual belonged we have no knowledge. It may 
be that the records of Amherst County (erected out 
of Albemarle County in 1761) would reward the 
search of any who cares to investigate the matter. 
There was a James Woods living there in 1761, a 
farmer, who that year deeded 350 acres of land to 
one Samuel Woods, a storekeeper. Whether this 
Samuel was the one who is referred to in the pre- 
ceding paragraph (b) as a citizen of Albemarle can 
hardly be made out. The record of this conveyance 
is in Albemarle, Imt as Amherst was carved out of 
Albemarle that year (1761) the citizenship of the 
parties maj' have been in either of those counties, so 
far as we can tell from the data now at hand. 

(d) There was another Samuel Woods, who lived 
in Botetourt County, Virginia, whose wife was 
named Jean. All we know of him is that the rec- 
ords of that county show that he and his wife con- 
veyed 340 acres of land lying on Purgatory Creek, a 
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vembei- 18, 1780. Were it not that we know that 
the wife of the Samuel Woods wlio migrated to 
Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1782, and died at his 
grandson's home in Harrodsburg in 1826, was 
named Margaret, we might have supposed that this 
man was he. 

(e) A fiftli Samuel Woods is known to liave lived 
in Virginia, Rockbridge County. Tliis one was a 
son of Richard Woods whose wife was named Jenny 
(Janet or Jane). Richard's will was made June 2, 
1777, and lie died in 1771). One of liis two son.s — - 
the Samuel Woods now under consideration — was 
made his executor. To Samuel and the other son 
(Benjamin) Richard devised his home place in 
Rockbridge County. This place was near Lexing- 
ton, and right in the neighborhood where five of the 
children of ^fichael Woods of Blair Park lived, 
namely; Mrs. Col. John Bowyer, ^Frs. Joseph Laps- 
ley, Mrs. Peter Wallace, Mrs. Andrew Wallace, and 
the testator himself, Richard Woods. In 1783 Sam- 
uel and Benjamin sold the home place which they 
had inherited from their father to Col. John Bow- 
yer, their uncle-in-law ; and the late IMajor Varner 
of Lexington, Ya., stated, in a letter written to the 
author of this volume in August, 1893, that both 
Samuel and Benjamin probably migrated to Ken- 
tucky along with the vast company of Virginians of 
the Great Valley who al)out that period sought 
homes in that charming wilderness. He also be- 
lieved that Richard Woods had other children be- 
sides the two sons just referred to. Of this Samuel 
Woods we can not affirm anything more with cer- 
tainty, unless, indeed, he is to be identified as the 
man of that name next to be considered, which 
seems not at all unlikely. If Richard Woods, who 
died in 1770, was, as we believe, about sixty-five 
when he died, we could safely assume that his son 
Samuel was not less than thirty, and not more than 
fifty years old when, in 1783, he is supposed to have 
migrated to Kentucky. There were some entries of 
land made in Central Kentucky about 1783, and 
later on, by a Samuel Woods who could not possibly 
have been the one who lived in IMercer County, Ken- 
tucky, and died in Harrodsburg in 1826. The Land 



Office in Frankfort contains full accounts of those 
entries.'" 

(f) Finally there was a Samuel Woods who re- 
sided on Paint Lick Creek in what is now Madison 
County, Kentucky, who may possibly have been the 
same man as the Samuel Woods just considered. 
This man figured in several real estate transactions; 
one in May, 1788, as set forth in Note 70, which see; 
and others in July, 1796, as shown by the Madison 
County records. Garrard County was that same 
year carved out of portions of Lincoln, Madison and 
Mercer Counties. The stream called Paint Lick 
Creek is almost wholly within the county of Madi- 
son, but the village and the Presbyterian church of 
Paint Lick are located immediately on the Garrard 
and Madison line. This Samuel Woods was an 
elder in that church for at least fifteen years, 
or longer. He on several occasions repre- 
sented the Paint Lick and Silver Creek Pres- 
byterian churches, the first named of which 
was organized in 1784. March 30, 1785, a 
Conference of Presbyterian ministers and elders 
was held at the Cane Run Presbyterian Church, in 
Mercer County, a few miles east of Harrodsburg; 
and at this gathering Samuel Woods represented 
Paint Lick Church.*'' As a result of this Confer- 
ence the Presbytery of Transylvania was organized 
in the fall of 1786. In October, 1789, when the 
Presbytery met at Cane Run Church, this same 
Samuel Woods was present as the elder from Paint 
Lick and Silver Creek. In October, 1794, he rep- 
resented Paint Lick at the Presbytery which con- 
vened in his own church ; and then in 1797, when it 
met at Stanford. In aliout the year 1800 he moved 
with his family to Williamson County, Tennessee. 
yh'. Le Grand M. Jones, of Trenton, Tennessee, pub- 
lished a little volume concerning the descendants 
of this Samuel Woods, Mrs. Jones, his wife, having 
been descended from him; and upon this book the 
author has drawn for a list of Samuel Woods's chil- 
dren, and for several other items of information.'" 

The author does not pretend to affirm positively 
that tliis Samuel Woods was identical with the one 
just considered, who was a son of Richard Woods, 



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of Rockbridge County, Virginia, and a grandson of 
Michael Woods of Blair Park. He does not hesi- 
tate, however, to say that he considers it very prob- 
able that the two Samuels ai'e one and the same. 
The only thing opposed to this supposition, so far 
as the present writer is aware, is the assertion of 
Judge Gideon B. Black of Trenton, Tennessee, a 
grandson of the person now under consideration 
(quoted by Mr. Jones), to the effect that Samuel 
Woods migrate<l to Kentucky from North Carolina, 
he having come to that colony from Ireland. The 
writer is unable to gather from Mr. Jones's book 
whether this statement of Judge Black was merely 
his opinion, based upon uncertain tradition, or a 
piece of definite information, founded upon written 
family records or other unquestionable docu- 
mentary evidence. If Mr. Jones had asserted that 
the latter Avas the case, the matter might well be 
considered as settled. But the writer has learned 
only too thoroughly, during the years in which he 
has been prosecuting his researches for this work, 
that thousands of the most intelligent and respect- 
able people in this country are utterly unable to 
give much positive, reliable information concerning 
their grandparents. They do not know, with cer- 
tainty, just where or when they were born, from 
whence they came, or in what part of America they 
first settled, etc., etc. And this, because thousands 
of our best families have either not taken care to 
preserve, in writing, the items of their history ; or 
else what was written down has been unfortunately 
lost or destroyed. It can therefore do no harm to 
here set down the several considerations which in- 
cline the author of this work to regard it as very 
probable that Samuel Woods, of Paint Lick and 
Tennessee, was the same as Samuel, of Rockbridge 
County, Virginia. First, there is the statement of 
the late Major ^'arner, above cited, that Samuel 
Woods, the son of Richard, sold out his farm about 
the year 1783 and probably migrated to Kentucky 
as thousands of other Virginians did at that period. 
Of course, Samuel, son of Richard Woods, might 
have moved to North Carolina in 1783, and then in 
a few months, or a year, have gone to Kentucky. 



That would have been entirely feasible. Secondly, 
this Samuel Woods of Paint Lick could not 
possibly liave acted more exactly as we should 
have expected a son of I\i(hard to act, in 
deciding on a location for a home, than he 
actually did. With all of Central Kentucky to 
choose from he selected a spot which was about as 
complete a nest of the grandchildren of old IMichael || 
of Blair Park as he could have found in the world. 
The sons of not less than three of old Michael's sons 
were within five to twenty-five miles of where he 
settled, namely: two of those of ^Michael, Jr., 
across Dick's River; several of William's about 
where Richmond now stands; and some of 
John's in what is now Oarrard County; and 
up near Crab Orchard, the ^Michael Woods 
whose wife, Hannah Wallace, about 1780, so 
bravely attacked an Indian who sought entrance to 
her home. It is probable that when Samuel of 
Paint Lick built his cabin in what is now Madison 
County there were within one to five hours' ride of 
him not less than a score of Woodses, the grand- 
children and great-grandchildren of ^lichael of 
Blair Park. Wlien men migrate to a distant 
frontier region full of danger it is natural to locate 
close to kinsmen, if there be any there; and when 
this Samuel halted at Paint Lick in 1783-4 he was 
surrounded by a goodly company of Woodses who 
(like himself, as we surmise! were grandsons of old 
Michael of Blair Park. Thirdly, we have a right to 
attach no little significance to the Christian names 
which a parent gives to his children ; and a careful 
scrutiny of the names of the children of Samuel of 
Paint Lick reveals some facts not very easily ex- 
plained except upon the theory that he was a gi-and- 
son of IMichael of Blair Park, and a sou of Richard 
of Rockbridge. The mother of Samuel of Rock- 
bridge was named Jane, and it were natural for him 
to name one of his girls for her ; we find Samuel of 
Paint Lick named one of his daughters Jane, who 
married John Herron. It would also have been a 
very likely thing for Samuel of Rockbridge to name 
one of his girls ilartha, in honor of his aunt M'ho 
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his old home iu Rockbridge ; Samuel of Paint Lick 
uamed oue of his girls Martha, who married John 
Dyzart. Then Samnel of Ivockbridge had a 
distiuguishcd nucle John — Colonel John Woods, 
of Albemarle — and it Avould have been a 
very proper thing to call one of the sons for that 
prominent kinsman. Samnel of Paint Lick named 
one of his sous John, who was born iu 1774, and 
died iu 1841). Samuel of Rockbridge knew that his 
fathers Scotch mother was named Mary, and be- 
longed to the famous Clan Campbell of which the 
Duke of Argyle was the chief, and how natural 
for liim to name for her one of his daughters. Sam- 
uel of Paint Lick named one of his daughtei's Mai'y 
( often called Pidly as a pet-name). Finally, Sam- 
iiel of Rockbridge had a near kinsman, the son of 
his uncle Michael A^'oods, Jr. (of Botetourt 
County), who lived near by and whom he must 
have known intimately and for whom he may have 
cherished a special affection. This first cousin was 
named David Woods, and it would not have been 
at all remarkable if Sauniel had honored this kins- 
man by calling one of his boys David iu his honor. 
Samuel of Paint Lick not only named one of his 
boys David Woods, but A\hen he came to Kentucky 
settled in what was then the same county, and only 
about twentj' miles distant from this David Woods 
who came to Kentucky- about the same time Sam- 
uel of Paint Lick did, and who, for aught we know, 
may have actually accompanied him to Kentucky 
when he migrated. Let it also be borne iu mind 
that Samuel ^^■oods, tlie Revolutionary veteran \\-ho 
settled near Kentucky River in Mercer County, 
and died iu Harrodsburg in 1826, was, as already 
stated, living within twenty-five miles of the place 
this Samuel of Paint Lick located, and came to 
Kentucky most probably the very year the Mercer 
County Samuel and his bi'other David came. 

Of course, we grant that we have not in these 
facts a couiplete demoustratiou of the truth of the 
supposition that Samuel of Paint Lick was the son 
of Richard Woods of Rockbridge; but it must be 
admitted that such an array of coincidences is not 
to be lightly ignored; and if Judge Black, in assert- 



ing that his grandfather Samuel of Paint Lick 
came to Kentucky from North Carolina, and had 
come to Carolina from Ii'elaud, had no reliable 
written evidence of the accuracy of these asser- 
tions, but relied merely upon the somewhat uncer- 
tain traditions we so often hear repeated in fam- 
ilies, then it wtmld seem but reasonable to accept as 
most probable the tlieory which the writer has pro- 
I)Ounded. Here it may be observed that the in- 
formation Mr. Jones got from Judge Black and 
others as to Samuel Woods and his children 
bears the marks of verbal traditions and not of 
Iteing derived from written documents."" 

The writer would add concerning Samuel of 
Paint Lick that for a time he was no little confused 
by the records of State aud count}- otfices concern- 
ing this worthy gentleman. He found that his 
name was not only Sanuiel, but that he had a son 
Samuel, that his wife was named Margaret, and 
that he had come to Kentucky about 1782-3. All 
these three things were true of the writer's great- 
grandfather, who lived in Mercer, and died there 
in 1826. When it was discovered, however, that 
Paint Lick Samuel had migrated to Tennessee 
about the year 1800, it was made clear that he was 
a different man from the Samuel of Mercer County. 
Then a closer examination of court records and 
other reliable sources of information made this 
conclusion to appear absolutely correct. 

The lady who was the wife of Samuel Woods of 
Paint Lick while he was in Kentucky was, beyond 
question, his first wife. Her Christian name, as 
the Madison County records prove, was Margaret; 
and Judge Black positively states (quoted by Mr. 
Jones in his Reminiscences) that her surname was 
Holmes. Samuel had born to him ten children, 
all by his first wife, Margaret Holmes, as follows : 
(a) Oliver, who was born about 1764, and was 
killed by Indians; (b) Martha, who married John 
Dyzart, l)y whom she had two sons and two daugh- 
ters, one of the sons being named John; (c) Jane, 
who married John Herron, and by whom she had 
one daughter and three sons, the daughter marry- 
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named John, William, and Frank, respectively; 
(d) Margaret, who married Thomas Black August 
20, 1793, and by whom she had twelve children, the 
youngest of whom was Judge Gideou B. Black, 
born February 4, I^IG; (e) John, who was born 
April 21, 1771, and died August 20, 1816; (f) Sam- 
uel, who married Ann Prevince; (g) David, who 
married a Miss McLaryo, by whom he had several 
sons who moved to Arkansas; (j) Daniel T., who 
married a Miss Eeese, by whom he had several 
children, among whom was a son named Leroy, 
who was a distinguished Cumberland Presbyte- 
rian minister; (k) Oliver, named for the first son 
of this name who was killed by Indiaus, as stated 
above; and (1) Poll}-, (Mary) who married John 
Holmes, by whom she had several children, among 
whom were sons named John, William and Sam- 
uel, respectively. 

As stated on a previous page, Samuel Woods, 
the Eevolutionaiw soldier, who migrated from 
Botetourt County, Virginia, to Mercer County, 
Kentucky, about the year 1782-3, aud died at Har- 
rodsburg in 1826, had an only son, named for him- 
self, whom A\e shall designate as Samuel Woods, 
Jr. The date of his birth could not have been far 
from 1761-3, and the place, beyond all reasonable 
doubt, was Albemarle County, Virginia, where his 
parents were living up to 1766, if not later. Born 
about the close of the French and Indian Wars, his 
boyhood covered a troublous period of American 
history; for no sooner had the contest of Eng- 
land and her colonies with the French and their 
Indian allies been settled, than there arose serious 
disagreements between the Mother Country' and 
the American colonies Avhich in the course of time 
culminated in the Eevolution. From 1766 to 1776 
his father had a farm ou Roanoke River, and prob- 
ably lived there. Thus the first twenty years of his 
life were lived in the midst of constant civil com- 
motion. The attempt of England to compel the 
colonies to aid her in paying the debts she had 
created, the unjust Navigation Laws, and the 
famous Stamp Act of 1765 were the main causes 
of discontent and resentment on the part of the 



Colonics. Samuel Woods, Jr., was a little boy only 
about two to four years old when Patrick Henry 
delivered the eloquent aud i>atriotic speech in the 
Virginia House of Delegates (May, 1765) which 
foretokened the coming storm. He was about ten 
or twelve years old when the citizens of Boston 
threw the tea from the English ships into the har- 
bor, and about twelve or fourteen when Washing- 
ton went to Cambridge to take formal command of 
"The American Army." In the spring of 1776 his 
father entered the Twelfth Virginia Regiment of 
the Continental Line, and was in the regular serv- 
ice for three years, and then served in the militia 
from time to time till the close of the Revolution; 
and as his mother had no other children besides 
Iiimself, aud he was only thirteen to fifteen when 
the war began, he doubtless remained at home and 
rendered little if any military service. He was 
about twenty to twenty-two years old when his 
parents and the other Woodses migrated to Ken- 
tucky. His home in Mercer County seems to have 
been near Shawnee Run, and within sight of the 
sj)ot where Shakertown (Pleasant Hill) was after- 
wards built. In fact, that village occupied part 
of the 1,400 acre tract which his father conveyed 
to him bj' deed of gift in 1791, aud the old Woods 
homestead was close to the turnpike which extends 
from Shakertown to Lexington, its exact location 
being indicated on the map of Mercer County to be 
found in this volume. 

The marriage of Samuel Woods, Jr., (between 
1786 and 1791) occasioned considerable discussion 
in the family, and by some of his friends was re- 
garded as unwise. The grounds of their opposi- 
tion have never been fully understood by the pres- 
ent writer, but there is no reason to suppose their 
objections were at all serious. The facts seem to 
have been as follows: Samuel Woods, Jr., had an 
uncle David Woods, who, about 1779, had mar- 
ried Mary McAfee, the daughter of James McAfee, 
Jr., afterwards known as James McAfee, the 
Pioneer of Kentucky. When David Woods mar- 
ried Mary he was a widower, and owned and lived 
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Shepherd's Island Farm, whilst Mary's parents 
were living down on Catawba Creek in what is now 
Roanoke County, Virginia. The Woodses and 
McAfees were probably good friends, and it is 
just possible that Samuel ^^'oods, Jr., liad kudwu 
and admired Mary before she became the wife of 
his uncle David in 1779, for a youth of sixteen does 
sometimes entertain tender sentiments towards a 
bright-eyed young lady, even though he may be a 
few years her junior, which was probably true in 
this instance. The Woodses migrated to Ken- 
tucky, as has been shown, about 1782 or 1783, the 
McAfees having preceded them by three or four 
years?. Sanuu'l, Jr., lived with his parents on 
Shawnee Run, and his uncle David and family 
were only a few miles away on Cane Run. That 
the two families should be on excellent terms, and 
see much of each other, were but natural. It came 
to pass, in the fall of 1786, that David Woods died, 
leaving Mary a widow with one stepson, and three 
little folks of her own which she had borne to 
David. Samuel Woods, Senior (father of Samuel, 
Jr.) became the guardian of David's children. 
What passed in the years following we know not, 
except that somewhere after 1786,and prior to 1791, 
Samuel Woods, Jr., married his uncle David's wi<low. 
She was his aunt-in-law, and her three children 
were, by blood and marriage, his first cousins. 
Most probably she was a few years older than 
Samuel. It is known that this marriage created 
a stir in the family at the time, as might reason- 
ably be expected ; but there was, of course, nothing 
inherently improper in such a match. She was 
not of his blood-kin, and there was no more im- 
propriety in a man's marrying an aunt-in-law than 
there is now in marrying a sister-in-law. The fact 
that she was a widow with several children, and 
possibly a few years his seuior, was a matter of 
mere taste. No doubt Samuel considered Mary 
such a valuable prize that he was perfectly willing 
to have her in spite of sentiment and the impedi- 
menta she brought along with her. Certain it is, 
that they were married, and so far as we can learn, 
it was a happy match which nobody seems to have 



regretted. Four children — two sons, and two 
dauglitcr.s — were tlie fruit of tiiis marriage. The 
children will be referred to presently. ' 

It may appear strange that the present writer, 
(who is a grandson (if this Samuel ^^'()(^ds, Jr.,) 
should have to confess that he knows exceedingly 
little about him ; but it will not seem so very 
strange, after all, when it is noted that the writer's 
father died early in 1860, when the writer was only 
fifteen, and that Samuel Woods, Jr., died in 1802, 
when his son (James Harvey Woods, the writer's 
father) was not ten years old. Under such cir- 
cumstances, unless pretty complete written records 
had been kept in the family — which seems not to 
have been done — the writer could not be expected 
to know a great deal about his ancestors. 

The Mercer County records contain a number 
of items which throAV some little light on the career 
of Samuel Woods, Jr., and Mary his wife, which 
will here be presented for the benefit of their de- 
scendants, quite a number of whom have been 
among the most liberal and enthusiastic promoters 
of the efforts which have resulted in the publica- 
tion of this volume. It has already been shown 
that Samuel AVoods, Jr., received from his father, 
by deed of gift, in November, 1791, a considerable 
estate, consisting of a good deal of personal prop- 
erty besides three tracts of land aggregating above 
8000 acres in extent. Much of this land was of 
the finest quality to be found in Kentucky, and 
the whole would sell to-day for nearly a quarter 
of a million dollars without a fence or house upon 
it. One of those tracts included two and a third 
square miles of the land at Shakertown, and an- 
other included about six square miles of the land 
just north of where Lawrenceburg, Ky., now 
stands. It is next to certain he and David Woods's 
widow had been married only a few months when 
he received this handsome setting up. The widow 
he married was the mother of several children, and 
he certainly had need of some property, even 
though Mary and her children had inherited a com- 
fortable estate from David Woods, deceased. The 
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now a great deal larger family at the beginning 
of his married life than many a man has ten years 
after marrying, and Samuel, the elder, had only his 
wife and himself to support. Hence this unusually 
liberal provision for the son was timely as it was 
generous. From various allusions in the records 
of Mercer County it is clear that Samuel, Jr., was 
a farmer, and probably occupied part of his time 
in taking stock, hides and produce in flat-boats 
down the Kentucky and Ohio and Mississippi 
rivers to New Orleans, to exchange for Spanish 
doubloons. There is a reference to his having been 
at Natchez, Mississippi, and to tlie fact that some 
man there owed him money in 1802. In one trans- 
action of July 5, 1801, he is called "Captain Sam- 
uel Woods, Jr.," and among his effects after his 
death in 1802, we find a sword and a regimental 
uniform, whence we infer he was the captain of a 
company of militia. His father had been a soldier 
in the Revolution, and his son James Harvey 
AA'oods was in the War of 1812, and we should ex- 
pect him to be not wholly devoid of military ardor, 
especially as during the first ten years of his life in 
Kentucky Indian raids were common, and every 
man able to bear arms was needed for military serv- 
ice. We find he conveyed away a good deal of his 
real estate from time to time, but so far as the rec- 
ords indicate he must have been the owner of most 
of the 8000 acres when he died. April 26, 1802, he 
sold to one Charles Brown, for 200 pounds (about 
$660.00) a tract of 100 acres on Shawnee and 
Cedar Run, being a part of the 1400 acres his father 
gave him in 1791. He had a great many business 
and financial transactions with one Jacob Froh- 
mau, and this "Jacob'' evidently had heavy claims 
on the estate when Woods died. Frohman was 
made the administrator of the estate of Woods 
after he died. Frohman was most probably a Jew, 
who was a money-lender and laud-speculator, and 
there was also an Abraham Frohman concerned in 
some of the same transactions. Frohman did not 
make his final settlement in court, as administra- 
tor, till May, 1816. A number of transactions in 
which Samuel signs deeds as tlie husband of Mary 



show that his wife and her first husband's children 
had inherited a considerable quantity of land from 
David Woods. April 20, 1802, a singular transac- 
tion in land was made, and the Mercer County 
records mention it. John Sheely, Jr., gets a deed 
for 230 acres of tlie laud of Samuel Woods, Jr., 
and yet Samuel never signed the deed. The wit- 
nesses, Galey and Munday, swore that Samuel 
meant to sign it, but did not. The consideration 
was 200 pounds or about |666.00, which was about 
three dollars an acxe for the land. There are in- 
dications that Samuel took an extensive trip "down 
the river" — as one document states — probably to 
New Orleans, in the spring of 1802; and there are 
some reasons for thinking that he either died while 
on that trip, or contracted then his last illness. 
Abraham Frohman, in a document dated February 
22, 1805, swears that he applied to one Jeremiah 
Ruth at Natchez, Miss., for some money which was 
due to Samuel AVoods, Jr., deceased. The exact 
month of his death is not known. Certain it is 
that at the Court held in Harrodsburg in August, 
1802, Jacob Frohman was appointed his adminis- 
trator, and at the Court held in November, 1802, an 
inventoi'y of his effects was filed by George Han- 
kins, Benjamin Galey, and Charles Brown, and the 
aforesaid Jacob Frohman was then referred to as 
administrator, and a creditor of Woods's estate. 
The manner in which the land of Samuel Woods, 
Jr. — especially the magnificent tract on Shawnee 
Run — was disposed of excited much comment 
among his descendants in after days, and it was 
the opinion of his grandson, the late Thomas O. 
Woods, Attorney-at-Law, of Lebanon, Ky., that 
there had been somewhere and somehow some bad 
management, if not something worse; and that the 
only thing which prevented the recovery of much 
of said laud in an action at law was a single miss- 
ing link in the evidence. Suit was actually begun 
in the Mercer Circuit Court fifty years ago, and the 
records to-day contain the pleadings. Where or 
how Samuel AVoods, Jr., died the writer knows not. 
Marj' McAfee, who was David Woods's widow 
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of James McAfee, Jr., by his wife Agues Claik. 
She was most probably born about 1760 ou Ca- 
tawba Creek, in what is now Koanoke Co., Va. 
The Woodses and McAfees must have been intimate 
friends. Jlichael Woods, Jr., Andrew Woods, and 
Archibald Woods — three sons of Michael of Blair 
Park — lived near the McAfee settlement. Ai'chi- 
bald Woods purchased the old jMcAfee homestead 
(Indian Camp Farm) on the Catawba In 1771, and 
James McAfee, Sr.,and his sous and daughters lived 
close to ludian Camp. From 1771 onward until 
the McAfees migrated to Kentucky (1779) the 
home of James ^IcAfee, Sr., was very close to what 
is now known as the Roanoke Red Sulphur 
Springs. Andrew Woods lived only about two 
hours' ride to the northward from James McAfee, 
and ^Michael Woods, Jr., lived on James River about 
three hours' ride to the northeast of Andrew's 
place. In a sparsely settled country in a frontier 
region people living that near each other were con- 
sidered close neighbors. When the McAfees mi- 
grated to Kentucky in 1779, Mary did not accom- 
pany them. She had probably just recently mar- 
ried David AVoods, the well-to-do widower on 
James River. But it was only a very few years 
after that the Woodses moved to Kentucky and 
settled within but a few miles of the McAfee Set- 
tlement. David Woods chose the "Cane Run 
Neighborhood" for his home, and there Mary seems 
to have resided till after David's death. The ex- 
act year in which she married Samuel AVoods, Jr., 
is not certainly known. Her first husband died in 
the fall of 17SG, and we know she Avas the wife of 
Samuel Woods, Jr., by 1791, and possibly a little 
earlier. We know her first child by Samuel Woods 
was born in 1792. By her first husband she had 
three children, to wit: William, Elizabeth and 
Nauc}', of whom we shall have more to say when 
we come to consider David Woods, son of Michael 
Woods, Jr., who was Mary McAfee's first husband. 
In all the deeds and wills examined by the writer 
in which Mary is referred to she is called "Polly," 
the common pet-name for Mary. Of the time, 
place and manner of her death nothing is known 



beyond the fact that in a deed made October 4, 
1813, and recorded in Mercer County, conveying 
to one Richard llolman 190 acres of land ou Salt 
Iiiver, whicli is signed by all the living heirs of 
both David AVoods and Samuel AA'oods, Jr., (except, 
possibly, ^larUia, the daughter of the latter, who 
married \'an SlieU'v), she is referred to as being 
already dead, but no intimation is given as to when 
her death occurred. If born in 1760, and dead by 
1813, she only lived fifty-three years. It is just 
possible she was born as early as 1758, but this is 
not likely. Her father was only twenty-two years 
old in 1758. She was probably buried alongside 
of Iier parents in tiieir burial-plot a few hundred 
yards to the south of the present New Providence 
Cemetery. Her father, James McAfee, became the 
guardian ot her minor children after lier deatli. 

The children of Samuel Woods, Jr., by his wife 
Mary {ncc McAfee) were certainly four in num- 
ber, and it is barely possible there was one more, 
to wit: (a) James Harvej' Woods, who was born 
September 12, 1792, Avho married Miss Sarah 
Everett Dedman of Versailles, Kentucky, iu 1818, 
and had l)y her twelve children, and died in Har- 
rodsburg, Kentucky, February 3, 1860. A fuller 
account of liim will be given in the sketch of Rev. 
Neander M. Woods, his son, in Part III of this 
work, (b) Anne, or Anna, who was ijrobably born 
about the year 1791, and married George Bohon. 
She had nine children, as follows: James, Abram, 
Mary, Catherine, Clarke, Nancj', Joseph, Isaac G., 
and George Ann. (c) Possibly one named Sally, 
who may have been liorn about the year 1796. Of her 
the writer knows nothing beyond the fact that a 
person of this name is mentioned in a deed of Octo- 
ber 1, 1813, which appears to be signed h\ all of 
the heirs of Mary (Polly) Woods, deceased, con- 
veying 190 acres of land on Salt River to one Rich- 
ard Holman. This deed is signed by the two sons 
of David Woods; the two daughters of David 
Woods, and their husbands; and four of the chil- 
dren of Samuel AVoods, Jr., namely; Anne, Sjilly, 
Harvey, and Woodford, all of whom are described 
as heirs of Mary Woods. It is evident that Anne, 



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Sally and Woodford were minors in October, 1813, 
and unmarried. But see further ou the writer's 
conclusion as to Sally, namely; that by Sally is 
meant Patsy, (d) Woodford, who was probably 
born about 1798. This son, the writer has been in- 
formed, died early in life, (e) Martha Woods, 
who was born in 1800, at the old Woods home near 
Shakertown, and married Mr. Van Sheley March 
1, 1825, is not mentioned in the deed above referred 
to. That deed purports to have the siguatures of 
all of ]Mary Woods's heirs. Martha (usually called 
Patsy) was about thirteen years old when that 
deed was executed. The omission of her name 
raises some doubt as to there having been a child 
of Samuel and Mary bearing this name. This 
doubt is considerably strengthened by the fact that 
in the list of the children of this couple, given by 
General R. B. McAfee, in his autobiography, men- 
tion is made of but four children, the same four 
whose names are siguetl to the deed just referred to, 
and makes no allusion to any child by the name 
of ^Martlia. This state of facts seems, on its face, 
to settle it that Samuel and Mary had no 
daughter named ilartha, and that the lady 
whom Mr. Van Sheley married in 1825, then 
a womau twenty-tive years old, may have beeu 
the daughter of some other Woods. But, 
on the other hand, Mrs. Nathaniel D. Woods (now 
deceased), who knew a great deal about the 
Woodses of a century ago, wrote to the author of 
this volume November 6, 1893, in regard to the 
children of the couple now under consideration, 
and she positively declared that Samuel and Mary 
did have a daughter Patsy (the pet-name for Mar- 
tha) who married a Sheley who went to 
Missouri to live. Her aflflrmatiou is so iiositive 
that the writer can not ignore it. She says this 
Patsy Sheley was tlie own sister of James Harvey 
Woods (the writer's father). Now, how may this 
apparent contradiction be reconciled? The writer 
has a solution to offer, which is at least worth 
considering. Among the four children named in 
both the deed mentioned and Gen'l McAfee's list 
is one called Sally; but nobody seems ever to have 



heard of that couple having a daughter of that 
uaine. Nobody knows anything about her beyond 
the presence of her name in the two lists quoted. 
Could that name "Sally" have been a clerical error 
of the clerk in the County Court Office at Harrods- 
hurg in mistaking Patsy for Sally? Mrs. Sheley 
was known all her younger days as "Patsy," and 
the writer is convinced she was a sister of his 
father, and therefore a daughter of Saunu'l,Jr..and 
JIary. Might not the clerk, in transcribing that 
deed in 1813. have mistaken the carelessly written 
name "Patsy" for Sally? If he did, and if Gen'l 
McAfee got his list by copying that one in the office 
of the County Clerk, as is most likely, the solution 
is easy. The writer believes that Sally is a myth, 
and that Patsy (or Martha) who married Sheley 
is the real person intended. Mrs. Nathaniel Woods 
was too reliable a lady, and too well informed in 
regard to the writer's family, to assert positively, 
as she does, that his father had a sister Patsy who 
married a Sheley aud lived in Missouri, if such 
were not the case, aud Mrs. Nathaniel Woods knew 
nothing of a Sally Woods whatsoever. The date 
given for the birth of ilartha (Patsy) Woods She- 
ley by Mrs. John Jay Sheley, of New Bloomfield, 
Missouri, whose husband is a son of the Mr. Van 
Sheley who married Martha in 1825, is just about 
the date one would reasonably expect for Samuel's 
last child. Mrs. John Jay Sheley gives the year 
1800 as the date of Martha Woods's birth, but she 
does not write as if quoting from au exact written 
record, and does uot give day or month. The 
strong probability is that, as Mrs. John Jay Slieley 
says, Martha was born about ISOO — possibly a year 
earlier or later. Martha's father was dead before 
August, 1802. 

Mr. Van Sheley who married Patsy (Martha) 
Woods was of German extraction, and was born 
in Virginia, November 6, 1797. The following 
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Sheley: (a) 
Woodford Woods Sheley, who was born April 19, 
1826. The very name of this son is in part a vin- 
dication of the writer's conclusion that Martha 
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(jice McAfee). The first child she had was named 
for her own brother — Woodford Woods, (b) The 
second child of Van Sheley and his wife 3Iartha 
Woods was named Ann ilary Sheley, who was 
born Angnst IG, 1827. (c) The third child of 
Van and Martha was a son, named Jiihu Jay 
Sheley, who was born ^lay 3, 1831, and married 
Miss C. America Morgan. The following children 
have been born to Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Sheley, 
namely; 1, AVoodford Woods Sheley; 2, James 
Van Sheley; 3, Edmund Lee Sheley, and 4, Ann 
Martha Sheley. Two of their children have died, 
to wit; Charles, and Emma Virginia. Mr. Van 
Sheley who married Martha Woods died March 28, 
3SG3. Martha was a member of the Disciples' 
Church, and died August 28, 1852. The religious 
faith of her husband is not known to the writer. 

IV— DAVID WOODS. The fourth child of 
Michael Woods, Jr., and his wife Anne was 
a son named David who, as we have good 
reasons for believing, was born in Albemarle 
County, Virginia, about the year 1740. Of his 
early life we have no knowledge. The first men- 
tion we have of him is in 1776 when his father, then 
living in Botetourt County, made his last will. In 
that document he is not only mentioned but is 
made the heir to his father's farm and homestead 
on James Eiver, five miles below the town of Buch- 
anan, and constituted one of the executors of the 
will. He was evidently not only a favorite with 
his father, but was living at or very close to his 
father's home place. He was twice married. Of 
his first wife we know nothing, except that she left 
two children; a daughter named Anne, and a son 
named John. How long David remained a wid- 
ower we know not. We only know that his second 
wife was Mary McAfee, daughter of James Mc- 
Afee, Jr., and that his marriage to her took place 
not later than the late summer of 1779. His father 
died in 1777, leaving him the heir to his homestead. 
August 11, 1779, he conveyed the home place to 
his brother-in-law William Campbell for 3500 
I)Ounds. We have now no means of knowing 
whether or not he was in the Revolutionary army. 



In 1782-3 he and his brother Samuel migrated to 
Central Kentucky. With him went his wife Mary, 
his son John by his first wife, perhaps two little 
children ^fary had already l)orne to him, and his 
aged widowed mother Anne. He had a daughter 
named Anne, child of his first wife, who did not 
accompany him. It is not very likely that she ever 
lived in Kentucky, but David remembered her in 
his last will. Much of what is common to him and 
his brother Samuel has already been said in the 
preceding pages when dealing with that brother's 
record, and it need not be repeated here. David 
on going to Kentucky made choice of one of the 
most desirable spots in what is now Mercer County. 
He selected laud for his homestead in what has for 
more than a century been known as the Cane Run 
Neighborhood, a few miles east of the town of Har- 
rodsburg. His career in Kentucky was very brief. 
His last will was written September 30, 1786, and 
was entered for probate December 5, 1786, indi- 
cating that his will was made in the prospect of an 
early death, and only a few weeks or months before 
it occurred. He was only about forty-six years old 
when he died. The witnesses to his will were Ber- 
nard Noel, John Smith, and his brother Samuel 
W^oods. The executors whom he named in his will 
were Captain Samuel McAfee (his wife's uncle) 
and Capt. John Gilmore. In the will he mentions 
the following persons, to wit: 1, Anne, his aged 
mother; 2, Mary, his "beloved wife''; 3, Ann Jen- 
nings, wife of Jonathan Jennings; 4, John, his son 
by his first marriage; and 5, Nancy; 6, AVilliam, 
and 7, Elizabeth, the three children whom his sec- 
ond wife had borne to him. He was a well-to-do 
man for that da3-, Ave should suppose. Of his char- 
acter, his religious hopes, and the circumstances 
attending his death we have no knowledge. 

(a) Anne was probably the first child of David 
Woods by his first wife. We know but lit- 
tle of her beyond the fact that she became the wife 
of a Jonathan Jennings, and was remembered 
by her father when he made his will in 1786. If 
her father married when he was about twenty-three 
she may have been born about the year 1764, and 



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in Albemarle County, Virginia. As lias already 
been stated, she does not seem to have migrated 
with the Woodses to Kentucky. ^Vheu her father 
married his second Avife in 1779 he brought into 
the liome a step-mother who was only four or five 
years older than herself. Her marriage to Mr. 
Jennings doubtless took place not long before the 
Woodses moved AYest. The writer knows nothing 
further concerning her, or of auy children she may 
have had. 

(b) John was probably the second aud last 
child of David Woods by his first wife, aud his 
birth probably occurred in Albemarle County, 
about the year 17G6. He was a great pet of his 
aunt Magdalen Campbell (the sister of David 
Woods, his father), and when she died, in 1830, 
(when John was a man far advanced in life), she 
devised one-half of her estate to him. Mrs. Camp- 
bell was, at the time of her death, a widow with no 
children, and living in Lexington, Virginia. John 
Woods was about seventeen when he moved with 
his father to Kentucky, and the rest of his life, or 
at least a great part of it was spent at his father's 
home-place on Cane Run, Mercer County, Ken- 
tucky. It would seem that when his mother re- 
married after his father's death she moved over to 
the Samuel Woods place near where the present 
village of Shakertown stands, and John retained 
his father's home on Cane Run. He married a 
Miss Nancy Moseby, as the late Mrs. Nathaniel D. 
Woods supposed. This Miss Moseby had a sister 
named Magdalen who married a Mr. Bright, and 
in her old age while a Avidow was an occasional 
visitor at the home of the writer's parents in Har- 
rodsburg. 

John Woods and his wife Nancy had a consider- 
able family of children, to wit: 1, Sidney, of 
whom the writer knoAvs nothing; 2, Rhodes, who 
for a time practised dentistry in Harrodsburg; 3, 
David, who was a somewhat eccentric character, 
who visited Europe, and who removed to St. Louis, 
Missouri; i, Margai-et, AAho married Air. James AI. 
Jones, a well-to-do farmer, Avhose second Avife was 
Elizabeth Hannah Woods, a sister of the present 



A\Titer. The only child of Margaret Woods and 
James M. Joues was a son, John Sauford Jones, 
born about 181-1, Avho died of some disease during 
the Civil War in a Federal Military Prison at Al- 
ton, Illinois; 5, Eliza, Avho married a Mr. Bradley; 
C, Patsy, Avho nuirrietl a Mr. Porter, and had a son 
named James; 7, Burch, who married a Mr. Mar- 
shal; 8, Nannie, who married a Mr. Willis N'ivian; 
and 9, a daughter avIio married a Mr. Garnet, and 
had a sou named George. 

(c ) N.^NCY was the third child of David Woods, 
liut the first by his second wife Mary McAfee. She 
was probably born about the year 1780 at the old 
Woods homestead (Shepherd Island Farm) on the 
James in Botetourt County, Virginia. She was 
but a babe in ai'ms Avhen, in 1782-3, the Woodses 
made the long aud perilous journey through the 
wilderness to Kentucky. When about tAA'enty 
years old she married Harry Munday, of Mercer 
County, Kentucky. His Christian name in sev- 
eral papers is Avritteu as if it Avere Henry, but Har- 
ry seems to have beeu his real name. She and her 
husbaud joiued in a deed in 1813, which Avas signed 
bA' all of the heirs of Mary, her mother. This deed 
is on recoi'd at Harrodsburg. (See Deed Book 9, 
pages 17-19.) All of her children seem to have 
migrated to Indiana, aud in that State, at the 
home of one of her children, she died in 1865, at 
the age of eighty-five, or thereabout. In 1857 she 
Avas a Avidow aud living with her son James Mun- 
day near Shakertown, Kentucky, and was a mem- 
ber of the ShaAvuee Run Baptist Church. Her 
children Avere the following: 1, Woodson, who 
married a Mrs. Samuels, a widow; 2, George, who 
married Miss Lucy Gordon, and was the father of 
Mrs. David Walter of Harrodsburg, through whose 
courtesy much of the information here given in re- 
gard to Nancy Woods has been obtained; 3, Har- 
A'ey, Avho married Caroline Cogliill; i, James, who 
married Almeda Thacker, of Auderson County, 
Kentucky; 5, Katheriue, avIio married John Hays; 
G, Elizabeth, Avho married Sohuuou Hays ; 7, Mary, 
AAho married Living GraACs; and Patty, Avho mar- 
ried James Smart. 



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(d) William was probably the fourth child of 
David Woods, and the second by INIary ilcAfee, 
his second wife. It is likely lie was born either 
shortly before or shortly aftci- tlie migration of his 
parents to Kentucky, say, abdut 1781-3. His family 
seem always to have called him "Billy," and so he 
was generally desif^nated by his acquaintances. 
Very little of his career is known to the 
writer. He was a child of about three to 
five years of age when his father died. 
When his mother married Samuel Woods, Jr., he 
doubtless went to live with her and him at the 
old Samuel Woods homestead on Shawnee Run; 
and probably he and his two sisters (Nancy and 
Elizabeth) knew a great deal more of their step- 
father than of their own father, for Samuel, .Jr., did 
not die until 1802. The lady whom William Woods 
married was named Catherine. Her surname is 
not known. He may have married her in Wood- 
ford County, for his home was certainly there in 
1813, at which time he was just .about twenty-one 
years old. Woodford adjoins Mercer County, be- 
ing separated from it by the Kentucky River. His 
half brother, James Harvey Woods, went to the 
same county to get a wife in 1818. The very name 
Woodford seemed, in this family, to be much ad- 
mired; for Samuel Woods, Jr.. named his second 
son Woodford, and his daughter Patsy Sheley did 
the same, and Patsy's son John Jay Sheley fol- 
lowed suit. His name and that of Catherine, his 
wife, are signed to a deed made May 22, 1821, and 
recorded at Harrodsburg (Book 12, page 241). 
His half brother, John Woods, and wife Nancy; 
his sister, Elizabeth, and husband Ben Galey ; and 
his sister Nancy, and husband Harry Munday, all 
joined in said deed. The records of Franklin 
County, Kentucky, show (Book F, page 400) that 
on the 17th day of June, 181(5, he conveyed 50 
acres of land to the ubiquitous and enterprising 
Jacob Frohman (who seems to have kept in close 
touch with the Woodses) for one hundred pounds. 
The records of the same county (Franklin) show 
a conveyance, made November 3, 1818, by a Wil- 
liam Woods whose wife was named Rachel, and 



whose place of residence was Scott County, Ken- 
lucky. Whilst we do not believe this man to have 
beea the same as William, the son of David Woods, 
of Mercer, it is not safe to assume that a man 
never remarries, or that he never changes his place 
of residence. The names of the children of Betty 
Woods, as furnished to the writer by Mrs. Nathan- 
iel D. Woods, deceased, are as follows: Coleman; 
James Henry; Sarah Ann Kumsey; and Eudora. 

(e) Eliz.\betii Wfwns was the last child of 
Mary McAfee Woods by her first husband David. 
Of her the writer has l)een able to learn but little. 
She was most probably born at her fathei-'s place 
on Cane Run about 1785. She married Benjamin 
Galey. In the deed already repeatedlj- referred to 
as recorded in the clerk's office at Harrodsburg, 
Kentucky, in 1813, she and her husband (Benja- 
min Galey) appear as two of the grantoi^s. They 
were then living in Shelby County, Kentucky. The 
writer knows nothing of any children they may 
have had, or of their history subsequent to 1813. 

V— ELIZABETH was the fifth child of :Michael 
Woods, Jr., and his wife Anne. The date of her 
birth was not far from the year 1742, and the place 
was no doubt her father's old home in Albemarle 
County, Virginia. We have surmised that she was 
the fifth child of her parents. About all we know 
concerning her is that she became the wife of one 
Dalertus Shepherd. This couple had a daughter — 
Magdalen Shepherd — who, in 1791, married John 
Gilmore, and became the progenitor of a prominent 
family in Rockbridge County, Virginia, of that 
name. The Gilmores, Varners, etc., now there are 
of her line. The writer much regrets that he knows 
so little of this member of the Woods clan and 
of her descendants, some of whom it was once his 
pleasure to meet. The old homestead of Michael 
Woods, Jr., on James River may have come into the 
possession of Mr. Shepherd as it took the name of 
"Shepherd's Island Farm." It is known that he 
lived at that point. The farm, which descended by 
(l(vis(> to David Woods, was by him sold to Wil- 
liam Campbell, and Shepherd may have purchased 
it from Campbell, who was his brother-in-law. The 



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writer presumes there are representatives of the 
Shepherd family yet living who hear the name of 
Elizabeth's husband, but does not know such to be 
the case. Any one concerned to obtain further 
information on this subject could doubtless readily 
secure it by consulting the court records of Rock- 
bridge County, and some of the older citizens of 
that part of Virginia. 

VI— WILLIAM WOODS, The Seventh, whom 
we conclude to have been the sixth child of 
[Michael Woods, Jr., and his wife Anne, was born 
about the year 17-18, at the old home of his parents 
in Albemarle County, Virginia. Though reared 
in a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian family, he became, 
in early manhood, an enthusiastic Baptist, with 
which denomination he was prominently identified 
for much the larger part of his life. He was a 
man of very considerable property in lands and 
slaves. He married a iliss Joanna Shepherd, who 
may have been a sister of his sister Elizabeth's hus- 
band, Dalertus Shepherd. As there were many 
other William Woodses in Albemarle, all or the 
most of whom were no doubt Presbyterians, he 
came to be known in his county as Baptist Billy 
Woods. He was about twenty-seven years old 
when the Revolutionary war began. He became a 
minister of the Baptist Church and in 1780 was 
called to the pastorate of the first church of that 
faith ever founded in Piedmont, Virginia. He was 
a man of handsome figure and face, and took pride 
in keeping a fine saddle horse. He had a body 
servant named Ben who usually accompanied him 
in his trips about the country. He was evidently 
a man of decided ability and of a jovial disposition. 
He was much in demand when couples wished to be 
united in marriage. He was possessed of rare con- 
versational powers and made an agreeable com- 
panion. He was an intimate friend of Thomas 
Jefferson, who much admired the democratic polity 
of the Baptist churches. He once remarked that 
the Baptist Church was a model for a republic. 
In 1798, at the solicitation of Mr. JetTerson, he re- 
signed his pastoral charge and was elected a mem- 
ber of the Virginia Legislature for Albemarle. Mr. 



Woods took part in the great debates of that body 
on the famous Resolutions of 1798-9. He stood for 
re-election in 1809, but was defeated. The next 
year (1810) he migrated to Livingston County, 
Kentucky, where the remaining years of his life 
were spent. There he died in 1819, and he and his 
^\•ife were buried in the family burial ground near 
Salem in what is now Crittenden County, Ken- 
tucky. His Avill is of record there now. Why he 
did not accompany his parents and the rest of the 
family when, about 17G9, they removed to Bote- 
tourt County, we do not know. Perhaps he had re- 
cently married (he was then just twenty-one) and 
was disposed to live near his wife's people. All 
except the last nine years of his life he spent in 
Albemarle. Some of his brethren in the Baptist 
Church thought he was too liberal as to some of his 
theological views, and not careful enough in his 
use of liquor, and the authorities of his church 
made some official inquiries into these matters. It 
is evident that his divergences in faith and prac- 
tice were not regarded as fatally serious, but his 
intimacy with Mr. Jefferson was considered as hav- 
ing exerted an unwholesome influence upon his 
work as a minister of the Gospel. He left five chil- 
dren, three sons and two daughters. 

(a) MiCAJAH WOODS;, who was the first child of 
William Woods, the Seventh, and his wife Joanna, 
was born in Albemarle County, Va., in 1776. On 
the 13th of August, 1795, he married Lucy Walker. 
After her death he married IMrs. Sarah Harris Dav- 
enport, the widow of William Davenport, whose 
maiden name was Rodes, September 22, 1808. He 
attained great prominence in Albemarle County, 
and was regarded as one of the most infiuential 
men in that section of Virginia. In 1815 he was 
selected to be one of the Gentlemen Justices of the 
County Court, in which capacity lie served for 
twenty-one years (till 1836), when under the law, 
being the oldest Justice in service he became High 
Sheriff of the county. He died after holding that 
office only about one yeai" — March 23, 1837. His 
homestead was the well-known place near Ivy De- 
pot called Holkham, at which he died. He owned 



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nearly 2000 acres of laud on Ivy Crwk, ami clurin<r 
his lifetime bis home was a Mecca for liis munerous 
liindred of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. 
Among his guests at times was a first cousin of 
his wife, the Hon. William H. Crawford, of Geor- 
gia, who was a member of the U. S. Senate and had 
been Secretary of State and Governor of Georgia, 
and a prominent candidate for the Presidency. By 
his will, now on record in Albemarle, be devised 
the greater part of his Albemarle estate to his son 
John R. Woods. 

By bis tirst wife, Lucy Walker, be bad three 
daughters and one son, to wit: 1, Martha, who 
married General John Wilson, aud moved to Cali- 
fornia; 2, Mary, who married James Garth and 
whose descendants reside in Kentucky and Ohio; 
3, Elizabeth, who married Capt. John Humphreys, 
and settled with him in Indiana ; and 4, Henry, 
who died young. 

By his second wife, Mrs. Sarah Harris Daven- 
port, {nee Rodes) he had three children, all sons, 
to wit: 1, William S., who died in his twenty-fifth 
year of his age at Helena, Arkansas. William S. 
Woods is said to have been one of the most accom- 
plished young men ever reared in Virginia, gifted 
with rare talents and every grace of manner and 
person. He was a great friend of Henry Clay, and 
to him Mr. Clay wrote a letter, still preserved in 
the family, giving the secret history of the ^Missouri 
Compromise of 1819. 2, the last child of Micajah 
Woods and his wife Sarah Harris Davenport {nee 
Rodes) was John Rodes Woods, of whom more ex- 
tended mention will be made in Part III of this 
volume in the sketch of his son General Micajah 
Woods, of Charlottesville, Va. 3, The last child 
of Micajah Woods by his second wife was Robert 
Harris Woods, who died in bis tweuty-first year. 

(b) The second child of William Woods, the 
Seventh, and his wife Joanna Shepherd, was a son, 
David Woods, the Second, who was pi'obably born 
in Albemarle County, Virginia, about the year 
1778, and died in Livingston Co., Ky., in 1825. He 
married Miss Sallie Neal, who is said to have re- 
sided, prior to her marriage, in Bourbon County, 



Kentucky. He removed to Livingston County, 
Kentucky, either with his parents (in 1810) or 
about three jears later. By his wife Sallie (or 
Siirab ) Xeal he bad four sous aud two daughters, 
as follows: 1, Tavner; 2, Henry Williams; 3, Da- 
vid, the Tliird; 4, John N. ; 5, Kitty; and 6, Mariah. 
Of the first, Tavner; and the third, David the Third; 
we know nothing. Kitty married one Richard 
Miles; and ^lariab married one Peyton Gray. Of 
Henry AA'illiams Woods, the father of David Woods 
tlic Fourtli, wiio now resides at Clarion, Ky., we 
shall speak again when the sketch of David the 
Fourth is ijresented in Part III of this volume. 
The fourth child, John N. Woods, was bom at 
Salem, Livingston County, Kentucky, June 15, 
1815. His father dying when John N. was ten 
years old, he lived with bis widowed mother till he 
was eighteen, when he was apprenticetl to learn the 
trade of a tanner. After serving his apprentice- 
ship, he opened a tannery. Not long after, he 
formed a partnership with a Mr. Watts to carry on 
mercantile business. In 1846, he moved to Marion. 
Ky., and entered into mercantile business there 
with :Mr. S. :Marble. In 1850 he returned to 
Salem to live. Two years later he moved to Prince- 
ton, Indiana, and sold goods for a while; and 
again moved back to Marion, Ky., where he con- 
tinued to sell goods till, owing to the infirmities of 
age, be retired from active business. He was 
elected a member of the Kentucky Legislature in 
1871. He was married to Mrs. Mary A. Marble, 
of Madison, Indiana, in 1848, with whom he lived 
happily till his death, December 27, 1896, at his 
home in Marion. Perhaps no man ever lived in 
Marion who, after a long career, left such a good 
name as he did for sterling honesty of character. 
His reputation for fair and upright dealing, charity 
and generosity, was one to which but few men in 
any community attain. He seems not to have had 
any children. 

(c) The third child of William Woods, The 
Seventh, and his wife Joanna, was Joiix AYoods, 
who died unmarried. 

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was Mary^ who married a Mr. Campbell, aud whose 
descemlants reside near Nashville, Tennessee. 

(e) The fifth and last child of William and 
Joanna was Srs.vNXAii, Avho married a ;Mr. Henry 
Williams, aud settled near her parents in Living- 
ston County, Ky. Iler descendants reside in that 
vicinity to this day. It was, as we feel confident, 
in honor of her hushaiid that her brnther David 
named his son — Henry AVilliams Woods. 

VII — SAEAII WOODS Avas, as we are disposed 
to believe, the seventh child of Michael Woods, Jr., 
and his wife Anne, and she was probably born in 
Albemarle County, Virginia, about the year 1750. 
Beyond the fact that she was expressly named by 
her fath.er in his last will in 177G we know uothing 
of her. It is barely possible she married a Mr. 
Charles Lambert, and that from her was descended 
General Lambert, formerly Mayor of Richmond. 
We know that a Charles Lambert was one of the 
witnesses to the Avill of Michael Woods, Jr., in 1776, 
at which time Sarah was about 26 years of age. 

VIII— ilARTHA WOODS, who, we incline to 
believe, was the eighth child of Michael, Jr., and his 
wife Anne, was most probably born about the year 
1753. She, like all of the eleA'en children of this 
couple, was expressly referred to in her father's 
will. In the court records of Botetourt County, 
A^irginia, it is shown that a Mai'tha Woods mar- 
ried one Thomas ^loore Juue 10, 1795. If our cal- 
culatious be correct our Martha was then about 
forty-two years old, and we believe she is the wo- 
man whom Thomas ^Moore married. Such is the 
opinion of those best qualified to judge — so thinks 
General Micajah Woods, of Charlottesville, Va. 
Of her history we know nothing further. 

IX— MAGDALEN WOODS, The Second, was. 
as we believe, the ninth child of ^lichael, Jr., aud 
Anne. She was named for her father's sister who 
married ^IcDowell, etc. Her tond)stone in the old 
Methodist cemetery at Lexington, Va., shows that 
she was born in 1755. She died in Lexington, Va., 
in 1830, aged seventy-five years. When her father 
made his will in 1776 he referred to her in that 
document as JIagdalen Campbell. We know that 



her husband was one William Campbell, so that she 
probably married before she was twenty-one years 
of age. 3Ir. Campbell was probably a citizen of 
Rockbridge County. The Woodses of Botetourt 
had numerous kinsfolk in Rockbridge; Woodses, 
Wallaces, McDowells, Lapsleys, etc., and we can 
well believe that the children of Michael Woods 
on the James would often visit their uncles, aunts 
and cousins up in the vicinity of Lexington, Va. 
William Campbell must have resided some years, 
however, in Botetourt, for in 1779 he purchased the 
old Woods homestead on James River from his 
wife's brother, David, for 3500 pounds. We have 
good reason for believing that the latter part of his 
life, at least, was spent in or near to Lexington, Va. 
Mrs. Campbell is said to have been one of the most 
remarkable women west of the Blue Ridge. 
Governor McDowell, of A'irginia, used to say that 
she was a walking encyclopaedia as to all the tra- 
ditions, settlements and families in the Valley of 
Virginia. She could repeat, from memory, a large 
part of the Bible, and when a text of Scripture 
would be read to her she could generally give the 
book, chapter and verse in which it was located. 
She spent a good deal of her time at the home of 
her brother William's sou, Micajah Woods, of Al- 
bemarle County. She seems never to have had any 
children, and her husband probably died many 
years before she did. Her will was dated June 1, 
1821. Her estate at her death in 1830 consisted 
almost wholly of money and bonds, and was ap- 
praised at 11110.10. One-half of her estate she gave 
to her nephew John Woods, of Mercer County, Ken- 
tucky, (her broth. er David's son). One- fourth 
went to the children of her sister Mrs. Margaret 
(Woods) Gray, then in Kentucky; and the remain- 
ing fourth to her niece ^largaret (Shepherd) Gil- 
more, who was the daughter of Elizabeth Woods 
and Dalertus Shepherd. Mrs. Campbell was a de- 
vout Christian, and was connected with the Metho- 
dist Church. She was a lovely old lady, who al- 
ways received a cordial welcome in the homes she 
visited. She seems to have outlived all of her 
father's children. 



MICHAEL \A'OODS OF BLAIR PARK. 



X— ANNE WOODS was as we tbiuk reasonably 
certain, the tenth ehild of Miehael Woods, Jr., and 
his wife Anne. Slie is mentioned by her father in 
Ills will as beinf;' one of the two younger children. 
8he was nninarricd when her father wrote bis will, 
and probably about nineteen years old. She Avas 
born about the year 1757. Concerning her history 
nothing is known. Either she or her sister Sarah 
])robalily married a ilr. Lambert — either the one 
(Charles) Avhose name was appended as a witness 
to her father's will, or possibly a kinsman of his; 
for, as was noted when treating of her sister Sarah, 
we have reason for believing, according to General 
Micajah Woods, of Charlottesville, that a Lambert 
did marry one of ^[ichael's daughters, and she and 
Sarah and ^rargaret were the only ones not mar- 
ried when their father wrote his will, and the last 
named daughter, of whom we shall now speak, mar- 
I'ied a Air. Gray. 

XI— MARGARET WOODS, the youngest of the 
children of Michael, Jr., and Anne, was probably 
born in the year 1760, and in Albemarle County, 
Virginia. When her father died, in 1777, .she was 
about seventeen. She became the wife of a David 
Gray, of Rockbridge County, Avho removed to Ken- 
tucky among the earliest pioneers'-, ^fr. Gray 
was a Presbyterian, and seems to have been one 
of the elders of the Presbytery of Transylvania 
which met at Danville, Kentucky, in the fall of 
1780. The children of David Gray and his wife 
Afargaret Woods, as given in the Wylie Genealogy 
(see Note 72 1 were the following: (a I David; 
(b) Wii.LiAir. who married Kittie Bird Winn, of 
Clark County, Kentucky, in 1812, settled in Gl.as- 
gow, Kentucky, and later removed to Greensbnrg, 
Kentucky. Dr. William Gray, by his wife, Kittie 
B. Winn, had the following children, to wit : 1, 
Ver.sailles; 2, John Courts; 3, Theresa D., who 
married a. 'Mr. Vaughn in Greensbnrg, Ky., and by 
liim had three children, and, he dying, she married 
Frank Hatcher; 4, Samuel Marshall; 5, Elizabeth 
Catherine Ophelia, born February 23, 1823, married 
Rev. George K. Perkins, a Presbyterian minister. 



and had by him seven children. The children of 
Elizabeth C. O. Gray by Rev. Mr. Perkins were the 
following: Havana; Cliiiia ; John; Bertha; Camp- 
bell; Mollie; and Fanny. Havana Perkins, the 
first born of Ibis fiiinily of seven children, is the 
wife of Mr. David Woods of Marion, Crittenden 
(^1unty, Kentucky, one of the original subscribers 
of this volume. A sketch of Mr. Woods will be 
found in Part III of this work. It thus appears 
that the children of this David Woods and his wife 
Havana Perkins are descended from :Michael 
"Woods, .Tr., l)oth through Iiis son A\'i]li;ini, and liis 
daughter Margaret. 

D— HANNAH WOODS was, as we have reason 
for supposing, the fourth child of Michael Woods 
by his wife Mary Campbell. She was probably 
l)orn about the year 1710, in Ireland, and came 
to North America with the Woodses and Wallaces 
in 1724, when she was a girl of fourteen. Some 
time prior to 1734, while the two families were liv- 
ing in Pennsylvania, she was married to William 
Wallace who was her full first cousin, he lieing the 
son of her aunt Elizabeth. The frequency of inter- 
marriages of this character among the members of 
these two families was somewhat unusual. Four 
of the children of Peter Wallace and Elizabeth 
Woods married children of :Michael Woods and 
:\rary Campbell; and in the next generation this 
custom was continued to a considerable extent. 
William Wallace was a favorite with his father-in- 
law, and seems to have lived almost ^^•ithin sight 
of his home till Michael Woods died. Chapter Sec- 
ond of the First Part of this volume being devoted 
to the Wallaces, the little we know of this couple is 
given there, to which the reader is referred. We 
do not know the date of Hannah's death. Not a 
few of her kinsfolk named children in her honor, 
from whence we infer that she must have been a lov- 
able and popular woman. 

E — JOHN WOODS was, as we have good reason 
f(;r conjecturing, the fifth-born of the children of 
J\[icha.el Woods of Blair I'ai-k, and his wife. Mary 
Campbell. His body lies in the old family burial 
plot at Blair Park ; and the writer, on the occasion 



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of his last visit to the spot (1S95), took pains to 
copy tiic inscriptions on tlu' <irave-stones of John 
Woods and other nienihers of the family there 
bnried. He is the only one of all the eleven chil- 
dren of Michael and :Mai':\- the exact dates of whose 
birth and death are known with perfect certainty. 
He was a man of method iial turn himself, and his 
children seem to have inherited enough of this trait 
to have a complete and distinct inscription placed 
upon the rude stone marking his grave which, for 



conferred upon him are in the writers possession, 
having been kindly placed at his disposal, while 
this volume was in preparation by the owner, ^Ir. 
J. Watson Woods, of Mississippi, who is a lineal 
descendant of Colonel Wootls. These documents 
will be given in Appendix F. 

That Colonel Woods migrated from Ireland to 
Pennsylvania with his parents in 1724, and tlien to 
Virginia, ten years later, scarcely admits of a doubt. 
The date of the miiiration of the Woodses from Ire- 



considerably more than a ccntuiy, has remained to land to Pennsylvania has been fixed in the year 

tell his posterity Avlieu he came into this world. 1724, largely because it has been a definite and un- 

and whra he left it. It gives Felmiary 19. 1712. varying tradition in the family of Colonel Woods 

(old style) as the date of his birth, and October 14. and his descendants, for a century, that he was a 

1791 (new style) as the date of his death. It also boy twelve years old Tvhen the voyage to the New 



records the names of both his parents, for which 
the present writer would gladly extend his 
thanks to the thoughtful persons who supervised 
the preparation of that headstone. If those who 
shall peruse the numerous dates given in this vol- 
ume could know what endless research it has cost 
the writer to obtain them, and how many a weary 



World was made ; and as the year of his birth was 
1712, it seemed entirely rea.sonable to accept the 
date 1724 for the coming of this family to America, 
especially as we know of nothing to militate 
against such a supposition. Of his life of ten years 
in Pennsylvania we know absolutely nothing. 
When he reached Virginia he was just abont twen- 



search for definite data has never been rewarded ty-two years of age. The first mention we have of 
with success, they would hesitate long before un- 
dertaking such a task. ^Nlany a tombstone 
he has inspected had on it no inscription 
whatever, and this one over the grave of Colo- 
nel John Woods at Blair Park, has, for this rea- 
son, been peculiarly gratifying, especially as it 
carries us back nearly two hundred years with en- 
tire certainty. We shall, from this point onward, 
speak of him as "Colonel John Woods," because 
he received that title by regular commission from 
two different Colonial governors of Virginia in the 
year 1770. He was called, in various original doc- 
uments now in the hands of the present writer, 
"Captain" John Woods, from 1759 to 1766. In the 
latter year Governor Fauquier made him a Major, 
and for four years or moi-e he was known as "Ma- 
j(n'" John Woods. When, in 1770, he was commis- 
sioned Lieutenant Cobmel by Governor Nelson, 
and later by Lord Botetourt, he began to be ad- 
dressed as "Colonel John Woods," a title he held 
ever after. The three original commissions thus 



him is in the fall of the year 1743, when his father 
deeded to him a tract of land containing 350 acres, 
on IMechum's Eiver, in Albemarle County. (A fac- 
simile of part of this deed will be found in this vol- 
ume. Appendix F. ) In that year his father, Mich- 
ael, gave land to four or five of his children, evi- 
dently by way of setting them up in life. .Tolin was 
then about thirtv-one years old, and had been mar- 
ried about a year, as we suppose. The next notice 
of him we find in the year 1745, when he was sent 
as a commissioner from the two Presbyterian 
churches of ^Mountain Plains and Rockfish all the 
Avay to Pennsylvania to prosecute a call before the 
Presbvteiw of Donegal for the pastoral seiwices of 
the Rev. John Hindman. As he had married in 
Pennsylvania only three years before, sucli a trip 
doubtless was pleasant on that account. Colonel 
Woods was no doubt an active and pi-ominent 
member of the ilountain Plains Church, which was 
situated on a jiart of his father's plantation, or at 
least in sight of it, and which the Woodses and Wal- 



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laces liad fduiidcd ciily a sliort time licforc this >;iiiia (in 1734) slu- was a winsome little cliild of 
visit to Doiu'iial I'rcsbyti'rv iu soarcli of a pastor, nine summers whom -Jolui Woods had eome to ad- 
Tlic farm Colonel Woods owned and lived on was mire as a eliild of unusual loveliness. And it may 
on :\Ieehum"s River near the present staticm of the also he that the ties which hound the Woodses to 
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway hearinj;- the name reun.sylvauia heinj; still stronj-, John Woods had 
:\reclium's Depot. ample opportunity to renew his acquaintance with 
The exact date of the marriage of Colonel Wood'i the Andersons. Visits may perhajis have been ex- 
cannot he fixed with entiiv certainty; hut as wo chaniicd : John may have taken journeys to Penn- 
kiKiw exactly when he was horn, and when he die<l ; sylvania, or ])ai-son Anderson's dau<j;hter may have 
and know the years in which several of his children visited the AVoodses; and the little girl of 1731, now 
were horn ; and are also in possession of numerous an attractive maiden of seventeen, may have 
pei-tinent cidlateral facts, we feel warranted in touched a yet deeper ciiord in his heart than had 
concluding that he nnist have married about the been reached by the little girl of nine. Some such 
year 1742, when he was about thirty years old. Xo explanation of John AVoods's marriage falls in pret- 
one i)re1ends to be able to decide this question with ty well with the jjersistent tradition so long cur- 
entire certainty, but we are not without some very rent in the family, and we believe that it is in its 
reasonable grounds for fixing on the time named, main outlines correct. James, the son of 
There is a ])re(ty little romance, however, which Cohmel John Woods and his wife, Susannah, is 
has been currently accepted among Colonel thought to have been Ikjih in 1748, according to Dr. 
Woods's descendants in regard to his mari'iago, Edgar Woods.'' In any case we have excellent 
one featui'e of which we shall be compelled to rele- reasons for Indieving that this son, whenever born, 
gate to the region of myths; and that is, the one was their first child. AA'e feel safe in saying, how- 
which makes John Woods meet and love a sweet ever, that it was as early as 1742 that John Woods 
little girl of eight summers on the ship in which he went up to Penn.sylvania and stole a wife from the 
crossed the Atlantic in 1724, and then, in after home of the Rev. James Anderson ; and that they 
years, marry her. That the lady whom he actually went to housekeeping the next year on the farm on 
did marrv was named Susannah Anderson, as thiVt Mechum's River which his father gave him at that 
legend has it, admits of no doul)t whatever; but the time — 1743. As to this matter more will be said 
trouble comes of saving she was a child eight years a little farther on. 

old in 1724 — the year the Woods(>s migrated to AMiether Colonel Woods saw military service 
Ameiica. The truth is, Susannah was probably during the French and Indian wars, which closed 
not even born till 172."). John Woods and Susan- al)out 17G3, Ave cannot say ; but from what we know 
nah had eight or more children, the last of whom of the man, we feel reasonably certain that he did. 
(named Susannah for her mother) was not born It was probalily because of such services that (tov- 
till 17r)S; but if Susannah Andei-son was eight ernor Francis Fauquier api>ointed him Major if 
years old in 1724, she was fifty-two when her last the Albemarle ^lilitia November 27, 176G. The 
child was born. We shall therefore be constrained original commission which he then received is now 
to modify this pleasing romance so far as relates to in the writer's possession. In less than four years 
the childish love affair on the ship, as being hardly from the date of this apixiintment Lord Rotetourt 
suited to the probabilities of the case. It may have His :Majesty's Lieutenant, and (Jovernor-Ceneral, 
beiMi true, however, that Susannah's father, the and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony and Do- 
Rev. James Anderson, was a neighbor, and per- minion of Virginia, issued to him a commission as 
hajis the pastor, of the Woodses in Pennsylvania ; Lietitenant-Colonel of the Militia of Albemarle, 
and that 'ere John AVoods left that colony for Vir- Thomas Jefferson being the Colonel thereof. This 



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document bears date June 11, 1770. Tlieu Gov- 
ernor Xelson issued to him a like commission De- 
cemlK'r 10, 1770. Tiiese three documents, wliich 
are all ahout a oeutury and a third old, are per- 
fectly distinct, and the sii;nature of Lord Botetourt, 
appended to the commission lie issued, is to-day as 
clear as any writin<>' of the present year. (See Ap- 
pendix F. ) Colonel Woods liretl in Albemarle 
about fifty-seven years — 1734 to 1791 — and died at 
his home in the eif^htieth year of his age. His wife 
survived liim several years, but of the time of her 
death we know nothing'. He made his will Septem- 
ber 12, 17>01, and died Octol>er 14, 1791. The wit- 
nesses to the will are Menan ^Fills. William H. 
Shelton, and James Kinsolvin,2;. He mentions his 
wife Susannah, and his six livinp; children, two 
children having died in infancy. He names his 
sons James and ]\lichael executors of his will. He 
was evidently a well-to-do man, and left a f>;ood 
estate to his family. His body, as above stated, lies 
in the old family burial <i'r<^^iii<l <it Blair Park, a 
fjood vieT\' of which place is given by the eiagraving 
to be found in this volume. The winter had a 
photo of the spot taken in 1895, from which the en- 
gra^ini;- was made. Colonel Woods was a man of 
high character, and it is a reproaich to his descend- 
ants that his grave and that of his father lie so 
sadly neglected. The little cemetery is forever re- 
seiwed from sale or cultivation, and the right of in- 
gress and egress gnaranteed ; and it would be a 
simple matter to enclose the groimd in a neat iron 
railing, set the place in gras.; and erect there a 
siffhtlv monument which would pei^petuate the 
memorv of a worthy familv who helped to make 
Piedmont, Virginia what it is. One thousand dol- 
lars would be amply sufficient. Tn anv feasible at- 
tempt which may hereafter be made by the Woodses 
to act upon the suggestion just offered, the writer 
of these lines will be glad to co-operr,te to the ex- 
tent of his ability; and after he himself shall have 
passed away he hopes that his descendants will 
stand prepared to redeem his pledge. 

Without pretending to absolute accuracy either 
as to all the dates given, or the precise order of 



birth in each case, the following exhibit presents 
what seems to (he writer to be the most rational 
and probable scheme our present means of infor- 
mation will admit of. Let it l>e noted that where 
certainty does not seem warranted as to any given 
date, that fact is indi(ate<l by a blank space or by 
interrogation marks in parentheses. 

I.— JAMES WOODS— Boux 1743 (?). Died 
1823. - I 

IL— ilARY WOODS— BoKN 1744 (?). Died 

III.— MICHAEL WOODS— Boux 1746 (?). 
Died 1826 (?). 

IV.— SUITA WOODS— Boux 1752 (?). Died 

v.— SARAH WOODS— Boux 1757. Died 
1770. 

VI.— ANNA WOODS— BoRx 1760 (?). Died 

VII.— JOHN WOODS, JR.— BoRx 1763. Died 
1764. 

VIII.— SUSANNAH WOODS— Boux 176S. Died 
1832. 

We cannot affirm that John and Susannah had 
no other children than the eight above mentioned. 
It is not at all unlikely that there may have been 
one or two others who died in early infancy, but 
whose graves cannot now be identified. Two of the 
eight given in the above list would never have been 
known of by the writer had he not found their 
graves in the Blair Park burial-plot, with stones 
distinctly marked. Six of the eight Avere living in 
1791, and are expressly named in C(d(mel Woods's 
will, and there is every reason for believing tiiat he 
mentioned every one of his living children, un- 
like his father Michael of Blair Park. There 
can scarcely be a doubt that a diligent search 
through the Will Books and Deed Books of the sev- 
eral counties in which the married children of 
Colonel Woods lived and died would be rewarded 
with much information, not obtained by the author 
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this line, Imt lie was uiiahle to give more time to 
it thao lie has done. 

1— JA.MES WOODS was probably the Hrst-boru 
of the ehildreu of Colouel John Woods and Susan- 
nah his wife. The exact date of his birth can not 
be i;iven with entire certainty, but the writer be- 
lieves it was about the year 1743. The IJev. Dr. 
Edyar A\'oods yives 1748 as the year of James 
>Vo(h1s's birth, but we feel there are some good rea- 
sons for lielieving that the figure 8 in that date 
should give place to a figure '.i, which it so closely 
resembles, and for w hiih it is often mistaken by 
copyists in clerk's offices and elsewhere." The 
principal reason for so Itelieving is that James 
A\'oods and his sister Mary attached their signa- 
tures to certain documents in 17G7 — the originals 
of which are now in the writer's possession — ^the 
style of which signatures indicates that the writers 
of them were persons of somewhat mature age, and 
accustomed to writing. (See Appendix F. ) If 
Colonel John ^^'oods did not marry till 1747, antl 
his son James was not born till 1748, and his 
daugliter ;\lary not before 1749, then James and 
Mary were only nineteen and eighteen years old, 
respectively, Avhen the signatures referred to were 
written. James and Mai*y signed their names a 
half a dozen times each in 17G7, as the originals in 
tlie author's possession show. (See fac-similes in 
Appendix F), and he believes that the majority of 
intelligent people would say that those were not 
the signattires of persons who were less than twen- 
ty-five years of age and unaccustomed to writing a 
good deal. There is not one nmn or woman in ten, 
under thirty years of age, who writes his or her 
name with more marked uniformity than did these 
two persons on the occasions referred to. There 
are variations, we admit, but only such as are com- 
mon with the people of any age. That the Mary 
Woods who did the signing in 1767 was James's 
sister and not ilary, his wife, is demonstrated by 
tlie fact that James did not marry Mary Garland 
till 1779, and by the further fact that in ope of the 
cases she states that the receipt she signs is for 
money she had received as her share of the estate 



of her grandfather, Michael Woods, under his will. 
(See Appendix F.) We believe that a careful in- 
spection of the signatures of James and Mary 
Woods, executed in 17(17, would convince the ma- 
jority of jx^i-sons that the \\r iters of those signa- 
tures were very probal)ly over twenty years of age. 
A second consideration in favor of the earlier date 
(1743) for the birth of James Woods is that it 
places his father's marriage at about his thirtieth 
year, whereas the later date (1748) would make 
John ^\'oods to have been full thirty-five j-ears old 
when he marritnl a young woman for whose heart 
and hand he had, according to the family tradition, 
been waiting for perhaps five to ten weary years. If 
he married the charming Susannah in 1742, when 
she was about seventeen — as early a date, perhaps, 
as her parents were willing to accede to — that 
would be about what we would have expected. But 
it looks far less reasonable to suppose that he de- 
layed till he himself was thirty-five, and she was 
twenty-two. Then, thirdly, there is at least some 
significance in the fact that Michael ^Voods, John's 
father, chose the year 1743 for giving his son a good 
farm — 350 acres on Medium's River. If John did 
marry Susannah in 1742, as we incline to think he 
did, and if their first child, James, was born in 
1743, as we feel reasonably sure of, we can see the 
eminent propriety of giving the young folks a farm 
just then, and letting them go off to themselves. 
Then, lastly, the date 1743, if its final figure, 3, 
were carelessly written, might easily have been 
mistaken for 1748. Clerks and others in copying 
legal documents often make jtist such mistakes as 
this would have been, and such an inaccuracy may 
have been perpetrated in this particular case. On 
this theory Susannah was about seventeen when she 
married, and about forty-three when her last child 
(Susannah) was born. If the writer nmy be jiar- 
doned the personal allusion — his own mother was 
married five mouths 1>efore she became seventeen, 
and he himself, her last child, was born four months 
before she became forty-three. Hence, the theory ad- 
vanced and the conclusions reached in this case 
have nothing novel or strained about them, and 



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they fall iu with variuus known cuuditious of the 
problem iu hand. Let it be added here that the 
year 17G8, which is assigned fur the birth of Susan- 
uali, tile last child of John and Susannah, was got- 
ten by the writer from a i^amphlet written by Mr. 
W. H. Miller, of Kichmouil, Ky., who s^xaks a.s if 
he were in possession of very complete written fam- 
ily records.'* lie is a descendant of Susannah 
AA'oods by her husband Daniel Miller. (Facsimiles 
of the original signatures of both Susannah and 
Daniel can be fouud in Appendix F, which see.) 

When Colonel John AVoods wrote his will a few 
weeks before his death (17U1) he named his sons 
James and Michael as his e.xecutoi"S. He mentions 
James first; and this fact would, as a rule, indicate 
that he was the older of the two brothers. It is cer- 
tain, however, that James migrated from Albe- 
marble to Kentucky a few years after his father 
died, and before the estate was fully settled up. 
The receipts from legatees of Colonel Woods for 
payments of their respective shares of his estate 
taken in 171(2 and 1793 began thus: "Eeceived of 
James Woods and Michael Woods, executors," or 
in words to that effect; but in 1796 and 1797 we 
find several of these receipts of the legatees men- 
tion Michael and omit all allusion to James as 
executor. Of course, as James was, in law, one of 
the executors even after he had migrated to Ken- 
tucky, there would have been no impropriety, in re- 
ceipting for a legacy, to mention him as one of the 
executors from whom the money came ; but the ab- 
sence of Jsmies would no doubt cause nmny persons 
to make their receipts read "from ^lichael Woods," 
as he was the only one of the two executors then in 
Virginia. Besides, James, after settling in Ken- 
tucky, doxibtless paid one or more visits to his old 
Virginia home while his father's estate was being 
settled Tip, and while in Virginia on these visits 
may have receipted in person for legacies paid out 
by himself and ^lichael. 

According to various authorities James married 
Mary Garland, a daughter of James Garland, of 
North Garden, AUiemarle County, Virginia. She 
is said to have been born October 13, 1760, and to 



have married James Woods February 25, 1779. At 
that date James wa.s about thirty-six years of age, 
and Mary was not nineteen. In the year 1795, or 
1796, James Woods moved to what is now Garrard 
Countj-, Kentucky. Of the thirteen children born 
to this couple it is next to certain that all but the 
last tiiree or four were born in Albemarle County, 
Virginia. Mary, wife of James AVoods, died iu 
Garrard County, Kentucky-, in 1835, and was 
buried near what is called the "Hanging Eock" in 
that county. James A\'oods was, according to Dr. 
Edgar AA'oods and other reliable authorities, an 
officer iu the Revolutionary Army ; but the rank he 
held and the command he served with are unknown 
to the writer. Some of his descendants have posi- 
tively stated that he was Colonel of the Twelfth 
A'irginia Regiment, but this is uuqtiestionably a 
mistake. The commander of that regiment was a 
Colonel James Woods (his surname having no s in 
it), who was afterwards Governor of Virginia. The 
writer speaks i>ositively on this point becau.se his 
great grandfather ( who \\as an officer in that regi- 
ment ) , Avhen, in 1818, he applied for a pension, had 
his claim delayed .several years because he 
thoughtlessly added the letter s to the name of his 
Colonel, making it "Woods," instead of Wood. This 
was all stated under oath, and the official records 
of the case (case of Samuel "\A'oods of Mercer Coun- 
ty, Kentucky, who was pensioned in 1823, and died 
in 1826) are on tile in the Pension Office at Wash- 
ington, and can be obtained for a small payment by 
any one who cares to have them. A\'hen James 
moved to Kentucky he was a man of about fifty- 
three and the father of nine or ten children, the 
eldest of whom was about fifteen years of age. 
This was a Presbyterian family, and all of the 
thirteen children were baptized in infancy. James 
A'S'oods's deatii occurred in 1823, tAvelve years prior 
to that of his wife. Herewith a list of their chil- 
dren is given, as kindly furnished to the author of 
this work by Mrs. Jane Harris Rogers, of Lexing- 
ton, Kentucky, who is their great granddaughter: 
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was JoHX^ who was boi-u February 1'5, 17SU. Of 
his liistoi-y the writer kuows uotliiui;. 

(h) Tlie seeiiiid child of -laiiu's an<l Mary was 
Maisy^ who was horn January G, 1782. 

(c) The tliird ehiltl of James and .Mary was 
Jami;s Oaulami, who was hoi-n April 1'3, 1783. 
Allusion to this son is made in an old letter dated 
at Columbia, kSouth Carolina, January 25, 1825, 
signed by his younger brother, Nathaniel ^^'oods, 
and addressed to Michael WoikIs (then living in 
Nelson County, ^'irginia), the brother of James 
and son of Cidonel John \\'oods. In this letter the 
said Nathaniel Woods si)eaks of "brother James 
AVoods," for whom a sum of mone}- had been left in 
the hands of Michael Woods, and the letter in ques- 
tion is an order to ^lichael to send it to Nathaniel 
either by "Cousin John Miller" or one Samuel 
Blain. February- 25, 1825, Samuel Blaiu writes a 
receipt to ^lichael Woods for |580.50 which one 
John INlurrel of Kentucky had deposited with said 
Michael for either James Garland Woods, or Na- 
thaniel A\'oods. Of Nathaniel, Avho >vas the young- 
est child (if James and 3Iary, we shall speak pres- 
ently. 

James Garland ^^'oods was made an Elder of 
I'aint Lick Church in 1820, and his son, Kice Gar- 
laud Woods, in 1855. Mr. Kice G. Woods died a few 
years ago. The writer understands that it was a 
daughter of his who married Mr. Ed ^^'alker, of 
Paint Lick. 

(d) The fourth child of James and Mary was 
AN'iLLiAM, who was born May 9, 1781, of whom we 
know nothing more. 

(e) The fifth child of James and Mary was 
named Sauah^ and all we know of her is the date 
of her birth, Janiiary 1, 178G. 

(f) The sixth child of James and Mary was 
named Andekson, born January 18, 1788. He was 
baptized in Albemarle County, Virginia, by the 
Kev. A\'illiam Irvine, pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church, to which the Woodses belonged. He re- 
moved to Kentucky with his parents in 1796. In 
1823, he moved to Boone County, Missouri. He 
died at Paris, Missouri, October 22, 18-11. He mar- 



ril^d Elizabeth Harris May 4, 1809, the ceremony 
being performed in :Madison County, Kentucky, by 
the Kev. I'eter \\'oo(ls, his cousin. She died October 
13, 18(18, aged seventy-seven years. Anderson and 
Elizabeth had a sou named James Harris \\'oods, 
born in .Madison County, Kentucky, January 24, 
1810; baptized August, 1837; and died in Columbia, 
Missouri, January 11, 1845. His wife was Miss 
Martha Jane Stone, who was Ixirn in .Madison 
County, Kentucky, August 7, 1815. Their mar- 
riage occui-red Jlay 28, 1835, in Boone County, 
Missouri. She died in Nebraska City, Nebraska, 
March 17, 1868. She was baptized in August, 1837. 
William Stone Woods, who is now (1904 ) a banker 
in Kansas City, Mis.souri, is the son of James Har- 
ris A\'oods and Martha Jane Stone. ( See sketch of 
\A'iIliam Stone Woods in Part III of this volume.) 

(g) The seventh child of James and Mary was 
named Susan.xaii. Her father's mother's maiden 
name was Susannah .Vnderson, and her father's 
youngest sister, who married Daniel Miller, was 
named Susannah. She was born September 1, 
1789. 

(h) The eighth child of James and Mary was 
named Kice, and was born November 6^ 1790. It 
is said that Rice Woods (son of James and Mary) 
died early in life. 

(j) The ninth child of James and Mary was 
Michael, who was born January 5, 1792. The 
number of A\'oodses who bore this name is so great 
that it would be bewildering to attempt to enume- 
rate and distinguish them, and show how they were 
related. Like his brotlier .Anderson, he is said to 
have moved to Missouri. 

(k) The tenth child of James and Mary was 
named ^Iauy Rice, who was liorn September 24, 
1795, in Albemarle County. She was probably the 
last of the children born prior to the migration of 
the family to Kentucky, as that move took place not 
later than the summer of 1796. She was married 
to Overton Harris in Garrard County, Kentucky, 
December 1, 1814. In the fall of 1817 she moved 
with her husband to Missouri, where she .spent the 
remainder of her long and useful life. Her bus- 



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band died in 1844, ami she survived him thirty-tAvo 
years, dying August 31, 187G, when she liad nearly 
completed her eighty-tirst year. 8he left seven 
children, as follows: 1, John AN'oods Hai'ris, who 
married Ann Mary ^IcClure; 2, James Harris, who 
married 8abra Jackson ; 3, ilartha Rylaud Harris, 
who married John Mills Maupin ; 4, William An- 
derson Harris, who married Elizabeth Robuett; 5, 
Sarah Elizabeth Harris, who married George 
Hunt ; G, Maiy Frances Harris, who mari-ied Thom- 
as Berry Harris; and, 7, Overton Michael Harris, 
who married Amanda Wood. (For fuller account 
of Mary Rice 'N'N'ockIs and Overton Harris, and oth- 
er connections and descendants, the reader is re- 
ferred to the sketches of Mrs. Jane H. Rogers, and 
Mrs. Mary F. Harris in Part III of this volume.) 

(1) The eleventh child of James and Mary was 
named Elizabeth^ who was born in Garrard Coun- 
ty, Kentucky, beyond reasonable doubt, June 7, 
1798. 

(m) The twelfth child of James and Mary Avas 
named Frances^ who was born in Garrard County, 
Kentucky, April 2G, 1800. She was married to 
William Slavin October 14, 1817, and moved with 
him to Missouri, settling in 1823 in what is known 
as the Bonne Femme neighborhood in Boone Coun- 
ty. She bore to her husband six daughters and a 
son, and died February 11, 1836. (For additional 
particulars in regard to this branch of the Woods's 
the reader is referred to the sketch of Mrs. George 
B. Macfarlaue in Part III of this volume.) 

(n) The thirteenth and last child of James 
Woods and his wife, Mar}- Garland, was named 
Nathaniel^ who was born August 27, 1803. The 
only incident in his life known to the writer is the 
one referred to on a previous page in dealing with 
the life of his older brother, James Garland Woods, 
to wit: his being in Columbia, South Carolina, early 
in the year 1825. An order which he penned at 
that time was addressed to his uncle, Michael 
Woods, of Nelson County, Virginia, for a sum of 
money to be paid either to himself or his brother 
James, and which was to be conveyed to him by his 
cousin John Miller. This cousin was the distin- 



guished General John Miller of the Federal Army, 
who fell, mortally wounded, at the Battle of Rich- 
mond, Kentucky, in August, 1862. Nothing else is 
known of him by the writer. Nathaniel was prob- 
ably in South Carolina, selling mules and purchas- 
ing negroes, one or both, as was commonly done in 
those days. The old pioneers' road from Central 
Kentucky to Tennessee and the Carolinas by way 
of Cumberland Gap had been put in fair condition 
by the State of Kentucky, and was the great high- 
way between the regions referred to. Nathaniel 
was only twenty-two years of age when he made the 
trip to Carolina. There were several families of 
Woodses then living in both the Carolinas, blood- 
kin of the Kentucky T^oodses, au<l he may have 
been visiting them. 

James Woods, son of Colonel John Woods, as 
stated before, died in Garrard County, Kentucky, 
in 1823, at the ripe age of eighty, if the author's 
contention as to the date of his birth (1743) be 
granted; or seventy-iive, if the year 1748 be correct. 
He and his children and their descendants have 
for three-tjuarters of a century been a tower of 
strengih in Garrard County, and especially as re- 
s^jects the Paint Lick Presbyterian Church. They 
are among its main supporters to this day, and the 
community which they have had so much to do with 
developing and adorning is one of the most attract- 
ive and intelligent in all the Blue Grass region. 

II. — According to the author's' calculations and 
surmises, based upon what he considers reasonable 
grounds, the second child of Colonel John Woods 
and Susannah Anderson was MARY WOODS. The 
exact year of her birth is not certainly known, but 
it is believed to have been about the year 1744. 
Tlie writer has fully presented, in the sections de- 
voted to her brother James, and her father Colonel 
John Woods, the reasons which constrain him to 
assign a date for the marriage of her parents five 
years earlier than that which some of the chroni- 
clers of her family have fixed upon — 1742, instead 
of 1747 — and the discussion of that question need 
not be here repeated. Of JMary's life we know but 
little. Her father, Colonel John Woods, as the priu- 



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cipal executor of his father, often called upon her 
and her brother James to witness to receipts he 
took from the legatees of his father's estate, and 
other persons. Fac-similes of her signature are 
given in Appendix F as she \vrot« it one hundred 
and thirty-seven years ago, for the entertainment 
of all who care to see just what soi't of a scribe 
Miss Mary was. ^Ve know that she Avas not con- 
tent to be Miss Woods always, and that she tlnallj- 
married a John Eeid. Under date of "November 
ye 20, 17D3," John IJeid gives a receipt to the execu- 
tors of Colonel John Woods for the amount left his 
A\ife Mary by her father. Just how long she had 
been the wife of John Keid at that date the writer 
has no means of knowing, but she was then a wo- 
man of about fortA'-nine years. The writer regrets 
that he has no further information in regard to her 
or any children she may have had. 

III.— MICHAEL WOODS, The Third, son 
of Colonel John Woods and Susannah An- 
derson, was born, as we have good reasons 
for believing, about the year 174:0, in Albe- 
nuirle County^, Virginia. His wife was a 
Miss Esther Caruthers, of Kockbridge County, 
Virginia. She is by some called "Hettie," which 
was, no doubt, a sort of pet-name for Esther. He 
lived on Ivy Creek, Albemarle County, till about 
the year 1800. when he moved southward into that 
portion of Albemarle which, in the year 1807, was 
made the County of Xelson. Here he spent the last 
twenty-five years of his life. In 1791 his father 
died, an<l he and his brother James were made his 
executors. The greater part of the transactions 
connected with the settlement of his father's estate 
seems to have fallen to him, as his brother James 
migrated to Kentucky in the fall of 1795, or the 
spring of 1796. He made his will the 22nd of Feb- 
ruary, 182.">. In it he mentioned the following per- 
sons, to wit: 1, his son John Woods; 2, his son 
James Woods; 3, his son Samuel Woods; 4, his son 
William Woods; 5, his son Michael Woods; 6, his 
daughter Susan Massie; 7, liis daughter ^fary Bar- 
clay; 8, his daughter Jane Woods; 9, his wife Es- 
ther Woods; 10, his friend and son-in-law Nathan- 



iel Massie to be the guardian of his son Micliael. 
He made the said .Massie, and his sons James and 
John \\'oods (weculiirs, and his w ife executrix. The 
witnesses to his will were Sp. (Jarland, James 
Koyd, and James Keid. Micliael seems to have died 
the year after his will was made. He was evident- 
ly a, successful business man, and left a good estate 
to his family. He was a Presbyterian; and he be- 
lieved in giving his children good educations. He 
left five sons and three daughters. They will be 
mentioned here in the order in whicli they are 
given b}' Mr. Julian \\'atson \>'oods, of Mississippi, 
who is well informed in regard to this branch of 
the Woodses. We copy from his list of the children 
of Michael A\'oods and his wife Esther Caruthers, 
as follows : 

(a) James Micii.vel, who married his cousin 
Margaret Caruthers, of Kockbridge County, Vir- 
ginia, and died in 1850 or 1851 near Liberty, Bed- 
ford County, Va., leaving the following children: 
1, Susan Elizabeth, who married James W. Clark, 
of ^'irginia, and died young, leaving one daughter 
A\ho is now living in Fluvanna County, Yn. ; 2, 
Michael James, born in 1839, who, after serving in 
the Confederate Army, settled in North Missis- 
sipi)i, where he married a Mrs. Uiljler, and, later, 
a Miss Mary Butts, who bore him a son and daugh- 
ter. He died years ago in East Las Vegas, 
Mexico, where his widow and children still reside; 
3, John ^A'illiam, born about 1841, who never mar- 
ried, and settled in Hernando, Miss., where he was 
killed in a negro riot in 1870. 

(b) John Carutiieks, who married a Miss Da- 
vis, of Virginia, moved to Missouri in 1839, leaving 
the following children : 1, "\Mlliam, who lives in 
Kansas City, Mo. ; aud 2, a, daughter, Mrs. N. B. 
Langsford, of Waxahatchie, Texas. 

(c) Samuel Caruthers. Avho married Sarah 
Bhodes of Nelson (_\iunty, ^'a., moved to ^lissouri 
in 1839, and there died in 1800 or 1S()7. He left a 
son, .M. A\'oods, who resides at Eldorado Springs, 
Cedar County, Mo. 

(d) WiLLiAjr MoFFETT, who was born Afarch 27. 
1808, and died May 25, 1802. His wife was Louisa 



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Elizabeth Dabuey, whom lie married October i, 
1837. t?he died Juue 29, 1843. They had the fol- 
lowiug eliildreu : 1, Heuoria Dabney Woods, born 
August 2^ 1838, aud died xVpril 5, 1800; 2, Julian 
Watson Woods, A\'ho was boru May 15, 1840. \\'il- 
liaui Moffett A>'oods after the death of his first wife 
(iu 1843) uuirried Martha J. Scott, Avho was born 
April 20, 1814, aud died March 7, 1872, leaving- six- 
children as follows : 3, Mary Louisa, born Febru- 
ary 10, 1849, and died February 20, 1800 ; 4, Daniel 
Scott, boru April 25, 1850, and died April 5, 1800; 
5, Fannie LanghoTU, born September 18, 1851, and 
died June 30, 1888; 0, Nannie Scott, born January 
23, 1853, married C. L. AVaguon November 24, 
1880; 7, William Moffett, Jr., born Juue 8, 1850, 
and died January 10, 1888 ; 8, Susan Massie, born 
March 10, 1859, and died August 10, 1892. ^^•il- 
liam Moffett Woods, the father of the children just 
enumerated, resided at his father's old home in 
Nelson County until 1854, when he moved to Buck- 
ingham County, Va., where he died in May, 1802, 
aged fifty-four years. 

(e) Michael Woods^ Jr., son of Michael and 
Esther, died when about twenty-oue years old. 

(f) Susan Woous^ daughter of Michael aud 
Esther, married Nathan Massie of Nelson County, 
Xa. She died young, leaving four children: 1, 
Nathaniel Hardin, who is a prominent lawyer of 
Charlottesville, Va., born about 1820, who has been 
twice married, and has three sons and a daughter 
by his last wife, Miss Eliza Nelson; 2, James 
^^'oods, who fl-as a lawyer in Lexington, Va.;^ and 
left one son ; 3, Mary, who married J. Bailey Moon, 
and left a son, the Hon. John B. Moon, of Char- 
lottesville, Va. ; 4, Esther, who married Colonel 
William Patrick, of Augusta County, Va. 

(g) Mary Woods, who married Hugh Barclay, 
of L^iugton, Va., and died in 1855, leaviug four 
sons, to wit : 1, John W. Barclay, Lexington, Va. ; 
2, Dr. INIichael W. Barclay, who moved to Ken- 
tucky, and married his cousin Susan Miller, a 
daughter of General John jMiller, and died iu 1858, 
leaving several children. 

(h) Jane Woods, daughter of ^Michael and 



Esther, married William Hardy, and settled iu 
Missouri, ^he died young, leaving two daughters, 
both of whom died unmarried. 

I^^— SUITA WOODS was, as we suppose, the 
fourth child of Colonel John ^\'oods and Susannah 
Anderson, and we believe she was born about the 
year 1752. She is menti(jned iu her father's will, 
where her name is "Suta," but in one place iu an 
original document she spells her name Suit \Voods 
(in 1792), and we conclude that her full name was 
Suita. She was unnmrried on the 19th of Septem- 
l)er, 1792, but May 13, 1797, we find Samuel Reid 
(whom she had married) giving a receipt to her 
Inother Michael for the amount of her legacy from 
her father Colonel John Woods, deceased, and in 
this receipt Samued Reid refers to her as "Sute, 
my ^^•ife." So it seems her relatives varied her 
name as they deemed most suitable. Samuel and 
Suita moved to Kentucky aud were the progenitors 
of a large connectiou iu Garrard and Lincoln 
Counties. 

v.— SARAH WOODS, whom we have concluded 
to have been the fifth child of Colonel John AVoods 
aud Susannah Anderson, was born 1757 and died 
in 1770. Of this daughter the writer knows noth- 
ing beyond the dates of her birth and death, which 
he copied from her tombstone in the Blair Park 
burial ground some years ago. 

VI.— ANNA WOODS was, as we believe, the sixth 
child of Colonel John AA'oods and Susannah Ander- 
son, and she was probably born about the year 
1700. Her Christian name is spelled by some per- 
sons "Ann," and by some others "Anne," but her 
father, in his will, gives it "Anna." She married 
John N. Reid some time prior to AugTist, 1790, as 
we find hiuL receipting to her father's executors at 
that date for money he had received for her. She 
surviA^ed her husband, and some time after his 
death she married one of the numberless William 
Woodses, who was her cousin. Of her further his- 
tory the writer knows nothing whatever. It seems 
the Reids were in high favor with the Woods girls, 
for three of Colonel John Woods's daughters mar- 
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Samuel, aud Anna niarrjinj;- John N. These men 
were probably not ri'sidents of Albemarle County, 
Va., as Dr. Edjiar AVouds, in his llislory of Albe- 
marle County, fails to refer to them as sueli. 

VII. — lOlIN WOODS, .TK., was i)rol)ably tlie 
seventh rliild of < 'obinel John Woods and Susiuinah 
Anderson. .VU we know of iiini lias been gotten 
from his tonilistone at 151air I'ark, which shows he 
was born in 17ti3, and died the year following. 

Vlll.— SUSANNAH WOODS was probaldy the 
eighth and certainly the last child of Colonel John 
^^'oods and Susannah Anderson. The date of her 
birth is given as September 21, 17(58, by Mr. W. H. 
Miller, of Ivichmond, Kentucky, one of her grand- 
sons. From the manner in which Colonel Woods 
provided for Susauuaii in his will we infer that she 
was a great favorite with him. Her name is found 
appended to a number of receipts in 1792 and lld'A, 
she being single, but other receipts of 1797 shcjw 
that she had by that time become the wife of Dan- 
iel Miller (see facsimile in Appi ndix l", showing 
her signature). Mr. AV. H. Miller, her grandsoa, 
gives Nelson County, Va., as the place of her birth, 
but that county had no existence until 1807, and 
Nelson A\as carved out of .Vmherst County, which 
was carved out of Albenmrle in 1701. AVe know of 
no reason for su^jposing her widowed mother ever 
moved from Albemarle. Susannah's brother Mich- 
ael moved to whiit is now Nelson County, but not 
until j-ears after his sister Susannah had married 
Daniel Miller and moved to Madison County, Ken- 
tucky. Susannah was married to Daniel Miller — ■ 
according to the statement of Mr. ^^^ 11. 31iller, of 
Kichmond, Ky., November 28, 1792 ; but the writer 
has in his possession an original receipt which she 
signed November 2G, 1793, and in which she wrote 
her name "Susannah Woods." Her marriage oc- 
curred only a day or two, perhaps, after that re- 
ceipt was given, however. Daniel ililler, accord- 
ing to his grandson above mentioned, was one of 
nine children. His brothers were John and Thom- 
as, and his sisters were Annie, Betsy, Jennie, Su- 
sannah, Polly and Sallie. He was born in Albe- 
marle County, Va., May 28, 1764. A few years 



after his marriage to Susannah Woods he moved to 
Kentucky, and settled on Drowning Creek in Madi- 
son County. The last receipt of his given in the old 
account book iu)w in the writer's possession bears 
date October 5, 1797, and he was then, most prob- 
ably, in Albemarle County, Virginia, whether as a 
visitor or a resident we cannot attirm. Susannah 
died at the Miller home on Drowning Creek 
August 13, 1832, in her sixty-fourth year. Her hus- 
band survived her nearly nine years, dying April 
23, 1841. The bodies of both Daniel aud Susanuali 
were at first buried on the old Miller place, but 
now repose in the beautiful Kichmond (Kentucky) 
Cemetery, their graves being marked by tomb- 
stones. 

Daniel Miller aud Susannah AA'oods left ten 
children, a list of Avhom, with many particulars, 
the author has here copied from the pamphlet of 
Mr. ^y. H. Miller, of Kichmond, Kentucky. 

(a) I'OLLY Miller^ first child of Daniel and Su- 
sannah, was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, 
Octoix r 19, 1794. She was taken ill while her par- 
ents ^^'ere traveling to Kentucky and died on the 
way. The date of her death is given by Mr. W. H. 
Miller as May 24, 1795. Of course Daniel Miller 
may have been in Albemarle merely on a visit when 
he gave the receipt previously mentioned as bear- 
ing date October 5, 1797, but it would hardly seem 
likely that he would make that long and tedious 
journey in 1797 if he had just come out ^Vest in 
1795. But Mr. W^ H. Miller gives his dates as if 
he \vere copying from family records, and we ac- 
cept them, not, howe\'er, without some fear lest 
copyists may have made soine unintentional mis- 
takes in the figures. 

(b) Robert Miller, second child of Daniel aud 
Susannah, was born June 22, 179G. In 1822 he mar- 
ried Sarah ilurrel, by whom he had five children : 
1, Susan, who married Frank Lee; 2, Lizzie, who 
married Frank Lee; 3, ^laggie, who married George 
Griffin; 4, George; and 5, Kobert. His seccmd wife 
was ^lary Craig; and his third wife was Mrs. Betsy 
(Jriffin, a widow. He died of cholera in 1873. 

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Susaunali, was born iu Madisou County, Ky., June 
30, 1798. His wife was Elizabeth Gootlloe, by 
whom he had ten children: 1, ^Susan G., who mar- 
ried Mike Barclay; 2, 8arah \V., who married Da- 
vid Goodloe; 3, Margaret S.. who married Edmund 
H. Buruham ; 4 and 5, William G. and Daniel, who 
were twins, the former dying of chcdera in 1849, 
and tlie latter in early infancy; (i, Bettie, who mar- 
ried AVilliam Henton ; 7, Mary, who married 
Charles Stephens; 8, John; 9, Lucy, and 10, Oc- 
tavia. John Miller rose to prominence in Kentucky 
and early iu the Civil War was made a Brigadier 
General by the Federal Government. At the Bat- 
tle of Kichmoud, Kentucky, while endeavoring to 
rally his disordered columns (August 31, 18G2) he 
received a fatal wound near Mount Zion Church, 
from the effect of which he died September 0, 18G2. 
His remains repose in the cemetery at Kichmond, 
Kentucky, and a monument marks his grave. 

(d) James Miller^ who was the fourth child 
of Daniel and Susannah, was born in Madison 
County, Ky., August 3, 1800. He married Frances 
Harris, and died May 2, 1809. Nine children were 
born to James and Frances, to Avit: 1, Christo- 
pher; 2, Daniel; 3, Margaret Susan, who married 
Dr. Wra. Pettus; 4, Malinda, who married a Mr. 
Butler, and then, after his death, a .Mr. Leo Ha- 
den; 5, John H., who married a Mrs. Angeline 
Brown Harris; 6, Fannie; 7, James, who marrietl 
Gertrude Pettus, and then, aft^n- her death, Miss 
Susan Chenault; 8, Bettie, who married Dudley 
Portwood; and 9, William Harris, who married 
Kate Partman. 

(e) Elizabeth Miller^ the fifth child of Daniel 
and Susannah, w^as bom in Madison County, Ky., 
March 28, 1802, and lived only about seventeen 
months. 

(f) Susannah Miller, who was the sixth child 
of Daniel and Susannah, Avas born in Madison 
County, Ky., March 26, 1804. She married Stan- 
ton Hume the 30th day of October, 1821, by whom 
she had five children, to wit : 1, Julia Anderson, 
who married Thomas Stanhope Ellis; 2, ilargarct 
Miller Hume, who died in December, 1829 ; 3, Su- 



san Jane, who married John H. Embry ; 4, William 
Stanton, who married Eugenia Buniham; and 5, 
Mary Louise, who married Thonms McKoberts. Mr. 
Hume died February 13, 1853, and Susannah mar- 
ried Kev. Allen Embry, a Baptist minister. She 
died November 11, 1871. 

(g) Margaret Miller^ who was the seventh 
child of Daniel and Susannah, was born December 
29, 1805. On the 9th of February, 182G, she was 
married to Ednnmd L. Shackelford, by whom she 
had eight children, to wit : 1, Martha Hockaday ; 
2, Mary Juliette; 3, Susan Frances, who marritnl 
Sidney V. Rowland; 4, William Henry; 5, a son, 
whose name is unknown ; G, Edmund Lyne; 7, Mar- 
garet, who married Robert Hann; and 8, Juliette 
Malinda. 

(h) Malinda Miller, the eighth child of Daniel 
and Susannah, was born January 15, 1808. She 
was married to John H. Shackelford December IG, 
1830, by whom she had two sons, to Avit: 1, George 
Daniel, Avho mari'ied Ruth Wartield, and, after her 
death, Lizzie SAveeney. In Aug-ust, 1870, he Avas 
elected clerk of the jNIadison County Court, Avhich 
office he held until his death in 1874 ; 2, James 
Shackelford, second child of John H. and Malinda, 
married Mavy Bates, and later on, she dying, he 
married JMiss Mary Keene. He is now a leading 
and prosperous hardware merchant in Richmond, 
Kentucky. 

(j) Thomas Woods Miller^ the ninth son of 
Daniel and Susannah, Avas born in Madison Coun- 
ty, Ky., December 3, 1811. He married Mary Jane 
Hocker June 1, 1841. But one child Avas born of 
this couple, namely, Malinda, who married John 
Samuel Owsley. In 1882 Mr. Thomas ^y. Miller 
was residing in Stanford, Ky., and Avas the only 
surviving child of Daniel and Susannah Miller, 
and in his seventy-first year. 

(k) Christopher Irvine Miller, the tenth and 
last child of Daniel and Susannah, Avas born De- 
cember 20, 1813, at the home of his parents in Mad- 
ison County, Ky. He married Miss Talitha Harris 
September 1, 183G, and died October 14, 1878. His 
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(Iren were the fruit of this union, uaniely : 1, Sarali 
Waliiice, who was born June 7, 1837, and married 
Stanton Ilunie Thoriie, l).v wIkiui slie liad ten rhil- 
dren ; 2, Kobert David, wlio was born ^larch 4, 
1839, served in the Confederate Army, and mar- 
ried Susan J. Barnett, by whom lie has had seven 
(luldi'en; 3, James Christopher, wlio was born 
September 3, 1841, joined the Confederate Anny in 
1862, and married Mrs. Elizabetli S. Rayburn, by 
wlioni he liad four eliildren; 4, Jnlm Thomas, who 
was I)orn August 19, 1844, and married Anice El- 
kin, by whom he has had four children; 5, a son who 
was born October 20, 1844. and lived only a few 
weeks; fi, Christoiiher Irvine, who was born April 
18, 1848, and was for several years a merchant at 
Richmond, Ky. ; 7, Susan Woods, who was born 
Aupist 2, 18.">0, and married Thomas Richard 
Hume, by whom she has had four children; 8, Wil- 
liam Harris (the " author of the valuable little 
]>amphlet published in 1882, from wliicli most of 
the information in this work concernins? the Millers 
was obtained), who was born October 22, 1852, who 
has held various important offices in ^ladison 
County, Ky., for a long series of years, and who, 
whilst taking much commendable interest in the 
liistory of the numerous branches of the ;^^iller fam- 
ily, does not seem to have had a wife and family of 
his own up to the time he became the clironicler 
of the ^fillers; 9, ^lary Eliza, who was born Jan- 
uary 29, 1855; 10, Mike Woods, who was born Feb- 
ruary 13, 1857; and 11, Elizabeth Frances, who 
was born July 15, 1804, and who married Junius 
Rurnham Park May 8, 1882. 

From the foregoing sketches it will be seen that 
Colonel John Woods of Albemarle County, Va., 
contributed no little to the development of Ken- 
tucky, three of his children having migrated thith- 
ei more than a century ago : his son James, who set- 
tled in Garrard County; his daughter Suita (wife 
of Samuel Reid) whose children lived in Garrard 
and Lincoln; and his daughter Susannah, wif(> of 
Daniel ^lillcr, who settled in ^fadison County, 
The same is true as respects several of his brothei's 
and sisters. Of the notable pai*t played by Mich- 



ael ^^'oods of Blair Park, through his grandchil- 
dren and great grandcliildren, in tlie early settle- 
ment and development of the Kentucky Common- 
wealth we shall have occasion to speiUc at the close 
of this chapter. It is, in fact, a wonderful story, 
and one of which the descendants of Michael 
A\'(K)ds may justly feel jtroud. 

F— MARGARET WOODS. 

The si.\tli child of Michael of Blair Park and 
his wife Mary Camplicll is ])eliev('d to have been 
Margaret, and she was probably born in Ireland 
about the year 1714. If so, she was a little girl of 
ten summers when the Woodses and \Vallaces mi- 
grated to North America. Her Aunt Elizabeth, as 
we have already seen, was the widow of Peter Wal- 
lace, and brought along with her to America the 
six children she had borne to her husband ere he 
passed away. Among the six AVallace children 
was a son named Andrew, Avho was jn-obably twelve 
years old at the time of this migration. It seems 
most probable that Andrew Wallace married Mar- 
garet Woods (his first cousin), shortly before the 
A\'oodses nuived down into Virginia — say, in 1733 — 
and accompanied his father-in-law to the eastern 
foot of the Blue Ridge and settled Tiear him in 
what was then the County of Goochland (now Al- 
bemarle). ^\e know that Andrew AA'allace lived 
near what is now Ivy De]iot, on part of the 2,000 
acre tract whicli ^Michacd Woods purchased of 
Charles Hudson in 1737, the original deed for 
which is now in tlie i>ossession of the present 
writer. We also know that she bore to her husband 
eight children. Her death may have occurred about 
1754, when she was foi-ty years old. If she died 
about that timelier children's ages probably ranged 
from two years up to twenty years. Andrew ^^'al- 
lace was probably a man of forty-two when left a 
widower with a house full of children, not more 
than one or two, if any, of them being then married. 
A\'e know not whether Andrew remarried after 
^largarefs death, but we do know that but a single 
one of his eight children remained in Albemarle. 
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^ye incline to the opinion tliat one of the sons 
(Michael) moved to Pennsylvania, where his par- 
ents had lived for ten years (from 172-1: to 1T31), 
and that he settled about Carlisle, and that from 
him the distinguished soldier and man of letters, 
;Maj()r-Geueral Lew Wallace, has descended. For 
further particulars see Chapter Second of Part L 
of this volume which is devoted to the Wallaces. 
(See Note 75 for an item in regard to Andrew Wal- 
lace.) Andrew Wallace died in Albemarle in 1785. 

G— RICHARD WOODS. 

Believiug, as we do, that Richard was one of the 
sons of Michael Woods of Blair Park, we have reck- 
oned that he was born in Ireland about the year 
1715, and hence was a boy nine years old when the 
family came to Pennsylvania, and nineteen when 
the Woodses moved to Tiriiinia. When Richard 
came to full maturity — say about 1740 to 1750 — 
he had a goodly number of near kinsfolk lining in 
the Great Valley, not far away, in what is now 
Rockbridge County (then Augusta County). The 
McDowells, Wallaces and Lapsleys were his blood 
relations. Three of his own dear sisters were there. 
This, and the fact that the region in which they 
lived was itself an inviting one, was a rational in- 
ducement. Possibly he found a sweetheart over 
there while visiting his kinsfolk. Of Richard's 
wife Jean (or Jenny, or Janet) we find mention in 
his will, nmde in 1777. We have no means of know- 
ing her surname. She probaldy survived him, for 
she was alive when he wrote his will. Botetourt 
County, wlien created in 17t>0, embraced the region 
in which he lived, and he was that county's first 
High Sheriff. lie died in 1779, leaving two 
children: a son named Samuel, and another 
named Benjamin. There was a Richard Womls, a 
man of importance, who resided for many years in 
Augiista C(umty, and then moved to Albemarle. 
His second wife was Elizabeth Ann Stuart (or Bet- 
sy Stuart), a sister to Col. John Stuart of Green- 
brier County. He had four children, William, 
George Matthews, Richard (Jr.)*, and a daughter 
named Elizabeth, wlio married (ine James Brooks. 



Tills JUchard Woods died in 1801, and could not 
have been the son of ilichael Woods. His son, 
Richard, Jr., having the name of his father, and 
also of Michael Woods's S(m Richard, has doubtless 
often been confounded in the minds of many per- 
sons with one or the other Richard Woodses men- 
tioned. Richard Woods (died 17711) had a daugh- 
ter who nmrried a Ridiard Woods, possibly this 
Richard, Jr. The William Woods just mentioned, 
who was the son of tiie elder Albemarle Richard, 
was a surveyor by pi'ofessiou, and he was known as 
''Surveyor Billy Woods" in order to distinguish 
him from the multitudinous William Woodses in 
Albemarle. In the lengthy discussion on preceding 
pages of this Chapter Third, devoted to settling 
how man\ ihildren ilichael Woods of Blair Park 
really had, a good deal has been said about his son 
Richard which need not now be repeated. The dis- 
cussion on a previoiis page relating to the identity 
of the Sauuiel Woods who lived at Paint Lick 
Church. Garrard County, Kentucky, up to about 
1800, and then moved to Tennessee, with the son of 
Richard Woods of Rockbridge County, of the same 
name, may also be consulted by any one who wishes 
to consider that question. Richard Woods, who 
Avas the sou of ilichael of Blair Park, and the 
brother of Magdalen ilcDowell. Sarah Lapsley and 
Martha Wallace, died at his home near Lexington, 
Virginia, in 1779. and left a considerable estate to 
his wife, Jean ami his two sons, Benjamin and 
Samuel. In his will he did not mention the daugh- 
ter who bad married a man of his own name, which 
man may have been a son of the elder Richard 
Woods of Albemarle. Those sons, we know, sold 
their lands in 1783; and, according to the opinion 
of the late ^lajor A'arner of Lexington. Va.. they 
moved to Kentucky. If the Samuel Woods who 
lived at Paint Lick, Ky., from al>out 1783 to 1800, 
was not identical Avith Richard AVoods's son of 
that name, then we have no idea what became of 
this last mentioned Samuel Woods, of Rockbridge. 
H— ARCHIBALD WOODS. 
According to our best judgment Archibald was 
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MICHAEL WOODS OF BLAIli I'AIIK. 



Ill 



rainplii'll, and was probably l»oru in Iri'laiul about 
the year 171(5. One of his descendants, Jiidiic John 

^^'. ^\' is, of Koanoke, Viriiinia, in a letter to the 

writer dated ilareh, 11)00, <;ave it as his opinion 
that Archibald Woods (son of :Michael of Blair 
Park 1 "was born about 1710, or 1714." The slijiht- 
ly later date (1710) seems to fit somewhat better 
into the known conditions of the case. Archibald 
was one of the ohildreu of ilichael of Blair Park, 
about whose precise relation to the latter there has 
never been any (luestion, for ilichael exi)ressly re- 
fers to him as his son in his will made in 1701. 

The first mention we have of Arcliibald is found 
in a deed dated July 80, 1713, by which his father 
conveyed to him 400 acres of land on the beads of 
Ivy Treek and other branches of Xorth IJiver, 
which lan<l had been patented by ^lichael June 10, 
1737. Archibald was then, according to our cal- 
culation, twenty-seven years old, and had probably 
just been married. This year 1743, be it noted, was 
the one in which ^lichael conveyed a farm to each 
one of five of his children, namely: William, Mich- 
ael. Jr., John, Archibald, and William Wallace 
(the husband of his daughter Ilannah). Of his 
wife we only know that her Christian name was 
Isabella, and tlmt she bore her husband a consid- 
erable family of children. There is good reason 
for believing that she was born about the year 
1723. and that she married Archibald in 1743, 
wlu'u she was twenty years old and he was twenty- 
seven. When ^lichael of Blair Park made his will 
in November, 1701, lie referred to "son Archibald's 
son Michael" and honors this namesake by be- 
queathing to him his "great-coat." He also further 
alludes to Archibald in such manner as to make the 
impression that he wa« the father of a considerable 
family. The truth is, as we believe, Archibald and 
Isabella ]irobably had eight or nine children when 
^Michael made his will. From certain allusions to 
be found in receipts, which several of the legatees 
of old ilichael gave to his executors (James and 
John AA'oods) during tlu' years in wliich his estate 
was lieing settled up, it is clear that Archibald 
Woods had had a son to die, and that there was 



nuich uncertainty in the minds of all concerned as 
to whether the share of the estate to which that de- 
ceased grandson of old Micluud would have lieen 
entitled, ]iad he lived, should be treated as not hav- 
ing descended to him, or as the lawful property of 
that deceased grandson and subject to distribution 
among his lawful heirs. (See fac-similes, and 
cojdes of the Cobiiicl .lohii Woods papers in Ap- 
])endix F. i The ]ir(ibability is lliat this grandson 
was alive when Michael made his will, l)ut died be- 
fui-c his graiiilfather did. This wWl be better un- 
derstood by examining the c(!])y of old Micliael's 
will, to be seen on a foregoing ]iage, and nothing 
what he says about "each grandchild now in be- 
ing." 

In 17()7, Archibald ^^'(>o<ls, as appears from the 
Albemarle records, sold the farm whicii his father 
had conveyed to him twenty-four years Ijefore, but 
he does not .seem to have at once renounced his citi- 
zenship in Albemarle, for we find him mentioned in 
a deed made in Botetoui-t ('ounty and dated No- 
vember 12, 1771, as "of Albemarle County." This 
deed (on record at Fincastle) was from James, 
George and Bobert ^IcAfee, of Botetourt County, 
and conveyed to Archibald a ])lantation of four 
hundred acres of land lying on Catawba Creek (in 
what is now Koanoke County, Virginia). The place 
was known, and still is, as "Indian Camp." There 
the McAfees (who constitute the subject of Part 
Second of this volume) had lived since 174S; and 
when they sold this plantation to Archibald Woods 
they remained in the neighborhood, James McAfee, 
Sr., (the father of the five sons who helped to set- 
tle Kentucky, 1773-1779 ) , moving down Catawba 
Creek a few miles to a plantation within a mile of 
Avhat is known as Boauoke Bed Sulphur Springs. 
This Indian Camp place was the home of Archi- 
bald Woods until his death in 1783. It was right 
on the famous "A\ilderness Boad" which came up 
the Valley from the Potomac by Winchester, Stan- 
ton an<l Botetourt Court House, on to New Bivcr 
at Ingle's Ferry, and down through Snnlhwest Vir- 
ginia to r'umb(>rhuid (lap ami into Kt-ntucky. John 
Filscn (17S4), the first historian of Kentuckv, (in 



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the order of time) in his list of the stations of the 
Wilderness Koad,'" commencing at Philadel- 
phia and ending at the Falls of the Ohio, gives as 
part of the list, these items, to wit : 

"To Staunton, 15 [miles]. 

"To North Fork James River, 37 miles. 

"To Botetourt C. H., 12 miles. 

"To AA'oods (m Catawba, 21 miles. 

"To Paterson's on Roanoke, 9 miles. 

"To Allegheny Mountain, S miles. 

"To New River, 12 miles." 

This shows that the old ^fcAfee — Woods place 
on the Catawba — jMcAfee's from 1748 to 1771, 
and Woods's from 1771 to 1783 — was direct- 
ly on that well-known highway, and that 
it was a favorite stopping place for travellers pass- 
ing to and fro between the settleiuents in Pennsyl- 
vania, ^Maryland and Central Virginia on the one 
hand, and Southwestern Virginia, the Carolinas, 
Tennessee and Kentucky on the other. No doubt 
Daniel Boone and other famous hunters, explorers 
and pioneers often found shelter and hospitable en- 
tertainment at "Indian Camp" during the last half 
of the eighteenth centiiry. That historic old plao-e 
seems never to have passed from the possession of 
Anliibnld Woods's family, for it is today owned 
and occupied by his descendants, and two of them 
who are of the original promoters of this publica- 
tion (Judge John W. Woods and Hon James P. 
Woods, of Roanoke City, Va.) were born there. 
There are but few old liomesteads in America 
which have been in the possession of a single fam- 
ily without a break for a century and a third. The 
present writer ho])es he will be pardoned for cher- 
ishing a tender feeling towards "Indian Camp," 
not only because of its close connection with his 
Woods kin; but also because, for nearly a quarter 
of a century before they owned it, his McAfee an- 
cestors made their home there, they having bought 
it when New River — only twenty odd-miles distant 
— was the extreme Southwestern boundary of civil- 
ization. At tliis old honu> on the Catawba Archi- 
bald Woods died in 1783, the records at Fincastle 
showing that his personal effects were appraised 
December 2G, 1783. He died intestate. 



Allien we come to give a complete list of the 
children of Archibald Woods and his wife Isabella 
we are obliged to speak with some hesitation so far 
as concerns several of them; but so far as the re- 
searches of the author of this Avork have extended 
the conclusion which seems to be warranted is that 
they certainly had seven children, and most prob- 
ably three more, making ten in all. It is not pre- 
tended that the dates given in the following list and 
the order of the children's l»irtlis are anything more 
than reasonable guesses, in the main. 

I.— WILLIAM WOODS— Born 1744 (?). 
Died . 

II.— MRS. BRAZEAI.— BouN 1745 (?). Died 

III.— ISABELLA WOODS— Born 1747 (?). 

Died . 

IV.— JOHN AYOODS— Born 1748 (?). Died 
1840 (?). 

v.— MRS. COWAN— Born 1750 C?). Died 

VL— MRS. TRIMBLE— Born 1752 (?). Died 

VII.— JAMES WOODS— Born 1755 (?). Died 
1797 (?). 

VIIL— ARCHIBALD WOODS, JR.— Born 1757 
(?). Died . 

IX.— ANDREW WOODS— Born 17G0 ('?). 
Died . 

X.— JOSEPH WOODS.— Born 1763 (•.'). Died 
1832. 

I.— The first child of Archibald AVoods and his 
wife Isabella we shall mention, and who may have 
been their first-born, was WILLIAM WOODS. The 
date of his birth we incline to believe was about the 
year 1744. The first and only mention of him is 
found in a certain bond dated July 2, 17(i8, which 
his brother John Woods, then of Granville County, 
South Carolina, executed to his uncle. Colonel 
John Woods, executor of the estate of ilichael 
Woods of Blair Park, on receiving from him the 
legacies of William and Isabella Woods, son and 
daughter, respectively, of Archibald Woods. In 
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said to be "of South Carolina." A copy of the whole 
of this hoiul will be found in Appendix F, and also 
a fac-siniile of a portion of it. We have no means 
of knowiuij- when he and liis sister went to South 
Carolina, or what the inducement was, or whether 
either of them was ever married, or when or where 
thev died. The bond, whilst expressly stating that 
John Woods, one of the makers thereof, lived in 
Greenville Coxinty, South Carolina, fjives no hint 
as to what part of that colony William and Isa- 
bella lived in, but simply states they are "of South 
Carolina." The presnmption, however, would natur- 
ally be that they resided in the same county he did. 
The county of Granville long since ceased to exist 
in Sonth Carolina. In 1775, it constituted one of the 
twelve military districts which had been organ- 
ized in that colony for purposes of defense in the 
qnarrel with England; and it covered the territory 
now included in the two counties of Beaufort and 
Hampton. ^^ The adjoining colony on the north 
— North Carolina — also had a county called Gran- 
ville, which had been formed in 1746 out of Edge- 
combe County, and named in honor of Sir George 
Carteret (Lord Granville). North Carolina, how- 
ever, still has its Granville County, tliough its area 
has again and again been diminished ))y taking of 
its territory in order to form new counties. In 
1751 Orange County, North Carolina, was carved, 
in part, out of Granville, and here William Woods, 
of Ireland, the brother of Michael of Blair Park, 
and Elizabeth Wallace had settled. Whether he 
was ever a citizen of Virginia is nncertain. This 
William Woods, son of Archibald, was the great 
nephew of William of Ireland ; and his migrating 
from Albemarle Connty, Virginia, to a region far 
to the sonth of his childhood liome could be mncli 
more satisfactorily explained if it was Granville 
County, North Carolina, and not the county of that 
name in the sonthem colony, to which he and these 
other children of Archibald Woods went. There is 
something sni-prising and entirely inexplicable in 
their having gone away down on the Sonth Caro- 
lina coast close to the Georgia line. They had 
never lived in a low, swampy country like that, and 



we can imagine no reason for such a move. But if 
it was the Granville connty of the northern colony, 
we could understand it; for there they would not 
only have found a rolling country, a salnbrious cli- 
mat(> like that of Albemarle, and almost the identi- 
cal agricultural conditions and pi-odncts they had 
been familiar witli, but would luive settled in a 
community in which many of their near bloodkin 
wei'e living. Could it be possible that it was not 
the South Carolina we know to-day, but the 
South C.Trolina of loose, popular speecli which 
once was known in the early days of the Carolinas? 
The (luestion is: Was there ever a time when the 
region now embraced in the counties of Orange and 
Granville, in North Cnrolina, could have been prop- 
erly spoken of as a part of what is now 
South Carolina.?" Was there ever a period 
in the early days of Carolina when the 
Northern Province or Colony was not gen- 
erally nnderstood to include the backwoods re- 
gions two hundred miles inland? We know that 
as late as 1700, and probably much later, nothing 
was understood to be meant by the "Northern Prov- 
ince" except the strip of coast settlement which 
lay to the vnrfhrastt of Cape Fear. The very term 
"North Carolina," was unheard of, apparently, 
prior to 1691." The neighborhood in which Wil- 
liam Woods of Ireland settled was fully one 
hundred miles to the west of the territory which 
the Lords Proprietors of Carolina described as 
"our colony northeast of Cape Fear." It was 
probably Granville county when William Woods 
of Ireland went there first, bnt since 1751 it has 
been Orange county. If there was a time when the 
Northern Province did not inchide any territory 
which was not northeast of Cape Fear — and this 
no man can question — to what province or colony 
did the region where William of Ireland lived be- 
long? Certainly not to North Carolina. Of 
course there came a time when North Carolina 
became a Avell-delined colony as to its precise boun- 
daries, and when what is now Granville county 
was recognized by everybody as part of its terri- 
tory. But the question is: JFight not a plain 



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farmer, in writing a document in the year 1768, 
have spoken of the region which is now a part of 
North Carolina, under the name of South Carolina, 
without laving himself open to the charge of un- 
heard-of ignorance? These thoughts are present- 
ed merely to suggest a possible solution of a very 
puzzling question. The only other possible ex- 
planation is that John Woods, or the man who 
wrote the bond foi- him to sign, wholly through in- 
advertence, wrote the word "South" when he 
would have written "North" had he been thinking 
of what he was doing. The present writer can 
think of several good reasons why Archibald 
"Woods's children might have settled in what is now 
Granville County. North Carolina, but of none 
whatever for their going down into the malarial 
lowlands of the extreme southeast corner of South 
Carolina. But that William Woods and his sister 
Isabella and his father John did live for a time in 
one of the Carolinas is as certain as unimpeach- 
able written documents can make it. It is ex- 
tremely probable, also, that these three children 
of Archibald Woods had three married sisters who 
did the same thina". but of them we shall have occa- 
sion to speak a little farther on. 

II— MES. WILLIS BEAZEAL was, as we are 
inclined to believe, a daughter of Archibald Woods 
and his wife Isabella. Our only reason for this 
belief is that in a receipt which John Woods, the 
son of Archibald, gave to Col. John Woods (son 
and executor of Michael Woods of Blair Park) 
July 18, 1768, she is spoken of as one of the grand- 
daughters of Michael Woods of Blair Park and as 
entitled to a legacy under his will. She and a 
Mrs. James Cowan and a l\Irs. John Trimble are 
all joined in the same receipt. John Woods, who 
received a receipt for their legacies, states in the 
receipt that he acted by virtue of the letters of at- 
torney which the husbands of those three women 
had given him. The question is: What child of 
Michael Woods of Blair Park was the father or 
mother of these three women? We have never 
read or heard of any granddaughter of old Michael 
who married a man having either of these names. 



That they were at the time (1768) living in Caro- 
lina seems almost certain, for John Woods, who got 
their legacies for them, was then a citizen of Gran- 
ville county. South Carolina, and had letters of 
attorney for receiving their legacies from their 
grandfather's estate. It is reasonably certain that 
these three women, whose Christian names are un- 
known to us, were daughters of Archibald Woods 
and Isabella, and sisters to William Woods and 
Isabella Woods of South Carolina. Thus it would 
appear that no less than six of the children of 
Archibald Woods had gone down into one of the 
Carolinas to live prior to the year 1768, namely: 
William, John, Isabella, Mrs. Brazeal. Mrs. Cowan 
and Mrs. Trimble. Further than this we have no 
information in regard to them. We feel reason- 
ably confident, however, that when their brother 
John returned to Virginia to reside and settled 
at his father's place on Catawba Creek (in what 
is now Roanoke county) some, if not all, of this 
little colony of Woodses came with them. 

Ill — One of the children of Archibald Woods 
and Isabella was a daughter, ISABELLA WOODS, 
named for her mother. What has just been 
said concerning her brother William applies 
largely to her also. But for the information gath- 
ered from the old Col. John Woods papers we 
might never have known such a woman had lived. 
We incline to the belief that the year of her birtli 
was about 1747. In 1768, when her brother John 
came up to Albemarle to get her legacy from her 
grandfather's estate, she was about twenty-one 
years old and unmarried. What became of her 
we have no means of knowing. 

IV — A fourth child of Archibald Woods and his 
wife Isabella was JOHN WOODS, named, we 
doubt not, for his father's brother. Col. John 
Woods. One of his descendants. Judge John W. 
Woods, of Boanoke, Virginia, says he died in 1840 
at the age of seventy-two. This would fix his birth 
in 1768, which of course is a mistake, for we give 
a facsimile of a document he signed in 1768 when 
he was at least twenty years old. We fix the date 
of his bii-th at not later than 1748. and if he died 



MICHAEL WOODv«? OF BLAIR PARK. 

in 1840 he attained tlie ripe age of 92, and if a 

copyist wrote 92 carelessly, or read the figures 

luirriedly, it would have been an easy thing to 

have 72 taken for 92. 

The residence of tin's son of Archibald in Caro- 
lina has already been discussed when speaking 

of his older brotiier William. That he was Archi- 
bald's son we argue because no other John Woods 

could have possibly met the requirements of the 

case. The only sons of old IMichael of Blair 

Park (leaving Archibahl out of the account) who 

had sons named John were William and John. 

This man who was a citizen of Soutli Candina in 

ITfiS could scarcely have been tlie son of William 
Woods (the eldest son of Michael of Blair Park), 
because William's son John was not born till 1751, 
and hence was only 17 years old in 1708, and hence 
hardly mature enough to send on a journey of sev- 
eral hundred miles through a frontier region to 
collect and convey money. Then William's son 
John migrated to Kentucky about 1780, and there 
married a "Miss Estell, and moved to Tennessee in 
1808, and died there in 1815. In no particular 
does this John Woods meet the requirements of 
the case except that he was a grandson of old 
Michael, and named John. As for Col. Jolin 
Woods's son John, we know he died in early in- 
fancy. We are therefore shut \ip to the conclusion 
that John Woods, of (rranville county. South Caro- 
lina, was the son of Archibald Woods, and grand- 
son of old Michael. There is not an argument to 
be urged against this view, so far as we know. 

The receipts he gave, and the bond he and An- 
drew Wallace conjointly executed in July, 1768, 
(fac-similes or copies of which are given in Ap- 
pendix F of this volume) will prove of interest to 
his descendants, more especially. 

John Wooas, son of Archibald and Isabella, 
married Miss Elizabeth Smith by whom he had 
eight children. The date and place of birth of 
these children is unknown to the writer. That 
John Woods did not long continue to reside in 
Carolina after 1768 seems certain, for it is known 
he spent a large part of his life at his father's plan- 



IIT) 

tation (Indian Camp) on Catawba Creek, where he 
died in 1840. If the (Jranville County in which he 
resided in 1768 was in Soutli Carolina, on the coast 
near the Georgia line, we can readily understand 
liow a man born and reared in Piedmont, Virginia, 
would soon want to get away from the rice fields and 
malarial regions of the low country and once more 
enjoy the mountain air and scenery which are no- 
where more atti-active than in the section in which 
his father settled in 1771. If, on the other hand, 
the Granville County in which he made his home 
in 1768 Avas in what is now called North Carolina, 
we find a very potent reason for getting out of that 
country in the confusion and bloodshed which pre- 
vailed in what is now Granville and Orange coun- 
ties. North Carolina. Tlie scenes of disoi'der in 
that region in 1765-1771, growing out of the oppres- 
sions of the colonial authorities and the insurrec- 
tion of the Regulators, were quite enough to cause 
peaceably-disposed men to desire another i)]ace 
than that in which to live and rear a family. The 
original protest of the Regulators was puldished in 
Granville county, and at Alamance in 1771, near 
by, was fought that bloody battle between the 
Regulators and Governor Tryon's forces in which 
two hundred of the citizens of that region were 
slain. The year 1771, when these disorders cul- 
minated, was the same in which Archibald Woods 
(John's father) purchased the Indian Camp farm 
on Catawba Creek. It is more than likely that 
John moved back to Virginia about that time. It 
may be that part of his business in coming to Vir- 
ginia in 1768 was to look around for a home in the 
Old Dominion. Tlie road from Albemarle to Caro- 
lina led right past the Indian Camp place, and 
probably both John and his father made some ex- 
amination of the country with the view to a settle- 
ment before John went back to Carolina. But 
whatever his motives, and whatever the date of his 
return, John Woods got back into Virginia, and 
spent tlie latter years of his life on the Catawba 
in what is now the county of Roanoke, one of the 
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The following is believed to be a correct list of 
tlie children of John Woods and Elizabeth Smith : 

(a) Their first child was James Woods. The 
date and place of his birth, and the name of 
the lady he married are unknoAvn to the writer. 
His deatli occurred November 15, 1856. He left 
the following children: 1, John, who removed to 
Illinois, and died there about six years ago, 
leaving three children, Mari/ Woods Hatfield, 
Addie Woods Boston, and William; 2, George 
Washington, who moved to Illinois and then to 
Nevada, did missionary work for a time in San 
Francisco, and left one daughter, Virginia Lee 
Woods, whose home is at Los Angeles, California ; 
3, Gabriel, who moved to Missouri ; 4, Joseph. 

(b) The second child of John Woods and Eliza- 
beth Smith was Absaloim Woons, who was 
born in 1801, and died in 1871. He was thwarted 
in a love affair, and never married. He accumu- 
lated considerable property, was a man of iron will 
and acknowledged courage. 

(c) The third child of John Woods and Eliza- 
beth Smith was named Archtp.alt). He died 
in Craig county, Virginia, in 1875. He left four 
children, as follows: 1, John T. ; 2, Absalom; 3, 
Oliver D. ; and 4, Alice, who married a Mr. Beard. 

(d) The fourth child of John Woods and Eliza- 
beth Smith was named Sarah L. She married 
William Doosing. His death occurred before hers. 
She died in 1870, leaving the following children: 
1, Eliza, who married a Huffman; 2. John W. ; 3, 
a daughter, who married Charles Thomas; 4, Mar- 
tha ; 5, Ann ; and 6, Adline. All of these, except 
Mrs. Thomas, lived in Catawba Valley. Mrs. 
Thomas lived at Portland, Oregon. 

(e) The fifth child of John Woods and Eliza- 
beth Smith was named Joseph Woods, concerning 
whom we have no information. 

(f) The sixth child of John Woods and Eliza- 
beth Smith was named William Woods, who 
was born in 1817, and died in 1882. His home 
throughout his life was at the old Indian Camp 
plantation on the Catawba, which his grand- 
father, Archibald Woods, bought from the McAfees 



in 1771, and which is now owned and occupied by 
one of William's sons. He was married twice, his 
first wife being Miss Harriet Painter; and his sec- 
ond, Miss Sarah Jane Edington. By each wife he 
liad six children. 

1. The first child of William Woods by his wife 
Harriet Painter was named Mary, who married 
John W. Thomas, and moved to Oregon, where she 
died. 2. The second child of William and Harriet 
was named Sarah, who married George W. Lewis, 
of Catawba, Virginia, and is now dead. 3. The 
third child of William and Harriet was named Ar- 
chibald, who lives at Vine Grove, Kentucky. 4. 
Tlie fourth child of William and Harriet was 
named Caroline, who married Major ]\T. P. Spes- 
sard, of Craig County, Virginia. Her husband died 
some years ago and slie resides still in Craig Coun- 
ty. 5. The fifth child of William and Harriet was 
named Susan C., who married G. W. Wallace. 
Her husl)and's home was in Catawba Valley. She 
and he both died some years ago. 6. The last child 
of William bv his first wife, Harriet, was named 
John, and died in infancy. 

William Woods's second wife, as above stated, 
was Miss Sarah Jane Edington, and she bore him 
six children also, 7. William Woods's seventh 
child Chis first bv his second wife) was named 
John W., who now lives in Poanoke. Virainia. and 
a sketch of whose life will be found in Part ITT of 
this volume. 8. William Woods's eighth child 
fthe second bv his second wife") was named Amine 
E., who died in 1884. 0. William Woods's ninth 
child (the third by his second wife) was named 
Joseph P.. who owns, and lives on, the old Indian 
Camp homestead. 10. The tenth child of Wil- 
liam Woods (the fourth by his second wife) was 
nametl Anna L.. who lives at Catawba, Virginia. 
11. The eleventh child of William Woods (the 
fifth bv second wife) was James Pleasants Woods, 
who now resides in Poanoke. Virginia, and n 
sketch of whom will be found in Part ITT of this 
volume. 12. The twelfth and last child of Wil- 
liam Woods (the sixth and last by his second wife, 
Sarah Jane Edington) was named Oscar W., who 



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is a surgeon in the United States Army, and is now 
stationed in the Philippine Ishinds. 

It is said that John A\'oods and Elizabeth Smith 
had, besides those enumerated, two sous, both of 
whom were uamed John for their father, and both 
of whom died in early infancy. 

\' — MKS. JAMES CO^^'AN was, as we incline 
to believe, one of the children of xU-chibald \\oods 
and his wife Isabella. Our reasons for this belief 
have already been stated in a foregoing paragraph 
treating of her brothers William and John, to 
which the reader is referred. Of the date of her 
birth, or marriage, her migration to Carolina, etc., 
we know nothing whatever. That she was a grand- 
daughter of Michael >\'oods of Blair Park, and re- 
ceived a legacy from his estate in 17GS, there is not 
a shadow of doubt. Tuat she was the daughter of 
Ai-chibald Woods seems almost certain. That her 
home in 17GS \\as in Carolina is extremely prob- 
able. 

y] — MKS. JOHN TlilMELE was, as we incline 
to believe, one of Archibald A\oods's children. 
Her case is precisely like that of the Mrs. Brazeal 
and the Mrs. Cowan above considered. She was, 
beyond all question, a grandchild of Michael 
\\'oods of Blair Park, and in 17G8 received her 
legacy, as such, from his estate. See above what 
is said of her brothers A\'illiam and John. 

VII— JAMES AA'OODS, one of the sons of Ar- 
chibald and Isabella, was born about the year 1755, 
in Albemarle county, Virginia, and died in Ken- 
tucky (i)robably in Mercer county, or, possibly, in 
Fayette county) about the year 1797. He was the 
progenitor of a large number of Woodses, many of 
whom lived in Mercer county, Kentucky, and some 
of whom are there at this time. His wife's Chris- 
tian name was Jane. That he migrated to Ken- 
tucky some time prior to 1787 is certain, but just 
how long before that date we cannot say. The rec- 
ords of Fayette and Mercer counties might throw 
light on this point, and the land office records at 
Frankfort would also be likely to furnish some in- 
formation concerning him, especially if he entered 
lands anywhere in Kentucky. If he moved west 



in 17S5 he was then a man of about thirty years, 
and most likely several of his children had been 
born in Botetourt county, Virginia, and were 
carried on pack-horses through the Great Wilder- 
ness to Kentucky. The records of Botetourt county, 
\irgiuia, and Mercer county, Kentucky, furnish 
some information concerning James and his wife 
Jane, and their seven children. From these rec- 
ords, and from Judge John \\ . W oods, of Koanoke, 
\'irginia (who is a grandson of a brother of this 
James A\'oodsj all the information of the present 
writer has been obtained. James seems to have 
been a citizen of Fayette county, Kentucky, June 
0, 1787, for at that time he gave a certain power 
of attorney to his brothers in \ irginui; but it is 
next to certain that he very soon after moved over 
into the adjoining county of Mercer, for the records 
in both Kentucky and Virginia show that by Sep- 
tember 21, 17yy, he was deiid, and his widow, Jane, 
with his seven children, were living in Mercer 
county. A suit of some kind (friendly, perhaps) 
had been brought by four of James's brothers, 
(John, Andrew, Archibald and Joseph) to compel 
the infant heirs of James and Jane to convey to 
them the old Indian Camp plantation on Catawba 
Creek, \'irginia. In this suit Jane appears as the 
g-uardiau of her children. James probably died 
in the spring or summer of the year 1791), and in 
Mercer county. He left seven children. 

(a) One of the children of James AVoods and 
Jane was named PeggYj who was probably born 
in Botetourt county, Virginia. She was a minor 
in September, 1799, and may have been born about 
1780. She is the first one of the children men- 
tioned in the suit brought by her father's brothers 
in 1799, though she may not have been her parent's 
first child. We have no knowledge of her subse- 
quent history. Margaret was no doubt her real 
name, of which Peggy was a sort of pet-name. 

(b) Joseph Woods was another child of 
James and Jane, and was probably born not far 
from 1784. He was in Mercer county with his 
widowed mother in September, 1799, and under 
twenty-one years of age. We do not know whom 



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lie married. It is reasonably certain that this 
man was the father of the late Harvey \\'oods, a 
farmer, who died a fe« years ago, aud whose home 
was ou the west side of the turnpike between Har- 
rodsburg- and McAfee, Kentucky. The writer 
called to see him in the summer of 1895, aud he 
was then perhaps seventy-ftve years old. That he 
was descended from Archibald ^Voods and Isabella 
through their son James ^\'oods seems extreme'^' 
probable. Joseph Woods, the son of James, was 
about thirty-five or forty years old when this Mr. 
Harvey ^^'oods was born. 

(c) Archibald AVoods was the name of an- 
other of the sons of James aud Jane and went to 
Kentucky with his parents some time prior to 
1787, when he was a small child. He must have 
made the loug and dangerous jouruey through the 
Wilderness ou a pack-saddle, as did thousands of 
little folks in the pioneer period. Archibald 
Woods (son of James), as we believe, reached 
his maturity about the year- 1800, and mar- 
ried a Miss Anna Adams. This lady, we 
strongly incline to believe, was either the daughtei- 
or niece of that gallant young Samuel Adams (son 
of William Adams) who was one of the five stui'dy 
men who composed the famous "McAfee Com- 
pany" which explored Kentucky in 1773. He was 
then a youug man of about nineteen years, the 
youngest in the party. He was i^robably a mar- 
ried man by 1778 (the year before the McAfees, 
Adamses, McCouns, etc., moved their families to 
the Salt Kiver Seltlemeut in Keutuckj. ) If the 
Miss Anna Adams who became the wife of James 
Woods's son Archibald was Samuel Adams's first 
child, she probably was born about the summer of 
1779, came to Kentucky with the associated McAfee, 
Adams, Woods and McCoun families in the fall of 
1799, and married Archibald Woods about the 
year 1800. A son of Archibald Woods married a 
Miss Cleveland and she has a son, Mr. Henry 
Cleveland Wood (he spells the name without the 
final s), who is prominent in literary circles, and 
resides at Hai'rodsburg, Ky. Many of the details 
here suggested are, of course, presented merely %i 



reasonable conjectures, and not as authentic his- 
tory. It is barely possible that Ai'chibald, the son 
of James Woods, is not the man who went to Mer- 
cer county, Kentucky, aud became the husband of 
Anna Adams — it may have been his uncle Archi- 
bald, the brother of James, instead of his son. Of 
him we shall now have occasion to speak. 

VIII— AltCHIBALD WOODS, JR., was, as we 
incline to believe, the eighth child of Archibald and 
Isabella — one of the numberless Archibald Woodses 
that give the genealogist of this family no small 
trouble. The year we have fixed upon as the prob- 
able one for his birth is 1757. We know next to 
nothing of his life. If he is the man who settled 
in Mercer county, Kentucky, and was the progeni- 
tor of the Mr. Henry Cleveland Wood of Harrods- 
burg, then, of course, we should be obliged to re- 
vise some of our calculations given in the preceding 
section devoted to James Woods. But whilst this 
Archibald AA'oods, Jr., may have gone to Kentucky 
late in the eighteenth century, we do not think he 
was the one who married Miss Adams, unless he 
was at least twenty-five years her senior. 

IX.— AXDKEW WOODS was another son of 
Archibald and Isabella, and was probably born 
about the year 1760. In a previous part of this chap- 
ter, when discussing the number of children Michael 
AA'oods of Blair Park had, we mentioned various 
coincidences going to show that the AndreAV Woods 
(1722-1781) who lived close to Michael's Blair Park 
home, and afterwards settled about eight miles 
southwest of Buchanan, Virginia, was a son of 
old Michael and a brother to Archibald of Indian 
Camp. We are reminded of one other coincidence 
in the fact that Andrew Woods (1722-1781) named 
one of his sons Archibald, and that Archibald of 
Indian Camp named one of his sons Andrew. 
This is just what we find nearly all the brothers in 
this ftunily doing — thej' perpetuated family names 
by naming their children for their parents, uncles, 
aunts, brothel's and sisters. Of this Andrew, son 
of Archibald aud Isabella, we know biit little. 
Judge Woods, of Roanoke, Va., says Andrew went 
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X.— JOSEPH WOODS we regard as the last of 
the children of Ai'chibald and Isabella, and he was 
probablj- born about the year 1763. He spent his 
whole life on the Indian Camp homestead in the 
Catawba Vallej-, dying tliere in 1832. lie was 
twice married, but uo cliildrcu wcic boru to iiiui. 
In his will he devised the sum of |3,000.00 to 
Montgomery Presbytery. That devise has been 
Ivuown ever since as the "\\oods Legacy"; and 
despite all the commotions and ruin of our Civil 
War, it remains intact to this day, the interest on 
it constituting an annual contribution to the cause 
of Christ when the pious donor has now been in his 
grave for more than seventy years. 

J. — MAIvTUA A\ OODS was, as we incline to be- 
lieve, the ninth child of Michael of Blair I'ark and 
Mary Campbell, and was probably born iu Ireland 
in ITl'U, only four years before the migration of her 
parents to the American colonies. Martha was 
a girl of fourteen when her father settled 
at tUe eastern foot of the Ulue Kidge in what was 
then Goochland County (now Albemarle). Hei' 
etuest brotlier, \\ illiam, had married tousauuali 
Wallace; her sister Hannah had married Wil- 
liam \\allace; and her sister Margaret had mar- 
ried Andrew \\allace; so that intermarriages with 
hrst cousins had become fashionable in the two 
families when the time came for her to give her 
cousin, Peter \\aliace, Jr., an answer to his pro- 
posal. She simply fell into line, so to speak, and 
married him. Prom that time (ITll) forward her 
home was near where Lexington, Virginia, now 
stands. There she reared a large family of chil- 
dren, and there, in 1790, she died, her husband 
having jjreceded her six years. In the previous 
chapter, which is devoted to the Wallaces, addi- 
tional items can be seen bearing on her history 
where her husband's career is treated of. 

K.— ANDREW WOODS was, as we believe, the 
tenth child of Michael of Blair Park, and Mary 
Campbell, and was probably born about 1722, two 
years before his parents migrated to America. It can 



scarcely be questioned that Andrew ^^'oods accom- 
panied his parents in 1731, when they went up the 
Cireat ^'alley, and ascended tlie Blue Ridge at the 
gap afterwards called \\'oods's Gap, and came to a 
halt at its eastern base in what was then Gooch- 
land County. Andrew was then a boy of about 
twelve years. In about the year 1750, when he was 
about twenty-eight years old, he married Martha 
Poage, daughter of Robert Poage, of Augiista 
County. His plantation in Albemarle was very 
close to the old Blair Park homestead. He owned 
five hundred acres of land in one place, and nine 
iiuudred acres in another, iu Albemarle. In 17G5, 
about three years after the death of his father 
(Michael of Blair Park) he moved away from Albe- 
marle, and settled in Botetourt County near Mill 
Creek Church, about nine miles southwest of 
Buchanan, Virginia. He was one of the fii-st mag- 
istrates appointed for Botetourt County, and was 
made its sheriff in 1777. His death occurred in 
1781. That he was a son of Michael of Blair Park 
has been amjjly proven, as we believe, in tlie earlier 
part of the present chapter of this volume, and that 
question may be considered as settled until some 
one can produce positive and reliable evidence to 
the contrary. He and his wife Martha Poage left 
eight children, who will be mentioned in the order 
in which they are presented by the Rev. Dr. Edgar 
Woods of Charlottesville, Virginia, in a pamjihlet 
he published in July, 1891. That pamphlet con- 
tains a vast array of definite information concern- 
ing Andrew and Martha, and their descendants, of 
incalculable interest to all who desire to be in- 
formed about this important branch of the Woods 
family. That publication is a model of its kind, 
revealing in its autlior the utmost thoroughness of 
research, and conscientious care. To Dr. Woods 
we are indebted for nearly everything we know of 
the Andrew Woods branch. A part of the results 
he secured will now be given. 

Children of Andrew Woods (1722-1781) and 
Marth.v Poage (1728-1818.) 



L— JAMES WOODS. Born 



Died 1817. 



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1797. 
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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 

-ELIZABETH WOODS. Born . Died 

-REBECCA WOODS. Boux . Died 



IV._KoBERT WOODS. Born . Died 

v.— ANDREW ANOODS. Jll. Buu.n 1759. 
Died 1831. 

VI.— ARCHIBALD WOODS. Born 1761. 
Died 1846. 
VII.— MARY WOODS. Born 1766. Died 1830. 

VIII.— MARTHA WOODS. Born . Died 

1834. 

I.— JA3IES WOODS, first child of Andrew and 
Martha, inariied Nancy Rayburn December 26, 



ker, who married Dr. Jolin D. Kelly ; 5, Joseijh ^^^ 
NN'alker; 6, Robert A\'. ^^■aIker, who married Lelia 
Taylor, and whose sou, Mr. Creed Walker, of Lit- 
tle Rock, Ark., is the fatlier of Mrs. Alfred D. Ma- 
sou, of Memi^his, Teuu., uf whom a sketch is given 
in Part III of this work; 7, Johu M. Walker; aud 
8, Elsie NValker, who married Reuben Kay. 

(d) Robert Woods wa.s the fourth child of 
James and Nancy, born Dec. l'5, 1786, aud lived in 
Nashville, Teuu. He married Sarah ^^■est aud left 
seven children : 1, James ^\'oods, the second, who 
umrried Elizabeth Campbell ; 2, Josephine, who mar- 
ried Johu Branch; 3, Robert F., who married Ma- 



1776, re.sided in Montgomery County, Virginia, and liua Cheatham; 4, Joseph, who married Frances 



died January 27, 1817. Several of his sons and 
daughters migrated to Nashville at au early day, 
and that city has never been blessed with a higher 
type of Christian citizenship than his descendants 
have exhibited to the world. To this couple were 
born the following niue childreu : 

(a) Andrew Woods,, Avho was born September 
19, 1777. The uame of the lady he married is un- 
known. His home was in St. Charles, Missouri. 
He left four childreu, to wit: 1, Andrew Woods, 
who lived in Louisiana, marided Elizabeth 



Foster, aud left three childreu; 5, Theora Woods, 
who marritnl a Mr. Handy; 6, Ivobiua Woods, who 
lived in Nashville, married ^^■illiam Ai-mistead, 
aud left six childreu; aud 7, Julia NA'oods, who 
lived in Memphis, Tennessee, married R. C. Foster, 
aud left seven children, ilr. Edward Foster, a 
prominent aud honored merchant of Nashville, 
Teuu., was their fourth child, a sketch of whom is 
given in Part III. 

(ej The lifth child of James and Naucy wa^ 
named Martha A>'o()Ds. who was born October 



and left three childreu ; 2, Adine Woods, who mar- 4, 1790, aud residetl in Montgomery County, Vir- 



ried a Mx". Courtney, aud left three childreu; 3, 
Robert Woods; 4, Emily Woods, who uiarried a 
Mr. Whitnuiu, aud left four children. 

(bj Joseph AVoods was the second child of 
James aud Naucy. He was born June 22, 1779, 



ginia. She married Alexander H. Robertson, by 
whom she had the following four children, to wit: 
1, James AA'. Robertson, who married a Miss Gra- 
ham, aud lived at Dover, Teuu. ; 2, Robert Robert- 
son ; 3, Joseph Robertson ; and 4, Alexander H. 



and died April 20, 1859. He uuide his home at Robertson, Jr. 

Nashville, Teuu. (. fj The sixth child of James aud Naucy was 

(c) Margaret Woods was the third child of named James Woods, Jr., who was born De- 



James and Nancy, aud was born September 12, 
1781. She married Johu Moore Walker, of Lyon 
County, Ky. She left eiglit childreu : 1, James Wal- 
ker; 2, Catharine Rutherford Walker, who mar- 
ried Rev. Robert A. Lapsley, and by him had seven 
childreu, one of whom was the late Judge James 
Woods Lapsley, of Annistou, Ala., whose wife was 
Sarah E. Pratt, and of whoiu a sketch will be 



cember 10, 1793, and lived in Nashville, Tennessee. 
He married Elizabeth A. Kay, by whom he had 
eight childreu, to wit: 1, Robert K. Woods, who 
umrried Susan Berry, resided in St. Louis, and 
left four childreu, namely: Susan, married Givens 
Campbell ; Margaret, who married a Mr. Green- 
leaf; Anne Lee, who married a Mr. Bliss; and 
Robert K., Jr. ; 2, Margaret Woods, who married 



found in Part III of this work; 3, Agues Walker, a Mr. Handy; 3, Anna Woods, who married R. B. 
v.ho married Joseph Norvell ; 4, Mai*y Jane Wal- Castlemau, lived in Nashville, aud left a daugh- 



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tcr (EUzahctli), and a son {Ja.mc.s \\'.\ ; 4, Juscpli 
Woods; 5, James, who married Adeline .Milam, and 
left one son, Mark M. M'uuds; G, Andrew, who lived 
in Nashville, married Miss Love Washington, and 
left a sou and a daughter, James and Man/; 7, 
Elizabeth, who married Samuel Kirkman, lived in 
Nashville, and left two daughters, Elizahith and 
Sivsait; S, Susan, who married [Mr. G. G. O'Bryan, 
of Nashville, Tennessee, hy whom she had two 
daughter!?, *S'«6«« and Baiaha. 

(g) The seventh child of James and Nancy was 
named Elsie Woods^ who was horn ilay 10, 1795, 
and lived in Nashville, Tenn. 

(h) The eighth child of James and Nancy was 
named Archibald Woods^ who was born May 29, 
1787. He resided in Nashville, Tennessee. 

(j) The ninth child of James and Nancy was 
named Agxes Gueex Woous^ who married Charles 
C. Trabue, and resided in Ralls County, Missouri. 
By him Agnes had eight children, as follows : 1, 
Joseph Trabue; 2, Robert Trabue, who married 
Mary Bibb; 3, Anthony Trabue, Avho resided at 
Hannibal, Missouri, and married Christina Man- 
ley; 1, Chai'les C. Trabue, Jr.; 5, Sarah Ti-abue, 
who married, first, John B. Stevens, and, later, 
William Shivers; 6, George Trabue, who married 
Ellen Dunn; 7, Jane Trabue, who mai'ried J. H. 
Reynolds; and 8, Martha Trabue, who mariied 
George Thompson, and lived in Nashville, Tennes- 
see. This lovely Christian lady it was the writer's 
privilege to meet a year or two before her death, 
and she impressed him as one of the worthiest rej)- 
resentatives of Andrew Woods's branch of the fam- 
ily. George Thompson and ^lartha Trabue had 
eight children, as follows: Agnes, who married G. 
G. O'Bryan, of Nashville, and had a daughter, Ag- 
nes O'Bryan; Eliziibeth, who married John P. W. 
Brown; Charles, who married Elizabeth Weeks; 
Martha; Frances; John Hill, who married Agnes 
Ricketts; Jane, who married Alfred Howell, and 
had by him three children; and Catharine, who 
married Joseph L. Weakley. 

TI.— ELIZABETH WOODS, the second child of 
Andrew Woods and Martha Poage lived in Rock- 



bridge County, Virginia, and died in January, 
1797. Her husband was David Cloyd, by whom she 
had nine children. He was possibly a brother or 
near relative of the James Cloyil who marrieil Jean 
Lapsley, daughter of Joseph, Sr. 

(,a) The first child of David Cloyd aud Eliza- 
beth was named Mautua, who married Matthew 
Houston, au«l lived at Natural Bridge, Virginia. 
Their children were the following: 1, Sophia; 2, 
Emily; 3, Andrew; 1, David; 5, Matthew Hale, who 
had a sou, the Rev. Dr. Mattlic'ir Hale Jloitston, 
now of Waynesboro, Virginia, who is a consecrated 
and learned minister of the Gos^jcl, and (i, Cynthia. 

(b) The second child of David Cloyd and Eliza- 
beth was named Daviu_, Ju. 

(c) The third child of David Cloyd and Eliza- 
beth was named Margauet, who married Rev. Mat- 
thew Houston, and lived at Lebanon, Ohio. They 
had two sous, to wit : 1, Andrew C. ; and 2, Romaine 
F., who married and left three children. 

(d) The fourth child of David Cloyd aud Eliza- 
beth was named Mary^ who married a McClung. 

(e) The fifth child of David Cloyd and Elizabeth 
was named Andrew. 

(f) The sixth child of David Cloyd and Eliza- 
beth was named James. 

(f ) The seventh child of David Cloyd and Eliza- 
beth was named Elizabeth. 

(g) The eighth child of David Cloyd and Eliza- 
beth was named Joseph. 

(h) The ninth and last child of David Cloyd and 
Elizabeth (according to the order in which she is 
mentioned by the Rev. Dr. Edgar Woods) was 
named Cynthia. 

III.— REBECCA WOODS was the third child of 
Andrew Woods (1722-1781) and Martha Poage. 
She lived in Ohio County, West Virginia. Her hus- 
band was Isaac Kelly, by whom she had nine chil- 
dren. 

(a) The first child of Isaac Kelly and his wife 
Rebecca Woods was named Isaac Kelly, Jr.^ who 
married a ^liss Gad, and left four children, to wit: 
1, Hamilton; 2, Simeon; 3, Wesley; and 4, Benja- 
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(b) The second child of Isaac aud Kebecca (not, 
however, the pair mentioned in Genesis) was named 
John Kelly^ who was born in 1784, and died in 
1820. He married Elizabeth Wilson, and lived in 
Ohio County, West Virginia, leaving seven chil- 
dren, to wit : 1, Jane, who married William Miller ; 

2, Isaac; 3, A. Wilson; 4, Aaron; 5, Sarah; 6, Re- 
becca ; 7, liev. Joliu Kelly. 

(c) The third child of Isaac and Rebecca was 
named James Kelly_, who was twice married. His 
first wife was Jane Robinson, and his second was 
Eliza Gooding. Dr. Edgar Woods gives the names 
of seven of James's children, but does not state 
which wife was the mother of any of them, as fol- 
lows : 1, Isaac ; 2, Samuel ; 3, Joseph ; 4, David ; 5, 
Alexander; 6, Otis; and 7, Eliza. 

(d) The fourth child of Isaac Kelly and Kebecca 
was named Benjamin^ who married Charlotte 
Cros.s, by whom he had two children, to wit: 1, 
Isaac ; and 2, Eliza J. 

(e) The fifth child of Isaac Kelly and Rebecca 
was Nancy^ who married Robert Poage, and by him 
had four children, to wit : 1, Rebecca; 2, Isaac K. ; 

3, Gabriel; and 4, Elijah. 

(_f j The sixth child of Isaac aud Rebecca was 
:»iAKTiiA^ who married Alexander Mitchell, by 
whoni she had six children, in the naming of which 
the reputation of this family for adhering to scrip- 
tural appellatives Avas very well maintained, as fol- 
lows: 1, is'aucy; 2, Samuel; 3, Isaac; 4, Jane; 5, 
Elizabeth ; and 6, Zachariah. 

(g) The seventh child of Isaac and Rebecca was 
Rebecca^ who married John Mays and lived at 
\V'est Alexander, Pa. 

(h) The eighth child of Isaac and Rebecca was 
Simeon. 

(j) The ninth and last child of Isaac and Re- 
becca was Narcissa, who married Jonathan Mc- 
CuUoch. 

IV.— ROBERT ^^'OODS was the fourth child of 
Andrew and Martha, whose home was in Ohio 
County, West Virginia. He married, first, a Miss 
Lovely Caldwell ; and, next, a Miss Elizabeth Eoff. 
He had three children. 



(a) The first child of Robert Woods (by which 
wife, the writer is not informed) was named Rob- 
ert C, who married Margaret A. Quarrier, and 
lived in Wheeling, Wtist Virginia, leaving six chil- 
dren, as follows: 1, Emily, who married Thomas 
G. Black, and had six children; 2, Mai*y, who mar- 
ried Alexander Q. Whittaker, and left eight chil- 
dren ; 3, Harriet, who married Beverly M. Eoff, and 
left eight children; 4, Helen, who married William 
Tallant, and left six children; 5, Mai'garet, who 
married Robert A. McCabe, and left three children ; 
and G, Alexander, who married Josajihine McCabe, 
and left three children. 

(b) The second child of Robert Woods was 
named Andrew P. 

(c) The third child of Robert Woods was named 
Eliza Jane. 

v.— ANDREW WOODS, JR., was the fifth child 
of Andrew and Martha, aud was born in 1751), aud 
died February 19, 1831..^ He married Miss Mary 
Mitchell McCulloch. His home was in \^^heeling, 
West Virginia. To this pair* seven childi-en were 
born. 

(a) The first child of Andi'ew, Jr., and Mary 
Mitchell McCulloch was named Jane^ who became 
the wife of Rev. James Hoge of Columbus, Ohio, to 
whom she bore seven children, to wit: 1, Eliza- 
beth, who married the Rev. Robert ]S'all, of Tus- 
kegee, Alabama, and left seven children, among 
whom were the well-known Presbyterian ministers, 
Rev. Dr. James Nail, and the Rev. Dr. Robert Nail ; 
2, Mary M., who married Robert Neil, of Colum- 
bus, Ohio, and left seven children; 3, Susanna P., 
who married the Rev. M. A. Sackett, of Cleveland, 
Ohio, and left three children; 4, Rev. Moses A. 
Hoge, who married, first, Mary B. Miller, and later 
Elizabeth Wills, and left two children; 5, John 
J. Hoge, who married, first, Ann L. Wilson, and, 
later, Mary Calhoun, leaving four children ; 6, Mar- 
garet J. Hoge, who married J. William Baldwin; 
and 7, Martha A. Hoge, who married Alfred 
Thomas, and left four children. 

(b) The second child of Andrew Woods, Jr., and 
Mary M. McCulloch was named Andrew^ who mar- 



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ried. Miss Rebecca Brison and by her had eight 
children; 1, James Brison Woods, who is a promi- 
nent business man in New Orleans, La., a sketch of 
whose family- will be found in I'art 111 of this 
work; 2, Oliver B. Woods, who married Ann M. 
Anderson; 3, Luther T. Woods, who married, first, 
Mary E. 2siel, and later, Mary llopkius; 1, Joiin 
Woods, who married Marilla Hale; 5, Archibald 
Woods, who married Mary Matthews; C, Alfred 
Woods, who married Jane Kailey; 7, Rev. Henry 
Woods, who married Mary Ewing; and 8, Rev. 
Francis M. Woods, D. L)., now a prominent min- 
ister of the Presbyterian Church, and in charge of 
a church at Martinsburg, West Virginia. Rev. Dr. 
F. M. Woods married Julia Junkin, by whom he 
has the following children, to wit: Rev. David J. 
Woods, now of Blacksburg, Virginia; Mitchell 
Woods; Andrew U. Woods; Janet Woods; Mary 
Woods; and liebecca ^\'oods. 

(c) The third child of xindrew Woods, Jr., and 
his wife Mary M. McCulloch, was named Samuel^ 
who resides at Woodbridge, California. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Lefller, by whom he had eight chil- 
dren, as follows: 1, Andrew, who mai-ried Jane 
E. Leffler, and had seven children; 2, Mary Jane, 
who married William L. Manly; 3, Margaret 
T., who married J. Henderson, of Stockton, 
California, and had three children; i, Jacob, who 
married Elizabeth V. Ward, and has one son, Ed- 
win ; 5, Hugh M. ; G, Rebecca ; 7, Samuel, who mar- 
ried Arlona Ellis, and had four children; and 7, 
Susan E., who married Lafayette Creech, and left 
seven children. 

(d) The fourth child of Andrew Woods, Jr., and 
Mary M. McCulloch was Robert M., who married 
Rebecca Vause, and lived at Urbaua, Ohio. By her 
he had six children, to Avit: 1, Rachel; 2, Alfred 
A. ; 3, Mary M., who married J. W. Ogdeu, and left 
one daughter, Anne W.; 4, William N., who mar- 
ried Ann McPherson, and left two daughters; 5, 
Jane H. who married Griflfith Ellis, and left six 
children ; and G, Robert T. 

(e) The fifth child of Andrew J. and Mary 
Mitchell (McCulloch) Woods Avas named Marga- 



RET, who married Martiu L. Todd, and lived at 
Bellaire, Ohio. She lefl a daugliter, Jane. 

(f) The sixth child of Andrew, Jr., and Mary 
Mitchell (McCulloch) Woods was named Mary 
Ann^ Avho married Archibald Todd. 

(g) The seventh and last child of Andrew 
Woods, Jr., and his wife Mary .Mitchell (McCul- 
loch) was named Alereu, who married I"]lizabeth 
Sims and lived at Bellaire, Ohio. He lefl twelve 
children, as follows : 1, Margaret T., Avho married 
Joseph S. Mellor, and left six children; 2, Louisa, 
who married S. Colin Baker, of St. Louis, Mo., 
and had by him ten children; 3, Isabel; 1, T. Sims, 
who married Mary I'ancoast, and left three chil- 
dren; 5, Robert; 6, William A., who married Em 
ma Zinu, and left tAvo childi-en ; 7, Launcelot, Avho 
married Charlotte Teagarten; S, Elizabeth, who 
married John W. Carrall ; D, Mary Ann, who mar- 
ried Henry Basel, of St. Louis, and by him had ten 
children; 10, Martha K., who married Richai-d 
Ritey, and had four children; 11, Alfred, who mar- 
ried Esther Vogel, and left two children; and 12, 
Edgai", Avho married Louisa James, and resided in 
St. Louis. 

VL— ARCHIBALD WOODS was the fifth child 
of .\.udreAv Woods and Martha Poage. He was born 
November 11, 1764, and died October 26, 1846. His 
home AA'as in Ohio County, West Virginia. His 
Avife AA'as Ann Poage, by Avhoni he had a dozen chil- 
dren. 

(a) Elizabeth Woods was the first ciiild of 
Archibald and Ann. She married George Paull of 
St. Clairsville, Ohio, by Avhoni she had three chil- 
dren, as follows: 1, Rev. Alfred Paull, avIio mar- 
ried Mary Weed, by Avhom he had six children. 

(b) The second child of Archibald and Ann was 
Thomas^ who married Marj' Brison, and lived in 
Wheeling, West Virginia. Thomas and Mary had 
six children, to Avit : 1, Ann Eliza, Avho mai"ried 
James S. Polhenius; 2, Sarah M. ; 3, Theodore; 4, 
Archibald; 5, Key. Edgar Woods, of Charlottes- 
ville, Va., the author of the pamphlet from Avhich 
the pre.sent Avriter has deriA'ed nearly all of the in- 
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Woods branch of the Woods clau. A sketch of Dr. 
Edgar Woods will be fouud iu I'art III of this toI- 
ume. Thomas and Mary also had, G, a daughter 
named Lydia. In the list as given by Dr. Woods, 
himself, 7, a John Henry McKee is also set down 
as one of the children of Thomas Woods, and it 
appears that he married a Miss Tabler, by whom 
he had two children. Possibly he was an adopted 
son. Dr. Edgar Woods (the fifth child) married 
Miss jMaria C. Baker, and has by her seven chil- 
dren, of whom further notice will be made in Dr. 
Woods's sketch in Part III. 

(c) Martha Woods was the third child of Ar- 
chibald and Ann, who married Charles D. Knox, 
of Wheeling, W. Va., aud by whom she had the fol- 
lowing children, to wit: 1, Franklin W. Knox, 
who mai-ried Ruth Stewart; 2, Stewart Knox; and 
3, Robert Knox. 

(d) Franklin Woods was the fourth child of 
Archibald and Ann. 

(e) Nancy Woods was the fifth child of Archi- 
bald aud Ann. 

(f) Mary Woods was the sixth child of Archi- 
bald and Ann. 

(g) George W. Woods was the seventh child of 
Archibald and Ann, and married Mary Cresap 
Smith. 

(h) William Woods was the eighth child of 
Archibald and Ann. He probably died when a 
babe, as another child in this family received this 
name. 

(j) John Woods was the ninth child of Archi- 
bald and Ann, and married Ruth Jacob, by whom 
he had six children, as follows : 1, Archibald ; 2, 
Joseph J. ; 3, George W. ; 4, Hamilton; 5, Anne M. ; 
and 6, Martha V. 

(k) Emily Woods was the tenth child of Arch- 
ibald aud Ann. 

(1) William Woods — the second of this name 
in this family — was the eleventh child of Archibald 
and Ann. 

(m) Hamilton Woods was the twelfth and last 
child of Archibald Woods and his wife Ann Poage. 



VII.— MARY \\'OODS was the seventh child of 
Andrew Woods and his wife Mai-tha Poage. She 
was born February 19, 17GG, and died May 25, 1830. 
She married James Poage, and lived at Ripley, 
Ohio. She had by him thirteen childi'en. 

(a) Martha Poage was the first child of James 
Poage and Mary >Voods, and married a gentleman 
of her own name — Mr. George Poage. 

(b) John C. Poage was the second child of 
James and Mary. 

(c) Rev. Andrew W. Poage was the third child 
of James and Mary, and lived at Yellow Springs, 
Ohio. He married Jane Gay, by whom he had six 
children, as follows : 1, Nancy M. Poage, who mar- 
ried Thomas H. Reynolds; 2, James Poage; 3, John 
G. Poage, who married Sarah J. Jones ; 4, Andrew 
Poage, who lived at Pomona, California, and mar- 
ried Mary R. Kline, by whom he had three chil- 
dren ; 5, Mary Jane Poage; and 6, Margaretta E. 
Poage. 

(d) Mary Poage was the fourth child of James 
and Mary. 

(e) James Poage (Jr.) was the fifth child of 
James and Mary. 

(f) Robert Poage was the sixth child of James 
and Mary, and lived at Ripley, Ohio. He married 
Sarah Kirkcr, by whom he had nine children, as 
follows: 1, Rev. James S. Poage, who married 
Ann Voris, and after her death, Susan L. Evans, 
leaving eight children; 2, Thomas K. Poage, who 
married Sarah J. Henry, and, after her death, Jane 
Brickell, aud left ten children; 3, John N. Poage, 
who mai'ried Eliza Ann McMillan, by whom he had 
one child, Alice E.; 4, Sarah E. ; 5, Alfred B., who 
married Esther A. Work, by whom he had four 
children ; G, William C. ; 7, Joseph C. ; 8, Mary 
Jane; and 9, Ann E., who married, first, William 
W. Wafer, by whom she had three children, and, 
later, Andrew Hunter, by whom she had nine chil- 
dren. 

(g) Elizabeth Poage was the seventh child of 
James and Mary, who lived at Ripley, Ohio. She 
married the Rev. Isaac Shephend, and left a son, 1, 
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(h) Ann Poage was the eighth child of James 
and Mary. She lived at Ripley, Oiilo. She mar- 
ried Alexander iloouey, ami had hy liim six chil- 
dren, as follows: 1, John; 2, James; 3, Elizabeth; 

4, Sophia; 5, Thomas; and 6, Sarah Ann. 

(j) Rebecca Poage was the ninth child of 
James and Mary. She married John B. Knaw, and 
lived at Yellow Springs, Ohio. 

(k) Margaret Poage was the tenth child of 
James and Mary. She married the Rev. Thomas 

5. Williamson, and lived at St, Peter, Jlinnesota. 
She had ten children, as follows: 1, William B. 
Williamson; 2, Mary P.; 3, James G.; 4, Elizabeth 
P., who married Andrew Hunter and liad by him a 
daughter, Elizabeth . and a son J aim K. Elizabeth 
Hunter married the Rev. E. J. Lindsay; 5, Rev. 
John P. Williamson, who married Sarah A. Van- 
nice, and had by her eight children; 6, Professor 
Andrew W. Williamson, of Rock Island, Illinois, 
who is one of the original promoters of this publi- 
cation, a sketch of whom will be found in Part III 
of this work; 7, Nancy J. ; 8. Smith R. ; 9, Martha, 
who married William Stout, of Great Falls, Mon- 
tana, and had by him two sons, Thomas and Alfred 
J.; and 10, Henry ]\I., who married Helen M. Ely, 
by whom he had two sons, Sumner and William. 

(1) Sarah Poage was the eleventh child of 
James and ^lai'y. She married the Rev. Gideon 
Pond, and by him she had seven children, as fol- 
lows : 1, Ruth ; 2, Edward ; 3, Sarah ; 4, George; 5, 
Mary; 6, Elizabeth, and 7, Ellen. 

(m) Thomas H. Poage was the twelfth child of 
James and Mary. 

(n) Rev. George C. Poage was the thirteenth 
and last child of James and Mary. He married 
Jane Riggs, by whom he had five children, to wit: 
1, James; 2, Stephen Woods; 3, 'Msiry Ann; 4, 
George; and 5, Arabella. 

VIIL— MARTHA WOODS was the eighth and 
last child of Andrew Woods and Martha Poage. She 
died December 14. 1834. Her home was in Bote- 
tourt Gounty, Virginia. She married Henry Wal- 
ker, and by him had nine children. 

(a) Andrew W. Walker was the first child of 



Ihmry Walker and Martha \\'oods. Andrew's 
iiome was at Pott's Creek, Virginia. He married 
Elizabeth Uandiy, and by iier liad a i'amiiy of four- 
teen children, to wit: 1, Henry, wiio married .Maria 
Siiawver, and had by her ten children; 2, John, 
who marrietl Miss Nutten; 3, Archibald; 4, Mar- 
garet, who married Thomas Harvey and had by 
him three children; 5, Martha, who married Joseph 
Harvey, and by him had five children; G, Emily, 
who married Israel Morris, and by him had six 
cliildren; 7, Mary, who married George Douder- 
milk, and had by him eight children; 8, Elizabeth, 
who married Andrew Elmore, and Iiy him had sev- 
en children; i), Jane, wlio married Jolin Ferrier; 
10, Malvina, who married James Richardson; 11, 
Andrew; 12, Floyd; 13, Newton, who married Julia 
Rapp, and liy her had four children — Euphemia, 
Beiriie, Morris, and Samuel; and 14, Cynthia. 

(b) William Walker Avas the second child 'of 
Henry and Martha. His home was in Warren 
County, Kentucky. He was twice married. His 
first wife was Eleanor Moore, and his second was 
Sarah Lapsley. He left six children, as follows: 
1, Robert; 2, Henry; 3, Martha; 4, John L.; 5, 
Catharine; and 6, Adeline, who man-ied W. J. Lan- 
drum. 

((■) Ror.EitT Walker was the third child of Henry 
and ^fartha. His home was at Gap ]Mills, West 
Virginia. He married Jane Allen, by whom he had 
five children, as follows: 1, Ann Eliza; 2, Henry, 
who married Agnes Johnson; 3, Robert, who mar- 
ried a Miss Robertson; 4, Martha, who married 
Jackson Clark; and 5, Lydia. 

(d) James Walker was the fourth child of 
Heni'y and Martha. He lived in ^McDonough 
County, Illinois. He married IMargaret Bailey, by 
whom he had four children, to wit : 1, William S. 
B., who married Elizabeth Head; 2, Martha 
Woods, who married James M. Wilson; 3, Henry 
I\r., who married Isabel Head; and 4, James W., 
who married Julia Head. 

(e) Henry Walker was tlie fiftli cliild of Henry 
and iMariha. His houu^ was in fiercer County, 
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whom he had nine children, as follows: 1, Mar- 
tha, who married George Snidow, and by him had 
five children ; 2, William H. ; 3, Christian ; i, Mary ; 
5, James; 6, Eliza; 7, Lewis, who married Jane 
Carr, and by her had three children; 8, Sarah ; and 
9, Elvira. 

(f) Archibald Walker was the sixth child of 
Henry and Martha. 

(g) Joseph Walker was the seventh child of 
Henry and Martha. His home was in Braxton 
County, West Virginia. He married Maria Gray, 
and by her he had fonr children, as follows: 1, 
Lucretia; 2, Martha; 3, Robert; and 4, Henry. 

(h) George Walker was the eighth child of 
Henry and Martha. His home was in Giles Coun- 
ty, Virginia. He married Susan Eakin, and by her 
had seven children, as follows : 1, Edwin ; 2, Lean- 
der; 3, John A.; and 4, Avaninta, who married Cy- 
rus Reynolds, and had three children. 

(j) Mary Walker was the ninth and last child 
of Henry and Martha. She married Tilghman 
Snodgrass, by whom she had ten children, as fol- 
lows: 1, Robert L.; 2, Henry W.; 3, Newton; 4, 
James Wocds; 5, Cyrus; 6, Charles E. ; 7, T. Thom- 
as; 8, Lewis A.; 9, Jane; and 10, Mary M. 

This brings us to the end of the lists of so many 
of the families of children descended from Andrew 
Woods and ^Martha Poage as it was deemed advis- 
able to give in this volume. The more recent de- 
scendants are given pretty fully by Dr. Edgar 
Woods in the pamphlet several times mentioned, 
and to that puldication those who desire further 
details are referred. In studying these tables the 
writer has been impressed with the unusually large 
nundier of ministers of the Gospel to be found 
among the descendants of Andrew Woods of Bote- 
tourt. None of his brothers or sisters can make 
such a creditable showing. Andrew's Itranch might 
well be called the "Preacher's Branch." 

L.— SARAH WOODS was. as we incline to be- 
lieve, the eleventh and last eliild of :Miclia('l of Blair 
Park and IMary Campbell, and may have been born 
in Ireland about the year 1724. In that case she 
was pr()bal)ly a babe in her mother's arms when the 



Woodses crossed the Atlantic that year. Concern- 
ing her early life we know scarcely anything what- 
ever. We met her name first in 1761, when her 
father mentions her by name in his will as "my 
daughter Sarah," and leaves her a small sum of 
money. She must have been married long prior to 
1761, and yet her father does not refer in any way 
to that fact. And in the papers of Col. John 
Woods, executor of the estate of his and Sarah's 
father, we find no receipts to show that Sarah or 
any of her children ever got the money devised to 
them by Michael's will. In fact, the same is partly 
true as to her brother Archibald — some of his chil- 
dren drew their legacies, but he himself did not, so 
far as the receipts now in the writer's possession 
show. It is likely, however, that the executors of 
Michael's estate kept another receipt book, beside 
the one now extant, which has long since been lost. 
That Sarah Woods did marry a Mr. Joseph Laps- 
ley is absolutely certain, but the date of their mar- 
riage is unknown. We find her husband buying a 
farm from Benjamin Borden July 6, 1742, near 
where Lexington, Virginia, now stands, and we are 
compelled to assume that he was then at least twen- 
ty-one years of age. Sarah was then about eight- 
een. The probability is that Joseph and Sarah 
were then but recently married, and were about 
setting up housekeeping for the first time. That 
was only about six months prior to the Indian raid 
into the Valley which resulted in the cruel death 
of John McDowell, who was the husband of Mag- 
dalen (Woods) McDowell, Sarah's own sister. We 
do not know the date of Sarah's death, but we 
know that she was alive in 1791 when her son 
Joseph made his will, for he gives to her a life in- 
terest in his whole estate in remainder to his broth- 
ers and sisters. Her husband had been dead sev- 
eral years, as seems certain. According to our 
giTCSS as to the date of her birth (1724) she was 
about sixty-seven in 1791. Her son John, who was 
born, as we know, in 1753, and who was probably 
ten or more years younger than his brother Joseph, 
sold his farm and moved from Virginia to Ken- 
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that Sarah (his mother) had died before he moved 
West. A woman of about seventy years would 
hardly venture on such a journey as was neces- 
sarily involved in that undertaking in that early 
day, and her son would hardly have loft her behind. 
A ride of four hundred miles through a wilderness 
with its attendant hardships and dangers was 
somctliing to test the strength of even the hardiest 
frame. We therefore conclude that Sarah, the wife 
of Joseph Lapsley, never saw Kentucky, but died 
somewhere about the years 1702-1794 in Rock- 
bridge County, Virginia, and her diist no doubt re- 
poses in one of the old churchyards near Lexing- 
ton, or perliaps in the private burial-plot of the old 
homestead which her husband purchased of Ben 
Borden in 1742, when that region was a virgin 
wilderness. There is good reason for thinking that 
her son Joseph also died about the same time slie 
did. 

The late Judge James Woods Lapsley, of Annis- 
ton, Alabama, who was a distinguished great-grand- 
son of Joseph, stated that Joseph came from the 
North of Ireland to Virginia by way of Pennsyl- 
vania, reaching Virginia about 1734. That is the 
year in which the Woodses and Wallaces came to 
Virginia from Pennsylvania, and the Lapsleys may 
have been of the same party. At that date (1734) 
Joseph was probably not much over fourteen years 
of age. Of his parents we know nothing, except 
that it is said he was of Huguenot extraction. 
T\Tien, in 1742, he bought a farm of three hundred 
and thirty-eight acres (as the Rockbridge County 
records show) from Ben Borden, the Valley was 
but a splendid wilderness, and the Indians were 
constantly passing to and fro along their regular 
war-path, and now and then committing bloody 
depredations on the scattered inhabitants of the 
Valley. Their war-path, as has been several times 
before mentioned in tliis volume, led up tlie Valley 
from the Potomac to about \vh(»re Staunton now is, 
then turned easterly to the Blue Ridge, crossed the 
Ridge at Woods's Gap, and led on down to Carolina, 
etc. Even when the savages were nominally at 
peace with the whites they were frequently coming 



and going, and their presence must have been a 
cause of uneasiness, no matter wliat their mission 
professedly was. In 1752, ten years after his first 
purchase, Jo.seph Lapsley bouglit another tract of 
four hundred acres, this time from Sarah's nephew, 
James IMcDowell, her sister ilagdalen's son. The 
Lap.s](>ys were no doubt prominent people in Rock- 
bridge from the earliest days — good, reliable, 
Scotch-Irish folk, who in any time or place make 
sturdy citizens and good neighbors. There is a lit- 
tle creek near Lexington now which, for genera- 
tions, has been called "Sarah Lapsley's Run." The 
late Major J. A. R. Varner, of Lexington, a de- 
scendant of Sarah's sister Martha who married 
Peter Wallace, Jr., writing to Judge J. W. Lapsley 
a few years ago, says: "When I was five or six 
summers old, there was an apple tree standing on 
the edge of the lane leading to the spring on the 
farm bought by my grandfather (Andrew Wallace) 
from his uncle (l)y marriage) Joseph Lapsley. It 
was called 'Aunt Sarah Lapsley's tree.' Its fruit 
was large, red and sweet; and it is now represent- 
ed by a lusty descendant near the same spot where 
stood the knarled old tree of my childhood. And 
in the yard, near the londjardy poplar, was a large 
wliite rose, known as the 'Lapsley rose.' " 

Joseph Lapsley's home was visited in June, 1755, 
by the Rev. Hugh McAden, one of the pioneer Pres- 
byterian missionaries of Virginia and North Caro- 
lina. Mr. jMcAden kept a diary, which is quoted 
from Foote's sketches of North Carolina by Wad- 
dell in his Annals of Augusta County (page 66). 
Mr. McAden started up the Valley from the Poto- 
mac June 19, passing the sites of Winchester and 
Staunton. On Sunday, the 29th, he preached at 
the North Mountain, and at the same place on the 
next Sabliath. On Friday, July 11, jMr. McAden 
preached at Tindjer Ridge Church for the pastor. 
Rev. John Brown. The next day, Saturday, July 
12, he reached the home of a ]\fr. Bowyer (who, the 
writer suspects, was the gentleman who became, 
and possibly then was, the third husband of Sarah 
Lapsley's sister, Magdalen Woods). Here Mr. Mc- 
Aden spent a day or two; and he speaks, in his 



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diary, of Mr. Bowyer as "a very kind and discreet 
gentleman who used me exceedingly kindly, and 
accompanied me to the Forks, twelve miles, where 
I preached the second Sabbath of July, to a con- 
sidei'able large congregation. Kode home with 
Joseph Lapsley, two miles from meeting, where I 
tarried till Wednesday morning (16th). Here it 
was I received the most melancholy news of the en- 
tire defeat of our army by the French at Ohio, the 
genei'al killed, numbers of inferior officers, and the 
whole artillery taken. This, together with the fre- 
quent accounts of fresh murders being daily com- 
mitted upon the frontiers, struck terror to every 
heart. A cold shuddering possessed every breast, 
and paleness covered almost every face. Tn short, 
the whole inhabitants were put into an universal 
confusion. Scarcely any man durst sleep in his 
own house, but all met in companies with their 
wives and children, and set about building little 
fortifications to defend themselves from such bar- 
barians and inhuman enemies, whom they conclud- 
ed would be let loose upon them at pleasure. I 
was so shocked upon my first reading Colonel 
Innes's letter that I knew not well what to do." 
This, of course, was Braddock's defeat, which oc- 
curred Julv 0th, and the news of which spread all 
over the colony in less than two weeks. This brief 
narrative by a reliable eye-witness gives us a very 
vivid picture of the hardships and perils to which 
the Woodses, Lapsleys, Wallaces, McDowells, etc., 
were exposed in those far-off days, in what was 
then called the "Backwoods of Virginia." Yet we 
should do injustice to our kith and kin of that 
period by inferring that they had no schools or 
churches of culture. Those Presbyterians had 
gone to school in the old country, and they brought 
educated ministers with them to the new settle- 
ments, and began founding churches and schools 
without delay. We must remember that what we 
now know as Washington and Lee Fniversity had 
its beginning almost in sight of the homes of the 
Lapsleys, Wallaces, Woodses and ^McDowells (and, 
almost certainly, with their active assistance') six 
years before this visit of :Mr. McAden. Augusta 



Academy was its first name, and it was begun in 
1749, near Lexington. In 1782 it was chartered as 
Liberty Hall Academy; and in 1796, Washington 
gave it its first endowment. From that time on it 
was Washington Academy, till 1813, when it be- 
came Washington College; and in recent years 
(since 1870) it has been called Washington and 
Lee LTniversity. Those earliest Presbyterian 
preachers believed in classical and Christian edu- 
cation, and the schoolhouse was a necessary ad- 
junct of the church. Hence, we doubt not that 
Joseph Lapsley and his neighbors sent their boys 
and girls to good schools where they studied the 
humanities along with the Westminster Shorter 
Catechism and the Bible — a plan which not a few 
sensible Christian people in this day and genera- 
tion consider most wise and desirable. 

Joseph Lapsley's will was made November 29, 
1787, but the writer does not own a copy of it, and 
does not know just when it was entered in court for 
probate. Whilst we are imable to state the exact 
year of his death, it must certainly have occurred 
prior to 1791, when his son, Joseph Lapsley, Jr., 
made his will, wherein he provides for his mother 
exactly as if she were then a widow. When we at- 
tempt to give the number and names of all the chil- 
dren of Joseph and Sarah we encounter difficulty. 
In his will (1787) Joseph mentions only two chil- 
dren, to wit: Joseph, Jr., and John; but it is cer- 
tain he had at least a third son and several daugh- 
ters. This we learn from various sources. In the 
first place, Joseph Lapsley, Jr.. when he made his 
will, in 1791 — four years after his father made his 
— expressly referred to his "brothers and sisters." 
Secondly, the late Major Varner, (already often 
nuoted) in a letter addressed to the present writer 
in August, 1893, stated that when Joseph Lapsley, 
Sr.. made his will in 1787, he had at least one son 
and several dausrhters whom he did not refer to 
in that document. His father-in-law, Michael 
Woods of Blair Park, had done the same sort of 
thino- when he made his will in 1701. as has al- 
rondv been fully considered in the earlier portion 
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of Kockbriflfio County, Va., as quoted bv the late 
Judge Lapsley, of Annistou, Ala., show that John 
Lapsley, sou of Joseph, ^>r., and Sarah, wlio was 
the executor of both his deceased fatlier and his 
deceased brother Joseph, was, in October, 1795, a 
citizen of Lincoln C'ounty, Ky., and that, as such, 
he sold the old Lapsley homestead in Rockbridge. 
In this conveyance he states that he acts not only 
for himself and bis wife Mary, but for four other 
couples, to wit: James Lapsley and Mary, his 
wife ; James Cloyd, and Jean Cloyd, his wife ; John 
Hall, and Mary Hall, his wife; and -John Templin, 
and Martha Templin, his Avife. That James Laps- 
ley and the wives of Cloyd, Hall and Templin — 
Jean, Mary and Martha — were children of Joseph 
Lapsley, Sr., and Sarah, scarcely admits of a doubt. 
As for that third son, whom Joseph Lapsley, Jr., 
had in mind when he made his will in 1791 we can 
hardly doubt he was this James Lapsley whose 
wife was named ^lary, and who was in Lincoln 
County, Ky., in 1795. These facts and considera- 
tions, therefore, seem clearly to warrant us in say- 
ing that Joseph and Sarah had at least three sons 
and three daughters living in 1787, though our in- 
formation in regard to the majority of them is ex- 
tremely scanty. 

Children of Joseph and Sakah Lapsley. 

(Purely Tentative Exhibit as to Dates and Seniority.) 

L— JOSEPH LAPSLEY, JR. Bokn 1743 (?). 
Died 1792 (?). 
II.— JEAN LAPSLEY. Born 1748 (?). Died 

III.— jMARY LAPSLEY. Born 1750 (?). Died 

IV.— JOHN LAPSLEY. Born 175-3. Died 

v.— MARTHA LAPSLEY. Born 17.5fi ( ?). Died 

VI.— .TA^MES LAPSLEY. Born 1700 (?). Died 

T.— JOSEPH LAPSLEY, JUNIOR, was one of 
the children of Joseph and Sarah, and was probably 
born at the Lapsley homestead near Lexington, Va. 
We have guessed that he was born about the year 
1748, the year after his parents are suiiposed to 
have married; but we have only slender support 



for this precise date, and it is only our opinion 
that he was the first child of this family. Our sur- 
mises, however, are believed to be not entirely 
groundless. 

The first certain information we have in regard 
to Joseph, Jr., is found in tlie mention of him which 
his father makes in his M-ill Noveml)er 29, 1787. 
Therein he is named as one of his father's three 
executors, his mother and his l)i-other John being 
the other two. In less than four yeai-s after his 
father's will was made we find .Joseph, Jr., making 
his own— December 23, 1791. He was probably a 
bachelor. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary 
Army, when and where we know not. He left his 
whole estate to his mother, in remainder to his 
brothers and sisters. Further than this we know 
nothing of his career, but we believe he died prior 
to 1795, and possibly soon after making his will. 

II.— JEAN LAPSLEY was, as we believe, a 
daughter of Joseph and Sarah, who married a 
James Cloyd, moved to Lincoln County, Kentucky, 
prior to October, 1795, and for wl,om her brother 
John, as executor of her father and of her brother 
Joseph, conveyed by deed her interest in her fath- 
er's lands in Virginia, October 17, 1795. We know 
nothing further of her career, but the records of 
Lincoln County, Kentucky, may contain some in- 
formation concerning her husband and her chil- 
dren, if she had any. 

III.— MARY LAPSLEY was, as we believe, an- 
other one of the children of -Joseph and Sarah. She 
married a -John Hall, moved to Lincoln County, 
Kentucky, prior to October 17, 179.5, at wliich date 
her brother -John, who was then living in Lincoln 
County, Kentucky, conveyed for her and her sis- 
ters, as the executor of their father, and their 
brother Joseph, the lands of Joseph Lapsley. Sr., 
to one Zachariah Johnson, in Virginia. Beyond 
this one fact we know nothing of her. 

IV.— JOHN LAPSLEY was a son of Joseph and 
Sarah, and was born December 29, 1753. He was 
about twenty-two when the Revolution began, and 
enlisted in the command known as "'Morgan's 
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wiue, September 11, 1777, Avhere be was wounded 
wbile carrying orders across tbe battle-field. These 
facts are on record in tbe Government Arcbives at 
Wasliiuiiton City. December 22, 1778, be married 
a Miss :MarY Armstrong;. In 1795, or possibly one 
or two years earlier, be migrated to Kentucky 
(Lincoln County). He was tbe executor of both 
bis father and bis brother Joseph ; and, as such, on 
the seventeenth of October, 1705, be conveyed, for 
himself and others, four hundred and sixty acres of 
land to one Zacbariah Johnson, three hundred acres 
having been previously conveyed to Andrew Wal- 
lace. He bad a large family, as follows: 

(a) Joseph B. Lapsley was tbe first child of 
John and Mary, and was born October 5, 1779. He 
attended Washington College (Lexington, Vir- 
ginia ) and graduated from that institution in 1800, 
and entered the ministry of the Presbyterian 
Church. He preached in Kentucky and Tennessee. 
He was twice married. His first wife was Rebecca 
Aylett, whom he married September 27, 1804. His 
second wife was bis cousin, Sallie Lapsley. He had 
five children in all. 

By his first wife (Rebecca) Joseph B. Lapsley 
had tbe following children : 1, John W., who was 
a lawyer in Selma, Alabama, and died in 1889; 2, 
William Fairfax, who lived in Alabama, and died 
there, without issue; 3, Joseph M., who died in Sel- 
ma, Alabama, and left two children: George H., 
and Emma Baker, who live in Kansas City, Mis- 
souri. 

By his second wife (Sallie) be bad tbe following 
children : 4, Margaret, who married a Taylor ; and 
5, Samuel, who married ilary Bronough, who sur- 
vived him, and who now lives in Pleasant Hill, 
Missouri. 

(b) Priscilla Catharine Lapsley, who was 
born June 23, 1781, was the second child of John 
and Mary. She was no doubt born in Rockbridge 
County, Virginia, and went with her parents 
through the wilderness to Central Kentucky about 
1793-1795. She married Col. John Yantis, of Gar- 
rard County, Kentucky, a Revolutionary soldier of 
German birth. Tbe name originally was Yandes. 



Col. Yantis commanded a regiment in the War of 
1812, and for many years he represented Garrard 
County in the Kentucky Legislature. His father 
was Jacob Yantis (or Yandes). He lived on his 
plantation near Lancaster, Kentucky, until 1832, 
when he moved to Lafayette County, Missouri. 
There be ran for Congress, in 1834, on the Whig 
ticket, but failed of election, and died in that coun- 
ty in 1837. The only one of the children of Col. 
John Yantis and Priscilla Catherine Lap.sley of 
whom the wTiter has any information was their eld- 
e.st son, tbe Rev. John Lapsley Yantis, D. D., who 
married Eliza Ann Montgomery, by whom be bad a 
large family of children. Of him and bis children 
a somewhat extended account will be found in the 
sketch of J. Yantis Lapsley in Part III of this vol- 
ume. 

(c) John A. Lapsley'. who was born September 
5, 1783, in Rockbridge County, Virginia, was tbe 
third child of John and Mary, and no doubt accom- 
panied the family in their migration to Kentucky 
in 1795 (some say it was two years earlier). He 
married Mary (Polly) Wear McKee (born Novem- 
ber 20, 1783) the tenth day of August, 1805. Mary 
(or "Polly," as she was often called) was the 
daughter of a. William McKee, who was a commis- 
sioned officer (i-'ome say a Captain, others say a 
Colonel) in the Revolutionary Army. The said 
McKee came to America from Ireland in 1725, 
when a babe of one year, moved to Virginia in 
1745, and to Kentucky in 1793. He died in Ken- 
tucky October 8, 1816, at the advanced age of nine- 
ty-two. His wife was a Miss Miriam Wear. Ac- 
cording to the late Judge Lapsley of Anniston, 
Alabama, John A. and Mary Wear Lapsley had 
eleven children, to wit: 1, Mary Jane; 2, Miriam, 
who married Warner Wallace; 3, Amanda, who 
married Robert A. McKee, and whose granddaugh- 
ter (Mrs. John M. Wood, of St. Louis) has a 
sketch in Part III of this work ; 4, Priscilla, who 
married Robert Robertson ; 5, Joseph ; 6, Wil- 
liam M., who married a Miss Baron, of Perry 
County, Alabama, and left one child, Mary; 7, 
John ; 8, Samuel ; 9, Robert, who migrated to Aus- 



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tralia; 10, James; and 11, David Nelson, who was 
born April 16, 1830, and married ]\rarjiaret Jane 
Jenkins, and who was the father of Dr. Robert Mc- 
Kee Lapsley of Keokuk, Iowa, a sketcli of whom 
will be found in Part III of this volume. 

(d) James F. Lapsley, the fourth child of John 
and Mary, was born in Virjiinia January 7, 1786. 
He married Charlotte f'leland, by whom he had 
four children, to wit : 1, Eliza, who married Lanta 
Armstrong; 2, Sarah G., who married a Mr. Rob- 
ertson; 3, John P., who married, first, Eliza Johns- 
ton, and, later, a Mrs. Jennie ; and 4, James 

T., who married, first, Fannie Ewiug, and, later, 
Elizabeth Bosemond. 

(e) Samuel Lapsley, the fifth child of John 
and Mary, was born September 22, 1789, and mar- 
ried Sallie Stevens. 

(f) Sarah W. Lapsley, the sixth child of John 
and Mary, was born February 1, 1791, and mar- 
ried William Walker, by whom she had the follow- 
ing children, to wit : 1, Catharine, who is unmar- 
ried; 2, Adeline, who married General W. J. Lan- 
drum, a Brigadier in the Federal Army, lived at 
Lancaster, Kentucky, and by him has a large family 
of children. 

(g) WiLLLVM Lapsley, the seventh child of John 
and Mary, was born September 28, 1793. It is said 
that he married, had a family, and lived someAvhere 
in Tennessee. 

(h) Mary C. Lapsley, the eighth child of John 
and Mary, was born February 2G, 1796. She mar- 
ried James McKee, by whom she had the following 
children, to wit: 1, Miriam, who married a Mr. 
Kelsey, and moved to Denver, Colorado; 2, Mary 
Cliarlotte, who married William Dodd, of Kosci- 
usko, Mississippi, and had, among other children, 
John L. and Joseph C. Dodd, who are now (1904) 
prominent lawyers of Louisville, Kentucky; 3, 
Margaret, who married a IMr. Henning, by whom 
she had a daughter who married a Mr. Johnston 
of Yazoo City, Mississippi ; 4, John Lapsley, who 
married Sarah Speake, and by him had six chil- 
dren; and 5, Samuel, who married Sallie Camp- 
bell, and was in the Federal Army as Colonel of 



the First Kentucky Regiment, ami was killed at 
JIurfreesboro, Tennessee; and 6, James I'iiiley, who 
married JIargaret Speake. 

(j) Robert Armstrong Lapsley^ the ninth child 
of John and Mary, was born January 11, 1798. Fie 
married Catharine Rutherford Walker. This 
lady's father was John JMoore ^Valker, who mar- 
ritnl a Miss Margaret Woods, and Margaret was 
the daughter of James Woods and Xancy Ray- 
burn, and siiid James was the son of Andrew 
Woods and Martha Poage, an<l said Andrew was 
a son of Michael Woods of Blair Park and Mary 
Campbell. Thus it appears that Robert A. Laps- 
ley and his wife, Catharine Rutherford Walker, 
were cousins, and their eleven cliildren were lineal 
descendants of Michael Woods of Blair Park, 
through both his son Andrew and his daughter 
Sarah. The children of Robert A. Lapsley and 
Catharine were the following: 1, Joseph W., who 
died unmarried; 2, John D., who died unmarried; 
3, Norvell A., who died unmarried; 4, Robert, who 
was born February 10, 1833, married, first, Alberti 
Pratt, and, second, Mary Willie Pettus, by whom 
he had Roicrt Kay, John Pcttiis. Edninnd Wins- 
ton, and William Weedcn; 5, James Woods, who 
was one of the original subscribers to this work, a 
sketch of whom will be found in Part HI of this 
volume; 6, Margaret, who was born June 4, 1838, 
and married, first. Dr. James W. Moore, and, later, 
James H. Franklin; 7, Samuel Rutherford, who 
was born June 25, 1842, was in the Confederate 
Army, and received a fatal wound at the Battle of 
Shiloh, in 1862, while bearing the colors of his regi- 
ment; and 8, Samuel McKee, who was a soldier in 
the Federal Army, and died in 1862. Robert A. 
Lapsley, after the death of his (first) wife, Cath- 
arine Rutherford AValker, married Mrs. Alethea 
Allen; and, she dying, he took a third wife, Mrs. 
Mary Richardson, who survived hiuL He died in 
1872. She died some jears later in New Albany, 
Indiana. 

(k) Harvey Lapsley, the tenth child of John 
and Mary, was born April 1, 1800, and died unmar- 
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(1) Margaret Lapsley^ the eleventh and last 
child of John Lapslej and Mary Armstrong, was 
born February 17, 1802. 8be married Moses Jar- 
vis, by whom she had two children, to wit : 1, Mary 
Jane, who married a Mr. Sharp, and left no issue; 
and 2, John L., who married a Miss Sliarp, 
and left five children. 

v.— MARTHA LAPSLEY was, as we feel confi- 
dent, one of the six children of Josepli Lapsley and 
Sarah Woods. She may have been born about the 
year 175G. Her husband — if we are correct in our 
calculations — was one John Templin, who was in 
Lincoln County, Kentucky, in the fall of 1795, and 
was one of the heirs of Joseph Lapsley, Senior, 
mentioned by John Lapsley, executor of the estates 
of Joseph Lapsley, Senior, and Joseph Lapsley, 
Junior, in a conveyance to one Zachariah Johnson 
executed at that time. Further than this Ave know 
nothing concerning her. 

YL— JAMES LAPSLEY was, as we confidently 
believe, one of the sons of Josepli and Sarah. He 
may have been born about 1700. Like his three 
married sisters (]\[rs. Cloyd, Mrs. Hall, and Mrs. 
Templin) the only glimpses we get of him are, first, 
the vague allusion in the will of his brother Joseph, 



in 1791, where he speaks of his "brothers," clearly 
showing there was in the family at least one other 
son besides himself and John; and, secondly, in the 
conveyance of John Lapsley, executor, in 1795, in 
which, along with himself and wife, and thi'ee mar- 
ried women and their husbands, he joins a "James 
Lapsley and his wife ilary." No persons except 
cliildren of Josepli La])sley, Senior, could need fn 
join in that conveyance which transferred the old 
Lapsley homestead in Rockbridge County, Vir- 
ginia, to the Zachariah Johnson mentioned. Of 
course, it would not have been utterly impossible 
for persons in no way related to Jo.seph Lapsley, 
Senior, to have acquired, by some means, such an 
interest in his old home in Rockbridge as to render 
the signature of all them essential to the making of 
a perfect title to the grantee; but this possibility is 
so extremely remote in itself, and the circumstan- 
tial evidence in favor of our supposition is so 
strong, that, in the total absence of all contrary 
evidence, we do not hesitate to atifirm that the 
James Lapsley and the three married women who 
joined (along with their partners) in the convey- 
ance of October, 1795, were the children of Joseph 
Lapsley and his wife Sarah Woods, who had mi- 
grated to Keutuckv a few vears before. 



CHAPTER IV. 
WILLIAM WOODS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



Such information as we have been able to obtain 
in regard to the Woodses in Great Britain will be 
found mainly in Chapter First of Part I of this 
volume. That the William Woods who settled in 
what is now Orange County, North Carolina, some- 
where between 1730 and 1740, and six of whose 
descendants are among the original promoters of 
this publication, was a son of John AYoods and 
Elizabeth Worsop, and migrated from Ireland 
about 1724 along with his sister Elizabeth Wallace 
and his brother Michael Woods, has been shown in 
said chapter. Accoi'ding to the best information 



at our command this William Woods was born in 
Ireland in 1695, and was probably a marrie<l man 
twenty-nine years old, and the fatiivr of several 
children, when he migrated to the American Col- 
onies with the Woodses and Wallaces. According 
to the belief of those best qualifiLd to judge, Wil- 
liam Woods, unlike his sister and brother (Eliza- 
beth and Michael), never made Virginia his home. 
It is not at all certain that he made a lengthy stay 
in Pennsylvania, though he, as well as his sister 
and brother, probably lingered there for a time af- 
ter their coming to the American Colonies. Ac- 



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cortling to the lion. Johu 1). Woods, of Uiokory 
^';llU'y, Tt'iiiu'ssce (one of Iiis descendants), he did 
not settle in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, as iiis 
sister and his brother Michael seem to have done; 
hill made iiis home for some years near the Penn- 
sylvania and Maryland border, not far nortii of the 
site of the present city of Frederick, Maryland, 
yonie time after settling there — we know not 
when — he moved down into the colony of North 
Carolina, and settled on the Hycotee River in what 
is now Orange County, North Carolina, not far from 
the town of Ilillsboro. The precise date of this 
last move can not be certainly ascertained, but we 
know enough of the development of that region to 
feel warranted in venturing the conjecture that 
it could hardly have been earlier than the year 
1730, and nmy have been live to ten years later. 
In his sketches of North Carolina Dr. Foote states 
that I'resb^terians from the North of Ireland did 
not begin to settle in \ irgiuia and North Carolina 
until after the year 1730, exce^jt in scattered fam- 
ilies, or some small neighborhoods on the Chesa- 
peake Bay."" Dr. Foote also mentions a colony 
of Ulster Presbyterians who, in the year 1730, 
settled in what is now Duplin County, North Caro- 
lina, about one hundred miles southeast of the 
locality in which ^^'illiam Woods made his home; 
and by 1710 there wei*e scattered families of Pres- 
byterians on the Hycotee, the Eno, and the Haw 
River. That \Villiam Woods was the head of one 
of these "scattered families'' is extremely probable, 
for all that we know of his career is in exact line 
with this supposition. Dr. Foote tells us, posi- 
tiveh', that Scotch-Irish Presbyterians began to 
settle on the Eno and the Haw rivers about 1738-9, 
and that in that early day they were visited hj a 
Rev. Mr. Robinson, a Presbyterian minister from 
Pennsylvania. (Page 221.) In 1701, a Presbyte- 
rian church was organized by Rev. John White 
in Orange (Jouuty, called Little River for the stream 
of that name near it,*' and AVilliam Woods was 
one of the first elders that church had. Joseph 
Allison was made an elder at the same time. This 
historic old church stands between the North and 



South Forks of Little Kiver, in Orange County, 
about eight miles northeast of Ilillsboro. Mr. 
Doak Woods, a worthy descendant of William 
Woods of Ireland, recently lived at the old 
Woods Homestead, only three miles west of 
this church. The building stands on a divide near 
tile head streams of Little River and Eno River, 
wliich run southeasterly to form the Neuse River; 
and also of the Hycotee, wiiich runs in the opposite 
direction to join the Dan River. For a hundred 
and fifty years, and longer, that has been a neigh- 
borhood of sturdy Presbyterians, and the Woodses 
have ever been among its best citizens. The noted 
picmeer missionary of Carolina, the Rev. Hugh Mc- 
Aden, who travelled from Pennsylvania to Orange 
County, North Carolina, in the summer of 1755, 
on a preaching tour, and who kept a daily journal 
of his work, spent several days at the home of Jos- 
eph Lapsley, in Rockbridge County, Virginia, 
(whose wife, Sarah, was William Woods's niece) 
in July of that year. We can well believe that 
Sarah did not fail to advertise Mr. McAden that 
her uncle William Woods was living down in the 
region he was soon to visit. He left the Lapsley 
place on Wednesday, July 10, 1755, going on down 
towards Carolina; and on Tuesday, July 29th, he 
lodged with one Solomon Debow, on Hycotee 
River, not far from the Woods settlement. This 
man Debow was an emigrant from Pennsylvania. 
At Debow's he preached Sunday, August 3. Up 
to this date there were no doubt some plain church 
buildings in use by Presbyterians, but very few if 
any regularly organized congregations. Mr. Mc- 
Aden tells how gladly these "scattered sheep" wel- 
comed him and thanked him for his visit. At Eno 
(near Little Kiver) he preached August 10th, "to a 
set of pretty regular Presbyterians," and there was 
evidently a chapel in which the services were held. 
We feel reasonably sure that William Woods and 
his children were of those "pretty regular Presby- 
terians'' who on that occasion heard Mr. McAden 
and were made glad by the Gospel he preached. *- 

The spot which William Woods chose for a 
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1733; to Edgecombe Couuty from 1733 up to 1746; casualties, according to recent conservative ac- 

to Granville County from 1746 up to the year counts, numbered twenty-nine killed, and two hun- 

1751 ; and to Orange Couuty from 1751 to the pres- dred and sixty-one wounded. What side the 

eut time. The region as pictured by one of its AYoodses were on we do not know ; but in any case 

prominent citizens, the lion. Francis Xash, of the stiite of affairs in that whole region in those 

Hillsboro, in a valuable histoi*ical pamphlet he has days of civil commotion must have been extremely 

recently issued,^^ must be one of the most at- alarming and distressful. There were good and 



tractive in the Old North State. Of course, when 
William Woods settled there (ll'iO to 1740) the 
magnificent forests were untouched by man, the 
streiuns were dear- and uudefiled, and the soil pos- 
sessed its virgin richness. In 17:^9, when the Lords 
Proprietors ceased to govern the colony (or pro- 
vince) there were but three counties in North Cai-o- 
lina, and the total population of the whole was not 
over ten thousand. The growth ot' the colony, how- 
ever, was remarkably rapid, for by 1752 — 
the year after Orange County was organized 
— the population was ueai-ly a half a mil- 
liou. The town of Hillsboro had only about 
twenty families in 1707, but the country around 
was already thickly settled. As the Indians 
were in full possession of the country far to 
the east of Hillsboro in 1712, and later, it is easy to 
imagine the vigor with which the whites must have 
cleai-ed the laud. In the year just mentioned the 
savages made their stand for a battle with the 
whites at a spot only eighteen miles west of Xew- 
bern, showing that the white settlements at that 
time were confined to the sea coast. The disturo- 
ances incident to the French autl Indian Wars, 
(1754-1763) whilst not so serious in the southern 
colonies as in those further north, were the occa- 
sion of constant alarm to the people of North Caro- 
lina, owing to the presence of hostile and war-like 
tribes in the western end of their territory-. Then, 
as soon as that long series of contests came to an 
end, the War of the Regulators, with i.'s internal 
disorders and bloodshed, was developed; and for 
some years (about 1768-71) there was a condition 
of things bordering on civil war in the very region 
in which William Woods lived. The bsitle of Al- 
amance was fought May 16, 1771, only a few hours' 
ride from the home of William Woods, and the 



bad men on both sides; tyranny and oppression 
and misgovernment mainly marked the conduct of 
one part}' ; and lawlessness, rashness and practical 
anai'chj- were frequently illustrated by the other. 
But whichever side the Woodses took, and whatever 
the part they played, it must have been a trying 
time and place iu which they had to live, with their 
families constantly liable to rude annoyances if not 
grave perils. Some of the most exciting trials inci- 
dent to the llegulatiou period were held in Hills- 
boro, and many of the citizens of Orange County 
were arrayed on opposite sides. 

As soon as the Regulators subsided the distant 
mutteriugs of a yet more general and disastrous 
storm began to be heai'd — the Revolution began. 
The people of Orange County were not b^- any 
means all of one mind in regard to the struggle of 
the colonies against the British Crown. In 1775, 
as Mr. Nash informs us (see pamphlet above re- 
ferred to) there were many Tories iu Orange Coun- 
ty at the beginning of 1775, and Regulators in the 
outlying districts, and Scotch and English^ mer- 
chants iu Hillsboro. Then there were many neu- 
trals — men whose minds Avere not yet clear, or who 
were naturally averse to war. The first Provincial 
Congress (the Third Convention) was held in 
Hillsboro iu August, 1775. For six or eight yeai's 
longer the whole population lived in the midst of 
warlike scenes. William AYoods was an old man 
of eighty when the Revolution began, and even his 
sons were rather too old to enlist as soldiers, the 
eldest having been born in 1720. He served Little 
River Presbyterian Church as elder from 1761 
(the date of its organization) until his death, 
which occurred in 1785, when he had reached his 
ninetieth year. He was buried in the Little River 



WILLIAM WOODS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



Ui 



Church bnrial-gToimd, aiul by his side sleep many 
of his desreudaiits awaiting tlie hist tninipct-call 
which shall awake the dead. The name of his wife 
is not known. 

Children of AN'illiaji Woods of Xoutii C.vuolix.v. 
A— JOHN WOODS, Born ITliO ; I )ied 1813. 

B— WILLIAM WOODS, Boin ; Died . 

C— SAMUEL AVOODS, Burn ; Died . 

D— ELIZABETH WOODS, Boiu ; Died . 

E— MAR Y WOODS, Boiu ; Died . 

A— JOHN WOODS, the first child of William 
AVoods of North Carolina, was born in 1720, and, 
most probably, in Ireland. He \\as, therefore, a 
boy of four years when his father migrated to 
xVmerica. He was at least ten, and possibly twen- 
ty, years old when his father settled on the Hyco- 
tee Kiver in Mhat was afterwards Orange County, 
North Carolina. In 1750, when a man of thirty 
years, he married Miss Ann Louey Mebane. His 
wife, who was of Scotch ancestry, was born in 1730, 
and died in February, 1821. John and his wife 
A\ere both members of the Little River Presby- 
terian Church, he being a ruling elder of that 
church from a short time after its organization (in 
17G1) until his death in 1813. During the Regula- 
tor troubles (1768-1772) he resided at the very 
focus of the disturbances, but we do not know on 
which side of the controversy his sympathies lay, 
(ir how he and his family fared during that period 
of disorder and violence. Wheeler, in his History 
of North Carolina, mentions one "John Wood," 
who, being the sherilf of Orange County in 1768, 
was bitterly assailed by the Regulators in the 
Courts; but the name is spelled without the final 
s, and it is likely he was an entirely different man 
from the sturdy Scotch-Irish Presbyterian elder 
who was the son of William Woods. The Regula- 
tors cordially hated nearly every official who repi'e- 
sented the Colonial Government and was disposed 
to be loj-al to Gov. Tryon; and as there were many 
men of the most lawless character in that faction 
(as well as many men of the opposite stamp), it 
would not have been at all strange if some of the 



godliest people in the country should have fallen 
uiuler the displeasure of tlie Regulators, in case 
they sided with (Jov. Ti-yon. 

The idautatiou which he purchased considerably 
more tlian a century and a half ago, and on which 
he .six'ut nearly all of his lung life, has renmined 
in the hands of his descendants through all these 
years, aud one of his great-grandsons (Mr. Wil- 
liam Doak A\'oods) now owns it, or did, a few years 
ago. 

John Woods and his wife Ann L. :Mebane had 
six sons. AVe do not know whether they had any 
other children. 

L— WILLIAM ^VOODS was the first child of 
John and Ann. The date of his birth is unknown 
to the author. His wife was Nellie Lindsey, by 
whom he had oue son, uamed Lindsey. William 
served in the American Army in the Revolu- 
tionary Wai". He was a ruling elder of the Little 
River Presbyterian Church, as were his father and 
grandfather before him. Of his only son, Lindsey, 
we only know that he married Margaret A. Woods, 
daughter of his uncle Samuel Woods, and reared a 
family in Orange County, and that, like his father, 
grandfather, aud great-grandfather, he was an 
elder of the Little River Church. Lindsey and 
Margaret had a son, William Doak Woods, who, 
like his ancestors for several generations before 
him, was an elder in the Little River Church and 
the owner of the old Johu AVoods plantation on 
Little River. According to the unsolicited testi- 
mony of the Hon. Francis Nash, of Hillsboro, N. 
C, Avho was the co-temporary of Mr. William Doak 
Woods for many years, he was "oue of the best of 
men." The author much regrets his inability to 
furnish additional jjarticulars in regard to this 
and other worthy members of the North Carolina 
Clan of Woodses. 

II.— JOHN WOODS, JUNIOR, was the second 
son of John and Ann L. All we know of him is 
that he married and settled near Knoxville, Ten- 
ne.s.see, leaving one son, (a) Joseph. 

III.— DAVID WOODS was the third son of John 
and Ann L. He settled at Fulton, Kentucky. He 



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married, and left three sous, to wit : (a) John ; (b) 
David; (c) and William. 

IV. — THO^IAS W()(H)S. tlic fonrth cliild of 
John and Ann L., was born in Oranjje County, 
North Carolina, November 25, 1775. xVbout tlie year 
1805 he married Susannah Haldridsie, dani;hter 
of James and Jane (White) Baldridge, of Orange 
County, North Carolina, by whom he had eleven 
children. About the year 1807 Thomas and his 
little family moved to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 
where he worked at his trade (blacksmithing) un- 
til 1827, when he moved with all his household ex- 
cept his three eldest children (James, John and 
Jane) to Fulton County, Kentucky. There 
Thomas and his wife remained during the rest of 
their lives, he dying there March 31, 1837, and she 
dying December 18, 1819. Their bodies were 
buried at Palestine Church, near Fulton, Ken- 
tucky, and their son William M. had neat tomb- 
stones erected to mark their graves. 

(a) James B. Woods^ the first child of Thomas 
and Susannah, married Margaret Finger in Ifuth- 
erford County, Tennessee, where he lived for many 
j^ears. Later on they moved to Izard Cuiinty, Ar- 
kansas. They had a son and two daughters, as 
follows: 1, William H. Woods, who still resides 
in Izard County; 2, Sust^nnah M., who nuirried a 
Mr. Russell, and is now a widow ; 3, A. Texas, who 
married Wm. P. Garner, and still resides in Izard 
County ; and a number of other sons and daughters, 
now dead, many of whose descendants are to be 
found in Izard County, and Fulton County, bear- 
ing the names of Rector, Sanders, Freeman, Sub- 
lett, Stroud, Campbell, Fowler, Clem, I'arker, and 
CoiJeland, in addition to those having the name of 
^^'oods. 

(b) John Woods^ the second child of Thomas 
and Susannah, lived to be eighty-seven years old. 
He was twice married, l)ut never had any children. 
He resided in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in which 
community he was a prominent tigure. He was in 
public life for a long period, being for a great while 
County Clerk, part of the time Chairman of the 
County Court, and a member of the State Senate 



for one or more terms. He was a popular man, 
and by the outbreak of the Civil War (18G1) had 
grown to be comparatively wealthy. The disas- 
ters incident to a four years' war, and losses in- 
curred, to the extent of nuuiy thousands of dol- 
lars, in going security for his friends, effected the 
ruin of his estate. However, he finally managed 
to so far recover himself as to discharge all of his 
obligations and l)e in comfortable circumstances 
when he died. 

(c) Jaxe W. Woods, the third child of Thomas 
and Susannah, married Handy Snell, and lived to 
be eighty years old. Her life was spent in Ruther- 
ford County, Tennessee. Her descendants live in 
that part of the country now, though some of them 
moved to Texas. 

(d) Ann A. C. Woods, the fourth child of 
Thonms and Susannah, marrii'il Harvey Brown in 
Fulton County, Kentucky, and after living there 
many years she moved with her husband to Izard 
County, Arkansas, where both she and her husband 
lived to a ripe age. Among her children was, 
1, a son, Thomas A., who became a minister of 
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. This sou 
is a bachelor and resides in Izard County. Ann 
(\Voods) Brown has numerous other descendants 
in Izard and Fulton Counties bearing the names 
Mano, Lawyers, Oliver, Chadwick, and Moore. 

(e) Thomas C. Woods, the fifth child of Thomas 
and Susannah, was never nmrried. He died July 
17, 1811, near Alexandria, La. 

(f) Malcom Woods, the sixth child of Thomas 
and Susannah, died in infancy. 

(g) Susannah M. Woods, the seventh child of 
Thomas and Susannah, married a Mr. Simmons, 
by whom she had one daughter, namely; 1, Susan- 
nah E., who married John W. Jacobs, bj' whom she 
had children who are themselves marrie<l and have 
children bearing the names of Jacobs, Luckett and 
Call. Susannah died early in her married life. 

(h) William Mitchell Wood;: was the eighth 
child of Thomas and Susannah, and December 16, 
1847, he married Elizabeth E. Brown, daughter of 
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County, Kentucky. Tlu-y uuide Lheir tiist liome iu 
Obiou Couuty, Tennessee, on the Kentucky and 
Tennessee line, in wliat is called "The Black 
Swamp." In the fall of 1S55 tliey sokl this farm 
for $7.00 per acre, but soon afterwards it was held 
at .fSO.OO per acre. During the following winter 
William visited his brother James B. iu Izard 
County, Aikausas, anil bought a farm on Sandy 
Bayou which is now iu Izard County. He made a 
crop the next season, and in the fall of 185G brought 
his family to his new iiume. In 18()8 he sold the 
part of the fai'm he had at tirst occupied, and 
erected a house a mile further down the creek. 
Here William died Septend)er 11), 18!)C, and his 
wife followed him March 15, 1S<J!». William M. 
Woods was a member of the Church of Christ, and 
his wife was a member of the Cumberland Pres- 
byterian Church. The3' were both intelligent, in- 
dustrious and good people who commanded the 
confidence and respect of their neighbors. They 
Avere buried in Spring Hill Cemetery within a 
quarter of a mile of their last place of residence. 
They had the following children, to wit: 1, John 
Harvey Woods, born March 27, 18-19; 2, Thomas 
James, born August 15, 1850; 3, William Archi- 
liald, born April 12, 1852; 4, Johnson Pierce, born 
October 12, 1853; 5, Sarah Annabel, born October 
IG, 1855; G, Stephen Washington, born December 
9, 1857 ; 7, Benjamin Franklin, born February 21, 
1867; and 8, Owen Shelley, born February 27, 
1870. All of these children except two that died 
in infancj", were fairly well educated at La Crosse 
Academy, La Crosse, Arkan.sas. More extended 
accounts of John Harvey, Thomas James, and Ste- 
phen Washington will be found iu Part III of this 
volume, to which the reader is referred. 

(j) M.vuY E. Woods was the ninth child of 
Thomas and Susannah. She married Bright Snell, 
and lived in Kutherford County, Tennessee. They 
have many descendants now living in that county. 

(k) Stephen H. Woods^ the tenth child of 
Thomas and Susannah, has been married three 
times, and has numerous descendants by each mar- 
riage, the most of whom live in Kutherford County, 



Tennessee*, though some reside in Texas. Stephen 
11. is a physician of cmiiuMuc in ivuthcrford 
County, wliere he lias liccn long in pnictice. 

(1) Abig.vil B. Woons, the eleventh and last 
child of Thomas and Susanuaii. was twice man-ied. 
Her tirst husband was a Mr. Simmons, and her last 
was William Brown. By both husbands she has 
descendants in Western Kentucky and Texas. 

v.— ALEXANDE]{ WOODS was the fifth .son of 
John and Ann L. and died without ever having 
married. 

\'I.— SAMUEL WOODS was the sixth and last 
son of John and Ann L. He was bcjru March 14, 
17G9. He was married twice; first to Jennie .Uli- 
son, January G, 1789; and next, to a Miss Eliza- 
beth Woods, a distant kinswoman. The Hon. 
John D. Woods, of Hickory X'alley, Tennessee, 
states that Elizabeth's father was one Hugh 
Woods, and that said Hugh was a s(m of Col. John 
Woods, of Mrginia. But the writt-r gravely 
doubts this last statement, as he has never seen 
or heard any accounts of the family of Col. John 
Woods (after some pretty thorough investigation 
of all available sources of information) which 
made mention of a son by the name Hugh among 
his children. No such person is in any way re- 
ferred to in Col. Woods's will (written in 1791), 
and there are the strongest possible reasons for 
atlirming that in that instrument he mentions all 
of his children except two who died in early in- 
fancy or childhood. 

Samuel Wood.s, the last child of John and Ann 
L., was twice married. By his tirst wife, Jennie 
Allison, he had three children that we know of; 
and by his second wife, Elizabeth Woods, he had 
six. These will be mentioned in the order given 
by Hon. John 1). AVoods, of Tennessee, who belongs 
to this branch, and is perhaps better inforuu'd in 
regard to it than any other person living. 

(a) Joseph A. Woods was the first child of 
Samuel by his first wife, Jennie. 

(b) John Woods was the second child of Sam- 
uel by his first wife, Jennie. 

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child of Samuel by his first wife, Jeuuie, and was 
boi'u iu Orauge County, Xortli Carolina, October 
28, 1795. He married Mary Kobiuson April 5, 
182], and moved to Hardeman County, Tennessee, 
in the winter of 1824-5. There he continued to re- 
side until his death, June 28, 1878. His wife, 
Mary Kobiuson, was born in Oiaujie County, North 
Carolina, December 1, 171)9, and died June 26, 
1854. David Woods was one of the Magistrates 
of Hardeman County for twenty-four years. Hi& 
wife was the daughter of James Robinson, who was 
a son of Michael Robinson. Michael Robinson 
came from Ulster Province, Ireland, to America 
in 1742, and settled iu Orange County, North Caro- 
lina, in 17G0. Michael Robinson's wife was Mary 
Roy, and was a member of the well-known family 
of this name. James Robinson, who was the son 
of ^lichael and the father of Mary, married his 
cousin, ;Margaret Roy. In their old age James 
and Margaret settled in Tennessee, near to the 
home of their sou-iu-law, David Woods. 

David Woods and his wife Mary Robinson had 
four children, as follows: 1, Samuel Mebane, who 
was born February 16, 1822, married Xarcissa 
Robinson. Samuel M. Woods was the father of 
the Hon. John D. Woods, of Hickory Valley, Ten- 
nessee, one of the most efficient promoters of this 
publication, and iu the sketch of that gentleman 
to be found in Part III of this work will be seen ad- 
ditional particulars of his family. 2, John R. 
Woods; 3, Mary Woods; and 4, Margaret Woods, 
the last of the four children of David and Mary. 

(d) Hugh Woods was the fourth child of Sam- 
uel — the first one by Elizabeth, his second wife — 
and was born August 5, 1800, in Orange County, 
North Carolina. On the 26th of January, 1826, 
he was married to Elvira Jaue Ray, who was born 
October 1, 1802, in Orange County. Six children 
were the fruit of this union, to wit : 1, Samuel 
Robert Faucett, who was born February 16, 1828; 
2, Margarett Jane, born July 29, 1830; 3, Joseph 
Hammel, who was born November 7, 1833, and 
was the father of Mrs. James Dennis Goodwin, of 
Richmond, Virginia, one of the original promoters 



of this x>nl>lication, a sketch of whom will be found 
in Part III of this work; 4, Elizabeth Ann, who 
was born August 19, 1837; 5, Hugh Phillips (gen- 
erally called Tyler), born January 15, 1840; and 
6, Mary Ellen, who was born July 22, 1842. 

(e) Jennie M. Woods was the second child of 
Samuel Woods by his second wife (Elizabeth). 

(f) Mary A. Woods was the third child of Sam- 
uel Woods by his second wife (Elizabeth). 

(g) Susan F. was the fourth child of Samuel 
Woods by his second wife (Elizabeth). 

(h) Samuel Ray Woods was the fifth child of 
Samuel Woods by his second wife (Elizabeth). He 
was born near Ilillsboro, North Carolina, January 
23, 1808. He married Miss Zilpha Elizabeth Mc- 
Kuine, of Wayne County, North Carolina, Feb- 
ruary, 1831, by whom he had six children, as fol- 
low: 1, William Samuel, born December 1, 1831; 
2, Mary Elizabeth, born December 16, 1833, and 
died August 29, 1835; 3, Susan McKuine, born 
3Iarch 29, 1836 ; 4, John Raiford, born October 13, 
1838; 5, Barbara Ann, born September 18, 1841; 
and 6, David Sidney, born December 28, 1844, of 
whom a sketch will be found iu Part III of this 
volume. Samuel Ray Woods moved from North 
Carolina to Marion, Peri-y County, Alabama, in 
1848. All three of his sons (William Samuel, 
John Raiford, and David Sidney) went as volun- 
teers into the Confederate Army in. the summer 
and fall of 1861. William S. was in Company B 
of the 20th Alabama Regiment, and saw service in 
the Army of Tennessee. John R. and David S. 
joined Comi>any K of the 11th Alabama, and saw 
service in Virginia under General Robert E. Lee. 
William S. fell iu battle iu a charge near Marietta, 
Georgia, June 22, 1864. His comrades said of him 
that he was the most exemplary man in the Regi- 
ment, and all testified to his high Christiau charac- 
ter and noble soldierly bearing. The last words he 
was heai'd to utter were: ''Forward, boys; for- 
ward.'' His old commander. General E. W. Pet- 
tus, of Selma, Alabama, yet remembers him, and 
speaks of him in the highest terms as a brave, true, 
and fearless soldier. Zilpha Elizabeth, wife of 



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Samuel Hay Woods, died April 13, 1877, and Sam- 
uel himself died July 30, 1890. John Kaiford 
W^oods resides in Xew Berne, Alabama. He married 
Miss Annie Jane Paul, by whom he has three chil- 
dren, as follows: Gtoryc t^idiici/, born March 1, 
1877; Murij Alicf, born July 13, 1879; Elizabeth 
McKainc, boru A^jril 20, 188:2. Susan McK. and 
Barbara Auu Woods, the third and titlli childreu of 
Samuel IJay A^'oods by his witV Zilpba, are unmar- 
ried, and reside in Marion, Alabama. 

(j) Makgaret a. Wouds was the sixth and last 
child of Samuel Woods by his second wife, Eliza- 
beth, and married her cousin, Lindsey Woods, the 
son of her uucle, William Woods. 

Samuel Woods, the sixth and last son of John 
and Ann L., was from earl3' manhood till his death 
in 1852, an elder of the Little Kiver Presbyterian 
Church, he being the fifth individual of the 
Woodses, iu a direct line, who held that office in 
that particular church, aud covering a period of 
ninety-one years — from 1701 to 1852. This i&^ a re- 
markable record, and it seems to indicate that there 
must have been iu this brauch of the family uncom- 
mon tidelitj- on the part of parents iu teaching 
their children to understand aud hold fast to the 
faith of their fathers. 

B.— WILLIAM WOODS was the second child of 
AMlliam Woods of Xorth Caroliua, the Irish emi- 
grant. Of him we kuow extremely little, except 
that in a very early day he migrated to the region 
of East Teunessee in which the town of Jonesboro 
now stands. No doubt some of the Woodses in 
^^'ashington and Greene Counties, Tennessee, are 
his descendants. 

C— SAMUEL WOODS was the third child of 
William, the Irish emigrant. He was probably 
born about the year his parents migrated to Amer- 
ica (1724). He married Mary Mitchell, aud in- 
herited from his father the old home place on Hy- 
cotee River. Five sons are known to have been 
born to Samuel and Mary, as follows : 

I.— JOHN WOODS Avas the first child, so far as 
known, of Samuel and Mary. We kuow that John 
married, and that he liad two sous, as follows: (a) 



Ani)Ui:\v, who was living a few years ago on the old 
home place on the liycotee at the great age of nine- 
ty years; and (b) Geeen. 

II. — ANDREW WOODS was the second child 
of Samuel and ^lary. 

111. — WIM.IAM WOODS was tbc thiid cliild of 
Samuel and Mary. 

IV.— THOMAS WOODS was the fourtli cliild of 
Samuel and Mary. 

\'.— JAMES WOODS was the fifth child— and 
the hist, so far as we are informed — of Samuel and 
Mary. 

D.— ELIZABETH WOODS was the fourth child 
of William, the Irish emigrant. Slie married Da- 
vid Mitclieil, who was a brotiicr of the Mary ilitch- 
ell who married Samuel Wt)ods, Elizabeth's broth- 
er. They lived on liycotee River. Their descend- 
ants are very numerou.s, aud are found in North 
Caroliua, Teunessee and Alabama more especially. 

E.— MARY WOODS was the fiftii, aud perhaps 
the last, child of William, the Irish emigrant. She 
married a ilr. Strain. For a few years after their 
marriage this couple lived on a large plantation 
\\hich they owned on Little River, but in the early 
period of the settlements in East Tennessee they 
went with Mary's brother AVilliam to make their 
home near the town of Jonesboro, in what is called 
the "Dark Neighborhood." 



We now bring to a close the account of the 
AA'oodses, which constitutes Part I of this volume; 
and in doing so it will not be thought inappropri- 
ate to offer some refiections concerning the Woods 
family as a whole. The author has endeavored to 
avoid, as far as possible, everything like a vain- 
glorious spirit in speaking of the family of which 
it is his privilege to be a humble memlier. He has 
had no desire to exaggerate, in any degree, the mer- 
its of any jierson of whom he has made mention; 
but, so far as he has had the framing of the various 
accounts of individuals of the connecthm, he has 
endeavored to speak with modesty of their gifts 
and achievements, and to tell only what seemed to 
be true. The Woodses, as a rule, do not sccmu to 



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have been in any marked degree people of wealth, 
or exalted official station, or unusual bril- 
liancy. A great many of them, indeed, have en- 
joyed all of these advantages; but it is not pre- 
tended that the Woodses in general have made any 
specially remarkable record as respects this class 
of distinctions, when compareil with the average 
of worthy families in America. There have been, 
and still are, among the scattered thousands com- 
posing the Woods Clan, members of Congress, Gov- 
ernors of States, diplomats, high officers in the 
Army and Navy, distinguished authors and liter- 
ary men and women, hundreds of bankers and cap- 
italists, and a few milliouaires; Init the great 
mass of them have been men of moderate 
means, average education, humble station, and no 
remarkable brilliancy. But the Woodses and their 
descendants of myriad names have made a record 
in certain important spheres of life and human ac- 
tivity which we sincerely believe is not surpassed 
by that of any other one family in the Union. Let 
the reader, if he cares to determine the accuracy of 
this judgment for himself, begin with Elizabeth 
(Wallace), Michael, and William Woods (the 
three children of John Woods, of Ireland) at the 
time they landed in America in 1724, ami follow 
them for the succeeding one hundred and eighty 
years, and he will see that we indulge no idle 
boast. The Woodses, AVallaces, McDowells, Bor- 
dens, Bowyers, Lapsleys, Millers, McAfees and 
their numberless descendants not only settled, in 
large measure, the Piedmont Kegiou and the Great 
Valley of Old Virginia, and an important part of 
North Carolina, and were among the sturdy early 
settlers of West Virginia and Tennessee, but they 
had probably a larger share in the founding and 
development of Kentuckj' from 1773 onward than 
any other one family in America. The records 
show that in every war from 1734 to this day they 
have borne a pi'ominent and honorable part on the 



field in defence of liberty and the rights of 
luan. And, above all else, to their everlasting 
honor it can truthfully be said that, as a family, 
they have ever stood for industry, sobriety, high- 
toned morality, and the religion of Jesus Christ. 
A careful inspection of the records reveals among 
the descendants of the three Woodses mentioned a 
remarkably large number of ministers of the Gos- 
pel and Christian missionaries. Some of these 
have been among the most distinguished and use- 
ful in the various Evangelical Churches of the 
United States. There are probably not less than 
fifty Gospel ministers now alive in America or in 
foreign lands in whose veins the blood of John 
Woods of Ireland Hows. If we should attempt to 
count the private members and officers of the vari- 
ous Christian denominations in the land to-day 
who trace their lineage back to John Woods and 
Elizabeth Worsop, it is believed they would be 
numbered by thousands. The descendants of 
this couple through the daughter and the two sons 
mentioned have been in an important and real 
sense founders of this nation, and some have gone 
to distant heathen lands to carry the glad tidings 
of salvation to men sunk in idolatry and barbarism. 
Doubtless there have been in this widely scattered 
family, in the course of nearly two centuries, many 
who have done nothing to add lustre to the name; 
but, taking the record as we have it in this volume, 
it can be said, without exaggeration or boasting, 
that if Elizabeth Wallace and her brothers Mich- 
ael and William Woods could revisit the earth to- 
day and see what their posterity have accom- 
plished, and what place they now fill in the relig- 
ious, intellectual, financial and economic world, 
thej' would have a right to feel glad they had been 
permitted to live in America and to give to it so 
many worthy sons and daughters, whose lives and 
deeds have done so much to make this laud glorious 
and blest. 



NOTEt^ ON TAKT ONE. 



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NOTES ON PART ONE. 

THE WOODS FAMILY. 



1 — The confession should lie made at the outset 
that the amount of definite and ahsolutely certain 
information we possess in regard to tlie Woodses 
prior to their settlement in the colony of Viruinia 
in 1734, is not great. Hence, positive assertions 
relating to the period now under consideration 
must be infrequent, and qualifying phrases will 
often be required. We must, therefore, content 
ourselves with reasonable probabilities and infer- 
ences, in many cases, greatly as we might like to 
feel entirely certain in regard to a multitude of 
matters touched upon. The manufacture of his- 
tory is oftentimes a tempting form of industry, but 
it js the desire of the author to avoid engaging in 
it, if possible. 

2 — For helpful accounts of the persecutions 
which the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians suffered at 
the hands of English bigotry, see Fiske's Old Vir- 
ginia and Her Neighbors, Vol. 2, pages 390-400; 
Foote's Sketches of Virginia, First Series, Chapter 
IV; the Introduction to Waddell's Annals of 
Augusta County, Virginia; and to any good, com- 
prehensive history of England or Ireland. 

3 — That Michael Woods and his family migrated 
to the colony of Pennsylvania somewhere about 
the close of the first quarter of the eighteenth cen- 
tury, seems to have been an accepted belief in the 
families of his descendants; but the exact year of 
his migration is fixed with reasonable certainty by 
an unbroken tradition which has come down to our 
day through the descendants of Col. John Woods, 
the favorite son of Michael. That tradition is that 
John was a boy twelve years old when he came over 
in the ship to America with his parents. That John 
\^'oods was born in 1712, is known beyond 
all question. The author is personally acquainted 
with Mr. J. Watson Woods, of Mississippi, a lineal 



descendant of Col. John W^oods, who has many 
ancient original documents of this ancestor, and 
he aflSrms that the date of the coming of the 
Woodses, Andersons and Wallaces to America was 
the year 1724, if the unvarying tradition of the 
family is to be regarded. The date 1724 may there- 
fore safely be accepted as correct. 

4 — See Dr. Woods's History of Allx-marlo Coun- 
ty, page 355. 

5 — Our best authority as to the ancient Woodses 
in Great Britain is Mr. John OTTart, of Dublin, 
Ireland, the author of a wcll-lcnowii work entitled 
Irish Pedigrees, which has run through several 
editions, the third of which was published in 1881. 
The sixth edition, in 3IS., was ready for the press 
several years ago. Mr. O'Hart enjoyed exceptional 
advantages in making his researches, and had ac- 
cess to the public offices and larger libraries of Ire- 
land. Then there is a Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett, of 
Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland, a lady of 
high character, and an author of repute, who cer- 
tifies to the reliability of Mr. O'Hart, and adds 
some notes of her own to what he has published. 
This lady is herself a descendant of the same fam- 
ily of Woodses as that one with which this A'olume 
is concerned, and is personally acquainted with a 
number of prominent Woodses now living in Ire- 
land, who trace their line back to the same Woods 
ancestors as herself. The statements made in the 
body of this volume in regard to the Woodses in 
Great Britain are derived almost entirely from 
these two authors. Those who care to look further 
into these (]uestions will be interested in Prender- 
gast's Croniwellian Settlement of Ireland, Burke's 
General Armory, and the Office of the King at 
Arms, Dublin Castle, Ireland. 

G — There are some records in Ireland which seem 



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to give the maiden name of John Woods's wife quite 
differently, namely, Wollup. Whethei" this is an 
instance of ille,aihle writin';, or not, can not be 
stated. The correct name is believed to have been 
as herein given Worsop. 

7 — Our information in regard to the remoter 
Wallaces has been gotten from the following 
sources, to wit: (a) Hayden's Virginia Genealo- 
gies, Wilkesbarre, Penn., 1891, pages 685-735; (b) 
Private family records of the late Major J. A. R. 
Varner, of Lexington, Ya., who was a descendant of 
Peter Wallace and Elizabeth Woods, and several of 
whose letters are in the possession of the author of 
this work; fc) History of Albemarle County, Va., 
by Eev. Edgar Woods, Ph. D., pages 336-7, and 
351-6 ; and the Life and Times of Judge Caleb Wal- 
lace, by the Rev. Dr. Wm. H. TSTiitsitt, Number 
Four of the Filson Club Publications, pages 1 to 
5, and 21 to 23. In cousultiiig Dr. Whitsitt's book, 
however, the reader should bear in mind that he 
fell into some inaccuracies concerning both the 
Woodses and Wallaces by reason of his not having 
noted that there were two Peter Wallaces — father 
and son — and that Peter, the elder, married a sister 
of Michael Woods, and his son, Peter, Jr., married 
a daughter of Michael. Dr. Whitsitt, furthermore, 
was probably not aware that ilichael Woods had 
at least five children besides the six who were men- 
tioned in his will. The identity of these five chil- 
dren is fully considered in the chapter on 
Michael Woods. So far as the writer can learn 
there is not a single court record in America to in 
dicate that Peter Wallace, the elder, was ever in 
any of the colonies. 

8 — For a full account of that branch of Wallaces 
who located in King George County, Virginia, and 
named their homestead Elderslie, see Virginia 
Genealogies by Hayden, pages 685-735. The head 
of this branch was one Michael Wallace, M. D., 
who was born at Galrys, Scotland, in 1719, and 
whose father was named William. These Wallaces 
were probably near of kin to those now under con- 
sideration — William and Peter may have been 
brothers. Both branches were most probably de- 



scended from the same person a« was Sir William 
Wallace, the famous Scotch patriot. 

9 — Sketches of Virginia by Rev. William Henry 
Foote, D. D., Philadelphia, 1850, First Series, page 
101. 

10 — History of Albemarle County, Virginia, by 
Dr. Edgar Woods, page 336. 

11 — Life and Times of Judge Caleb W^allace, 
Number 1 of Filson Club Publications, by the Rev. 
Dr. Wm. H. Whitsitt. 

111/2 — For additional items as to Wallaces see 
sketch of Major J. A. R. Varner. 

12 — For a brief account of his death at Guil- 
ford C. H., see Foote's Sketches of Virginia, Sec- 
ond Series, page 147. The death of his two broth- 
ers is also referred to in that place. 

13 — This story was told in an article which ap- 
l>eared in The Rockbridge County News (Lexing- 
ton, Virginia) April 24, 1890. 

14 — Governor McDowell was a descendant of the 
Magdalene Woods who married John McDowell, 
and she was a sister of Adam Wallace's mother, 
Martha Woods. Both these women were the daugh- 
ters of Michael Woods of Blair Park. 

15 — See Notes 3 and 5 on Part I, Chapter First. 

16 — Peyton's History of Augusta County, Vir- 
ginia, page 302. 

17 — See Waddell's Annals of Augusta County, 
page 4; Peyton's History of Augusta County, 
pages 23, 31 and 79 ; and Fiske's Old Virginia and 
Her Neighbors, Vol. 2, pages 390-395. 

18 — See Fiske's Old Virginia and Her Neighbors, 
Volume II, the whole of Chapter XVII, especially 
pages 395 and 396. Foote's Sketches of Virginia, 
First Series, Chapter IV, and pages 102-106. 

19 — See Waddell's Annals of Augusta County, 
pages 7 to 9, and notes ; and Dr. Hale's Trans- Alle- 
gheny Pioneers, page 21. 

20 — See Fiske's Old Virginia and Her Neigh- 
bors, Vol. 2, pages 384-5 ; and Waddell, pages 9 and 
10. 

21— Fiske, page 384. 

22— See Waddell, page 16; Foote, First Series, 
page 101 ; Dr. Edgar Woods, page 351. 



NOTES ON PART ONE. 



143 



23 — See Peyton's Augusta, pasies 25 to 31. 

24 — Foote's Sketches of Virjiiuia, First Series, 
page 101. 

25 — Waddell's Anuals, page 13. 

26— See all of Chapters I and III of Waddell's 
Anuals; and Peyton's Augusta, pages 9 and 81. 

27 — Waddell's Annals, page 13, where is given a 
picture of travel in those days. 

28 — See Peyton's Augusta, page 9. 

29— See Waddell's Annals, pages 30 and 31; 
Peyton's Augusta County, page 05 ; and Foote's 
Sketches of Vii-ginia, Second Scries, pages 92 and 
93. It will appear from a comparison of these cita- 
tions that Dr. Foote places the death of John Mc- 
Dowell in 1743, a year later than Waddell and Pey- 
ton do, and he gives what purports to be an exact 
reproduction of the inscription on ^McDowell's 
tombstone in the ancient burial-plot of Timber 
Ridge Church. The writer has great faith in the 
care and accuracy of both Waddell and Peyton, 
and he assumes that they must have found that Dr. 
Foote's date was an error. We may therefore ac- 
cept the year 1742 as the correct date of the awful 
tragedy at Balcony Falls. The rude figures on 
such a primitive, unhewn head-stone as that which 
Dr. Foote states marked John IMcDowell's grave in 
his day were probably indistinct, and he might 
have mistaken a 2 for a 3. 

30— Waddell's Annals, pages 67-71. 

31 — See Dr. Woods's ITistory of Albemarle Coun- 
ty, pages 6 and 351. 

32 — The original Patent, in the possession of 
Hon. Micajah Woods, of Charlottesville, Virginia, 
is executed on parchment in beautiful handwriting, 
and is in a good state of preseiTation after 166 
years. It is worded after the extremely verbose, 
technical style of ancient legal documents, with 
endless repetitions and useless phrases. It is too 
lengthy and tedious to justify insertion in full. 

33— See The Cabells and Their Kin, by Alexan- 
der Brown, published by ITonghton, Mifflin & Co., 
Boston and New York, in 1895, pages 59 and 599. 

34— See Dr. Woods's History of Albemarle, 
page 130. 



35 — This mode of signing one's name the writer 
does not remember ever to have known an example 
of before. If the "m" interposed between the 
Christian name ^lichael, and the surname Woods 
had been meant for the initial of a middle name 
one would think it would have been of the same size 
as the one ^\•rittcn in the name Michael, and on a 
line with it. On the contrary, this "m" is not only 
much smaller, but is in all cases slightly below the 
line. If anyone can siiggest the true explanation 
of this anomalous form of signature employed by 
our ancestor in his deeds of 1743, and in his will 
of 1701, the author would be much obliged to hear 
from him. Address Rev. Neander ^M. Woods, 817 
Second Street, Louisville, Ky. 

36 — Col. Green's Historic Families of Kentucky, 
page 15. This volume, let it here be noted, is of 
peculiar value to all the Woodses, and especially all 
the McDoAvells \\lio are descended from Michael 
Woods of Blair Park. It contains an amount of 
important information as to these families which 
is nowhere else to be had, so far as the present 
writer is aware. It is greatly to be regretted that 
the book is ali-eady out of print, and it is to l>e 
hoped that the demand for copies may be such as to 
induce some one to issue a new edition. 

37 — For this valuable piece of unimpeachable in- 
formation the author is indebted to the kindness of 
Professor W. 0. Brown, of the University of Mis- 
souri, who has devoted much attention to genealogi- 
cal matters relating to the Woodses and their vari- 
ous connections. 

38— Waddell's Annals, page 13. 

39 — See Foote's Sketches of Vii-ginia, Second 
Series, page 96. 

40 — See Green's Historic Families of Kentucky, 
pages 2 and 3. 

41 — The depositions of Mrs. Mary Greenlee, 
taken in 1806, in the celebrated Borden case, is 
given in part in Peyton's Augusta County, pages 
G6-74. This is a document of intense interest to the 
Woodses and AIcDowells. As only brief extracts 
from it can be quoted in this work, all who want 
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conditions of the ancient :MoT)o\v('11s and Woodses 
should give tlie extracts from this document quoted 
by Peyton a careful perusal. It throws much light 
on the history of the Woodses, McDowells, Bor- 
dens, Bowyers, Alexanders, Wallaces and others. 
The records of the whole case fill two folio volumes, 
and are to be seen in the clerk's office at Staunton, 
Virginia. See Dr. Foote's Sketches, Second Series, 
page 92. 

42— See Waddcll's Annals, page 482. 

43 — This account is found, in substance, in vari- 
ous books, but the one given by Dr. Foote in his 
Sketches of Virginia, Second Series, pages 92 and 
93, is the one mainly followed. For some cause the 
year of Captain ilcDowell's death as given by 
Foote is not the same as that given by 
Waddell, Peyton and (Jreen. Dr. Foote purports 
to give an exact copy of the inscription on the 
toud)stone, but the other writers mentioned have 
had as good opportunities as he for ascertaining 
the facts^and we must assunu:' that they are correct 
in fixing 1742 (December 25) as the true date, and 
that probably Dr. Foote, in reading the very rude 
inscriptions covered by the moss of generations, 
mistook a 2 for a 3. See Note 46 in which yet an- 
other date for John McDowell's death is discussed. 

44 — The author wishes to state that to the val- 
uable work of Col. Thomas M. Green on some of the 
Historic Families of Kentucky he is indebted for 
most of the information herein given concerning 
the McDowells. One reason for making such ex- 
tensive use of that work is the fact that it is out of 
print, and hundreds of the descendants of the 
Woodses, McDowells and others who would be glad 
to purchase it could not possibly obtain a copy at 
any price. There are various other volumes which 
give more or less complete lists of the McDowells 
and their connections and descendants to which 
the reader is referred, viz: Paxton's Marshall 
Family, pages 60-GS; Peyton's History of Augusta 
County, page 302; and Dr. Whitsitt's Life and 
Times of Caleb Wallace, pages 21-23. Mr. Wad- 
dell, in his Annals of Augusta County, also has 
much to say of this family. The author of the pres- 



ent work could not undertake to sift the contradic- 
tory details to be found in the several pid>licati<ms 
mentioned. He is inclined to accept Col. Green's 
exhibit as, on the whole the most satisfactory one 
within reach. 

4.5 — Col. Green states that Samuel ilcDowell 
Keid, son of Andrew Keid and Magdalen McDow- 
ell, was a physician. See his Historic Families, 
page 100. This is a mistake. He was e<lucated for 
the law, but spent nearly the whole of his mature 
life discharging the duties of clerk of court in 
Rockbridge County. He was never, at any period 
of his life, a physician, ilrs. Helm Bruce, of 
Louisville, Kentiicky, is a grand-daughter of his, 
and she has learned the facts from her mother, who 
had had access to the records of the Reid family. 

46 — There is a record in regard to John McDow- 
ell at Orange Court House, Virginia, which may 
easily mislead any one who fails to bear in mind 
the "old style" of reckoning, which England did not 
abandon till the year 1752. The record in question 
shows that letters of administration were granted 
to IMagdalen McDowell upon the estate of her de- 
ceased husband March 24, 1742. The natural in- 
ference would be that, inasmuch as it is known 
that John McDowell was killed on Christmas Day, 
he died in the year 1741. This would be true under 
the present style of reckoning, but not so under the 
"old style." Up to the year 1752, in England and 
all her colonies, the new year began March 25, in- 
stead of January 1, as now. Hence, Christmas Day 
next preceding March 24, 1742, was in the yeai' 
1742. March 24 was then the last day of the year, 
and of course the preceding twelve months all be- 
longed to the same year as that date did. The 
administration letters granted to Magdalen March 
24, 1742, were just three months subsequent to De- 
cember 25, 1742. So John died December 25, 1742, 
and then March 24, 1742, his widow took out letters 
of administration. 

47 — For items concerning the Bordens the reader 
is referred to the following authorities: Peyton's 
History of Augusta County, pages 67-74, and 302; 



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Waddt'll's Annals nf Aniiusta County, pagrs 10, 
and 3!)S-400; and Col. Tliomas .Marshall (Jivcn's 
Historic Families of Kciitiukv, ]iaiit's 14-1."), and 7S. 

48 — For particulars in rcjiard to Col. Howycr 
si'c the followiuj'': ^^'a(l^U'l^s Annals, i>a.i>('s (!(!, 
1 Hi, lol, and 487; IVylon's Au^nsia Counly, jtaiics 
(J!>-74; Foote's Sketclics. Sccund Scries, \tHiH' !'8; 
the fac-simile of the will of Michael Woods, Jr., 
herein <iiven and noted in Index; luid Cdl. (Jreeu's 
Historic Families, paiie 7S. 

4!) — The i;reater part of I he infdrniatiiin here 
jlivcu in regard to William Woods (2d) has been 
•gotten from Dr. Edjiar Woods's IHstor.v of Alhe- 
iiiarh' County. See jiai^i s :>.");'. and .■>.")4. 

oU — Heuuiuii's Statutes at l.arge, Volume 7, 
pai;e 1'03, An Act i)rovidinii for paying the men of 
the .Vlheniarle militia. 

51 — The author perha])s needs to apologize to the 
most of his readers for this little digression from 
the narrative. He is au.xious lo draw tlic attention 
of the Woodses to a state of things whicli is some- 
thing of a rejiroach, and to say that he stands 
ready to co-operate in every way in his jtower with 
any of the "Clan" who nniy be disposed to heed the 
hint given. 

52 — The most that tlu' author has been able to 
learn concerning AVilliam. the second child of 
Michael Woods and ^lary Caniplx 11, has been de- 
rived from Dr. Edgar Woods's Histia'v of Albe- 
nuirle County, see i)ages 353 and 354. 

53— See sketch of Col. Charles A. R. Woods, in 
Part III of this work, who is a descendant of Wil- 
liam Woods (I'd) through his son, Adam Woods. 

54 — The reader is referred to tlu- sketch of ^Irs. 
McChesney Goodall in Part III of this work. She 
was b(U'U and reared within sight of the old IMich- 
ael Woods Blair Park homestead, and her immedi- 
ate ancestors have enjoyed special opportunities 
for knowing the family traditions bearing on the 
career of William Woods (2d ), son of old ^lichael. 
Her information is that he lived in Pennsylvania 
till March, 1744, whilst his parents are known to 
have migrated to Virginia ten years prior to that 
date. Why it was that William, who was one of 



his father's favorite sous, should have remained be- 
hind in Pennsylvania so much as ten years whilst 
his parents and younger brothers and sisters were 
down in the N'irginia wilderness struggling with 
all the trying conditions of a frontier settlement, 
we are unable to conjecture, ^\■e know not what 
documentary evideiu'c in supjtort of this supposi- 
tion nuiy be in existence; liut if iIk ic he none, it 
would seem but reasonable to conclude that the 
sons (d' old ^licliael accompaidcd him on Ids move 
to Virginia in 17.'{4. This, ln;W( ver, we confess, is 
oidy a conjecture (Ui our part. 

55 — The information herein gi\cn in regard to 
Captain Archibald Wnuils and his wife, .Mcuirning 
Shelton, has been derived mainly from the follow- 
ing sketches, to be found in Part III of this vol- 
ume, \i/.: that of Col. Charles A. K. Woods; that 
(d'CoL.l. W. Cai)ertoii; flint (d' .Mi-. Saiuuej 15. Koy- 
ster and that of Ihui. .1. 1 >. (ioodloc. 'i'hc reader 
is referred to these sketches for fuller details than 
could well be i)resented in this ])lace. 

5(J — The reader will i)lease consult the sketches 
of Col. Woods and ^Mrs. Goo<lall in I'art III of this 
volume. .Vlso Dr. Edgar Woods's History of .M- 
bemarle, i)age 353. 

57 — See Dr. Edgar Woods's History id' .Mlie- 
marle, page 235. 

5S — The accoiiids gixcn by Dr. Ivlgar \\'oods. 
Col. Chas. A. II. Woods, and .Mis. Cooilnll of the 
descendants of William Woods (2d) are in some 
respects widely different, and now and then contra- 
dictory of each othei-. Between these several nar- 
ratives the author of this vohune feels incomi)etent 
to decide with any ])()sitiveness, and he refers his 
readers to the several accounts so that they may 
judge for themselves. 

59 — See Peyton's Augusta County, page 110. 

(iO — To some of the numerous descendants of 
Samuel Woods it may lie a matter of interest to 
know something movo about his Revolutionary ser- 
vice, and the ])ension he received, than is given in 
the body of the text; and for the gratification of 
such persons the following additional facts are fur- 
nished : Nearlv fortv vears after the close of the 



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Revolution the Congress of the United States un- 
dertook to make proper recognition of the services 
of the old Revolutionary soldiers, hundreds of 
whom were still alive, but far advanced in life, and 
many of them being in greatly reduced circum- 
stances. The acts relating hereto are known as 
"The Revolutionary Claim Acts of March 18, 1818, 
and May 1, 1820." It was under these acts that 
Samuel Woods got his pension. He was then re- 
siding in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, with his grand- 
son, J. Harvey Woods^ the father of the present 
writer. Born in 1738, he was a man of eighty when 
the first of the above-mentioned acts was passed. 
He had given the bulk of his property to his son, 
Samuel Woods, Jr., in 1791, and for some reason 
by the year 1819 was without means, and dependent 
for support on his grandson, with whom he was liv- 
ing. The records of the case consist of a number 
of affidavits and certificates which are now on file 
in the U. S. Pension Office at Washington City, and 
the same can be seen, free of charge, at any time 
by calling on the proper official. Parties who 
would like to procure certified copies of all the 
papers can readily obtain them for a nominal fee 
by writing to the Pension Department. The fol- 
lowing papers of the set are i-egai-ded as of special 
inttereist: 1, the affidJaivit of one John Galloway, of 
^Mercer County, Keintucky, made SciJtembei' 13, 
1819; 2, the affidavit of Samuel '\>'oods, himself, 
made April 11, 1823 ; 3, the affid'avit of one Major 
John Arnold, of Madison County, Teuuessee, made 
OctobfT 22, 1823; and 4, the affidavit of Col. An- 
thony Crocket, of Franklin Coimty, Kentucky, 
jnadfe Decemlier 15, 1823, and cei'tified to by the 
three Kentucky Oongressmen, iloore, Buckner, and 
Letcher. 

In paper 1 Mr. Galloway swears that he is well 
acquainted with Samuel Woods; that he saw him 
sworn into service as a Lieutenant in the Twelfth 
Virginia Regiment, on the Continental Establish- 
ment at Fort Pitt, in the spring of 1776 ; that Colo- 
nel James Wood was in command of said regiment, 
and Galloway himself a member thereof; that he 
knew said Woods served as a regular officer in said 



regiment for nearly three years; that said Woods 
served his country faithfully; and that he was at 
the battle of Guilford, N. C, as he believed. 

In i)aper 2, Samuel Woods swears that he was 
not physically able then (April, 1823) to appear in 
Court owing to the feebleness of age; that in the 
spring of 177G he was commissioned a Lieutenant 
and attached to the Twelfth Virginia Regiment, on 
Continental Establishment, commanded by Col. 
James Wood ; that he continued in the Continental 
service (Regular Army, as distinguished from 
Militia) for three years, when he resigned; that af- 
terwards he served as a militia officer, from time to 
time, till the war closed, and was in the Battle of 
Guilford, North Carolina; that he was then about 
eightY-fi>'e years old, ami too feeble to do any work ; 
that bis wife (Margaret) was then old, and as in- 
firm as himself, they having no children alive, and 
both in a de|>eindent condition ; and that h'e haid sent 
on his application to the Pension Deiiartment in 
1819, but tliat action on it had been delayed be- 
cause, in spelling the surname of the Colonel of the 
regiment in wliicli he had sei"ved, he had appended 
an s to it, making his Colonel's name Woods, in- 
stead of simi)]y "Wood as it properly was. 

In paper 3 Major John Arnold, of iladison 
County, Tennessee, swore that he was well ac- 
quainted with Samuel Woods; that said Woods 
was a Lieutenant in the Continental Army ; that he 
knew said Woods to be in service at the mouth of 
the Kaua-n'ha River for about fifteen mouths, he 
and Woods being together there; and that he be- 
lieved Woods to have been a faithful soldier; and 
that Woods was an officer whom he knew and re- 
spected as such. Arnold's memory as to the years 
covered by this period of fifteen months was some- 
what at fault, for he mentions the year 1775, when 
it is certain Woods did not enlist till the spring of 
1776. 

In the 4th paj^er. Col. Anthony Crocket states, 
under oath, thlat he knew' Samuel Woods well ; that 
during the Revolutionary War Woods was a Lieu- 
tenant in the regiment of which Col. James Wood 
was the commander; that Woods was in service at 



NOTES ON PART ONE. 



IV, 



Fort Pitt, and later at the mouth of the Kanawha, 
and later still marched to the South. Then follows 
the sworn statement of all three of the Kentucky 
Congressmen, Hon. T. P. ;Moore, Hon. Richard A. 
Buokuer, and Hon. Robert P. Letcher, certifying 
to tile alisolute trustwortliines's of Col. Crocket. 
The records show further that Samuel Woods was, 
in 1823, residing- with J. Harvey Woods, his grand- 
son, in Harrodsburg, Kentucky; that from Decem- 
ber 15, 1823, he got |20.00 a month until his desvth, 
which occurred February 3, 182(i, when lie was 
eighty-eight Teal's old. 

It may be remarked here that whilst the particu- 
lar regiment several times referred to in said docu- 
ments as the one in which Samuel Woods was a 
Lieutenant, and of which Col. James Wood was the 
commander, is called the "Twelfth,"' tliere is some 
uncertainty as to this being correct. The author 
has seen in a published volume of Revolutionary 
Records (the exact title of whicli he can not now re- 
call) that the regiment commanded by Col. James 
Wootl was the Third, and not the Twelfth. He also 
observes that in these documents, above discussetl, 
some of the affiants seem to have doubts as to this 
point themselves. Then the endorsement on the 
jacket or wi-ap]ier enclosing the papers of this case 
made by some official of the Pension Office, omits 
to give the number of the regiment, and simply 
says: "The regiment commanded by Col. James 
Wood." The solution of this question may pos- 
sibly be that during the course of the five or six 
years of the Revolution Col. Wood may have com- 
manded two entirely different regiments, in order, 
or his command may have undergone a reorganiza- 
tion, resulting in a new name for it, as often occurs 
in the course of a protracted war. 

61 — See Prof. Shaler's Kentucky, pages 20 and 
21. 

n2 — Col. Durrett's Centenary of Kentucky, pages 
40 and 51. 

63 — See Shaler's Kentucky, pages 68, 80 and 93. 

64 — Butler's Kentucky, Edition of 1834, page 
120; and Waddell's Annals of Augusta County, 
pag<! 208, footnoife. 

65 — See Waddell's Annals, pages 451-3. 



66 — Dr. Edgar Woods's History of Albemarle, 
page 355. 

67 — Davidson's History of Pn'sl)yterianism in 
Kentucky, pages 73-82. 

68 — Family Remiui.sceuces by Le Grand iL 
Jones, of Trenton, Tennessee, St. Louis, C. R. 
Barns Publishing Co., 1894. See pages 43-46. 

69 — This is not intended in the least as a dispar- 
agement of 31r. Jones's narrative, but only to call 
attentiou to the fact that his principal informant 
probably did not possess much certain information 
concerning some of the details of family history to 
which he referretl. This is noted here merely to 
show that the writer has good grounds for doubt- 
ing the exactness and accuracy of some of the state- 
ments made as to Samuel Woods, of Paint Lick, 
and his children. First, Judge Black was evidently 
unaware of the more important incidents in the life 
of Samuel Woods during his stay of about fifteen 
years in Kentucky. He was evidently an import- 
ant man at Paint Lick, and took part in the organi- 
zation of the beginnings of Presbytt^-ianism in Ken- 
tucky; and yet Judge Black had ]>roliably not heard 
of anything beyond the fact that he was a member 
of the Paint Lick Church, whei'e the noted David 
Rice sometimes preached. Secondly, on reading 
over the items furnished to Mv. Jones by .Judge 
Black about Samuel and his two wives, and his ten 
childi-en, wo find nO indication of a A^ritten record 
quote^l from, except as to one of the son«, John 
Woods. The exception in his case is expressly 
noted by 'Sir. Jones, (page 44) and the fair infer- 
ence would be that the other items had not been 
copied from a written record. Thirdly, Mr. Jones 
himself calls in question the statement of Judge 
Black as to the date of Samuel's migration to Ken- 
tucky, and most justly. Judge Black has him com- 
ing to Kentucky in 1773, when, as a matter of fact, 
there was not a single resident white man in the 
State that year. The probal>ility is that Samuel 
Woods did not come to Kentucky for nuiny years 
aftei- 1773. So far as we can judge from land en- 
tries on record he was scarcely tliere before 1783. 
Lastly, Judge Black was the last-born of a familv 



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of twelve chiklivii; and it is easy to uutler- 
staud liow a son liorn wlien his pai-ents have 
readied niiddh- life, and who comes to full 
luaturity when his ])aicnls aic eithei- i;oue 
from this woild, or have ror-.Htcn many de- 
mils \\lii( li I hey had heard their ivarents narrate 
in early life, lahors under i)eculiar disadvantages 
in respect to securing reliahle family history. Most 
men do not hcgin to take a lively interest in family 
traditions till they are nearing middle life; and if 
they haiipen to have heen the latest-hdrn of a large 
family, by the time their antiquarian instincts have 
become aroused and their fondness for genealogical 
details somewhat cultivate.!, the only x)ersous who 
ever knew the facts desired have had the seal of 
lasting silence placed upon their lips. In such a 
case, if parents have themselves failed to set down 
in black and white what they had learned from 
their own parents, the loss is simply irreparable. 
Pri'cisely this has been the present writer's experi- 
ence. Being the last of a dozen children, his par- 
ents were dead long before he had come to care 
anything whatever about family tradition; and up 
to about t\\'elve yeai-s ago hescarcelykuew anything 
at all nf his grand-parents, and less still of his re- 
moter ancestors. Only by dint of patient and long 
continued etf'ort has he learned, from all sorts of 
sonrces, what he now kuows. It is evident Judge 
Black labored under almost the same disadvan- 
tages; and for this reason, and in view of tlie facts 
adduced above, the writer feels disposed to con- 
clude that Samuel Woods, who lived at Paint Lick, 
was probably the Samuel who was the son of Rich- 
ard Woods and a grandson of Michael Woods, of 
Blair Park, and came from Virginia to Kentucky 
about 1783. The descendants of this man consti- 
tute a numerous company of excellent people scat- 
tered over the South and Southwest, West and 
Northwest, and the \\ritei- has been at some pains 
to set foi'th for their benefit, as best he could, all he 
ciiiibl Li.ilhi-i- concerning' (his good old Presbyterian 
elder of Paint Lick. 

70 — In the land office at Frankfort the writer 
found the record of an entrv which was certainly 



made to a Samuel Woods other than the one who 
migrated from Botetourt County, Virginia, to Mer- 
cer County, Kentucky, iu 1782-3, and there died in 
1826. The grant was for 350 acres of land iu Lin- 
coln County, on a branch of Paint i^ick ("reek, ad- 
joining the lands of Brooks, Kennedy, Bett, Mc- 
Cormack, Miller, and ilcNecly. The warrant was 
numbered 340(>, and bore date ^March 0, 1780. It 
was originally issued to Jesse Cartright, who as- 
signed it to William Miller, who assigned it to 
Samuel AVoods. The date of the survey of this 
tract Avas May 3, 1783, which is the year, most 
probably, in which this Samuel AVoods came to 
Kentucky. The Patent for the land bears date De- 
cember 2, 1785, and is signed hy Governor Patrick 
Henry, of Vii-ginia. This Samuel AVoods was, be- 
yond ail reasonable doubt, the one who was au 
elder in tbe Paint Lick Church for about fifteen 
years, and then moved to Williamson County,Ten- 
nessee, about the year 1800 ; and there are good rea- 
soned for believing he Avas the Samuel Woo<ls 
who was the son of Richard Woods, of Rockbridge 
County, A^irginia, and sold out his interests there 
in 1783, and migrated to Kentucky. 

71 — It may be interesting to some to understand 
the main features of the Virginia and Kentucky 
Land Laws. Nearly all of the histories of A'irginia 
and Kentucky recite their provisions, as enacted 
and altered from time to time. The reader will b<' 
referred to a few of the authorities whence he may 
get a fair notion of the peculiar regulations adopt- 
ed by A^'irginia for encouraging the rapid and easy 
settlement of her A'ast domain. It was a system 
which had its serious drawbacks, and in time it 
caused endless contentions and litigation; and yet 
it Avas beneficent in aim, and it had some capital 
advantages not easily improved upon as a scheme 
for meeting tlH> exigencies of the exceptional pre- 
A-ailiug conditions. The intending settler did not 
need to Avait till a government snrAeyor Aveut to the 
desired s]iot and made au official survey and map 
of the land. The settler became his own surveyor; 
and with chain and compass he could lay off a thou- 
sand acres in a few hours. Then he had his survev 



X(»Ti;s ox I'Airr (»m;. I4y 

i-cioidnl ill the IauuI Ullici'. wlunevci- it was at the and Indian Wars, or in the Kevolution. Tlie num- 
lime, and cm tiie basis ()f this entiy Land Warrants hpr of acres allowed to each officer depended on his 
were issiud to liiiii wliidi made his title good for ranlv. The second class of rights arose from actual 
his land against all comers except such as may occupation of tlie soil. If a man remained in the 
have entered the same laud before he did. Under couulry one year and raisetl a crop of corn, he got 
this system tlie earlier settlers picked out only the 400 acres free, and ae(Hiii'ed a right to select 1,000 
elioiee lauds, having iiiitdiiched, as a rule, those additional acres adjacent thereto for which he was 
deemed (d' small value. hiUe mil- Western cow- expected to i»ay the government price — about forty 
hoys oil the <ireai i'laius thirty years ago, who, on cents an acre. If he merely erected a cabin or 
killiug a buffalo, might carry away witli them only other improvement on the land he got no land free, 
the tongue or otiier choice bits of the carcass, leav- but paid the government price for the same. One 
iug the rest for those who wanted it, the settlers year's residence and (he actual cultivation of the 
in the vast and splendid wlld<'rness of Central Ken- soil was the ])riee eaeii settler had to pay for his 
tueky disdained to waste their time on ordinary "4()(l-aei-e setlleiiieiil,"" and then for the "1,00(1- 
laud— they sought the •'tenderloin.-;" only in those acre pre-emption" he had to pay about POO.OO in 
early days (1773 to 178'Jj. In this way it came cash. This was the way in wliich Samuel Wood.s 
about that in between these teuderloiu slices, so to (born 1738, and died 182G ) established his claim 
speak, there were iuuiiiiierable tracts of the most to the .si)leu<lid 1,400-acre tract on Shawnee liun, 
irregular size and shape, which for many years uo- in ]Mercer County, Kentucky. He mentions it in 
body claimed. Then came the so-called "blanket his deed of gift of November !», 1791, to his son 
patents," by means of which laud speculators and Samuel, Jr., as his "settlement and pre-emption." 
regular settlers sought to lay claim to any and lie probably raised his first crop on it in 1783, to 
all parcels of laud not before taken up. As the law nmke good his "settlement," and then afterwards 
giiarauteed title ouh- to so much of the area in- paid cash for the extra 1,000 acres which he pre- 
cluded in the "blanket patent" as had uot pre- empted. In the same manner the ^McAfees had 
viously been conveyed to some one el.se, the blanket taken up claims on Salt River in 1773, aud had per- 
sometimes covered only little remnants of laiul fected their title latir on. They surveyed and plot- 
which did uot belong to a iinvioiis claimant. But ted their lauds, aud marked them by piling up 
whatever areas had not already been taken up be- brush and deadening trees thereon in July, 1773. 
came the property of the owner of the "blanket pat- In 1774 they came back, bnilt a cabin, and 
eut." It is said there are even at this late day (Mill- planted cnrii. In 177."') they came again, raised 
siderable bodies of land in Kentucky the title to corn, and jilanted ix-aeli seeds. And as soon as the 
which has iiev( r jiassed from llie State, though tirst Court met iu Ilarrodsburg to perfect land 
sijuatters may have been iHcupyiiig them for sev- titles tliey completed their.s. See Shaler's Ken- 
eral generations, lint the earliist settlers ( 1773 to tucky, i)ages -10-52; Filson's History, pages 37 and 
1785) had the very pick of the laud, and secui-e.l 38; Butler's Kentucky, pages 100-101; Collins's 
lands for a mere jiittaiice wJiicli now are worth Kentucky, V(d. I, page 253, and Vol. II, pages 27G 
■tj!! 00.00 Iter aci-e, uot counting iiii]irovenu'nts. and 308. 

There were tliiee different kinds of rights iu 72 — In a i»amplilet published by Mr. E. G. Wy- 

land ac(|uired iiy prospectors: tirst, those arising lie, of St. Louis, Mo., iu 1000, entitled The Wylie 

from military service; secondly, those from settle- Lxenealogy, many interesting details coiu-erniug the 

mint and ]ue-emption ; and thirdly, warrants Grays may be found, pages 20-21. See Davidson's 

from the Treasury. ^Military rights were grants of History of (lie Presbyterian Church in Kentucky, 

land given to otlicers who had served in the French page 82. 



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73 — Dr. Woods's History of AllM-niarle County, 
page 352. 

74 — This pamphlet was published in 1882 by 
Mr. W. H. Miller, of Richmond, Kentucky, and is 
entitled : Sketch of Daniel Miller and Christopher 
Harris, and Their Progenitors and Posterity. This 
piiblieation contains much valuable information 
concerning the branch of Woodses to which it re- 
lates, and the author of the Woods-McAfee Memo- 
rial desires hereby to acknowledge his indebtedness 
to Mr. Miller for many items not elsewhere to be 
gotten. A few of his statements, however, have 
had to be corrected. 

75 — Waddell, in his Annals of Augusta County 
(page 179), quotes from the papers of a Col. Rob- 
ert Gamble an item evidently written late in 1780 
or early in 1781, in which reference is made to a 
Captain Andrew Wallace as having been killed 
October 7, 1780, in the Battle of King's Mountain. 
We know not, v/ith certainty, just ^\•ho this man 
could have been. The Andrew^ ^A'allace who mar- 
ried Margaret Woods about 1733 was too old a man 
to have been in the army in 1780 — he was then 
about sixty-eight and Dr. Edgar Woods says he 
died in 1785. The Andrew Wallace who was the 
sou of Samuel Wallace aiud' Esther Baker, A\as born 
in 1748, as Dr. Whitsett informs us, and moved, in 
1782, with his father to Kentucky, where he lived 
until his death in 1829. The writer knows of no 
other Andrew Wallace who could have been a sol- 
dier in 1780 except Andrew-, the son of Peter Wal- 
lace, Jr., and Martha Woods, and who, according 



to the late Major Varner, was a Captain in the 
Eighth Virginia Regiment, and was killed at Guil- 
ford Court House in 1781. The Col. Gamble quot- 
ed from was no doubt correct in saying an Andrew- 
Wallace was killed prior to 1781, at King's Moun- 
tain, and this may have been the one who was the 
son of Peter Wallace, Jr., and whom Major Varner 
supposed to have been killed at Guilford C. H. 

76 — See Capt. Thomas Speed's Wilderness Road, 
page 17. 

77 — See History of South Carolina In the Revo- 
lution, by Edward McCrady, 1901, page 10. 

78 — See Wheeler's Historical Sketches of North 
Carolina, Chapter 4, as quoted by Larned in his 
History for Ready Reference, page 2372, bottom 
of left hand column. 

79 — See The English in America, Chapter 12, as 
quoted by Larned, page 2374. 

80 — Sketches of North Carolina, by Rev. William 
Henry Foote, New York, 1846, pages 78-80, and 
224-6. 

81 — See Manual of Orange Presbytery, edited by 
the Rev. D. I. Craig in 1895. 

82— See Foote's North Carolina, pages 166-1 G7. 

83 — Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary, by 
Francis Nash, of the Hillsboro Bar and Member of 
the American Historical Association, Raleigh, 
1903. An 8vo pamphlet of 100 i>ages. This pub- 
lication is one of great value to all who may be 
interested in the history of Orange County, North 
Carolina. 



PART SECOND. 

THE McAFEE FAMILY, 




MCAFEE COAT OF ARMS. 




THB WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL 



PART SECOND-THE McAFEE FAMILY. 



CHAPTER 



THE MCAFEES IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



The ii.iinc .McAtVc li;is sliarcd tlic (•(uiiiiKm fate 
of iiinsl |iati-(in.vini<-s in lliat it l:as, in tlic (•()nrs(' 
of (•( iilui-i( s, nudcruoiic sm-li radical tiaiisfornia- 
tioiis tliat no one not faniiliai' wilii its history 
would suspect tiiat it ever had any connection witli 
its orijuinal. Tlie (Jaciic I'ov tliis name was Dubh- 
sitli. hut it became meriicd, in time, into tlie Bng- 
lisli (Minivalent. DuHie. J>atei' on, the (\4tic prefix 
.Mae, so common in tlie case of many S^cotch and 
Irish names, and whicli simply means son, was con- 
joined witli it, makiuii' it iMacDuttie. In tlie course 
of time tliis form of the name also underwent a 
chauge, due, no doubt, to sharply accentinp,' the first 
and last syllables ( [Mac, and lie), whilst obscurini;' 
the s(nind of the syllable Duf. Thus the name 
canu' at leniith to be Mactie, a form still retained 
by many of the families havinj;- the same oriii'in as 
the [McAfees. >Ve accordingly find the name is 
spelled and pioiiounced quite variously in Scot- 
land, Ireland and America. We may find the 
forms :Macafee, [Macfee, Macfie, ilacphee, Mao- 
Ilaffie, and McAfee. In an old deed, dated 1748, 
and on record noAv in the court house at Staunton, 
Va., Ave find the name of James [McAfee, Avhose 
career from IT:?!) to ITS.") forms the subject of the 
next succeeding chapter of this work, spelled so ob- 
scurely as scarcely to be decipherable, and yet so as 
to indicate that he may have preferred a spelling 
of it in that early day which it is known he did not 
follow in 17(53 and 17r)r), when he had deeds re- 
corded in wliich he sjieibMl the name as is done in 
this work. 



A\'e siiall not attemi>l to quote in full all the al- 
lusions to the ancient members of this old Scotch 
family to be found in the several works which treat 
of them, but will give the substance of all the more 
imp(n-tant items of information, leaving those who 
care ti> do so to consult the authorities cited for a 
more thorough investigation of the subject.' 
That the family now under consideration, whose 
members are scattered all over the Union, are de- 
scended from the Highland Clan above mentioned, 
does not seem to admit of a serious doubt. Such 
facts as have been ascertained all point clearly to 
this conclusion, and we know of nothing to militate 
against it. Among the numerous islands Avhicli lie 
just off (he western coast of Scotland, and which 
in olden days were dominated by the Lords of the 
Isles (from the 12th to the ICth century), is one 
known as Colonsay, pertaining to Argyleshire. It 
is only about fifty miles northwest of the city of 
(ilasgow. This island was the possession and 
home of the McAfee Clan for some centuries, but 
tliey ceased to own it after the year 1645, W'hen 
their chieftain, Jlalcolm McAfee, was cruelly slain 
and their clan dissolved. When this calamity over- 
took them they were not only dispossessed of their 
original inheritance, but the Clan, as such, ceased 
to have a separate existence. The majority of its 
meml)ers joined the [MacDouald Clan of Islay; 
others settled among the Canierons, under Lochiel, 
where they became distinguished for their bravery; 
others chose homes for themselves around both 
entrances to the Firth of Clyde; Avhilst still others 



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crossed the channel and settled in the north of Ire- 
land.= In 1745. at the Battle of Culloden, the Cam- 
erons (with whom many of the McAfees were 
joined), were one of the few clans who made that 
furious onset which nearly annihilated the left 
wing of the Duke of Cumberland's army, and al- 
most led to a brilliant victory. In this contest the 
Camerons suffered severely in slain and wounded, 
and with them a proportionate number of the Mc- 
Afees. In that battle there was a wall which pro- 
tected the flank of the Highlanders' army, and 
through this wall the dragoons of the enemy at- 
tempted to force their way. One Duncan McAfee, 
a foot-soldier, was one of the heroic little band of 
Highlanders who took part in the vain attempt to 
prevent this; and in the coui'se of the conflict he 
struck down, with his broad-sword, not only a dra- 
goon, but also the horse on which he rode ; but be- 
fore Duncan could disengage himself from the 
fallen steetl, he received a terrible kick from the 
wouudeil animal which broke his back. >>'ext day 
lie was carried from the field, and he recovered ; but 
all the rest of his days he had to walk with the aid 
of a stick, his body bent almost to the ground. The 
old soldier used to say, in recounting the adventure, 
"She "was a soi*e morning for me, but I made a 
Southern tak a sleep it would be laug 'ere lie 
wakened frae."' This famous battle (Culloden) 
was fought when the McAfees we now have to deal 
with were living in America; but we may rest as- 
sured they would know of the part their kith and 
kin took in it. And when, in 1775, James McAfee, 
Jr., and his brothers journeyed through the beauti- 
ful gap near what is now the town of Middlesboro. 
Ky., if he knew that Dr. Thomas Walker had named 
that gap, and the mountain range of which it is a 
depression, for that same "Bloody Duke" whom his 
McAfee kinsmen had faced at Culloden only thirty 
years before, we may readily believe he would have 
said it was a shame to drop the beautiful Indian 
name Wasioto so as to do honor to that of the Duke 
of Cumberland, whom he no doubt regarded as a 
monster. 

At one end of the island of Colonsav there was 



a sort of valley, or little depression, extending 
across its width; and when the tide rose, the sea 
ran through this depression, thereby separating the 
two parts and making two islands of the one. This 
lower and smaller end was called Oronsay, and it 
became a historic Imrial-place of much celebrity, 
ilany tombs of ilcAfee.s were ti) be found there, and 
on them they figured as warriors and ecclesiastics. 
But there was another yet more famous isle only 
about eighteen miles to the northwest of Colonsay 
in which all McAfees should feel a tender interest, 
namely; lona. Here was located one of the most 
famous seats of pietj- and learning to be found in 
the world in ancient times, and here was a noted 
burial-place to which the bodies of kings and 
princes were brought from afar for honored sepul- 
ture. In this world-renowned cemetery reposes the 
body of Malcolm McAfee," the last chieftain of 
the McAfee Clan, slain in 1645. The spot was vis- 
ited by Pennant in 1772 (as quoted by Ian in his 
Costumes of the Clans), and he describes in detail 
the caning and inscriptions on the tomb over the 
old chieftain's gi'ave. It presented the effigy of a 
warrior in high relief, armed with the great two- 
handed swoifl, and among the ornaments was the 
long fada, or galley, which is the invariable ensign 
of an insular or west Highland chief. The inscrip- 
tion upon his tomb was as follows : "Hie jacet Mal- 
cohimhus Mac-Duff ic dv Volonsay." After his death 
the clan disintegi'ated, some of them uniting with 
the McDonalds of Islay, some joining the Camerons 
under Lochiel, othere settling along the banks of 
the Clyde, and yet others emigrating to the north 
of Ireland. That the [McAfees of the Fnited States 
are lineal descendants of the men of this clan 
hardly admits of a reasonable doubt. The John Mc- 
Afee from whom most of the American McAfees are 
known to have been derived was probably born 
about the very time the clan was deprived of its 
independence (,lG45l, and his home at the time of 
his migration to Ireland in 1672 was in the very 
part of Scotland in which some members of the 
scattered clan had settled some yeai-s before. It is 
extremely probable that his father was a member 



THE i\IcAFEES IX GKEAT JJIHTAIX. 



lor 



of the flail when Malcolm, ils cliieftaiii, was slaiu, 
aud that he left Colousay soon after thai calamity 
occurred to find a new home between Glasgow and 
Edinburgh, ^vhence his son John migrated to Ire- 
land in 1G72. 

The armorial bearings of the branch of McAfees 
with whicb this volume has to do may be described 
as follows : Or; a lion rampant, giiles, surmounted 
by a fesse; Azure. The Orest : a demi-lion, rampant, 
gules; Motto, Pro Rege. These insignia have been 
reproduced for this work. (See page 152.) The 
tartan of the clan, printed in colors, can be seen in 
the Scottish Clans alx>ve quoted from. 

The remotest member of the family to whom the 
Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri McAfees can 
trace back with absolute certainty is John McAfee, 
Sr. It is certainly known that he lived in Scotland 
from about the year 1645 to the year 1672, and that 
his home was probably located between the cities 
of Glasgow and Edinburgh. AVe know that lie mar- 
ried Elizabeth Montgomery near Glasgow, and the 
time of his marriage was probably about the year 
1670. He lived in stormy and epoch-making times. 
^^'hen he was bom the great Westminster Assembly 
of Divines was sitting in London, the great Civil 
War was in progress, and Charles the First was 
nearing his bloody doom on the scaffold. He lived 
through the period of the Commonwealth, and the 
Protectorate of Cromwell ; saw the Restoration of 
Charles the Second ; and witnessed the fearful reac- 
tion whicb took place under his reign, for about 
seven years. In 1672, tempted by the offer of lib- 
eral grants of land in Ulster Province, in the north 
of Ireland, John McAfee departed from his native 
heather and made his way to County Armagh, Ire- 
land. He was then about twenty-seven years old, 
and Avith him went, no doubt, his young wife, and 
perhaps a wee bairn that had come to brighten their 
home. Some of the McAfees, we know, had pre- 
cedetl him to Ulster some twenty-five yeai-s, about 
the time the McAfee clan had been dismembered, so 
that he no doubt had kinsmen in the new land to 
which he migrated. He was now no longer merely 
Scotcli, but Scotch-Irish. Of the genesis and char- 
acteristics of this sturdy race Mr. Fiske speaks so 



entertainingly in his "Old Virginia and Her Neigh- 
bors" that we shall let him tell the story for the 
reader (see Vol. 2, pages 391, et seij. ) : "Who were 
the people called by this rather awkward compound 
name, Scotch-Irish? The answer carries us back to 
the year 1611, when James I. began peopling Ulster 
with colonists from Scotland and the north of Eng- 
land. The plan was to put into Ireland a Protest- 
ant population that might ultimately outnumber 
the Catholics and become the controlling element in 
the country. The settlers were picked men and 
women of the most excellent sort. By the middle 
of the seventeenth century there were 300,000 of 
them in Ulster. That province had been the most 
neglected part of the island, a wilderness of bogs 
and fens ; they transformed it into a garden. They 
also established manufactures of woollens and 
linens which have ever since been famous through- 
out the world. By the beginning of the eighteenth 
century their numbers had risen to nearly a mil- 
lion. Their social condition was not that of peas- 
ants; they Avere intelligent yeomanry and artisans. 
In a document signed in 1718 by a miscellaneous 
group of 319 men, only thirteen made their mark, 
while 306 Avrote their names in full. Nothing like 
that could have happened at that time in any other 
part of the British Empire, hardly even in New 
England. * * * Confusion of mind seems to 
lurk in any nomenclature which couples them with 
the true Irish. The antipathy between the Scotch- 
Irish as a group and the true Irish as a group is 
perhaps unsurpassed for bitterness and intensity. 
* * * The term 'Scotch-Irish' may be defen- 
sible, provided we do not let it conceal the fact that 
the people to whom it applied are for the most part 
Lowland Scotch Presbyterians A'eiw slightly hiber- 
nicised in blood." 

AVhen, in 1785, James II. ascended the throne of 
p]ngland and began to lay the hand of persecution 
upon the Covenanters aud other Protestants of 
Scotland, a great many of the connections and for- 
mer neighbors of John McAfee followed hiin to Ire- 
land, among whom were the Campbells, the Monr- 
gomerys, the McMichaels, and the McOouns. John 
McAfee had a son bearing his own name, whom we 
must distinguish as John, Jr., and it is probable 



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this sou was boru about tin.' timi? his jiareuts lui- 
grated to Ulster, say 1673. Wo kuow that both iie 
and his father enlisted in the army of King William 
duriuo; the Revolution of 1(588. and that both fouglit 
under William in ltiJ»0 at the Battle of the Boyne, 
till- sou being at that time a youtli not over seven- 
teen years of age. In after limes -lames McAfee, 
tiie son of John. Jr., was woul to lioast of the valor 
of his Protestant sire, and to glory in the fact that 
lie was atthe Boyne fighting cm the right side. 
Concerning the life of John McAfee. t<r.. in Ireland, 
and the date of his deatli, we kuow next to nothing. 
As to John :McAfee. Jr., it seems reasonably cer- 
tain, as before intimated, that he was born about 
1(>73, the year his parents migrated to Irelaud. We 
know, as just stated, that when a boy of about sev- 
euteen years he was in the Battle of the Boyne 
under King William. We also know that he after- 
wards married a Miss ilary Rodgers. Tlie date of 
his marriage to Miss Rodgers cannot be positively 
stated, but as their second child, James, was born 
in 17(17. it may be inferred that the marriage oc- 
eurred after the year 1700, when John, Jr., was 
about thirty years old. We know that he erected on 
his farm in County Arnmgh a stone dwelling-house, 
which was yet standing in the year 184(>. His death 
occurred in 1738, at which time he was a man of 
about sixty-five, and his wife Mary survived him. 
They had four sons and six daughters. The names 
of the sons were as follows : John 3d ; James ; Mal- 
colm ; and William. The names of the daughters 
are not known. So far as known, all of the sons 
except James remained in Ireland, and there were 
descendants of John JlcAfee living in County 
Armagh as late as 181(). 

John McAfee, Jr., who died in 1738, left an estate 
too small to provide a competency for all of his ten 
children, and his son James concluded to seek his 
fortune in the New World beyond the Atlantic. 
James ilcAfee was born in County Armagh October 
17, 1707. In 1735 he married Miss Jane McMich- 
ael, and in 1736 their first child, James McAfee, 
Jr., was born. Whilst General R. B. McAfee makes 
no mention of the social and political conditions 



which at that time prevailed in I'lster, it is reason- 
ably certain that they had much to do witli the 
migration of James McAfcH-, Sr.. ami family to 
America. The treatment bestoweil upon tiie people 
of Ulster by the English from about 1G98 on 
thrcmgh nearly a hundred years is one of the dark- 
est blots upon the escutcheon of tiiat great nation. 
The Scotch had migrated to Ulster at the urgent 
solicitation of tiie English themselves, and hatl 
made the wilderness to blossom as the rose; Imt 
that very jjrosperity \\ hicli was the just reward of 
the industry and skill of the Scotch-Irish aroused 
the jealousy and spite of English manufacturers 
and of the bigoted prelates of the English (.Minrch. 
Let the scholarly Mr. Fiske be again asked to en- 
lighten us concerning matters in which the descend- 
ants of James ^IcAfee are so much interested. (See 
Vol. 2, page 393. ) "The flourishing manufacttirers 
of Ulster aroused the jealousy of rival manu- 
facturers in England, who in l(i98 succeeded in 
ol)taining legislation which seriously damaged the 
Irish linen and woollen industries and threw uuiny 
workmen out of employment. About the same time 
it became apparent that an epidemic fever of perse- 
cution had seized upon the English (^^'hurch. The 
same persecuting spirit which we have above wit- 
nessed » * * found also a vent in the severe 
disabilities inflicted in 170-t and f(dlowing years 
upou Presbyterians in Ireland. They were forbid- 
den to keep schools ; nmrriages performed by their 
clergy were declared invalid ; they were not allowwl 
to hold any office higher than that of petty con- 
stable, and so on through a long list of silly and 
outrageous enactments. For a few years tliis 
tyranny was endured in the hope that it was but 
temporary. By 1710 this hope had worn away, ami 
from that year, until the passage of tlie Toleration 
Act for Ireland in 1782, the jieople of T'lster kept 
flocking to America." 

It is known that Jauu's ^IcAfee, Sr., took ship at 
Belfast, in the spring of 1730, for North America, 
and with him went his wife, his aged and widowed 
mother, and his three little baby boys, namely : 
James. Jr., bom in 173(); John, who lived to uiature 



CAKEEK OF JAMES .McAFEE, SK., IN AMERICA. 157 

years, and who, as we shall see later on, met his little body in its wiudiug sheet dowu to old oceau's 
death at the hands of sava-nes in Virfiiuia; ami little bosom, where, in an instant, it disappeared from 
.\Ialc(dni, a l)alie of liut a few months, wlio was their sight to be seen no more till earth and sea 
destined to die and be buried at sea during' the voy- shall ^ive up their dead at the end of the world, 
age to America. James ilcAfee, Sr., like his father It was, indeed, a sad introduction to America; but 
before him, had named a son .Malcolm, ^\'llilst it is thi'se parents had been reared in good rresbytcrian 
only a coujectuic, it is certainly not an unreason- homes and had learned that (bid makes no mis- 
able one, that this was done expressly to perpetuate takes, and tiial gixtdness and meicy sliall follow 
the name of that Highland chief, whose death in his peojjle all the days of their lives, ;ind that they 
l(J4.j had marked the dismemberment of the ^fcAfee shall dwell in his liou.S' forever. Tlie good ship 
Clan, liut the little namesake of the chieftain was .sailed (in to llie westward, and in a day or two more 
not permitted to live to manhood. On the way the Delaware coast began to luark a dim outline 
over he was taken ill, and when within only a few along the horizon; the entrance^ to Delaware Ray, 
days of the .Vmerican coast he died. .Vnd the i)ar- with its two cajies stauding guai-d, came into view, 
ents, the aged grandmother, aiul the two wonder- and soon they came to anchor at X(n\castle, June 
ing little infant sons no doubt stood uncovered on 10, 17:>;>. They were in America, and done with 
the deck while the slurd\- sailors lowered the t]u\ (treat Hritain for life. 



CHAPTER II. 

CAREER OF JAMES McAFEE, Sr., IN AMERICA, 1739 TO 1785. 

We need not assume that wIkmi .lames .McAfee and 1770 at least a half million souls were trans- 
and family stepped ashore at Newcastle that sum- ferred from Ulster to .America, at which last- 
mer's day, in June, 1731), they had no ac(piaiut- named date one-third of the population of I'enu- 
ances in America. Besides, no doubt, a goodly sylvauia, and one-sixth of that of the colonies as a 
company of fellow-i)assengers whom they had come whole, was Scotch-Irish. So, we may well believe 
to know on the voyage, there were probably nmny the McAfee familv were not total stiangers in the 
Scotch-Irish friends on this side the sea who lunl new world. Still, the conditions which now con- 
preceded them. We must bear in mind that it was fronted them were strange, and some of them far 
then about forty years since the tide of emigra- from pleasing. From what (ieueral McAfee says 
tiou from Ulster to the American colonies had set we necessarily infer that both James and wife had 
in. That movement was one of the most remark- learned the trade of Aveaving in the old country; 
able phenomena in the history of this continent, and as they had but a small amount of money, they 
l'r<un the year 169.S, when the seliish rivalry of wisely laid that aside for the purchase of a farm a 
F^nglish manufacturers, coupled with the persecut- little later on, and in the meanwhile employed 
ing bigotry of English prelates, began to make tlieir time at weaving. England, in her harsh treat- 
residence in Ireland intolerable to Presbyterians, ment of these Scotch-Irish people, just as France 
on to the i)assage of the Toleration Act for Ireland had done in her cruelty to the Hugiienots, followed 
in 1781', that tide ceased not to flow. It began to a policy which was not only unchristian but exceed- 
assume large proportions in 1710. In the year ing costly. She thereby drove out from her do- 
1727, in a single week, six ship loads of immi- minion hundreds of thousands of her sturdiest, 
grants were landed at Philadelphia. Fiske gives it most industrious and most oouseioutious citizens, 
as his opiuit)u (Vol. 2, page 394) that between 1730 and thereby helped t(> make of them, and their sons. 



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the most invincible foes she had to reckon with in 
the American Kevolutiou. This same James Mc- 
Afee, Sr., sent into the Continental army several of 
his jiallant sons a generation later. 

The family only lingered a few mouths on the 
Delaware; the colony of Pennsylvania was their 
destination, and in the fall of that year, 1739, they 
purchased a farm in what is now Lancaster 
County, Tenusylvania, on Octoraro Creek. When 
William Penu secured the royal grant of the ter- 
ritory wliicli afterwards came to be called by his 
name, he announc(Hl to the world that it was his 
purpose here to "try the holy experiment of a free 
colony for all mankind;" and no doubt the hope 
of sharing the benefits of that experiment fired the 
zeal of James McAfee, and made him glad to risk 
the hardships incident to starting life in a new 
country. So with determination he set about clear- 
ing his land, building a house and preparing for 
the raising of a crop. Here he lived a number of 
years, and here several of his children were born. 
General McAfee tells us that the family, after liv- 
ing on the Octoraro for some years, moved out into 
the western part of the colony where they remained 
but one year, and that then they moved, 
in 1753, down into the colony of North Caro- 
lina, near the line of South Carolina. Here, 
General McAfee thinks, they remained scarce two 
years, when, turning their faces again northward, 
they journeyed into Virginia, and settled on 
Catawba Creek, in what is now Roanoke County, 
Virginia. This makes the settlement of the Mc- 
Afees in Virginia to have been effected not earlier 
than the year 1755. That this is an error of seven 
or eight years seems to be clearly proven by the 
court records of Augusta County, Virginia. The 
fact is, James McAfee was a citizen of that county 
as early as February, 1748. This point will re- 
ceive attention presently ; meanwhile, let us con- 
sider the probable reasons which constrained James 
McAfee to abandon Pennsylvania and settle in Vir- 
ginia. Driveu from Ireland largely by the narrow- 
ness and selfishuess of the dominant elements there, 
the McAfees had supposed that the colony of the 



peace-loving Penn would afford a sure asylum for 
all who feared God and sought to live in peace and 
charity with their neighbors; but even in that col- 
ony they were soon made to realize that "Old 
Adam" had not been altogether left behind in Great 
Britain. It seems that the original settlers of the 
colony, who at first were eager to induce the Scotch- 
Irish to settle among them, especially on their 
western frontier, began to grow somewhat jealous 
of their presence when they saw them coming to the 
front as successful farmers and artisans. The re- 
sult was that in time these original settlers, still in 
the ascendant in public affairs, induced the pro- 
prietary government to enact various restrictive 
measures intended to curb the power and influence 
of the more recent comers. Thus tlie Sc(>tcli-Irish 
people found themselves again hampered and 
annoyed in some measure as they had been in 
Ulster. Then the depredations of Indians, insti- 
gated by the French, began, about the year 1744, to 
make life in the colony uncomfortable. In that 
year England and France were at war, and the 
Indians were allies of the French. The northwest 
corner of the colony bordered Lake Erie, which the 
French controlled, and the French military posts 
in Western Pennsylvania threatened to confine the 
colonists to the eastern slope of the Alleghenies, if 
not to drive them entirely off the continent. The 
predominance of Quakers in the colonial assembly, 
with their theory of non-resistance to enemies, had 
left the people without means of public defence; 
and it was probably not until after the ]\IcAfee 
family had arranged to migrate to the southward, 
that any steps were taken to raise a military force. 
The culmination of these troubles occurred about 
1746, which was the very year in which we have 
solid reasons for believing James JIcAfee took his 
departure from that colony to find a new home in 
the country to the southward. Then, furthermore, 
the shrewd and politic Governor Gooch, of Vir- 
ginia, thoroughly appreciating the great import- 
ance of peopling the great Valley with a sturdy, iu- 
dustrious and law-abiding race of men like the 
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them who should take up lauds in that then very 
sparsely-settled but splendid region. Governor 
Gooch was no admirer of the faith of the Presby- 
terians, but he was anxious to interpose them as a 
sort of buffer between the older settlements and the 
Indians on his western border. It is easy to under- 
stand, therefore, that the ^McAfees and hundreils of 
other families Avei-e in the course of years induced 
to exchange Pennsylvania for Virginia. This 
movement really led, in time, not merely to fiiliug 
the great Valley with Presbyterians, wlio dominate 
that entire region to this day, but also to a. pretty 
complete transformation of Virginia as a whole, so 
that what was once an overwhelmingly anti-Puri- 
tan community, raled by people wannly devoted to 
monarchical ideals, came to be the very cradle of 
republicanism and democratic equality. (See 
Fiske, Volume 2, pages 395-7. ) 

Of course it is not a vital matter whether tlie 
McAfees settled on the Catawba, in Virginia, in 
1755, or seven or eight years earlier; and yet it is 
a matter of considerable interest. The earlier date 
( 1747-48 ) reveals to us, as the later date would not, 
the daring, adventurous character of James Mc- 
Afee, Sr., and places him among the earliest pio- 
neers of tliat portion of Virginia in which he settled. 
The records of Augusta County, Virginia, show that 
one Robert Poage conveyed to James McAfee 300 
acres of laud on Catapas Creek at a place desig- 
nated as "Indian Camp," February 17, 1748, and 
James McAfee is therein referred to as a farmer 
and a citizen of Augusta County. That place is 
located in what is now Roanoke County, Virginia, 
thirteen miles northwest of the city of Roanoke. 
This farm is only twenty-five miles northeast of 
New River at the big bend near Blacksburg, and 
only eighteen miles from the famous Draper's 
ISIeadows Settlement, at which occurred, in 1755, 
one of the most horrible Indian massacres ever per- 
petrated iu Virginia. That settlement at Draper's 
Meadows was itself effected the same year in which 
James McAfee bought the Indian Camp farm. The 
deed to McAfee says Augusta County, Virginia, 
was Ills i)lace of residence al ilie date of the execu- 



tion of the deed. (See Augusta County Records, 
Deed Book 2, page 163. ) Nor is this all. The same 
records show tliat in tlie year 17G3 James McAfee, 
Sr., conveys to his son George 100 acres of land on 
Catawba Creek which is described as part of a 
tract of 300 acres which Jauu's liad patentwl De- 
cember 15, 1749. The remaining 110 acres of that 
tract he deeds, the same day, to liis son James, Jr. 
Tliese deeds seem to settle it tliat James ^McAfee 
was a citizen of that region as early as 1748. 
Augusta County in tlial early day included within 
its bounds a little empii-e, namely: A large part of 
what is now Virginia; most of AVhich is now West 
Virginia; and tlie wlude of wliat is now Kentucky. 
In 17(!9 the county of Botetourt was carved out of 
Augusta, and was made to include all but tlie i)or- 
tion of the territory of Augusta lying in the Valley 
north of the James River. Thus we must regard the 
ilcAfees as among the very first white people to 
settle near New River, wliich Avas then the extreme 
south-western and north-western boundan- of civili- 
zation. How General R. B. McAfee came to affirm 
that his grandfather did not leave Pennsylvania till 
1753, and did not settle iu Virginia till 1755 we can 
never know; but whatever may be conjectured in 
regard to the matter, we are not warranted in 
ignoring the official written records of Augusta 
County; and hence are slnit up to the conclusion 
that James McAfee, Sr., was a citizen of some part 
of Augusta County in February, 1748. 

In November, 1771, James McAfee, Sr., joined 
his son George and wife, and his son Robert and 
wife, in executing a deed for the Indian Camp 
farm to Archibald Woods, after which date he 
seems to have made his home at a farm he owned 
four miles down Catawba Creek. This farm had on 
it an old Indian fort in ancient times, and was only 
about one hundred yards north-east of the long- 
famous resort called the Roanoke Red Sulphur 
Springs. Both these farms are immediately on the 
public road leading from Fincastle to Blacksburg. 
The highest mountain peak within twenty miles of 
these farms is one known on ail (lie maps as McAfee 
Knob, (Iiehighcsl poiiil of wiijch is 3,201 feel above 




PINNACLE OF McAfee KNOB, ROANOKE COUNTY, VA. 
3,2ot Feet Above Sea Level. 

LOCATED FOUR MILES EAST OF ROANOKE RED SULPHUR SPRINGS, AND TEN MILES NORTH-WEST OF ROANOKE CITV. NAAIED FOR JAMES 
MAFEE. SR., WHOSE HOME WAS THREE MILES WEST OF ITS BASE 



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sea level, and is the most prominent landmark in 
that vicinity. A few miles to the west of the farm 
at the Red Sulphur Springs is a gap in Brushy 
Mountain known a.s McAfee's Gap, and through it 
runs a stream called I\IcAfee"s Branch. This 
whole neighl)orhood. tlicrcfore, is very completely 
identified with th(> McAfees, whose homes were in 
close proximity to these several localities from 174S 
onward to the migration of most of the family to 
Kentucky in 1779, and the death of James McAfee, 
Sr., in the neighborhood in 1785. In both the deeds 
made by James McAfee, Sr., to iiis sous in 1703 we 
find the witnesses were Robert Breckinridge, Wil- 
liam Preston, and John Miller. 

In the two deeds James McAfee, Sr., made to his 
sons in 17G3, the name of his wife does not appear. 
In one he made in March, 1767, to one Archibald 
Fisher, conveying 150 acres on Catawba Creek, his 
wife signs as "Jannet." The witnesses were Rob- 
ert and Lettuce Breckinridge, James Curry, Wm. 
Fleming, and Andrew Woods, all no doubt neigh- 
bors and friends — a "neighbor" in that day may 
have meant a man who lived twenty miles away. 

The life of the McAfees on Catawba Creek was, 
of necessity, a frontier life; for Indian depredations 
did not finally cease along the New River and its 
tributaries till the close of the eighteenth century, 
lasting as long as they did in Kentucky. As late as 
1768 John McAfee, second son of James, Sr., waj 
killed by Indians somewhere on Reed Creek not 
far from where it empties into the New River in 
Wythe County. A careful study of the map in this 
volume entitled "The Parting of the Ways," will 
reveal the historic interest which the neighliorhood 
of the McAfees possesses. At no other spot in the 
whole South was there ever such a remarkable con- 
vergence of important highways prior to the days 
of railroads. The focus of all these roads was the 
supply store at Draper's Meadows, twenty-five 
miles south-west of James McAfee's home on the 
(Jatawba. Here most of tiie early explorers and 
hunters liound for the Kentucky wilderness ren- 
dezvoused. Here Dr. Walker, Col. Gist, Daniel 
Boone and many of the early exploring and hunting 



parties procure<l supplies. The home of James Mc- 
Afee, Sr., was right on theWildernessRoad leading 
north lo I'hiladeiphia and south-west to the Hol- 
ston, the Clincii, East Tennessee and Cumberland 
Gap, and the McAfee boys were from cliildhood ac- 
customed lo meet with Iheeai'ly I'.xiilorers, hunters, 
and traders, and necessarily became thoroughly 
imbued with the spirit of adventure, and versed in 
all the employments of men on tlie frontier. Be- 
sides this, they were all reared in the midst of con- 
ditions so primitive and strenuous that they were 
early inured to every form of hardship and danger. 
They learned all the tricks and habits of both wild 
beasts and savages, and lived habitually accus- 
tomed to the use of the rifle and the hunting knife. 
The eldest son in the family, James, Jr., was a 
youth of nineteen when, in 1 f. ").">, the Indians sud- 
denly fell upon Draper's Meadows and either killed, 
wounded or carried away into captivity, every man, 
woman and child that was tliere the day tliey made 
their deadly attack. There were a few Presby- 
terian churches scattered through the Valley of 
Virginia in those early days, and no doubt the Mc- 
Afees, who were Presliyterians, attended religious 
worship occasionally, Init such privileges were by 
no means common, and it is almost certain that the 
spiritual interests of the people suffered in conse- 
quence. 

James McAfee, Sr., was a large, squarely built 
man, six feet high, with large bones, strong pas- 
sions, and great decision of character. He had 
large liazel eyes. When aroused he was ready for 
any enterprise, and shraidc not from danger. Nev- 
ertheless, he was amenable to reason, and could be 
ruled by gentleness and love. His wife, Jane )Mc- 
Michael, whom he called "Jinny," was a woman 
above the average size, tall and dignified. In a deed 
executed in 1767 she jt>ins her husband, signing her 
name as Jannet. She had a remarkably fine face, 
and a pi-ominent forehead. Iler eyes were dark 
gray in color, and her hair black. Her e.xpressiou 
combined decision with mildness and conciliation. 
When her husband would become aroused and 
angry she knew how to calm and silence him by 



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her geutle and persuasivo manner. On one occasion 
when Geovjre Whitefti-lil wa.s on one of his preadi 
ing tonis in America, ami attraclinfi vast multi 
tudes to his meetings, Mrs. McAfee expressed a de- 
sire to hear liim. Her hnshand, who was a rather 
rigid and somewliat narrow Seceder, had no lik- 
ing for T\'hit('tiehrs new methods, and wa.s not only 
unwilling lo go to the services of the eloquent evan- 
gelist himself, lint forbade his wife's attending. 
On observing, however, that she was disappointed 
and hint at liis icfusal, he relcnteil and .said to her: 
"Well, Jinny, yon can hear him if you want to, but 
don't let him come about me." His five sons and 
their families and a goodly company of the family's 
connections got ready in the tall of 1779 to migrate 
to Kentucky and xhcvr make a new start in life, and 
the only ])romiuent memliers of the family who did 
not join that caravan of emigrants were James Mc- 
Afee, Sr., himself, and Mary, his sou James's 
daughter, wife of David Woods. His wife had re- 
solved to accompany her cliililrcn to the lovely wil- 
derness beyond the western mountains, but for 
s«Mue cause he was to remain in Botetourt. He was 
now seventy-two years old, and she was perhaps 
nearly seventy. The way to Kentucky lay along the 
^^'ilderness Koad. It was not a wagon-road they 
had to travel, hut a mere bridle-path, nxjst of the 
way. It was a te<lious Jtmrney of more than forty 
days on pack-horses, ami not an undertaking for 

'] pie wlio had passed three score years and ten, 

but Jane .McAfee made it with her children and 
grandchildren, leaving her iiusiianil in Virginia 
with the almost certain prospect of never meeting 
him again on earth. Su<-h an ei)isode in the life of 
a couple who had walked together as husband and 
wife for forty-four years and reared a large family 
of children, and who had seen their children's 
children around them seems to call for explanation. 
We may well believe General 11. B. McAfee knew 
otiier reasons than those he mentions. He I'efers to 
the old man's age and the dilficnlties of the journey, 
but does not explain how it was these could not 
deter the elder ilrs. McAfee from going. The fam- 
ily, however, made ample provision for the old gen- 



tleman's ((nufort, leaving him under the care of a 
Mr. Montgomery, who was a relative, and a Mr. 
.McDonald. The father of tlie .McAfees remained in 
\'irginia and there he died in 178."), aged seventy- 
eight. ^■ie\\ it as we may, there is something 
strange and sad about so unusual a separation as 
this must have been. In 178^ the old man's sou, 
Kobert. showed a filial interest in his father by 
making the long and dangerous trip to \irginia to 
see him once more, and took with him pre.seuts and 
loving messages from the other children. Soon 
after Robert got back to Kentucky his mother died 
(1783). She had made iter home partly with her 
son Robert, and partly with iter daughter Mary, 
who was now living with her ( se'coifd 1 husband, 
Mr. Thomas Guant, at his home on Salt River ont 
in the Mtul Meeting House neighborhood, about 
three miles from Harrodsburg. She was buried, as 
General R. B. ilcAfee particularly ])oints out, on 
Mr. Guant's farm, on a high hill, on the south-east 
side of Salt River, about half a mile south-west of 
'the mouth of Dry Fork. (See map of Mercer 
County in this volume on which her grave is indi- 
cated. ) 

OHiLniiEN OF J.vMES ^McAFt;!:. Sit.. Axn J.wt: .Mc- 
Micii.\J-:i>. 

A— JAMES McAFEE, JR., who was born in Ire- '' 
land in 1736, came to America with his parents in 
1739; married Agnes Clark about the year 1758; 
settled with his family on Salt River, Mercer 
County, Kentucky, in 1779. and there died in 1811. 

B.— JOHN McAFEE, who was born in Ireland 
in 1737, migrated to America with his parents in 
1739 ; and was slain by Indians on Reed Creek, near 
Xew River, in what is now Wythe County, Vir- 
ginia, in 17C8. 

C— MALCOLii McAFEE, who was born in Ire- 1 
land in 1738 or 1739, was probably named for his 1 
ancestor, Malcolm McAfee, the last chieftain of 
the McAfee Clan, and who died in .June, 1739, on 
board the ship in which his parents came to Amer- 
ica, and was buried at sea. 

D.— GEORGE McAFEE, who was born in Penn- 



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16a 



sylvania in 1740, inovetl U) Catawba Creek, Vir- 
ginia, with liis parents in 1748; married Susan Cur- 
ry some time prior to 1770; movefl w itli his family 
to Salt River, Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1779. 
where he died in 1803. His body Avas the tirst one 
to be buried in Xew Providence Cemetery. 

E.— MAKY McAFEE (Tiie First), who was 
probably born in Pennsylvania about the year 1742, 
came to ('atawba Creek with her parents in 1748; 
married, first, a Mv. John Poulson, and, kiter, a 
Mr. Tlunuas Gaunt (or Cuant. or Grant) ; and at 
whose home on Salt Piver, three miles south-west 
of Harrodsburg, occurred the death of Mrs. Jane 
.McAfee, the mother (if the .McAfee pioneers. 

F.— ROBERT :McAFEE, wlio was born in Penn 
sylvania in 1745, moved with his parents to Cataw- 
ba Creek, Mrj^iuia, in 1748; married Anne Mc- 
Coun in 17G(J; moved with his family to Salt 
Ifiver, fiercer County. Kentucky, in 177!t; and was 
murdered in 2sew Orleans in 17!>."'). 

G.— MARGARET McAFEE, who was probably 
born in Pennsylvania about the year 1740-7; 
iiutved with lun' parents to Catawba Creek, Vir- 



ginia, in 1748; mari-ied George Buchanan, and 
luoved with her husband to Salt River, Mercer 
("ouiity. Kentucky, about 17S4, where she spent the 
remainder of her life. 

IF— SA:MUEL .^IcAFEE. who was born in the 
yejii- 1748. and probably on Catawba Creek, Vir- 
ginia; married Ilannah McCormick about 1774; 
moved to Salt River, Kentucky, in 1779; and died 
ilicre in 1801. 

J.— WILLlAxM McAFEE, who was probably 
liorn on Catawba Cicek. \'irfiiuia, about 1750; mar- 
ried liebecca Curry probably about 1774; moved to 
Salt River. Kentucky, in 1779; and died in 1780 
from the effect of wounds he received while fighting 
Indians at Picpia. Ohio, he being at the time the 
caplain of a company of Kentucky Cavalry under 
General George Rogers Clark. 

K. — There was another daughter born to James 
ilcAfee, Sr., and his wife Jane, l)ut the writer could 
learn nothing of her liistory. 

Fuller details concerning eacii of the above-men- 
tioned children of James Mc.yiee, Sr., will be 
found in Chapter V. of Part II of this volume. 



CHAPTER III. 

TOUR OF THE McAFEE COMPANY TO KENTUCKY IN THE SUMMER OF 177^ AND 
WHAT IT MEANT FOR THE ACTUAL SETTLEMENT OF KENTUCKY.^^ 



"The roots of the present lie deep in the past, and 
nothing in the i)ast can be dead to the man who 
would learn how the present came to be what it is." 
J'rof. Sfiilihs. O.rfonl. l-:in/l(iii<J. 

The Kentucky of to-day has had a genesis pecu- 
liarly its own; and in order to understaud what it 
is at the ijresent time, we must go back at least n 
hundred and fifty years. Like nearly every other 
kind of growth, it has had its day of humbb' be- 
ginnings; and if we would appreciate the restilis 
of a century and a half of development, we must 
scrutinize the conduct and motives of the sturdy 
pioneers who laid tlie foundations of its life. Very 
few, if any, of the men wlio had most to do with 



inaugurating the movement which issued in the 
creation of the splendid commonwealth we behold 
to-day, possessed much of eitlier learning or wealth. 
But many of them were genuine heroes, neverthe- 
less, and rendered a noble service to mankind. 
They may have buildcd far wiser than they knew, 
or even dreamed, and yet their debtors we are, be- 
cause we, without them, could not have been made 
perfect. Those sturdy, adventurous pioneers 
labored, and we have entered into their labors. The 
heritage in which Kentuckians of the twentieth 
century take pride is so largely the creation of the 
nuMi of the eighteenth that we are in honor bound 
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Tlu' Ixxly of nit'U known in Kentucky history as 
tiic McAfee Company' consisted of five individ- 
uals, to wit : .lames McAfee. Jr.. I lie eldest member 
of the company, and its recojinized leader; (Jeorge 
and IJoltert McAfee, the younger brothers of the 
leader; James McCoun. Jr.. the brother of Kobert 
McAfee's wife; and iriamuel Adams. At the date 
oT the tour these men made to Kentucky all of 
Iheui except A(hims were marrie<l men. James Mc- 
Afee was thirty-seven years ohl. Ceorge was thirty- 
three, Kobert was twenty-eight, McCouu was about 
(lie age of Jtubert McAfee, and Adams was but niue- 
l( en. The achievements of this company have been 
pretty fully recnuiilcd in all the more c(uuprehen- 
sive histories of Kenlucky, such as those of Mar- 
sluill, Butler, Collins and Smith. And uune or 
less elaborate mention has been made of them in a 
great many other historical works, the latest of 
which is the "Winning of the West." by President 
Koosevelt. The homes of these five men were in 
what was then Botetourt County. Virginia, on Ca- 
tawba and thinking Creeks. The home of the elder 
James McAfee, the father of live sons who took an 
active part in the early settlement of Kentucky, 
was, in ITTo, on Catawba Creek, about twelve miles 
north-west of Koauoke City, and within sight of the 
wcll-kiKiwii summer resort, the Koanoke Ked Sul- 
l)hur Springs. The noted Ingles Ferry, at which 
most ti-avellers crossed Xew Kiver on their way to 
the south-west, was only thirty-five miles distant, 
on an air line, from the old McAfee homestead. 
^^'hat was called the Draper's Meadows Settlement, 
now tlie site of the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, 
and at which point was located, from 174:8 onward, 
a famous supply store, was not more than twenty- 
one miles away. The region was very hilly and 
broken. Lofty parallel ranges of mountains were 
pileil up in close succession, one behind another, 
and the amount of level and easily cultivated land 
^^■as comparatively small. It is easy to understand 
how the glowing accounts of the splendid wilder- 
ness beyond the mountains, given by Boone and 
other hunters on their return home from that region 
about 1771-1'. sboiili] have tired tlic iiiiagiuations of 



adventurous young men wlio saw a grand oppor 
tunity for bettering their condition in life. From 
what General K. B. McAfee says it is nearly certain 
the McAfees had conversed with Daniel Boone in 
1772, or at least with men who had gotten informa- 
tion direct from him. We know the .McAfees had 
all their plans laid for a tour to Kentucky by the 
time the year 1773 had opened. The road which 
Boone would naturally travel from Kentucky hack 
to his home on the Yadkin in North Carolina, 
jia.ssetl Draper's Meadows. 

The men of this company were admirably adapt- 
ed by character and training to just such a haz- 
ardous enterprise. Beared on the frontier, they 
iiad all their li\('s been accustomed to dealing with 
wild beasts and Indians, as well as all the sterner 
forces of nature. They were perfectly familiar with 
all the arts of wood craft, and were by no means 
novices in any departmeni of adventure they were 
likely to have to deal with on a tour such as that 
on which they were about to end)ark. Certain it 
was that for that expedition "no tenderfoot netnl 
a])ply." It is clear from all the records we have 
of the doings of these men that, from the <first in- 
ception of their undertaking at the close of the year 
177i' on to the day of tiieir safe arrival at home at 
the end of summer, the year following, theirs was a 
l)erfectly independent and autonomous body. They 
were never auuilgamated with, or in any way snb- 
jeit to, any other comijauy of explorers, though for 
a season they were associated with several other 
companies on the Ohio Bivei- for tiie mutual protec- 
tion and convenience of all coucevncd. wliile acci- 
dentally thrown together. From the outset they 
had a very distinct idea of their mode of procedure, 
and of the partictilar region in which they wished 
to nuike their pernument home. 

The condition of the region now composing the 
Commonwealth of Kentucky when visited by this 
company in the summer of 1773 should l)e regarde<l 
for a moment before we attempt to follow them on 
their tour. To-day this region has a permanent 
resident population of more than two million souls; 
at that date it did not have a siniile one. Indian 



TOUR OF THK IMiAFEES TO KENTUCKY. Ifin 

ti-ihes. wluisc lioiiies wcrt' lo llu' iioitii or the soutli iiiinch of viupirt' w('s(\\ai-<], and meant to Ue in the 

of its borders, often hunttnl in iis majestio forests, vanjinard of tliosc civilizini;; aiieiicics whioli were to 

or marched across its territory; Init wlicn tlic Me- redeciu (lu- wildciucss and make of it a fruitful 

Afees entered Kentucky it is alinnsi certain llicrc field and the hunic i>\' a Ciii-istian iicnplc. What 

was not one hnnian licin^Li' actually rcsidinu iliere. Kentucky needed Ihen was solx-r, indusirious, 

Tn our day tens of thousands of i)ulilic roads con- moral men with families — men who should hrint; 

neet every villainc and ueijihliorlmod in the State, with them not only the huntinii-knifc and llie ritle, 

many of ^\■lli(•h are L'.raded and macadamized; in hut the imiilenienls of peaceful and heneticeut in- 

that day there was not one mile of road in the dustry, and, above all, the school ami the church, 

entire rejjion save the trails and patlis ma<le by wild To this class the ^fcAfees and their associates bo- 

aninmls or savages in np\ inu over the land. There luni;cd. Thai ibi.s was ihcir aim, whicli ihev lived 

are now fdui'ieen million acres of rhe soil of the to see realized, is seen in I lie coiiiniMuily wliicli tliev 

State und( r actual cultivation as farms and ^ar- established on Salt Itiver in w iiat is now .Mercer 

dens, yielding every year a vast variety of a.nricul- (/ounty, and which, after (uic hundred and liiiilv 

tural products worth more tlian one liundred and years, is tilled with their descendants; whilst hiiu- 

tifty millions of dollars; at thai day there was jirob- di'eds of them have gone to the west and north-west 

ably not an acre of .uround in corn. ^Fore than four and taken an lionorabie |)art in the di'V(do])ment of 

hundred tluuisand dwellin.i>' houses dot the country the country. 

at the present tinu'; in 1773 the <inly Imildins's in It must have been an affectiuu- scene thai spring 

existence were some lontj-deserted houses on the morninji- — Monday, May 10, 177.'^ — when, probably 

banks of the Ohio opposite the moutli of the Scioto at the home of the elder James ^fcAfee, the five 

River, unless we except one little eijilit by twelve men of this comjMiny assembled, on the Catawba in 

cabin whidi Dr. Thomas Walker had erected on the Botetourt County, Va., to take leave of their loved 

Cumberland River in 17.")0. Tn simple truth. Ken- ones on starting to the west. Xo such farewell had 

tucky, in 1773, was but a splendid, uninhabited wil- ever been said there before, we may well believe, 

derness, along whose northern borders a few adven- Here were five cln)ice young men about to make 

turous travellers had i^assed hurriedly in their their way into an uidvuown wilderness where for 

canoes, ami into a portion of whose interior some several months they would be exposed to uncomnHin 

explorers and hunters had gone only for a feAV hardships and dangers, and where in any hour of 

weeks to get a glimpse of the land, or to kill game, sore need their friends would be unable to reach 

with no thought of becoming actiuil settlers. The them, or even to know of their iM'iil. With the five 

real work of civilization had not been so much as members of the company were two other gallant 

begun. This was the Kentucky which, in the spring .young men who deserve to be reuKunbered, namely : 

of 1773, the :\rcAfees essayed to enter with the fixed John IMcCoun, and James Pawling, whose lunuble 

imrpose of effecting there a permanent settb-ment .^''"t hazardous mission it was to accompany them 

for themselves, their wives and their children, for at least one hundred and sixty-five miles of the 

They came not as aimless adventurers, nor as hunt- ^vay in order to bring back the horses which would 

ers, nor as mcic land spe<-ulators or agents of such. uo longer be needed by the company after they had 

They came as men who desired to better their con- reached the i>oint on the Lower Kanawha, where 

ditiou in life, and to make bonnes, and to take part tliey were to embark in canoes. The bridle-trail 

in laying the foundations of a great Counnonwealth the party were to travel down New River was one 

west of the mountains. It is (dear from Ceneral along which Indians were woni to come from north 

-McAfee's Autobiogra])hy that Ihese men had some- of the Ohio at that sea.son of the year on their 

thing of the ])ropbe(ic vision, and foi'esaw the inaraudiug exjM'ditions (o the white settlements in 



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Virgiuia ;' aiid .young McCoiiii and Pawliug would 
need on their ri-iuni home to travel thai trail for a 
week or more by themselves, and cumbered with 
perhaps five or six horses. Then also there were 
two of the McAfee brothers. Samuel and "William, 
who, though not of the exploring ])arty. should l)e 
considered as in a sense nuMubers, because their 
task was one whitli was as essential to the under- 
taking as if they actually had gone along with the 
others. Not all of the able-bodied men of the neigh- 
borliotxl could safely leave liome at any one time, 
for we must remember that the whole of the New 
Hiver region was still a frontier settlement and 
constantly exposed to Indian depredations. The 
very next year after this tour was made the sav- 
ages invaded the Sinking Creek neighborhood, as 
Dr. Hale tells us (see pages 33 and 205 of his Alle- 
gheny Pioneei's)and murdered five children of ajMr. 
Lybrook. Capable and fearless men were needed at 
home for puri>oses of protection, as well as to make 
the crops; and it is recognized in Holy Writ that 
"as Ills part is that goeth down to the battle, so 
shall his part be that tarrieth by tlie stuff; they 
shall part alike.'' It probably required more cour- 
age and self-restraint for these two young men to 
quietly stand guard at home than it would to have 
accompanied the expedition to Kentucky. Samuel 
was then twenty-five years old, and William was 
probably about twenty-three, and the i)art after- 
wards played by both in the establishment of the 
Salt River Settlement, and the death of the latter 
from wounds inflicted by Indians while leading his 
company of soldiers in battle under General George 
Rogers Clark in 1780, prove them to have been of 
the same heroic mould as their older brothers. At 
last tlie farewells were spoken, and the tender kisses 
of affection exchanged, and the men of the explor- 
ing company, together with tlie two friends who 
wei'e to be their companions for a week, mounted 
their horses and took the road leading up the creek 
towards the Great Divide on whose summit stood 
the supply store at Draper's Meadows, whence their 
real start for the wilderness was to be made.* The 
distance was only about twenty-five miles from the 



home of the elder James McAfee, and it was prob 
ably covered by the middle of the afternoon, alloA\ 
ing the nun ample time before night for the laying 
in of such supplies as were needed for the long 
journey. No doubt next morning, Tuesday, May 
nth, they were ready by sunrise to proceed. Let 
us picture them to our minds as they are about 
I'cady to take the trail wliidi led down New River. 
What would we not give now if a first-class photog- 
rapher's outfit had been possible then, and some 
one had taken a good view of the wliolc jiarty in a 
grouj), and the picture had bi'cn transmitted to us 
exactly as it appeared 130 years ago I Tlie linsey 
hunting-shirt, the coon-skin cap, the buck-skin leg- 
gins and moccasins, the tomahawk, the hunting 
knife, the ])owder horn and last, Imt not least, the 
long-barrelled flint-lock rifle — tlie most effective 
short range arm yet devised by man — were all in 
evidence, not to mention numberless otlier items in 
the way of provisions and outfit. Their horses may 
not have looked very styli.sh, and the miscellaneous 
array of ''plunder" indispensable for such a tour, 
no doubt imparted a somewhat ragged and inartis- 
tic look to the ensemble; and yet they must have 
presented a most picturestpie spectacle. And what 
impresses us most, and causes a feeling of sadness, 
is the consciousness that no such spectacle can ever 
be wntnessed anywhere in our world again. The 
pioneer age has vanished, never more to return. All 
the conditions of life have been radically altered. 
The pioneers are gone, and they can live in- memory 
alone. Let lis therefore be only the more careful to 
preserve, as faithfully as we may, the true story of 
their lives. 

We can not with absolute certainty indicate the 
exact route they travelled on their way down to- 
wards the Ohio River, but it is reasonably certain, 
as Dr. Hale points out (see his book, page 102), 
that they went the trail the Indians were Avont to 
follow in coming from north of the Ohio to the 
upper New River country. That trail went down 
New River to the mouth of Indian Creek, crossed 
over New River and the Bluestone, and Flat Top 
Mountain, and went on past the site of Raleigh 



Ton; oi' rill': .MtAI'iojos i'o kkxtuckv. 



h; 



Court Houwp to the head waters of Paint Creek, 
then (lo\vn tliat stream to the Kanawlia, and down 
the Kana\\iia to tlie noted Salt Sprint: at tlie month 
of Campbell's Creek, which is abont tiw niiles above 
tiie present city of Cjiarleston, West A'ir^inia,' and 
.about sixty mib's aboNc tlic month of llic Kanawha. 
Tlie distance \\inch Ihc ]iar(y (ravelled on llieir 
horses was not far from one Imndred and sixty-five 
miles, and they were about one week in coming. 
From thisjioint John ^leConn and James I'awliuf^ 
returned witli all the JHUses to tlieir homes. Ten 
days' time was consumed in the l)nildiug of the 
boats; the provisions and outfit of tlie iiarty were 
loaded into them; and before the end of .May they 
liad readied the Ohio, where they fell in with Capt. 
Thomas Bullitt and several other companies of 
whites, and some friendly l>ela\\are Indians, lioiiig 
down to the Falls of Ohio.'" The journey down to 
the moutii of the Kentucky lliver occupied the 
whole of the month (d' June and llie tirst week in 
July. They jiroceeded leisurely, niakiun' many 
stojis (Ui the way, and explorinij, tlie country back 
from (lie river for ten or fifteen, and even thirty 
miles. On the afternoon of Wednesday, July 7th, 
Ihe McAfees bade farewell to Capt. Bullitt and the 
other men with whom they had now been pleas- 
antly ass(iciated for five or six weeks, as they were 
only a sluut distance then fi(un the iiioutli <>( the 
Kentucky Uiver, into which stream the McAfees 
purposed lo eiitei-, whilst all the other companies 
were <leslincd for the Falls of the Oiiio. The .Mc- 
Afees pulled at their oars that eveniuj: till darkness 
i^^athered over the earth, when they drew near to 
the shore at a point alxmt six miles above w here the 
town of Carrollloii now stands, and s])enf the nijiht 
in their canoes. Perhaps they feared Indians, astliey 
were then only a very few miles from a well-known 
imffalo path and Indian trail, wliich led down from 
the Bin' Bone Lick, at w liicli they had just sjieut sev- 
eral days, lo what is now called Drennou's Lick, 
which I hey were destined to reach very soon. The 
next iiiornini; they wei-e under way an hour before 
ilay, eayerly beiidinti lo llieir oars, for they were 
now anxious to see with their own eves (lial stream 



near whose course i( was their purpose to settle for 
life. Tiiursday morniuiii-, the >^tli of July, 1773, ju.st 
as the eastern sky was brii;liteiiini;- with the flush 
of coiiiiiii;- day, through the mist of the early dawn 
I be dim outlines of the Kentucky's low banfe were 
descried; ;]][,] no ilonbl llicii' henrts beat nioi-e r;iii- 
idly as Ihey heuau to reali/.e tiiat the ii'oal of their 
hojies was almost in view. So(ni the prows of their 
boats began to turn southward as, with searching 
glances at the now clearly visilile shores of the new- 
biund sli'eam, (hey .satistied (Ik niselves that (his 
was indeed the ii\er for which they \\ere seeking. 
In a moment or two more their light canoes were 
noiselessly gliding in between the banks of the 
Kentucky, and the broad Ohio was behind them. 
The wild birds had just awaked to their matins and 
were lining the forest with their songs. I'erhaps a 
Hock of water-fowl were disporting themselves play- 
fully in the stream, and attracted by the gentle 
plashing of (he oars, looked wonderingly at the in- 
truders, scarce know ing whether to take ^^■ing or no. 
As Ihey nioNcd on uj) Ihe ri\-ei' Ihe sun came U]) in 
all his glory ; and as he began to illumine the splen- 
did wilderness with his beams not only had there 
begun another diurnal revolution of the earth upon 
its axis, but also the dawn of a new Common- 
wealth's life. AVhelher those ]dain, ]nactical men 
were conscious of the fad or not, their ipiiet and 
unheralded entrance into that historic stream on 
that summer's morning was "the fair beginning of 
a time" — the birtliday of a new era for one of tlie 
most favored regions beneath (he blue dome of 
heaven. In that auspicious lionr the banner of civ- 
ilization was f(u- the first time unfurled over Ken- 
tucky's soil, and the pei'inanenl settlement of the 
State begun. This event was one of those simple, 
unpretenlions beginnings id' things which men 
should ponder unless they wduld lose half the les- 
son which pioAidence and natnre have to teadi us. 
As some one has said : 

"There is a day in spring. 

When under all the earth the secret germs 
Begin to stir and glow before they bud : — 

The wealth and festal jiomjis of midsummer 
Lie in the heart of that inglorious luvnr. 

Which no man names with blessing. 
Though its work be blessed bv all the world." 




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Ton; <H' TllK .McAFKKS TO KK^TL (K V. Hit' 

The years whieh exteud fioiu IToO to 1772 mark Marcli. 1775, and some others made about this 
a distiiK-t and most iinporlaiil cr-i iu the history of lu-riod. imist. for all time to come, lie reiiarded as 
the iviiioii now called Kentucky — it was l"he Kra distiiiclly c|incliiiiakiin; cmmiIs in ilic foundiim and 
Of Kxjdoration proper. With it we associate the development of Kentucky, second iu time, only, to 
names of such men as Walker, (iist, Finley, Knox, the achievements of the explorers proper, and equal 
jioone, etc. These men. and many others, tii"st to theirs in iniporiaiicc. The day of mere adven- 
hlazed the way lo the settlenu-nt of the country, aud ture had now hciiun lo wane, and the day of hoine- 
dcscrvc lo he held iu everlasting' rememltrauoe, seekini; and Stalc-luiildinu- was dawninir. The 
cliietly liccanse their work, no matlci' how mea-ire it tramp of thousands of emiii'rants with their pack- 
may, in some cases, have liecn. and no matter wliat horses from Yirjiinia and the Tarolinas was soon 
may have heen their motives, rendered ])ossihle all to ])e heard alouji liie >\iidcrncss Koad thrcmnh 
that was accomplislied by those who followed in Cunilievland (Jap, and the heautifnl Ohio was soon 
liieirwake. Hut scarcely any of the men of this to lie dotted with fleets of canoes, pirojiues and flat 
class and era were seriously intent on iiiakinii per- boats, bringing homeseekers from Pennsylvania 
manent settlements in Kentucky with tlie distinct and .Maryland with their families and tlic imple- 
aim of subduing the wilderness into farms and vil- meats of peaceful industry. Of all this mighty 
lages; and had they not been sticceeded by movement that modest entrance of the .McAfees 
men of a wholly different temiier and inii]iose. into the mouth .d' tiie Kentn<dcy Ifiver at simrise of 
it may be doubted whether Kentucky would the Sth of July, 177:1, was the prelude aud pledge, 
ever have been anything but a magnifieent game The savages to the north of the Ohio, who loid<ed 
preserve. Boone, grand old hero that he was, bears upon Kentucky as their hunting-ground, inslim- 
the character of a hunter and rover, rather than tively recognized the significaiu-e of the movements 
that of a settb'd citizen ; and but for the enterprise of the McAfees and Ibillitt. Scientific trav(dlers 
of a man like Col. Henderson, who took the initia- iiiid explorers, who merely skirted the northern bor- 
tive. and paid him to assist in his schemes, he might Jt-r of Kentucky iu their canoes, or marched hur- 
never have founded anything more than a hunting riedly across portions of the country, gave the In- 
station in the wilderness. But rapidly upon the dians small c(uu-ern; the tra<lers with their jiacks 
lieels of this first era iu Kentucky's life marched full of trinkets and small wares for exchange were 
the .second — tlieEra of Permanent Settlements. For gladly widi-omed ; e\en tiie hunters aroused but lit- 
convenieiH-e this era may be assigned to the twenty tie antagonism so long as killing game was their 
years which began with the close of 1772, and ended only purpose. But when, in 1773, and the ne.xt year 
with the admission of Kentucky into the Federal or two following, they discerned sti.rdy men of an- 
Fin(Ui in 1702. Of this unicjue i)eriod the vanguard other temper and aim searching the laud, accom- 
was led by the ilcAfee aud Bullitt companies iu ]ianied by the surveyor with his compass aud chain 

1773, by the men under Captain James TTarrod in — when it (hiwned on their savage minds that tiiese 

1774, and by Col. Henderson's ])arty in 177."). It were serious men, the vanguard of civilizati(Ui, who 
was with the work (d' these men, i.rinciiially, that meant to cleat- the land, and plant crops, and build 
the real settlement and civilization of Kentucky be- towns, they i-ealize<l, as never before, that the in- 
gan. Hence, if we are to lie iiue to the iriith of his- vasion of this fair region meant the complete expul- 
t..ry, the s.'ttlemeiil begun by the .McAfees cm Salt si(m, if iu)t the exierminai ion. <.f the IJed :Mau ; and 
liiver. and that of CaptaiuBullitt at thcFalls of the the mystic signal was given for "war to the knife." 
Oliio, ill July, 1773; that begun by <'a]jtain Harrod The answci' which the savages gave to the surveys 
at Harrodsburg. in June, 1774; and that iiuide at made in 177:! was Ihe series of hostilities which be- 
BooneslKH-oiigli by ("ol. Henderson's party, in gan early in the following summer, and which cul- 



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171 



miuiited iu October, ITTi, in the bloodiest battle 
vet foujilit on Viriiinia soil, when the yreat rhief 
Cornstalk, with perhaps 1,000 warriors, attacked 
the Virginia militia \inder General Lewis at Point 
Pleasant, at the month of the Kanawha Kiver, and 
fought a whole day with splendid courage and valor 
until convinced that the whites were their superi- 
ors. That the surveys of ITTH were the very first 
movements of the whites which gave promise of 
permanent set! lenient, aud that this was the light 
ill wliicii the Indians Niewcd it, isaiiiiily attested by 
a number of distinguished historical writers." 

The journey of the party up the river to Dren- 
iHiu's J>ick,"' and on tip to where Fi'anUfort now 
stands, occujiied about a week, the details ot which 
are given in the journals of James aud Kobert Mc- 
Afee to be found in the Appendix. When, on the21st 
ef duly, they left Cave Spriug on Gilbert's Creek, in 
what is now Anderson County, five miles west of the 
Kentuckyliiver, aud marched t(i thewesl two miles, 
tiiey found a stream which they aptly desiguated 
"Crooked Creek." This was iSalt River; and the 
luniiunt they reached it, they seem to have cou- 
cliKlcd tiiat they had uom' discovered the precise 
neigliliorliood in which their final settlement was to 
be maiie. They began at once to survey land, one 
tract after another, and continued without cessa- 
tion for iiioic than a week. TJie party had already' 
laid ill two siir\'e,\s (Ui the creek where A'ancidiurg 
now stands, at least two or three on the upper 
Licking, one at tiu' moiiih of the Licking, two or 
three at l>rennou"s Lick, two at the site of Frank- 
f(n't, and two at Cave Spring, making perhaps 5,000 
acres tlius far surveyed. On Salt River from the 
iiKiutli (if llaiiiiiioiid"s Creek up to what is now 
Jdiuwii as llic .Mild .Meeting House Neighborhood, 
some three miles above Harrodsburg, twenty-one 
additional surveys were made of 100 acres each. 
The Idlai (|iiantily of land surveyed on and very 
near to Salt Kiver amounted to more tlian 8,000 
acres, which, being added to that previously sur- 
veyed, brings the grand total up to something-above 
l:?,000 acres. If we include the pre-emption claim to 
1,000 acres additional f(n- each 100 acre tract, to be 



paid for at the government price, the actual amount 
of choice laud to which the men of this company 
had rights footed up more than 15,000 a<res, eipuil 
to about seventy sipiare miles of the best class of 
land in Kentucky. It is not at all likely, however, 
that the claim to all of these tracts was made good. 
The j)articular tract on which James .McAfee after- 
wards settled, and on which he eiec-led his fort or 
station iu the fall of 1779, and his stone dwelling 
in 1790, was surveyed, as his journal schmms to indi- 
cate, on either Friday, July 23d, or Saturday, 21th. 
The fine spring which issues otit from the base of 
the bluff a few feet from the river was the special 
attraction to James ^IcAfee in that ])iece of land. 
The party were standing on the bin If overlooking 
the spring and river, and James .McAfee, taking 
Hancock Taybu-'s siii-\-eying staff in his lianil, 
struck it into the soil, remarking to liis compan- 
ions: "Men, you may hunt for as much more land 
as you please; but, for my part, I intend to live 
here, my days out, with the blessing of Providence." 
To this remark his brother Robert, w ho had not yet 
secured all his land, nuide reply : "Well, James, we 
will try and find as good places near you." That 
simple incident was one well worth remembering. 
The spring is there still. Though its discoverer 
has been sleeping in his grave on the top of the lit- 
tle fcnoll a few hundred yards distant for nearly a, 
hundred years, the sparkling water still ripples 
down over the gravel to the river as merrily as it 
did in 1773. The old stone house, erected by James 
McAfee in 1790, is still standing there on the hill 
where once the ohl fort w as. We are impressed, as 
we picture to our min<ls that little couipany gath- 
ered on that bluff that July day, that they were no 
adventurers, or mere Indian fighters, but serious, 
God-fearing men, who were locating a home for 
their families, aud who believed in a divine Provi- 
dence iu human affairs. Tliey have all been dead 
for nearly a century, .some of them luuch longer, 
but the orderh' Christian community which was 
there founded by them still abides, with its old 
church which these men organized, and it is their 
monument. They seem to have desired no other. 
The work of surveving was concluded on the 30th 



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178 



day of July. As ("uMicral .McAfee iiilonus us, tlie 
lands selected were not ouly regul;iily surveyed and 
pldttetl, but plainly marked by deadening Irees hero 
and there, and jiilin^- iij) lieaps nl' lir\ish in con- 
spicuous places, on their several siirveys. These 
methods of ideni itication were jusl as recopiiy-able 
as were the little log pens called "improvers' cab- 
ins," which were not cabius at all, Inaving no roofs, 
and useless as habitations. These men evidently 
e.xpected to return the following spring to clear 
laud and make a beginning with their settlement. 
The homeward journey is pretty fully detailed in 
the journals James and Eobert McAfee kept. It 
was perhaps one of the most archious an<l perilous 
journeys, for about one-half the way, that has ever 
been deliberately undertaken by men. It took 
them nearly one month to travel tiie .")(>(> miles they 
were obliged to cover in returning to their homes. 
There was .such a combination of adverse conditions 
to be met and I'udiiied for several consecutive 
weeks as has rarely had to be faced by any body of 
travellers. There were absolutely no roads of any 
kind for at least 300 miles of the way ; they had to 
make their way for a distance of about 1(35 miles 
right along the course of Kentucky IJiver, a 
tortuous stream whose banks were nearly all 
the way very steep and covered with green- 
brier, huirel and other varieties of brush 
which c(mstantly obstructed their progress, and 
lacerated their bodies to the utmost linut of en- 
durance; and, to add to these horrors, there were 
days at a time along the most feai'fully tiding \u<v- 
tions of the journey when no game was to be seen, 
so that after nearly tM-o weeks of the most distress- 
ing hardships they found death by starvation star- 
ing them in the face when in the midst of the high- 
est and most desolate mountains in Kentucky. 
Leaving Salt River where the Town Branch of Tlar- 
rodsburg enters it, on Saturday, the 31st day of 
July, they marched in a south-easterly direction, 
intending to pass out of Kentucky somewhere about 
the head streams of the Kentucky River into Pow- 
ells Valley and (Clinch Valley on their way to New- 
River through South-west Virginia. They crossed 



what are now Garrard and Madison counties to the 
sitp of Irvine, Ky., where they reached the Ken- 
tucky River and began its ascent. They followed 
the windings of the most northerly branch of that 
stream past the sites of lieattyville, Jackson and 
Hazai-d on lo the mouili of Leatherwood Creek in 
what is now I'erry ('(Kinly, where they finally 
abandoned the river. Ascending the easterly branch 
of that creek to its source, they tlum struck out 
across the steep and niggcil ridges of Pine ^loun- 
tain, coming on to ilie I'oor l''ovk of Cumberland 
River, tlirough Hurricane <!ap, at the point where 
it is joined by Clover Lick Creek. Going up that 
creek to w lieic there were some salt springs from 
which there were elk patiis leading up over the Big 
Black Mountain toward ^'irginia, they undertook 
the ascent of that lofty range on a dry, hot day, 
when they had been ahnost entirely without food 
for two days, and were bleeding and worn out from 
having had to drag their way through laurel and 
greenbrier bushes for days. That was the 12th day 
of August, and these uumi had now about reached the 
poiutwhere liumau endurance utterly fails. Another 
fearful aggravation of their sulierings they found 
at that high altitude was a lack of water. The sun 
was now Hearing his setting in the \\est, and the 
lofty, barren rocks to the east of them, 4,000 feet 
high, were now illnniiiied by his rays, and only lent 
a strange horror to the scene. Not a living crea- 
ture was anywhere visible, (teorge .McAfee and 
young Adams, at length unable longer to walk, cast 
themselves on the ground prepared to die, whilst 
James McAfee halted at their sides and tried to 
cheer them up. These nu'h \\ere not conscious of 
having done wrong to any man in making this toui'. 
They considered the Indian titles to the country as 
liaving all been extinguished, and their motive in 
undertaking this jonrney was one which no good 
man could condemn. As far as the peculiar exigen- 
cies of their case would allow they had religiously 
abstained from violating the sanctity of the Sab- 
bath, and had rec(!gniy,ed their dependence upon the 
blessing of Heaven. But it looked now as if God 
had deserted them, and was about to allow them io 
perish miserably on that desolate mountain and 



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THE WOODS Mc A FEE ifEMORIAL. 



leave their sorrow insr loved ones to mouru the rest 
of their days in hopeless ignorance of the place and 
manner of their awful death. Bnt it has often hap- 
]>ened in Imiiiiin cxiK'rience tliat man's extremity is 
(iod's opportunity, and it was wonderfully illus- 
trated tliiit mciii()i:ihle afternoon on the Rig Black 
Mountains. IJoliert ^McAfee, always cheerful aiid 
athletic, resolved to make one final, desperate 
effort to find some game and save the lives of the 
members of the party. He and ]\rcCoun started 
across one of the ridges looking for some animal 
whose death might prove their life. Strange to re- 
late. Eohert .McAfee had not proceeded more than 
five hundred yards when, to his unutterable joy, he 
espied a buck deer standing beside a spring, within 
good range of his rifle. It Avas a critical moment 
for all concerned. He was unavoidably excited, 
and a miss miglit mean (he loss of the last oppor- 
tunity to save the lives of tlic wliole party, for an- 
other night, witliout fond would have meant the 
annihilation of ilie conijiany. l>ut he took careful 
ami aTid pul]('(l the trigger of his trusty old rifle, 
(he flint on its lock responded with a spark of fire, 
that spark fell tipon the powder in the pan of the 
lock and (•onniuniicatcil with (lie cliarge in the gun, 
the old rifle answered with a report heard far over 
(lie mountain, and (he buck di'opped to the earth 
\\i(h (lie bullet in his vital part. Overjoyed, Rob- 
ert ran with bis Iniuting-knife in hand, and in a 
moment he A\as on tiie wounded animal, dispatch- 
ing liini to make sure of his woi'k. The other mem- 
bers of I lie eompany, liearing the crack of I»ol)ert's 
i-itle, instantly divined its meaning, and in a fe"\v 
niotneiits all came liol)bling abmg to b'arn the re- 
.sults. Soon (be buck was ready for cooking, and 
a, fire was kiinlled by which to voasl an abundance 
of juicy ni( at for all. It was as iC that animal had 
<lroppeil right tint of (he sky, aiul that stream of 
water had been made to flow by Moses striking the 
rock. Such devout tbanksgivings were probably 



never poured forth on that lonely incnintain, before 
or since, as that evening ascended to heaven from 
the grateful hearts of those five men who bad thus 
been rescued from tlie hand of death. And in after 
years, when at last these men had been settled in 
their new homes on Salt River, and they came to 
erect a sanctuary for the worship of Ood, they re- 
membered that August day on (be T.ig Blacks, and 
named their cliurch New Providence. And that 
organii',a(ion still abides, and it bears thai same 
sacred name af(er 11!t years of testimony to the 
overruling mercy of <!od (o his needy children that 
day in 1773. 

Kefreshed greatly by food and drink and resi, the 
I)arty ]mrsued their way to the eastward, crossing 
rowell's N'alley and Clinch Valley a <lay or two 
later. At rastlewoo<rs, a fording jilace on riinch 
River, they got sight of (be first white man's cabin 
they had seen since the 11th of ;May. T^ushing on 
one day farther to the cabin of a ('a]itain IJussell. 
who was an old acquaintance of the ^fcAfees, they 
felt tlie really hazardous part of their journey was 
past, and thej gave several days to recuperating. 
Their blistered feet and lacerated arms and lega 
needed rest and healing, which could here be safely 
enjoyed. The remaining 170 miles of their home- 
ward journey was accomplished in anolher week, 
and lief ore the last day of AugusI they had all 
reached their homes and found an inexi)ressibly 
glad welcome from the loved ones whom they had 
not seen for about 110 days. We can easily picture 
the crowds of eager listeners who gathered around 
the returned heroes to hear the story of their ad- 
ventures, and be stirred by the glowing descriptions 
given of tile sjilendid wibleiness beyond the moun- 
tains, and of the magnificent lands they had sur- 
veyed for future homes. Henceforth the Blue 
Grass region of Kentucky w'as the Eldorado of 
their hopes; and the only question now was as to 
how soon it would be possible for (hem to enter 
into it and make it their permanent liome. 



'I'lIK i;i:.M(»\'AI, TO KKNTrcKV. 



17:) 



CHAPTER IV. 
THE REMOVAL TO KENTUCKY AFTER LONG DELAY— 1773-1779. 



Tlu' ]mri)ose of the McAfees, from wliicli they 
never wavered, was to opeu up Ihcir hiiuls ou Salt 
IJiver for aetual oceupatiou just as soon as pos- 
sible, with the view of removing thither. Their 
settlement in their new liome, however, was re- 
tarded liy a series of hiudei'anccs and misfortunes 
i-unniufi throujih live or six years; and, tIirouj;li no 
dallyinii' on tlieir part, the date of their final niinra- 
tion to Kenliicky was ijostpoued until the fall of 
1771). At the date of their Mrst exploring tour the 
Indians and whites were praetieally at peace in the 
West, and no man conld then liave foreseen the out- 
break td' Indian hostilities to oeeur the following 
year, or the mighty revolt of the colonies against 
tlie English Crown a few years later. Had matters 
remained as they were in 1773, we may Avell believe 
the McAfees would have taken up their permanent 
abode in Kentucky by the fall of the following 
year, lint a marked change in the temper of the 
Indians towards intending settlers in Kentucky 
began to be manifest early in the summer of 1774. 
Tiie surveys made in Kentucky by the McAfees, 
15ullitt and others in 1773 had helped to produce an 
impression on the savage mind which was not at 
once understood by the whites, ^^']nlst llarrod 
was busy, about the middle of June, 1774, laying 
off the town which now bears iiis name, Daniel 
Hoone arrived w illi a message from Governor Dun- 
more, waiiiiiig all Ibc wliites in Kentucky tliat the 
savagi-s were about to go on tiie warpath." And 
Harrod had (inly just completed his first cabins at 
Uarrodsburg when (July lUthj the place was at- 
lackied by the Indians with fatal results, and in 
c(iiise(|iicnce the settlenu lit was (jiiickly abau(l(.ued, 
and was not reoccupied until ^Nlarch, 177."). The 
storm, however, lirokc in fury wiien that brave and 
capable leader, Cliief Cornstalk, at the head of a 
formidable army of Indian warriors, attacked the 
\irginia militia under (ieneral Andrew Lewis at 



the mouth of the Kanawlia Kiver.'- Tiiis was the 
bloodiest contest ever had Itetween whites and In- 
dians on N'irginia soil. Three of the McAfee brotli- 
ers, James, George and Kobert, took an active part 
in this battle, being without reasonable doubt, in 
the company of Evan Shelby, of Col. Christian's 
regiment. ^^ 

A question of .some importance is: Did the .Mc- 
Afees revisit their lauds on Salt Ifiver during the 
year 1774? General McAfee afhrm.s that they did 
not, but Marshall as positively declares that they 
did.'' Uetween these two reliables witnesses we 
must choo.se. Both meant to tell oidy the truth, and 
neither had, so far as we can judge, any reason for 
misstating the facts. The only question, as between 
these two historians is, which of the two had the 
better means of knowing the facts? General Mc- 
Afee first penned his statement in 1840, and re- 
peated it in 1845. lie had gotten what he knew of 
the matter from his uncle James in 1804. The 
General was only twenty years of age in 1804, and 
only twenty-seven when his uncle died; and it A\as 
twenty-nine years after his uncle's death that his 
first assertion was written in his"I{i.se and Progress 
of the Salt Kiver Settlenu'nt." On the other hand, 
Humphrey 3Iarshall came to Kentucky from Vir- 
ginia in 1780, when about twenty years old, and 
lived till 1842. The first edition of his work was 
printed in 1812, and the last in 1824. He was per- 
sonally familiar with the pioneer history of Ken- 
tucky. It is reasonably certain that he would 
not have gathered nuiterials for a history of Ken- 
tucky and of the ^IcAfee company without having 
personal interviews with the McAfee brothers, 
with whom he was contemporary in Kentucky from 
the year 1780 onward. If Ju' began to gather his 
niaterials about the year 1804, he was then a man 
foi'ty-four years old. Though lie was not a kins- 
man of the McAfees he was in a better position, 



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consideriu<i his a<re. his purpose, ami liis previous 
close <-ontact with the men of the pioneer period, to 
make an aeenrate not<- of facts than tlie then Youth- 
ful nepiicw of James McAfie. As tiie General 
liimself states, he i;ot his data from his uncle James 
in the year 1804, and he was then only twenty years 
(»ld, and his uncle sixty-ei}>ht. Marshall was pre- 
paring- to pnblisli an elaborate histoid of Ken- 
tucky, whilst the (Jeneral was only making mem- 
oranda relating- to his own family, and without, 
mosi likely, any idea al the tinu^ of publishing what 
he wrote. There would, therefore, seem to be a 
slight preix-nderance of credibility in favor of 
:Nrarshairs assertions, even if valid reasons had 
been assigned by (ieneral .McAfee as against a visit 
early in 1774. But the only reason given for the 
McAfees not having come to their lands in 1774 is 
the fear of Indian hostilities, but this reason had 
little or no fcmndation till late in the spring. We 
know that the next year the .McAfees were on Salt 
River by the 11th of March, having left Botetourt 
County. Virginia, the 20th of February. Reports 
of impendiug Indian raids such as would deter 
those men would have had to reach the Catawha 
Creek neighborhood before March, and we know 
no reason why the McAfees could not have made 
their visit and gotten back home a iiioiitli before 
(Jovernor Duumore despatched Daniel Boone to 
Kentucky with his message of warning. All in all, 
we must conclude that Marshall was correct, and 
that the McAfees did, as he asserts, revisit their 
lands on Salt River in the early spring of 1774, and 
made additional improvements thereon with a 
view to au early occupation of tlve same. Captain 
liarrod certainly was there in June of that year. 
and was not forced to retreat till July; and we 
know of no reason wliy the McAfees could not have 
doue the same, especially if tlK'v had left home as 
early as the end of l-'cl unary. 

The opening- of ihe year 177.') was no doubt 
marked by special activity among the McAfees. 
The great battle of the previous October at Point 
Pleasant, in which the Indians had received a 
never-to-be-forgotten chastisemeut, and which 



close<l Lord Dunmore's war, gave to the whites 
great encouragement ; and in the absence of any 
new complications, the way now seemed reasonably 
clear for a third visit of the McAfees to the Salt 
River country of Kentucky. It is true that the 
(|uarrel of the Thirteen Cobmies with the Mother 
C(iuntr\ was constantly increasing in bitterness 
and extent. The o]>eMing conflict of the Revolu- 
tion, the Battle of Lexington, was destine<l to be 
fought this spring (April 19), and Bunker Hill 
two months later; and the Second Continental Con- 
gress, which voted to raise an army, with Washing- 
ton as Commander-in-Chief, was to assemble the 
10th of May. But news travelled slowly in those 
da3"S, and especially to so remote a frontier region 
as the New River settlements. Certain it is that 
on the '20th of Febniary, 1775. all live of the Mc- 
Afee brothers (James, George, Robert. Samuel and 
William) and David Adams, and also an appren- 
ticed servant of the elder James McAfee by the 
name of John Higgins set out for Kentucky." 
Their route this time was down the Wilderness 
Road through S(iutln\esteru Mrgiuia by way of 
Cumberland Gap and NN'asioto Gap."' They 
reached James -McAfee's spring on Salt River 
.March 11th — a journey of nearly 400 miles, in 
eighteen days. Captain Harrod and company, who 
had come by the Ohio and Kentucky Rivers, passed 
the McAfees four days later on their way up to 
Harrodslnirg to re-occupy the cabins deserted the 
summer Ijefore. Daniel Boone, who came this 
spring as Ct)lonel Henderson's agent to make a set- 
tlement at the place afterwards named Boonesboro, 
did not arrive till some weeks after the McAfees 
had begun work on their land on Salt River.'" On 
this visit they cleared two acres of ground near 
James McAfee's spring, and plauii-d it in corn. 
They also made a beginning on an orchard by 
planting peach and apple seeils. (leorge and WW- 
liam McAfee also cleared and planted some ground 
quite near Harrodsburg, at a spring on the Town 
Branch near Salt River. The purpose of the j>arty 
was to move their families that fall or the next 
spring. Having spent a mouth there they set out 
for home by the way they had come. April 10th, 




KENTUCKY RIVER AT THE MOUTH OF DRENNONS CREEK. 

LOOKING UP THE RIVER 

Here the McAfee company turned into Drennon's Creek July 9, 1773. 



THE REMOVAL TO KENTUCKY. 



179 



leaving Higgius and a man bv the name of Poulson 
to plant more corn and unard the property against 
intruders. When tlu' jiartv. (in Iheir way down the 
AVilderncss Koad (then a mere trail) towards 
("nmlierland tJap, reached Skagg's freek, which is 
a small trihntary of Hockcastle Ifiver. and in the 
county of Kockcastle. they met Colonel Henderson 
and Boone, with a considerable number of men com- 
ing in on their way to the place where they were 
soon to found Boonesboro. Here a council was 
held in which Henderson laid before tin- ilcAfees 
his plans. He had only a few weeks liefore, at what 
is now Kingsport, Tennessee, concluded the Treaty 
ofWatauga with the Therokee Indians, by which the 
Henderson company ]iui'chased over one-half of the 
present territory of Kentucky, calling it Transyl- 
vania. It was a stupendous enter]uise, and Hen- 
derson sought to enlist the co-o])eration of the ^Ic- 
Afees.^* James 3fcAfee was evidently something 
more than a jilain farmer; he was a reading man, 
and well informed as to ]uildic matters, and was 
not easily carried away by tlie e]o(|uence and rosy 
pictures of the able Colonel Henderson. He re- 
sisted the proposition to allow him liberal grants 
of land if he should join in the large undertaking, 
lioldiug that Henderson's treaty with the Chero- 
kees was without government sanction, and hence 
invalid. He therefore refused to have anything to 
do with the scheme, and so counselled his brothers 
against it. George, Kobert and William McAfee, 
however, were persuaded to go with Henderson, 
and they separated from their brother .Tames, and 
went on to Boonesboro, and were jiarticipants in 
the founding of that place. There they renuiiued 
about two months, when they proceeded liack to 
Virginia. They were not long in learning that 
their older brother, James, had placed the proper 
estimate on Colonel Ilenderscm's scllenu^ and that 
they had made a mistake. Here, again, was a 
scene in the life of the McAfees — that council at 
Skagg's Creek' — of which we could wish we had a 
faithful portrayal on canvas. It must have been 
intensely picturesque and interesting. The creek 
at whose crossing this discussion took place is all 



that remains to us of the picture — every person 
present there that day has been in his grave from 
00 to 125 years. A second visit to Salt Hiver 
Mas made by the ilcAfees in September of this 
year (1775). The same men came in again, this 
linu! having in their company David and John 
;\fcCoun, and John ^lagee. They drove along with 
them forty head of cattle, which were turned loose 
in the cane on the river near where the New Pi'ovi- 
dence church was afterwards erected. Ground 
Avas cleared and some cabins erected. John ^Ic- 
Conn ami some others of the company remained in 
Kentucky through the winter of 1775-6. They 
cleared fifteen acres of land, and early in the 
spring of 177(; planted it in corn. A little later, 
discovering Indians in the neighborhood, they left 
and returned to Virginia. 

T\Tien the year 1776 opened, the IMcAfees, and 
their associates in this enterprise, laid all their 
plans to remove their families and their belongings 
to Kentucky, which was this year made one of the 
counties of Virginia. They got together their pro- 
visions and chattels to make their final move to the 
wilderness. But new hindrances were to be en- 
countered. The fact that the Revolution had now 
begun, and that the colonies were all aflame, was 
not deemed by them any sutticieut reason for not 
migrating to the ^Vest. Perhaps they reasoned 
that to aid in holding the savages at bay on the 
frontier would be as vahiable a service as any they 
could render anywhere; or perhaps their remote- 
ness from the seaboard and the slowness of news 
in reaching them from the centres of political and 
military activity rendered them less responsive to 
the exigencies of the hour than they had otherwise 
Iveen. Of their patriotism, their abhorrence of 
tyranny and their courage no one could for one 
moment have a doubt. They ( three of the McAfee 
lirothersl had marched with Evan Shelby to the 
aid of Lewis against the Indians at Point I'leasant 
in October, 1774, and their loyalty to the American 
cause was above all suspicion.'" They were all 
Whigs; and we shall see that, later on, they still 
further delayed their removal to Kentucky because 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



they were in the Virsrinia militia. James McAfee 
being a lieutenant. The women were all kept linsv. 
night and day, getting ready for the move this 
spring (1776). The plan was to transport, all 
bulky goods on paok-hoi-ses across the mountains to 
a suitable point on the Greenbrier River, there load 
them into boats, and convey them to Central Ken- 
tuck?y by water. Some of the men, and the women 
and chilflren were to go by the Wilderness Road 
and Cumberland Gap. Tt happened that a wagon 
road had been cut out only the year before by a 
Rev. John Alderson^" all the way from Tntawba 
Creek to the Creenbrier River, a distance of at 
least seventy miles. Tt terminated on that stream 
at the site of the present town of Alderson in 
Greenbrier Connty. W. Ya. The women having 
made up all kinds of clothing, etc., to last for sev- 
eral years, and the men having gathered together 
such groceries, provisions, implements, and house- 
hold conveniences as they could afford, the ^Ic- 
Afees, the McCouns. the Curiws, the Adamses, the 
Magees, etc., with wives anrl sons and daughters 
and sons-in-law started off the heavv goods across 
the mountains to the Greenbrier in ilay, 1776, in- 
tending, no doubt, that just as soon as the horses 
got back the women and children and a sufficient 
force of men would take up their march to the 
south-west, and enter Kentucky through Cumber- 
land Gap. The story of the trials and sore disap- 
pointments of these people is fully told by General 
McAfee in his Autobiography,-^ and is too lengthy 
to be reproduced in full. Sufiflce it to say that 
their goods and chattels were carried across the 
mountains to the Greenbrier River to the place 
where Alderson now stands ; that canoes were eon- 
structetl into which, on the 11th of June, all the 
goods w^ere loaded ; that the horses were sent back 
home for the iise of the members of the colony who 
were going overland to Kentucky; that the men in 
charge of the canoes started down the Greenbrier 
for Kentucky; that, to their great disappointment, 
they soon saw the water ^\as so low and the rapids 
so dangerous that they w^ere destined to have end- 
less trouble in carrying out their plans ; that after 



many trying experiences, in some of which their 
boats were completely overturned, they were com- 
pelled to pull to shore and abandon all idea of 
transporting their effects by water, after having 
gone only about fifteen miles — about to where the 
railway station of Talcott noM- stands. Bringing 
their goods ashore, they erected a little cabin in the 
forest in wlnCli they securely stored all their val- 
uables, constituting about all of their household 
possessions, the accumulations of years of labor. 
The plan was to return home the way they had 
come, procure their horses and come back and take 
the goods home, and then take everything — persons 
and goods — by the Wilderness Road. But on 
reaching home they found the Cherokee War had 
broken out in the south-west; and as the prompt 
chastisement of the savages in East Tennessee was 
necessary to save Virginia from Iheir depnnlations, 
the ]\IcAfces enlisted for the campaign and served 
under Col. Wm. Christian in his expeiiition."- This 
delayed them until September, when I hey mounted 
their horses to go over to their cabin on the Green- 
brier and bring their stores and effects back so as 
to move on to Kentucky by the overland route to 
rlu* south-west. Imagine their dismay on arriving 
at the cabin in which they had stored their valu- 
al>les, to find it broken <n»('n, their valuables scat- 
tered all about on the earth, moulded and i-uined 
by the rain, and many articles missing. The ac- 
cumulations of years had been almost completely 
wasted and ruined. Thej instituted a search for 
the cause of this disaster, and were not long in find- 
ing him — a iiinaway white servant by the name of 
Edward Sommers. They satisfied themselves of 
his giiilt, and resolved to hang him. But no one, 
when the time came to act, was willing to take the 
culj)rit's life. They, instead, returned him to his 
nmster. But for Samuel McAfee's timely interpo- 
sition, when his brother James first discovered 
Sommers, the tomahawk of James would have 
ended the man's life. Fortunately for all con- 
cerned, this deed of blood was prevented. Gather- 
ing up such things as had not been rendei-ed utterly 
worthless, the party took up their sad march for 
home. It was a terrible blow, for it would take 



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181 



several years to recover from their loss, and get 
once more into good condition for removal. The 
years 1777-8 had to be allowed to pass without even 
an attempt to move their families to Kentucky, 
partly because of the great loss of supplies in- 
curred in the summer of 1770 and partly 
because the Colonies needed the services of 
the men in their contest against the British. Most 
of these men sen-ed in the Virginia militia, James 
McAfee being a lieutenant. 

At last, when the Aear 1779 dawned, these long- 
delayed and oft-disappointed, but never utterly 
discouragefl men once more began their prepara- 
tions to move to the West. Some of them had revis- 
ited their settlements on Salt River in the fall of 
1777, but it was to find that all their cattle had 
been stolen, or had wandered off, thus giving them 
still another backset; but they were not the men 
to be easily deflected from their purpose. They 
had never, for oue moment, since 1773, relinquished 
their determination to make a home for themselves 
in Central Kentucky. This year their efforts were 
finally to be crowned with success. Accordingly, 
on the 17th of August, 1779, evei*ything being in 
readiness, a considerable colony of emigrants 
moved off towai-ds the south-west bound for Ken- 
tucky. In this goodly company were McAfees, Mc- 
Couns, Adamses, Curry s and others. There were 
at least two persons of the McAfee conueclion who 
remained behind, aud who must have experieuced 
many a paug as they realized what a separation 
was taking place. One of these has already been 
adverted to in Chapter II of this narrative, name- 
ly; the elder James Mdfee. As there shown, his 
aged wife accompanied her children and grand- 
children to the new home beyond the western 
mountains, and he remained in old Virginia till his 
death, some six years thereafter. There was also 
the eldest child of James McAfee, Jr., his daugh- 
ter, Mary, who was not with these emigrants. 
There was a well-to-do widower up on the James 
River, some thirty-five miles to the north-east of 
the McAfee homes on the Catawba, by the name of 
David ^\'oods, who owned the old homestead of his 



father, recently deceased, and he had persuaded 
Mary to share that pleasant home with him. She 
aud David Woods had probably married only a very 
short time before the migration of her family to the 
AA'est, and Mary was now (1779j probably about 
eighteen to twenty years old. David Woods, how- 
ever, did not linger long in Virginia after the de- 
parture of his young wife's kinsfolk, but removed 
with his family to Kentucky, about 1782 or 
1783, and settled only about ten or twelve 
miles from the new home of his wife's father in 
what is now Mercer County. The journey of 400 
miles occupieil more than forty-one days, an aver- 
age of only ten miles a day. The party were all on 
pack-horses; and as there were no doubt cattle and 
hogs and sheep, as well as women and little babes, 
in the company, progress was necessarily slow. 
They may have gone by the Hunter's Path, which 
led down the Cliuch X'alley to Castlewood and 
across to I'owelfs River, about the mouth of Buck 
Creek, between Big Stone Gap and Dryden, and 
thence on down to Cumberland Cap; or they may 
have taken the road which w ent past Fort Chis- 
well, Marion, W ytheville and Abingdon, and which 
comes into the Hunter's I'ath about the present 
town of Jouesville, in Lee County, Vii-giuia (see 
Map of Hunter's Tath in this volume). Either 
way there were perils and hai-dships enough. 
Xeai-ly the whole way the so-called road was only a 
bridle-path, aud led up and down steep and rugged 
mountains and across numerous rapid streams. At 
nearly every stage of the journey there were re- 
minders of Indian outrages, aud for not a single 
day or night of the entire journey could they have 
the slightest assurance that they would not be at- 
tacked and some of their number slain and scalped, 
and others carried away into captivity to be tor- 
tured to death far to the north of the Ohio, ^\•hen 
they came in full view of the Cumberland Moun- 
tain in Powell's Valley, as they approached Cum- 
berland Cap, they could see those great high walls 
of rock which for nearly a hundred miles present 
an almost impassable barrier to entrance into Ken- 
tucky, and from whose inaccessible fastnesses a 



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183 



savage foe could fire the fatal rifle-volley iutt) their 
defenceless ranks. When that majestic pass in the 
iiKiuntain, known as rumberland Oap, locmed up 
on the horizon ahead of them, and they slowl^y be- 
<ran its ascent, and realized that now they were ac- 
tually cnteriui;- Kentucky, strange emotions must 
have filled their breasts. And when a few hours 
later they bef^an to creep alone; through that 
equally majestic pass by wliich the Cundx'rland 
Kiver cuts through Pine .Mountain — Wasioto (Jap 
— and the dark shadows of the lofty crests on cither 
lianil lent a sondu'e hue to the scene, and they felt 
the damp of the river flowing at their feet, tliey had 
iieen more or less than human not to have imagined 
some frightful experiences as possible to them 
now; and we may well believe those fearless men 
who led the way, rifle in hand, scanned with pains- 
taking care every ol)ject about them, and listened 
cautiously f<ir every noise in the deep, dark forest 
which enveloped them, as, with measured step, 
they nuirched along. As the slow-moving caravan 
hove in sight of the Crab Orchard, they began to 
realize, perhaps for the first time, that now at last 
all the mountains were beliind them, and that the 
level lands were in full view. From this point on 
the hills melted more and more away till the earth 
became like the billowy sea, with just enough of 
undulation to lend a pictures<pie tone to the land- 
sca|>e. Passing where Stanford and Danville now 



are, and coming on down past Harrodsburg, they 
found the earth thickly set in luxuriant blue grass 
and cane, telling of a soil of exceeding richness, 
and giving promise of glorious haxvests in years to 
come. On the l.'7th of September the party reached 
AA'ilson's Station, nearly three miles from Har- 
rodsburg, and here the company halted. Next day 
the nH)st of them went cm to James McAfee's 
Station, some ten miles farther to the north, where 
cabins had already been erected for their use by 
mcmliers of the jiarty in previous years. When all 
had dismounted and removed their baggage from 
the i»ack-saddles, ami began to look around them, 
no doubt grave misgivings filk'd tlic minds of at 
least some of them as fliey realized under what 
stern conditions tliey were now to begin their lives 
anew. Old \'irgini;i was far away to the east be- 
yond tlie mountains — Kentucky must henceforth 
be their only earthly home. But hearts brave 
enough to conu' tlnis far could not seriously falter 
no\\ . That indomitable courage and simple faith 
in an all-wise Providence, which had sustained 
them amidst all the trials and dangers of the 
pievious years, did not forsake them now. As one 
man they went to work in earnest to establish a 
community of wliich neitlier they uov their pos- 
terity would need to feel ashanuMl. That they suc- 
ceeded in this aim no nuxn can doubt who knows 
anything ()f the region in which the villages of Mc- 
Afee and Salvisa stand to-dav. 




FORT AT BOONESBOUO-1775. 

TYPE OF PIONEER "STATIONS." 

i McAFee's Station on Salt River, smaller lli.in tlii 



I 



THE SALT RIVER SETTLEMENT. 



185 



CHAPTER V. 

THE SALT RIVER SETTLEMENT FROM 1779 TO 181 1, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO 
THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF JAMES McAFEE, Sr. 



"Ay, this is freedom! — these pure skies 

"Were uever staiued l>y villaije smoke : 
Tlie fragraut wiud, that throujih tluMii flies, 

Is breatlied from wastes by plouiili uiihroke. 
Here, with my rifle aud my steed, 

Aud her wlio left the world for me, 
I plant me, whei'c the wild deer feed 

In the fair wilderness — and I am free." 

— (Selected.) 

It would be difficnlt for the men of tliis day 
to picture to themselves th<^ sevei-e conditions 
nnder which the members of the colony on Salt 
River began their life in Kentuck^v one hundred 
and twenty-five years ago. Only two or three 
small, rude cabins were ready for their reception 
when they arrived, and only a small area of the soil 
had as yet been partially cleared and planted in 
corn. It was plain to all that dangers and 
hawlships of no ordinai'\' kind they would 
surely have to face for many years to come; 
aud only brave men and women were equal to such 
an occasion. It was only a few days after their 
arrival that a Colonel Rogers and seventy men 
under his command, who were descending the Ohio 
in boats, were attacked by two hundred Indians 
just above where the city of Newport now stands, 
and all but twenty of them were slaughtered. The 
twenty who escaped with their lives made their way 
to Uarrodsburg, and thus these new settlers on Salt 
River began their labors in the wilderness by 
listening to the bloody narrative these fugitives had 
to tell. If space permitted, some account would 
here be given of the appearance of Kentucky in 
that early day — of its natural scenery, climate, etc. 
— but the reader will have lo look elsewhere for 
such information. Collins in his History of Ken- 
tucky, Vol. 2, pages 27-81, (juotcs from several 
writers (Imlay, Doddridge, Filsoiij some interest- 
ing details; and Col. R. T. Durrett, in ''The Cen- 



Iciiary of Kentucky" ( Filson Ciiih .series) pages 
20-28 and 42-5t», lias given one of the truest pic- 
tni'cs of early Kentncky anywhere to be found. 

Tlieir lirsl care, naturally, was to build for their 
shelter and proleclion one of those rude but effec- 
tive fortifications, consisting of a quadrangular en- 
closure of log cabins and stockades, called a fort 
or station. The one they erected in the fall of 1779 
was k\uown as McAfee's Station. Filson's map, 
published in 178-1, gives its location vei-y correctly. 
The illustration given above and entitled "A Typi- 
cal IMoneer Fort," may serve to furnish a good idea 
of llie avcn-age fortification of that period in Ken- 
tucky, though it is, in fact, a picture of the one at 
Boonesboro, erected in 1775, four years before that 
of the McAfees. In a c(mntry where artillery was 
not to be found no fort could possibly be construct- 
ed that \\-ould more perfectly meet all the needs of 
the situation. It was a dwelling place for both the 
pe(ii)le and their horses, and also a safe defence 
against hostile attack. Every outer wall was abso- 
lutely bullet-proof. An enemy could not approach 
it except at the imminent peril of his life, even if 
tenanted by only a few men. But, of course, its oc- 
cupants could not always remain within those 
walls; they had to go out to pi'ocure water from 
the spring, to till the soil, to look after their cat- 
tle, to attend church, etc. Aud whenever they got 
outside that enclosure, for whatever purpose, they 
^^()uld unavoidably be exposed to danger as long 
as Indians infested the land. 

•lames McAf(>c's Station, which, for abont fifteen 
years was the rallying point for the whole com- 
munity in times of danger, stood on a small bluff 
oAei'iookiug Salt River, (mly a few hundred yards 
from the present railway station of Talmage. (See 
map of Mercer County, etc.) There were a num- 



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THE WOODS-McAP'EE MEMORIAL. 



ber of cabius iucluded in the fort which were per- 
manently occupied as residences until the Indians 
ceased to annoy the inhabitants of that part of 
Kentucky, when the several families living therein 
one by one went out and erected homes on their re- 
spective farms. To the people of that community 
it mu.«t iiave .seemed, humanly speaking, a strange 
Providence that the tirst winter they were to spend 
in the wilderness should he one of the most trying 
character. The winter of 1779-80 in Kentucky was 
one of unexampled severity. From the latter part 
of November till the middle of February there was 
one continual freeze. All the water courses were 
entirely frozen over. The buffaloes, bears, wolves, 
deer, turkeys and beavers were found in large num- 
bers, frozen to death. The people at the various 
stations were reduced to the utmost extremity for 
bread. One "Johnny cake" was often divided into 
twelve pieces, each piece having to answer one per- 
son for a meal. For weeks there was nothing for 
the people to eat except the meat of wild game. 
Early in the spring of 1780 James and Robert Mc- 
Afee journeyed to the Falls (now Louisville) and 
paid sixty dollars (Continental money) a bushel 
for corn. But a kind Providence favored them 
with an early and promising spring. \'egetation 
put forth very early, and the peach trees that had 
been planted live years before were loaded with 
fruit, and jilenty and happiness seemed to smile 
upon the settlement, except that Indian depreda- 
tions were frequently committed on various sta- 
tions, which kept the settlers more or less alarmed. 
It was these depredations that intluenced General 
( Jeorge Rogers Clark to undertake a military- expe- 
dition against the Northern Indians. It has been 
asserted by some, on what authority is not known 
by the writer, that George Rogers Clark was related 
to Mrs. James McAfee, and having been left an or- 
phan at an early age, lived for some years in Vir- 
ginia with James McAfee, Jr., as one of the family. 
Certain it is that General Clark, on his first visit 
to Kentucky in 1775, came to the very neighbor- 
hood in which the McAfees had taken up land, and 
was intimate with them. Moreover, several of the 



McAfee brothei-s accompanied him on several of 
his expeditions against the Indians, and William 
McAfee, a most gallant soldier, was the captain of 
one of the companies which he led to Ohio in this 
year (17801. AVhen he started on this undertak- 
ing all of the men of the McAfee Stations who 
could be spareil, went with him, and took part, 
under him, in the tights with the savages at Piqua, 
Ohio. It was near this place that Captain William 
McAfee was mortally woundetl by an Indian (July, 
1780), dying some weeks later, after having been 
conveyed by his men back to Kentucky. Thus this 
year was made forever memorable to the ]^IcAfees 
by the death of one of the five brothers at the hands 
of the savages. The chastisement administered to 
the Indians by General Clark on that expedition 
secured quiet to the central i>ortion of Kentucky 
for the remainder of this year. It was in May of 
178'J that Kentucky County was divided into three 
counties, Lincoln, Fayette and Jefferson. The win- 
ter of 1780-81 was comparatively mild, and the set- 
tlers did not suffer for food. Salt, however, was 
exceedingly high in price, and had to be trans- 
ported on horseback from the Falls of the Ohio. In 
March of this year (1781) thei*e occurred an event 
which cast a dark shadow over the whole commu- 
nity. Joseph McCouu, a son of James McCoun, 
Sr., a most lovable youth of eighteen, was out of the 
Station one morning, March 6th, engaged in look- 
ing after his father's cows. As he was returning, 
some Indians, who were jjrowling about the place, 
saw him and pursued him. He ran as rapidly as he 
could, liut the savages succeeded in capturing him, 
and made off' towards the Ohio River with their 
prisoner. Ahunied by his absence beyond the ex- 
pectcnl time, his friends made search for him till 
the trail of the Indians was discovered. Men from 
the Station at once gave i)ursuit, au<l followed the 
retreating Indians and their helpless captive. 
They found the place where the Indians had strip- 
ped off the bark of a young hickory to bind their 
prisoner. The pursuing party travelled as far as 
the Ohio River, some distance above the mouth of 
the Kentucky; and, giving up the chase, they re- 



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turned to the statiou aud broke to the dear boy"s an- 
guished parents tlie news of the failure of their pur- 
siiit. A few years hiter it was asccMaiiH'.l tliat the 
unfortunate vdunji- man liad liecii carried liv liis 
cruel ca])li!rs far n\> int<i ( Hiio near In llic site of 
what is now the city of Sprin^tield, where lie was 
tieti to a tree and burnt to death. This crushinii' 
blow was too much for liis moliicr, fur .Idsejih was 
the darlini; of her heart. She was rarel.\' seen to 
smile afterwards, and soon sank into tlie jirave. The 
first sermon cxer jireachcd by a minister in that 
neighborhood was by the IJev. David Kice, in 17S4, 
at the funeral of this Mrs. ;\Ic("(iun. Slie was the 
mother of Robert McAfee's wife, and hence her 
death, as well as the awful bereavement which led 
to it, was a sore attlictioii to all the .McAfees. Hers 
was probably the first death to occur in the settle- 
ment. Captain AVilliam .McAfee havinf;; died near 
the mouth of tlie Kentucky Kiver, four years be- 
fore. 

The Indians gave so much anxiety this spring 
(1781) that all the families in the neighborhood 
gathered into James McAfee's Station, except AVil- 
liam ^IcAfee's widow and her family, who had a 
station of their own on Salt liiver, near Harrods- 
burg. James McAfee and family occupied the 
cabin at the north-east corner of the station, and 
Kobert had the one at the south-west corner. In 
April of this year sonu' Indians tried to steal the 
horses belonging to the statiou that were in a 
stable close by. By a dexterous movement of the 
Jiien inside the scheme of tile Indians was thwarted, 
but a more serious adventure with the sa,vages was 
soon to try the courage and resources of all the men 
in the fort. 

Jlay 9, 1781, early in the morning, when there 
were only thirteen men in th(» Station, an attack 
was made by one hundred aud fifty Indians. They 
had spent the night only about a mile below the 
station, but by sunrise had ])osted themselves on 
all sides of the same, but mostly on the east aud 
south. The cattle aud the dogs had exhibited some 
uneasiness during tlie night, but all suspicions 
aroused by their behavior had been quieted. It 
seems that Samuel McAfee, accompanietl by a man 



named Cluneudike, had taken a horse out of the 
fort to go to his farm, about a mile up the river 
(towards the south) to get a bag of corn; and that 
James and Robert .McAfee had gone out to clear 
some ground for a luinip ]pai(li, oidy one hundred 
and fifty yards from the fort, taking their guns 
with them and setting them against a tree close by. 
Samuel McAfee and Cluneudike bad not i)roceeded 
liut a few hundred yards when, passing down into 
a hollow, they were fired on by Indians, and Clun- 
eudike fell dead in his tracks. Samuel .McAfee at 
once turned and attempted to escape to the station, 
but ere he had gone fifteen steps he met a huge 
Indian coming directly towards him, and at once 
each of them levelled his gun at the otiier. Both 
fired at once, the Indian's gun making a flash, aud 
Samuel ^McAfee's making a clear fire. The Indian 
dropped dead, and Samuel ^Mc.Vfee, who was rap- 
idly advancing towards the station, had to jump 
over the jjrostrate body of his foe, several other 
Indians firing at him as he ran. He made good his 
escape into the station. By this time James and 
Robert, hearing the firing, had seized llieir rifles 
and startwl towards the spot. Robert, being tlie 
best runner, got ahead of his brother, l)ut James 
discovered several Indians rise from behind a brush 
heap who fired at him, some of the lialls cutting his 
clothes. James took shelter behind a tree, but at 
once discovered si.x or seven other guns pointed at 
him from another direction, the discharges from 
w iiich cut up the dust at his feet. He then turned 
and reached the station unharmed. Robert, who 
was ahead of James, rapidly running towards the 
spot wiiere the first firing occurred, went on till he 
met Samuel running back to the fort. Samuel told 
him Cluneudike had bei'u killed, and tttld him not 
to go any further, but Robert misunderstood him, 
and went on till he came iu sight of Indians en- 
gaged in scalping Cluneudike, aud close to where 
other Indians were lying in wait. Turning to re- 
trace his steps and make go(Ml his escape to the 
fort, he saw the path was iutercepttnl by In- 
dians, and he therefore took to the woods, closely 
followed by a tall, fine looking warritu", who had 
silver rings aud moons in his nose and ears. After 



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running awhile Robert turned upon his savage 
pursuer, when the Indian at once halted and took 
shelter behind a tree. Robert again ran on, and 
again the Indian pursued him. This went on for 
some time, Robert being closely pressed, and both 
he and the savage reserving their lire till the last 
extremity. At last Robert reached the turnip patch 
fence in the flat just south-west of the station, 
where he once more wheeled and the Indian again 
took refuge behind a tree. Robert then threw 
himself over the fence and lay quiet on the earth, 
and waited for a few moment for developments. 
Directly the Indian cautiously put his head out 
from behind the tree to see what had become of his 
man. For this very move Robert had waited, and, 
taking sure aim, he fired and killed the Indian, 
enabling him to make the fort. The firing now be- 
came general, and the Indians approached from 
every direction. The women in the fort moulded 
bullets and prepared patches, while the men kept 
up a constant fire wherever they could see an In- 
dian within good range. Finding that they 
were making no impression on the station, 
the Indians went to killing all the horses 
and cattle in sight. Several rushes were 
made by the savages as if to scale the \\alls of the 
station, but each time they met a warm reception, 
and the Indians retreated as if beaten in order to 
witiidraw the whites from the fort, but James Mc- 
Afee, who was in command, ordered all to remain 
in the fort, as they were too few in number to make 
such a charge. He told his men to watch closely 
and fire only when the Indians showed themselves. 
In this way several of the foe were seen to fall 
after shots fired from the station. About ten 
o'clock a. 111. Ike firing by the Indians began to 
slacken, and a noise like distant thunder was heard 
in the direction of Harrodsburg, which place was 
only six miles away. In a little time a tremen- 
dous 3'elling ^\as lieard, and Uy the unspeakable joy 
of all the occupants of the station, Colonel Hugh 
McGary was seen coming in a gallo]), in command 
of forty-five men from Harrodsburg and William 
McAfee's station, some of them having mounted 



their horses without staying to get their hats. The 
yells of tlie frighteneii savages, now in full retreat 
to the west of the river, mingled with those of the 
advancing whites. A halt of a few minutes was 
made till the men in the station could get mounted 
and ready to go, and tlien began the pursuit of the 
fleeing Indians. They were overtaken about a mile 
l)elow the station, on the west side of the river, and 
here the firing again commenceil, tiie Indians re- 
treating and shooting from behind trees. The pur- 
suit was continued for several miles. The whites 
lost, in all, but two men killed, and one wounde<i. 
The Indian loss is not exactly known, but it was 
considerable. The prompt action of the men from 
the two adjacent stations was most gallant and 
timely — but for it no one can say what might have 
hai>peued to the little band of thirteen men and 
their wives and children in the fort. After this 
attack this station stistained very little injury from 
the Indians. They learned by costly experience 
that those pioneer forts were well-nigh impreg- 
nable M-hen defended by men of such courage and 
resource. Kentucky was not entirely delivered, 
however, from Indian depredations for about fif- 
teen years, and the very nest year after this oc- 
curred the most disastrous blow Kentucky ever 
suffered at the hands of the savages — the Battle of 
the Blue Licks, xiugust I'J, 1782 — Mas received, 
spreading mourning and distress throughout all 
the settlements in Kentucky. Several detailed ac- 
counts of that bloody and memorable conflict can 
be found in Collins' Kentucky, Vol. 2, pages 657-63. 
A more recent, and perhaps more accurate, account 
will be found in the Volume of the Filson Club pub- 
lications, devoted exclusively to this disastrous 
contest and the attack on Bryan's Station. These 
accounts will well repay careful penisal by any one 
interested in the pioneer period of Kentucky's his- 
tory ; they should prove specially interesting to the 
descendants of the founders of the Salt River Set- 
tlement, inasmuch as the Indian invasion which 
they recount furnishes a vivid illustration of the 
tragic circumstances amid which the McAfees and 
their associates began their pioneer enterprise on 
Salt River. 



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189 



The year 1781 was a most nieniorable one on sev- 
eral accounts, and especially because near its close 
(October 19) the army of Lord Comwallis sur- 
rendered at Yorktowii, tliercby vii'tnally endinji- the 
war of the Colonies with England. But the final 
signinir of the treaty of peace did not occur till 
September H, 1783. In those early days news trav- 
elled slowly, and it was a lon.c; time after Cornwal- 
lis's suiTender till the whites in the Kentucky 
backwoods and their savage foes, north and south 
of them, came fully to realize lliat the Polonies 
were soon to be in position to turn all their re- 
sources against the Indians. Tlie disastrous Battle 
of the Blue Licks, just now referred to, in which 
the whites lost seventy-four brave men — about one- 
tenth of their entire fighting force in Central Ken- 
tucky — occurred the Iflth of August, 1782, nearly 
a year after the English forces had been over- 
whelmingly defeated. Nor did the savages give up 
the contest when they learned of the withdrawal of 
the British armies from America, but for at least 
ten years longer continued to harass the settlers of 
Kentucky, though with constantly diminishing 
vigor. It was about the year 1794 that the people 
of Kentucky in all parts of the State began to feel 
perfectly safe against Indian dejiredations, and 
ceased to make use of their forts or stations. Thus 
it was that the McAfees and their associates had 
fifteen yeare of a strictly frontier life after their 
settlement on Salt River in the fall of 1779. The 
effects of such an experience upon the social, moral 
and religious life of the community can easily be 
imagined — it could not but prove in many ways 
detrimental. In the seven years from 1783 to 1790 
the damages inflicted on the Kentucky settlers by 
the Indians has been summed up thus: One thou- 
sand five hundred whites killed, twenty thousand 
horses stoleu, and property of the value of fifteen 
thousand pounds sterling carried off or destroyed. 
When we bear in mind that the entire population 
of Kentucky in the year 1784 numbere<i only about 
thirty thousand souls, congregated in fifty-two sta- 
( ions and eighteen cabins, it is easy to appreciate the 
tremendous drain of blood and treasure to which 



our pioneer fathers were subjected. (See Col. Dur- 
rett, Centenary of Kentucky, pages 46 and 51.) 

The most seriou® aspect of this terrible experi- 
eut-e, however, was its bearing upon tlie religious 
life of tlivwliole bmly of the people. Wlu'uwe reflect 
upon tlie absence of religions and educational ad- 
vantages, and tliink of the chief occupations and 
aims of the pc'ople, aiid picture to our minds the 
probable tliemes of conversation usually prevailing, 
we can readily agree with Dr. Davidson in what he 
says of the spiritual destitutions which obtained 
in the Salt River Settlement and elsewhere. (See 
his History of the Presbyterian Church in Ken- 
tucky, itage 63.) But there was one tremendous 
advantage this particular colony enjoyed : Its heads 
of families were, almost to a man, good Christians, 
who had Ix'en well instructed from their childhood 
in the doctrines and duties of the Christian religion 
as it was understood by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. 
The IMcAfees were people of faith and prayer, who 
brought with them to the wilderness their Bibles 
and Catechisms, and Psalm Books, and their rev- 
erence for the Sabbath day, and their respect for 
law and order. Such people a backwoods life 
might indeed greatly injure, but could not utterly 
demoralize. 

The year 1783 was marked by a considerable in- 
tlux of newcomers, especially from Virginia. It 
was in this year that the wife of James ^McAfee, 
Sr., died at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. Guant, 
three miles south-west of Harrodsburg. On his 
farm she was buried." The population of Kentucky 
now numberred about thirty thoiisand souls, but 
these were so widely scattered that there 
was practically no commerce. Some notion 
of the real condition of affairs may be 
gathercn^l from the fact tliat it was in this 
year that the second store in Kentucky was opened. 
About this date, also, the first distilleries were 
started. The old soldiers of th(> Revolutionary 
army, now disbanded, were ready for a change of 
residence; and as special privileges wei'e accorded 
them by Virginia in the matter of acquiring lands 
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turned their attentions to Kentucliv. Along with 
this tide of new settlers there came a devout Pres- 
byterian minister from Virginia, Rev. David Rice, 
who later won the title of "Father," because he was 
in large degree the founder of the Presbyterian 
( 'hurcli in Kentucky. He made his home near Dan- 
ville, and preached about over Central Kentucky 
as he was invited and had opportunity. The first 
year of his residence in Kentucky he succeeded in 
laying the fdundations of three closely related 
Presbyterian churrhes. wliicli were formally organ- 
ized in 178."i by the election of elders and deacons. 
Tliese churches were the following: Concord, lo- 
cated at Danville; Cane Run, situated three miles 
east of Ilarrodsburg; and New Providence, which 
was in the Salt River Settlement. In the ludntli of 
March, 1783, Kentucky, which, since 1780, had 
consisted of the three counties of Jefferson, Fay- 
ette, and Lincoln, was organized by the Virginia 
legislature into the ''District of Kentucky," and a 
District Court was openwl at Ilarrodsburg. Father 
Rice's first sermon was preached at Ilarrodsbnrg 
in October of that year. The prevalent irreligion 
of the masses of the settlers distressed him, and he 
returned to Virginia; l)ut he was soon induced to 
come back to Kentucky on receiving a petition of 
three hundred of the settlei*s. He married a couple 
at McAfee's Station June 3, 1784, and on the next 
day preached the first sermon ever heard on Salt 
River, at the funeral of ilrs. James McCoun, Sr. 
As no histoi-y of the ^McAfees could be at all com- 
plete without some account of the New Providence 
Church, and the early liistory of that church is in- 
separably connected with the beginnings of the 
church on Cane Run (Harrodsburg), it is proper 
that just here a brief notice of both these churches 
should have a place. From 1784 to 1816 the congre- 
gajtionofOaaeRnn worshipped at its original scat, 
but from that date on to the present time Harrods- 
burg has lieen tlie home of the congregation. For 
a great many years the Harrodsburg Church was 
associated with New Providence in the support of 
the pastor. Communion occasions at one of these 
churclies were largelv attended bv the membei's of 



the other. A revival at one was sure to prove a 
blessing to both. Some of the most useful mem- 
ber's of the Harro<lsburg Church were converted 
under Dr. Cleland's ministry at New Providence, 
and manj- of the Ilarrodsburg Presbyterians lie 
sleeping in the New Providence burying-ground. 
The church building, now used 1»y tiie congregation 
of tiie First Presi)ytcrian Church at Ilarrodsburg, 
a good picture of wiiich is given in this volume, 
whilst the result of several enlargements and re- 
modellings, is, .substantially, the same building as 
tiiat wliich was reared in 1820. To a gi'eat many 
of the descendants of the ilcAfees that sacred edi- 
fice possesses the most precious associations, and 
some of the subscribei-s to tliis work largely owe 
their salvation, under God, to the instructions they 
and tlieir parents enjoyed in lliat venerable house 
of W(U'.^hip. 

The McAfees were not witliout family religion 
during the six years that followed the date of 
their final settlement on Salt River, but they cer- 
tainly seem not to ha\e had a regular house of wor- 
ship till 1785. In the fall of 1784 the Salt River 
Settlement received valuable accessions in Cap- 
tain John Annstrong and Mr. George Buchanan, 
both good men and favorably disposed to religion, 
and also AMUiam Armstrong, who had been an 
elder in Mr. Rice's church in Virginia. Early in 
the spring of 1785 the Salt River peoi^le entered 
upon the work of erecting a building to be used for 
both church and school purposes. A meeting of 
lieads of families was held near the spot after- 
war<ls selected for tlieir cliurch, at \\hicli the fol- 
lowing men were present: James McAfee, George 
[McAfee, Robert McAfee, Samuel McAfee, James 
McCoun, Sr., James McCoun, Jr., John Armstrong. 
William Armstrong, James Ruchanan, Creorge 
Buchanan, Joseph Lyon, and Jolin McG.ee. Two 
sites were offered; one by James McAfee, and an- 
other by James McCoun; and after considerable 
warm debate the two acres offered by James Mc- 
Afee were accepted. The vote stood seven to five. 
As soon as they had gotten their corn planted the 
men began the erection of a. plain log meeting- 



4fi^ 




FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. HARRODSBURG, KY. 
ORGANrZED 178;. 
Ver>- dear to many of the Woodses and McAfees. 




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liouse twenty by eighteeu feet in size, and liei-e 
Father Rice iu'eached once a mouth Cor about 
eleven years. Tiiis house stood on the side of the 
liill about fifty yards to the south of the west end 
(if tlie cliurcli buikling afterwards erected, and 
\\ hieli in icrcnt years was .abandoned when the con- 
iircnatioii clianjjed the hication of their house of 
worsliip and Ituilt a larjic and well-appointed briek 
ciiurch on the pike ai)out a mile north of the pres- 
ent villa.iie of JleAfee. The name ''New Provi- 
dence" was t;iven this church organization, not, as 
some mijiht suppose, in honor of the old church of 
that name in the Valley of A'irginia, with which 
some of these peo]ile had woi'shipped prior to their 
emif;ration to Kentucky, but out of gratitude to 
(lod for the many remarkable tokens of His 
gracious care they had received in the past, espe- 
cially that great deliverance of August 12, 1773, 
out on the Big Black ^[ouutaius, an account of 
which was given in a previous chapter.-'' 

During those early years the people were com- 
pelleil, for safety, to reside in the stations, and 
when they went to church to worship God on the 
Sabbath they took their rifles along. The danger 
w as not imaginary, for as late as 17!l(> some people 
on Brashear's Creek were tired on by Indians as 
they were returning from church. In 1790 the first 
log-house was replaced by one double its size, and 
this was further enlarged in 1803. Finally, some 
years later, the log church was superseded by a 
substantial brick edifice which stood for perhaps 
sixty years, and was at last abandoned, as above 
stated, when the congregation built their jjresent 
commodious house on the pike a mile north of Mc- 
Afee.'" 

The Rev. Dr. Thomas Cleland was the able and 
devoted pastor of that church for forty-five years — 
from 1818 to 1858. During twenty-six of these 
years — from 1813 to 1839 — Dr. Cleland was also 
the pastor of the Harrodsburg Church. His was a 
fruitful ministry, and there were years at a time 
when at both New Providence and Harrodsburg 
the most precious revival scenes were witnessed. 

The church-yard in tiie midst of which thischurch 



stood, and which is at this day (1904) one of the 
most tenderly venerated "God's Acres" in 
Kentucky, deserves a passing notice. Two pic- 
tures of it are given in this volume. The one taken 
from the former site of the old bi-ick church, look- 
ing north-west, shows the tombstone of Dr. Cle- 
land. It stands hardly an inch, to the left of the 
large tree in the center of the picture. It is the 
larger ,of t^^■o headstones rounded at the top, and 
leans perceptibly to the right. There Dr. Cleland 
was buried in 1858. About one and a half inches 
to the left of Dr. Clcland's tombstone (in the pic- 
ture), stands a tall monument, which also leans to 
the right, that marks the grave of General Robert 
B. IMcAfee. the faithful chronicler of the McAfee 
family, wlio died in 1849. The other picture of this 
church-yard gives a view of it looking to the south- 
west. This view, as the other, includes the graves 
of many of the older :\rcAfees and their descend- 
ants. Only two of the five pioneer McAfee broth- 
ers are buried here — George and Sanrael. The 
eldest of the live, James, is buried, with his wife, in 
the old Pioneer Burial Place, which is on a hill 
some five or six hundred yards south by west from 
this enclosure, in the direction of liis stone house. 
A\'illiam died near the mouth of the Kentucky 
River in 1780, and was probably buried there. Rob- 
ert was assassinated by a Spauiai-d in New Orleans, 
May 10, 1795, while on his own flatboat, and 
he was buried near the hospital in that city. The 
New Prafidence Churchyard was first opened for 
burials at the very beginning of the nineteenth cen- 
tury, for (ieorge .McAfee, wlio died in 1803, was 
l)uried there. After the lapse of a century it is still 
in fair condition, and is the preferred burying-place 
of most of the families residing in that vicinity ;but 
it is nearly- filled with graves, and there may be 
danger of its falling soon into disuse, especially as 
it is not only distant from any cousiderable town, 
Itut quite a mile from the present house of worship 
of the congregation whose nariie it bears. No ceme- 
tery in all Kentucky is more closely ideintified with 
the veiy first settlement of the State, and it would 
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THE WOODS-^tcAPEE MEMORIAL. 



(hy roniinunlty to iillow it (o fall into decay. Ken- years (from the July day in 1773, wiieii the Me- 

tiu-kv contains no move notal)le relic i>f lier pioneer AtVes first set foot on the banks of Salt Hirer ) 

jljjyj. Ihey had removed to Kentucky; had founded a 

The i)oi)iila!ion of Kentucky rapidly increased, perniaueul settlement, and helped to found a jjreat 

and the pe.iple heitan to fei'l the disadvantages due Commonwealth; and at len.ulh ha<l ])assed from 

to tlieir heinii so far removed fnnn the civil author- this earth, leaviuLi; behind them a noble community, 

ities of Virniuia, to whom they were responsible. A and a numerous posterity who rise u]) and call them 

vast mountain-wilderness several liini<lred miles blessed. The old clnirch orjianizat ion, be|.iuu in 

in extent s( ])arate(l them from the cai)ital of their 17S."), still abides in streniith and usefulness, and 

State. The journey to and from it was tedious and fi-om its pul])it the <ios]Md of (bid's i;race is still 

perilous. Hence, in 17S4, was held the first of a ])roi-laimed to saint and sinner. The old church- 

Iduji series of couvenlions, lodkiiiii' to separation yard, now hoary with the moss of a centtiry, still 

from tile mother State. Tiiere was no bad feeling jiolds the precious dust of many of the ^fcAfee 

in this movement on the part of the Kentucky peo- dead. Across the valley five ov six hundred yards 

])!( , and N'iryiiiia acted with a jirndent generosity. towards the simlh, on a commanding knoll, sleeps 

The (lulcome of the long years of deliberation was Hie body of the ebb'st of the five pioneer brothers, 

that Virginia finally allowed her fair daughter to along with that of his beloved Agnes, in sight of 

dei»art, and in 17!ll2 Kt ntncky became a separate the old stoneiiouse erected in 1790. And the little 

State of the American I'nion, having at the time river near by flows (piietly on as i( did whenfirst the 

abdut one hundred thousand inhabitants. (xVll McAfees looked upon it a hundred and thirty-one 

who would liki' to have a just and interesting de- years ago. All through the old settlement are still 

seription of the Kentucky of 17Ul* are advised to to be foun<l numerous families descended from 

read the chapter on this subject by Col. K. T. Dur- tlujse pioneers, who stand, as their ancestors did, 

rett, in "The Centenary of Kentucky," pages 75-85.) f"i* in'lu^^try, patriotism and religion— for all that 
When Kentuckv was admitted to the Union the Mc 



oes to constitute the sturdy nmnhood and the 
lo\ely wonmnhood for which Kentucky has justly 
been fauu'd throughout all her history. The coun- 
try of Kentucky, endjracing more than 40,000 
square miles, which di'l not contain a single white 
family when first the McAfees visited it in 1773, 
had grown to be a State with 4JO,(l(tO inhabitants 
by the time the last of the five pioneer brother's had 
deijarted this life. Finally, in 1 SI 1, James, the passed away. We, their descendants, are permitted 
eldest of the five, at the ripe age of seventy-five, to view it in its splendid nmturity, a grand Com- 
passed away. Thus in the course of thirty-eight nujuwealth of nu)re than two million people. 



Afee Colony had been settled on Salt River thirteen 
years, and was steadily progressing; and the envir- 
onment and general c(uiditions of the people are 
well portraye<l in the chapter cited. The year 
ISO] was marked by the death of the youngest of 
the five .Mc.Vfee brothers, Samuel. In 1803 George 



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CHAPTER VI. 

BRIEF NOTICES OF THE PIONEER McAFEES AND LISTS OF THEIR CHILDREN. 
THE ORIGINAL FOUNDERS OF THE SALT RIVER SETTLEMENT. 



.lame.s McAfee, t<r., and Ids wife Jane, as has al- 
ready lieeu noted, had nine eliildren, as follows: 
James, Jr., John, Malcolm, George, Mary, Robert, 
Margaret, Samnel. and William — seven sons and 
two (ianghters. Concerning- several of them and 
many of tiieir children we know almost nothing, 
and of none of them do we know enongh to enable 
us to honoi- tlieir memories with a complete biog- 
rapliy. The very best the editor can do is to tell 
all lie lias been able, after years of earnest labor, 
to learn of each of the nine children, and the chil- 
dren's children, in reg:iilar order. As long as the 
majiu'ity of people take more pains to preserve the 
pedigree of a blooded horse, or even a fine dog, than 
iiiat of their own ancestors, none need marvel that 
tlie editor has been unable to induce some of his 
kinsmen even to make a reply to letters of inquiry 
toucliing the history of the family. Additional 
items, however, nuiy be found in soine of the 
Sketches of Patrons in Part III. 

TlIK ClIILOKEN OF JaMES McAFEE, Sr. 

A— JAMES McAFEE, JR.— 1736-1811. 

James McAfee, Jr., the first child of James, Sr., 
and his wife Jane, was born in County Armagh, 
Ireland, in 1736, and when only three years old 
migrated witli liis parents to America in the spring 
of 1739. ^^'itil them he resided some years in Penn- 
sylvania, and with them he moved, about 1746, to 
North Carolina, and later, in 1747, or 1748, to 
Catawba Creek, Avliich was then in Aiigusta County, 
Virginia. Tiierefore he was scarcely twelve years 
old when he began living in Virginia. His father 
probably lived from 1748 to 1771 on the farm he 
liought of Poage, and sold to Archibald Woods, 
near the head of Catawba, and tlien moved four 
miles farther down that stream to a, farm quite 



close to the now well-known Roanoke Red Sulphur 
Springs. On this farm once stood an ancient In- 
dian fort. Part of th't' old house at the latter place, 
built of walnut logs, was standing a few years 
ago. 

We have good reason to believe that the mar- 
riage of James, Jr., to Agnes Clark, occurred about 
1759-1762, \\li('n lie was alxnit twenty-threi' to twen- 
ty-six years old. She was the daughter of one 
Thomas Clark (or Clarke) who came to America 
with a family by the name of Walker, landing at 
Charleston, S. C, about 1742. He returned to Ire- 
land, but again came to America and landed at 
Charleston, wliere he shortly after died, or was 
murdered. It has been surmised that he was a 
near relative of the father of General (Jeorge Rog- 
ers Clark, but notliing positive as to this matter is 
known by the writer. It is also said that George 
Rogers Clark, left an orphan in youth, was reared 
in part by James and his wife. It is not without 
significance that when Clark first visited Kentucky 
(1775) he went to the very region in which the Mc- 
Afees had entered lands. 

James McAfee, Jr., must have received a fair 
education in the ordinary English branches; the 
journal which he kept on liis tour to Kentucky in 
1773, and certain facts known to the writer, clearly 
indicate as much. The writer has in his possession 
a paper signed by him in 1790, and it shows a good, 
clear Iiandwriting. lie was probably nothing but 
a farmer all his life, and nearly the whole of his 
life he resided in frontier regions. In the year 1763 
(P>bruary 10th) his father deeded to him a tract of 
110 acres of land on Catawba Creek, in what then 
was AugTista County, but what was Botetourt 
County from 1770 onward. That tract was a part 
of a body of land which liis fatlier had patented in 



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174'J. James, Jr., was about twenty-seven years 
old, and but recently married, perhaps, when he 
got this farm. The records of Botetourt sliow tlint 
he and his wife. Agnes, conveyed this farm away 
for seven liundred pounds July S. 1T7!>, which was 
only a fc^v weeks prior to his final migration 1<i 
Kentucky. He was therefore not one of the McAfee 
brothers who had their homes on Sinking Creek. 
This was his last conveyance to be found on the 
Botetourt County records. The witnesses to the 
deed were Wni. McBrayers, John Moore and Archi- 
bald Hill. When Boone and others came back in 
1771 with their glowing accounts of the Kentucky 
\\ildern('ss bo was a mature man and the bead of a 
small family. Being the eldest son, be was? natur- 
ally made the leader of the exploring company that 
made the tour to Kentucky in 1773. Besides bis 
seniority, however, he possesscxl sound judgment 
and strength of character, so that throughout bis 
whole career he was looked u]) to by the other men) 
hers of his father's family. 

He was a soldier of the Virginia Colony in some 
(►f the French and Indian Wars (1754-1703), being 
eighteen when they began and twenty-seven at their 
close, and was entitled to land for the services he 
rendered, as recognized by the proclamation of the 
('(donial Governor of Virginia. In 1774 he enlisted 
in the company of Captain Evan Shelby, and was in 
the battle at Point Pleasant, Va., where General 
Andrew Lewis defeated the brave army of Indian 
warriors under Chief Cornstalk. In 177G he went 
down into Tennessee with Colonel Christian 
against the Cherokees, whom the British luul in- 
citetl to revolt. In 1777 and '7S he was in the 
Colonial Militia as Fii-st Lieutenant, and served 
against the British. He was probably with General 
George Ivogers Clark in bis expedition against the 
Ohio Indians in 1780. Throughout life he proved 
himself a brave man who was ready to face, with 
calmness and resolution, any dangers he was called 
to meet. 

He seems to have been, like nearly all the pion- 
eers, a man of scarcely- any sentiment or ro- 
mance. In all his journal of 1773. in which he 



made daily record of the journey, going and return- 
ing, we look in vain for a single allusion to the 
beauties of natural scenery. The picturesque 
seems not to have attracted his attention; he was 
intensely, severely practical. The form of his 
journal of 1773 indicates a systematic man and 
close obseiTer. He took note of the good or bad 
soil, the timber, the water, the adaptation of the 
country to farming purposes, but he ignored the 
esthetical side of life. The sense of humor is never 
revealed in liis journal — not a word of sarcasm, 
wit or ridicule does it contain. There is no phil- 
osophizing whatever. Then he never once dwells 
at any length on the personal perils and hardships 
of the way. He never wrote a line in his journal to 
call attention to his own dee<ls. Even of that fear- 
ful (lay on the Big Blacks, August ll', 1773. he 
makes an exceedingly brief record from wliirh no 
one would ever have inferred that starvation almost 
did its fatal work for the whole company. Had 
not his nephew, General E. B. McAfee, late in life 
wormed it out of bini, it is doubtful if his descend- 
ants would ever have known a word alxmt those 
terrible and thrilling experiences. 

AA'hen the question of erecting a log meeting- 
house on Salt Biver, Ky., was raised in 1785, he 
came forward with the otter of two acres of land 
as a gift for church and school purposes, but when 
the congregation chose elders tu govern the infant 
church he, for some reason, was not made one of 
thenj. Three were chosen, and not a McAfee 
among them. George Buchanan, James McCoun, 
Sr., and AVilliam Armstrong were the men selected. 
James .McAfee was undoubtedly a modest man, and 
it may be that he declined to allow his name to be 
considered. The reason this eldest one of the Mc- 
Afees, then nearly fifty years old, and esteemed 
for his good judgment and reliability, was not put 
into otfice, we shall never know ; hut it is a rather 
unaccountable fact. But the church got good men, 
one of whom, George Buchanan, suggested the 
name that was given the church and which it still 
bears — a most appropriate name, and one which 
only a devout man Avould have been apt to think of. 



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The name "New I'rovidence" was j-iveu to sis;ualize 
the grateful recollection which those people cher- 
islied of the iiiaiiv special deliverances (iod had 
vouchsafed to them from 1773 to 1785. 

AVhen tlie little colony arrived at. Walt River in 
the fall of 1779, tlie Station wliidi was to he for 
the next fifteen years tlic centrni rallyiuj; place for 
defence, was erected on his land. To .Tames Mc- 
Afee's Station the whole community repaired in 
the hour of danger through many yeai's. 



Woods, Jr.; his daughter Betsy, wife of William 
Davenport; his daughter Nancy, the wife of Alex. 
IJuclianan; and tiie four diildren of his daughter 
Teggy :McKamcy. Ti> his son Clark lie gives what 
he calls "my farm and ahout live hundred acres 
cornering on John Armstrong's land." By "my 
farm" was jirobahly meant his old home place, on 
which stood the stone house which he erected in 
1790. As this farm ])rohably contained 400 acres 
iie must have given Clark 900 acres in all. To John 



lie evidentlv was prospered in his worldly he gave 300 acres on tlie west side of Salt River, 

afifairs despite the considerable faTuily he had; and lie provided that 500 acres more, being the balance 

when, by the year 1790. it was apparent he could of the "home tract,'' was to be divided np between 

piudcnilv cease living in a t(U-1. he proceeded to Betsy Davenport, Nancy Buchanan, and the four 



erect what, in that day, must have .seemed a pa- 
latial mansion — a neat two-story dwelling of 
dressed stone. And so well did his workmen per- 
form their task that after (he lapse of one hundred 
and fourteen years it is a comfortable dwelling 
still, and used as such. The picture of it in this 
volume faithfully represents it as it was only a few 
years ago (in 1895). There is probably not a 
house in all Kentucky at this time, of any descrii> 



children of Peggy McKamey. ITis jiersonal prop- 
erty, which included seven slaves, was inA'entoried 
at 13,788.12. The actual value of tlie 1,700 acres 
of land devised by I lie will we can only guess at — 
it may have been |25,000. We know that to-day it 
would bring probably three times tliat sum. We 
may say that he left an estate worth not far from 
130,000.00, which, in that day, would have been con- 
sidered rather large. Hallv (Patsv) aiwMN'oodford 



tiou, that antedates the birth of Kentucky as a Woods, the children of his daughter ;Mary by her 



State ami is still in such good habitable condition. 
It is one of the relics which the State, as such, 
ought to keep from perishing from the land. Ken- 
tucky has never yet done anything to attest her ap- 
preciation of the McAfee family, who were of her 
earliest and noblest pioneers, and here is a spot on 
which she might well erect some beneficent institu- 
tion such as an industrial school, for example, as 
a monument to men who contrilmted in no small 
measnre to the founding of the Commoniwealth. 

James McAfee's will was made January 24, 1809, 
and admitted to record at the Mercer County July 



last husband, Sanuud Woods, .Jr., were assured a 
home and education. Their brother, James Har- 
vey Woods, is not mentioned in the will, and prob- 
ably because he was now (in 1809) eighteen years 
of age, and was making his OAvn living. From the 
way in which he speaks of the two Woods children 
it would seem that their mother, ^lary, may not 
have been then alive. 

James McAfee died June 25, 1811, aged seventy- 
five years, as we learn from the tombstone at his 
grave. His wife, Agnes, survived him not quite 
three vears, d3'iug May 2, 1814. They were buried 



Court of 1811. His two sons, John and Clark, he side by side in the old Pioneer Graveyard, (m the 



named his executors. The witnesses were General 
R. B. McAfee, Samuel Bunton and Hannah ^Ic- 
Afee. He mentions the following persons in the 
will : his "loving wife, Agnes''; his sons John, and 
Clark; liis two grandchildren, Sally, and Wood- 
ford Woods, who were the ori>han children of his 
daughter Mary by her last husband, Samuel 



top of the hill, about six or seven hundred yards to 
the north-east of the old stone house, and about five 
or six hundred yards to the south-west, by south, 
of the New Providence Churchyard. The editor 
of this volume visited the spot in the summer of 
1897, and found all the stones of both graves lying 
flat on the "round, and almost hidden from view. 



BlUEF NOTICKS ol" TllK I'lOXKHII .McA I'KI^. 



l!Ht 



Tliej are neat stoues, and the iusciipiiitny on them 
are very elear. Tliey have Iteen reset in position, 
lint rlie.v lack a iiropei- foun.larion. The two 
<;raves lie side Uy side and extend due east and 
west. That of James, wliieh is the more northerly 
of the two, is jnst twenty-seven and a lialf feet 
south of Ihe fence w liicli ruup east and west and 
divides llic farm of ^^atIs from the field in wliitdi 
the j;raves are. No care wlialever is taken of tliis 
ancient Imrial-place. It is in an open field where 
stock ro\-cd at will, and nnlrss llie descemlanls of 
the sainted dead i)rovide a sid)stantial enclosure 
for the ])lace, in a few more years the j^rave stones 
w ill have been hroken to pieces and scattered, and 
llie last restinji-i)lace <d' the leader of the .McAfee 
!)rothers will liave liccome indistinsi'uishable, and 
trod(hii under the feet of cattle and liorses. There 
ai'e other liraves near by, the most of which have no 
urave stones in position and nothing to indicate 
whose ashes are sleepini;' there — an ajd illustration 
of the truth that the deadest and most desolate 
thini; in ail this world is a cemetery ihat has 
ceased to he used and cared for, and to which lov- 
iui; hands come no more to lay the trihutes of affec- 
tion on the i^raves of those who slumber there. 

•lames .McAfee, Jr., and Agnes had born to them 
eight children, to wit : Mary, John, James III, 
Elizabeth, Nancy, (Jeorge, Margaret, and Thomas 
("lark, of each oiu' of whom, in order, such notice 
will be given as the information at the editor's com- 
mand may warrant. It is with deep regret, how- 
ever, that he is obliged to pass so many by with a 
bare mention. 

TiiK <'iiii,iii!K.\ OF .Iamks ^Mc.Vfke, Jit. 

I— .MAKY .McAFEK- 17(31-1814. ( ?) 

^lary, the first child of James and .^gnes, was, 
beyond reasonable doubt, Ixirn on (l^atawba Creek, 
some eiglil ol- ten miles norlii-west of ^alem, Vir- 
ginia. The dale of her birth, we have good cause 
fur b(dieving, was about 17(>0-1 Id:!. The nutst that 
we certainly know concerning her relates to her two 
marriages, and there was soim'thing (d' romance 
about both of them. About thirtv-tive miles north- 



east of her father's h e. on Ihe lianks of James 

Iviver.liicre lived a well-io-do yonugwidower, whose 

nann- was David ^^■ Is. Ky the will of his father. 

who died in 1777, David iiad conn' into jxissession 
of the old homestead on the James, which included 
four liundi'ed acres of good land. It has been 
known both as the "Hollow I'^oi-d Farm," and as 
the "Shepherd Island Farm." It is located about 
l\\r miles Ixdow Budmnan, and directly opposite 
the village of Indian Rock. I'rom that farm down 
to ihe home of James ;Mc.\fee, Jr., on the Catawba, 
it was lint a day's journey, and David came to like 
to travel that way. Certain it is, he married ilary. 
His first wife had left him one daughter, .^nn, and 
one son named John. For various reasons the 
date al' his marriage to ^Nfary has to be fixed not 
later than the summer (d' 177!». If he was born, as 
is supposed, in 1741'; and marriefl his first wife in 
1708; and his first child, .\.nn, was born in 1764; 
and his second child, John, was born in 17r>(i; then 
in 1779, when he married his second wife, Mary, 
he was himself thirty-seven, his daughter Ann was 
fifteen, and his .son John was thirteen, whilst Mary, 
the jiew wife, was possibly only about sixteen. 
Whilst none of these dates are capable of exact 
verification, it is believed that not one of them can 
be far from the truth in the case. This second 
marriage of David must have occurred in 1778 or 
1779, a short time before the migratimi of the Mc- 
Afees to Kentucky. When that large colony de- 
partcMl for the western Avilderness James McAfee's 
eldest child, Mary, was the wife of David Woods, 
and perliaps mistress of the (dd homestead on the 
James I\iver. Hut it was luttnral that she and her 
husband should be attracted to Kentucky. We 
know that there was, a few years later, quite a 
migration of Woodses from Botetourt to the very 
region in which the ^IcAfees had settled. David 
was the main executor of his father's estate, which 
may ha\e reipiired some years for its winding up; 
and then the Kevolution was in progress, ami it 
may be that he was slow to follow his wife's peo- 
jile to Ihe Wesl. It is, nevertheless, possible that 
he may have accompanied the M(\\fees. who moved 
the 17th of August, 1779, for the Botetourt records 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



sliow that August 11, 1779, he sold the old home- 
stead to his brother-in-law, William Campbell, for 
thirty-five hundred pounds. This, however, is not 
considered vei^ probable, because his brother 
Samuel and family seem to have accompanied him, 
and (lie first known entries of land made in Ken- 
tucky by either David or Sanuiel could not have 
antedated its:?, or ITS:.', at most. P.iit wiiatever 
tlie exact date, we know certainly that David and 
his wife, and all his children (except his first wife's 
daujihter .Vnn. who liad married a Jonathan Jen- 
niuiisl and his widowed mother, and his brother 
Samuel and family were all liviuij in Kentucky by 
the year 17S3, and possibly by the fall of 1782. 
Tlie land entries made by Samuel and David in 
Kentucky, and other considerations, I'aise a vers' 
stroni;- jiresumption in sup])ort of this conclusion. 

David Woods, with his family, settled in what 
is known as the Cane Run neisjhborliood, a few 
miles east of Harrodslnirg, Ky. There he died in 
17S6. His will, on record in Mercer County, shows 
that it was written in September, 178G, and pro- 
bated in January following — in less than four 
months thereafter. In his will he mentions Mary, 
his "beloved wife;" Ann, the daughter of his first 
wife, who was now the wife of Jonathan Jennings, 
and her brother John, and the three children of his 
last mai'riage, Nancy, William, and Elizabeth. 
Samuel Woods, Sr., David's brother, was one of the 
witnesses to the will, and he was made the guar- 
dian of the minor children. Thus Mary was left a 
widow, at the age of about twenty-five, with three 
young children of her own, and one stepson, now 
jiearly grown. 

For fear of imitating too closely the modern his- 
torical romance, the editor has refrained from any 
suggestive references thus far to a certain young 
num, the son of Samuel Woods, Sr., and nephew of 
David \\'oods, deceased. That would have pre- 
sented a "sensational situation." Fidelity to the 
actnaj facts, however, now compel us to introduce 
him. Samuel Woods, Jr., was probably a young 
man of about twenty-two or four A\hen Max-y was 
left a ^\ido\\, and hence something like one to three 



years her junior. E.xact dates can not be given, 
but those we do give have strong circumstantial evi- 
dence to sni)port them. Samuel, Sr., was the guar- 
dian of Mary's children, but Samuel, Jr., seems to 
Jiave aspired to still greater things — he became, 
abont five years later, the guardian of those chil- 
dren, and of their mother, as A\-ell. About the year 
17!n be and .Mary Avere married, and Samuel, Sr., 
gave his sou a fine start in life in the way of lands 
and personal ])ro])erty. And as the years passed, 
and Mai-y bore to him four children of his own, 
lie soon found himself the head of a very consider- 
able family. This marriage Avas opposed by the 
nannbers of the two families, owing, no doubt, to 
Mary's being one to three years her husband's 
senior, and to the fact that he Avas her nephew-in- 
laAV. But it seems to haAC proved a hap]iy match, 
and there Avere only sentimental reasons to be 
urged against its consummation. If Ave look at all 
the facts cahnly, and recall hoAV scarce eligible ma- 
terial for Avives Avas at that day in Kentucky, and 
note that there Avas a quite reasonable delay (five 
yeai's) no blame can attach to any one for the 
forming of that union. The children of Samuel 
Woods, Jr., and Mary Avere the following: (a) 
James Harvey Woods^ Avho was born in 1792, and 
died in 18G0; (b) Ann, Avho married George Bo- 
hon; (c) PATSy_, Avho married a Sheely, and (d) 
WoouFOKU, Avho died before reaching nmnhood. In 
1802 Mary Avas again bereaved of a husband, 
Samuel Woods, Jr., dying before he had reached 
the age of forty. She did not survive him a great 
many years. ^Mien her father, James McAfee, 
wrote his Avill in 1800 he referred to her minor 
children in a Avay to indicate she might not l)e 
aliA'e. There are references to her in the court 
proceedings of Mercer County, Avhich prove she 
was dead bj^ 1813. About a dozen of the descend- 
ants of this couple are subscribers to this volume. 

II— JOHN McAFEE. 

John McAfee was the second child of James, 

Jr., and Agnes, his Avife. The editor has no kuoAvl- 

edge of him except that he married Margaret 

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the son of Samuel Ewiuf^, Sr., who luavrietl one 
Margaret McMichael, and that when liis father 
wrote his "will in ISO'.) lie meiilimis this son by 
name, giviiij;' him ;5(»l acres of land iyinjj- on the 
west side of Salt Kiver, and (•(institntin<;- liim one 
of the executors of the estate. JdJni was no doubt 
born on Catawba Creek, N'ir^inin, and ihe dale of 
his liirtli ^\•as probably not. far from the year IKi."). 
We have no means of knowing when he died, or 
whether he left any children. 

Ill— JAMES McAFEE, THIRD. 

James McAfee III was the third child of Jamc^ 
McAfee, Jr., and Agues. He was boru in Virginia, 
possibly about 1T(!7, but he died very suddenly in 
his bc\l one night in the year 1783. 

IV— ELIZABETH McAFEE. 

Elizabeth (^ Betsy j McAfee was the fourth child 
uf James, Jr., and Agnes. The date of her birth 
may have been about 1770. She married William 
Daveuijoil. In 180'J her father, in his will, left 
500 acres of laud, oue-third the proceeds of whicli 
was to be given to her. 

V— NANCY McAFEE. 

Nauicy McAfee was tlie fifth child of James, Jr., 
aud Agnes. It is not positively known, but she 
was probably boru in Botetourt ('ounty, N'irginia, 
on Catawba Creek, about "the year 1773. She no 
doubt came to Kentucky with her parents in 1779. 
Later on she married Alexander Buchanan, her 
first cousiu, by whom she had six childreu, to wit: 
(a) Mary; (b) James M. ; (cj William; (d) 
Alkxaxdeu ; (e) ('alei', ; and (f ) (Jeorce. In the 
section in this volume devoted to the Buchanans 
will be found a full ac<-onnt of the descendants of 
Nancy McAfee, to which the rea<ler is referi-ed. 
She aud her husljand lie side by side in New Prov- 
idence Churdiyard, and their descendants are p<'0 
pie of liigh .social position and moral worth. 



VI— GEORGE McAFEE. 

The sixth child of James, Jr., and Agues was 
(icorge, who was prolialiiy born about the year 
177(). He was tii'ver married, and died in 1804. 

VII— MARGAIMOT (I'EGGYi .McAFEE. 

The seventh child of James, .Jr., and Agnes was 
.\rargaret (often called Peggy). She was Ixirn 
in Kentucky, lor Ihe date of her birth was 
:\lay 1."), 1780, Ihe year after the :MCAfees set- 
tled in Kentucky. She married John McKamey, 
wild was eleven years her senior, by wiiom she had 
children. The reader is referred for further infor- 
mation coiu-erning this branch of the family to the 
sections devoted to Mrs. .Margaret 1). (iuthrie, ^Irs. 
Champ Clark, and Mrs. .Tennie ;M. .Marshall. 

Her fathei- mentions her in his will in conm'C- 
tiou with her four children, in 1800, as if she was 
then a widow. 

VIII— THOMAS CLARK McAFEE. 

The eighth aud last child of James, Jr., and 
Agnes was Thomas Clark (Clark is often spelled 
with a final e). He wa.s boru in Kentucky in 
178"). in the year 1808 he married Naucy 
(ireathouse, of Shelby County, Kentucky, by whom 
he had nine children, as follows: (a) George G.; 
Ill) Isaac; (c) Elizaiietu ]{. ; (di Thomas Clk- 
laxd; (e) \Villl\.m Lewis; |f) Sau.mi Jane; (g) 
America; |hi Naxcv Clarke; aud (j) iMary E. 
The sections in the succeeding chapter of this vol- 
uiue devol(»d to Miss Sallie Daiugertield, ilrs. Wil- 
liam L. -McAfee, and -Mr. Edwin McAfee will con- 
tain addiliomil luatter in regard to this branch of 
the family, to which the reader is referred. 

"Clai'ke McAfee," as his father refers to him in 
his w ill, was a favorite son of his parents. He in- 
herited the old stone nmusion which his father 
built, and in which he resided at the time of his 
death in 1811, and a large body of fine land. He 
was one of the executors of his father's estate. He 
died in 1827, and his descendants are scattered 



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tliroufrhout the Union. It is a matter of sincere 
rcfrret that t^o little is to be found in this volume in 
regard to thi.s prominent member of the McAfee 
clan. 

Children of James McAfee_, Sr. 

B— JOHN McAFEE III. 

1737-1768. 

John, the second child of James IMcAfee, Sr., 
and Jane, his wife, was born in Countv Armagh, 
Ireland, in 1737 or 1738, and came with his parents 
to America, and accompanied them in their several 
migrations till they finally settled in Virginia, in 
1747 or 171S. Here he spent about twenty years 
of his life. The region near the head of Catawba 
Creek \\as exposed to Indian attacks down nearly 
to the close of the eighteenth century, and John 
3IcAfee III, as he came to nmturity, had to do ser- 
vice against the savages from time to time. In the 
year 17G8, when in the prime of his manhood, he 
was killed by the Indians at the ford of Keed 
Creek, not far from the point where that stream 
enters the New Uiver. Nothing farther is known 
of his life. He was the first of two sons James Mc- 
Afee, Sr., had to resign in the defence of his coun- 
try against a blood-thirsty foe, William being the 
other, some twelve years later. 

C— MALCOLM McAFEE. 
1739. 

Malcolm, the third cliild of James, Sr., and his 
wife Jane, was born in County Armagli. Ireland, 
in the year 1731), only a few moutlis before his par- 
ents set sail for America. While coming over on 
fhi- sjiip lie was taken ill, and lu.' died only a few 
days liel'ore the vessel siglited laud tni this side of 
the Atlantic. The body of the little 1)abe was 
lowered into tlie dee]), and liis ])arents had to enter 
this New "Woi-ld uuder the shadow of a peculiar 
bereavement. 

D— GEORGE McAFEE. 
1740-1803. 
George ;^^cAfee, the fourth child of James, Sr., 
and Jane, was born on Octoraro Creek, Lancaster 



Conuty. Pennsylvania, April 13. 1740. He was 
witli Ills parents in their various migrations, and 
was a boy of abovit seven or eight years when they 
finally settled on Catawl)a Creek, Virginia. When 
the French and Indian wars began 11754) he was 
too young to be a soldier; l)Ut as those wars con- 
tinued for nine years, and General R. B. McAfee 
states that "nearly all" of the McAfee men partici- 
]iated in them, we must believe that George served 
dm lug at least s<)me of the latter years of that 
long series of conti'sts between the British, on the 
one side, and the allied French and Indians, on 
the other. 

When the exploring ttnir to Kentucky was un- 
dertaken in 1773, George, who was then a stalwart 
young man of thirty-three, entered into it heartily. 
He took a wortliy ]iart in all the experiences of that 
renmrkable trip, and also in the series of visits sub- 
sequently made to Kentucky to prepare the way for 
the final settlement there. He was in Capt. Evan 
Shelby's company at the Battle of Point Pleasant, 
October, 1774, with Colonel Christian in his expe- 
dition against the Cherokees, in 177G, probably in 
the Vii'ginia militia serving the Colony against the 
British in 1777-1778, and with General George 
Rogers Clark in his expedition against the Indians 
in Ohio in 1780. It was probably somewhere be- 
tween the years 17G5 and 1770 that he was married 
to Susan Curry, who was his first cousin, and a 
daughter of AA'illiam Curry. It is said that in 
1781 he received from Benjamin Harrison, Gov- 
ernor of ^'irginia, a grant of 1,400 acres of land in 
recognition of his services as a Revolutionary sol- 
dier. It is stated by Collins (Vol. 2, page 249) 
tliat he, like his brothers, James and Robert, kept a 
daily j(jurnal of the tour to Kentucky in 1773, but 
tlie editor, after due inquiry, could not learn any- 
thing of it. 

The survey of his land on Salt River, on which 
he afterwards resided, was m- de on either the 22d, 
23d, or 24th of July, 1773. It lay on the east bank 
of Salt River, about a r^ile and a half due south- 
west of the present town of Salvisa. His house 
stood only a few hundred yards west of where the 
track of the Southern Railway now runs. ^^Tien 



BRIEF'" XOTICKt^ OF Tl 

the companj- bad thai c-i-itical oxitcrit'iKc August 
12, 1773, on the Big Black IMouutaius, lie seemed 
uearer to fatal exhaustion than either of hi(< ])roth- 
er.s, and he Avould most probably liave died had uot 
relief conic before the folloAvinii' muriiiiig. lie was 
back in Kentucky -with his brothers early in the 
spring of 1775, and he and William ^IcAfee cleared 
a small piece of ground at that time at a spring 
which runs into the Town Branch a short distance 
below ITarrodsburg. The company started back to 
Virginia in April of that year, after making im- 
jirovements on their land, and when on the 21st of 
that mouth they met Colonel Henderson at Scagg's 
Greek on his way to Boonesboro, George agreed 
with I{obei't and l^amuel in favoring Henderson's 
scheme, against the advice of tlieir dlder brother, 
James, and parted with him and the rest of the 
company to go with Henderson to Boonesboro. 
But in about two months the three younger broth- 
ers proceeded to Virginia, and later on they learned 
that the Colonial (iovenimeni repudiated Hender- 
son's claims. But George and his brothers, Ifobert 
and Srtmuel, though mistaken in their judgment, 
had some share in the so-called Transylvania Col- 
ony undertaking, which, despite its failure, forms 
one of the most interesting and imjiortant episodes 
in the early history of Kentucky. 

Susan Curry (often called "Susanna"! was the 
daughter of William Curry, and a hrst cousin to 
(teorge McAfee. She was also the sister of tiie 
Rebecca Currj' who became the wife of her lius- 
band's younger brother William. She was born 
October 8, 174:0, probably in Virginia, and died 
September 3, 1810. 

(Jeorge McAfee, husband of Susan Curry, died 
more than seven years before his wife did, viz. : 
April 14, lSO:i. His remains lie in the New Provi- 
dence Churchyard, and from his tombstone there 
the dates of Iris birth and death are taken. His 
grave was the first ona opened in that venerable 
cemetery. Their descendants are to be found in 
Kentucky, iMi.ssouri and various other parts of the 
Fnion. This coujile had the following six children, 
to wit: (a) Joiix; (b) James; (c) :\lAU(;AiiET; 
fd) Gkorgic. Ju. ; (Ci SfSAX, (f) and another 
daughter. 



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Tin-; Ciiii.inuox of (iKoiuac .McAtee, Sr. 
I— JOHN McAFEE. 

The first ciiild of George, Sr., and Susan Curry 
was John, whu ii\'e(l to iiuiuhodd unmarried, and 
died in Soutli ("andina while engaged in trading. 
Nothing further is known of him. 

II— JA.MES .AIcAFKF (TIIE FOCKTII). 
The second child of Gemge .McAfee by his wife 
Susan (Susannah) w.is named James (IV), no 
doubt in honoi- of Ins Catliei-'s e!(h'r hrotiier, James, 
Jr. The exact date and ]ibice of his birth are un- 
known. His ]iarenls were proliaMy married altoul 
1705 to 1770, and he was probably born in I'.ntetouit 
County, Virginia, about 177:>. lie was six feet 
high, and of the most powerful build, and came to 
be known as "Big Jim ^McAfee", a man wliom liut 
few people would care to encounter in a iiand to 
hand fight. He married Nancy McKamey. He 
seems to have lieen engaged, as so many men in 
Central Kentucky were, in taking stock, furs and 
[irovisioiis (111 tlat-boats down the Kentucky, Ohio 
and Mississippi Eivers to New Orleans. It is re- 
lated of him that on one occasion, having taken a 
cargo to that city and received his pay for it, he 
was making his way back home l»y land, and he and 
some companions stopi^ed for the night at a tavei'u. 
A conspiracy was formed by a gang of thieves to 
rob these men, who were supiiosed t(» have their 
bells full of Siiauish coin, and the kee])er of the 
ta\-ern was in the ]ilot. But after the keeper min- 
gled with the travellers and discovered who they 
were, he went out to his confederates and whis- 
j)ercd a warning to them — "Don't try it; Big Jim 
.McAfee is among 'em." That fact seemed to have 
a tremendous significance with the rascals, and he 
lived to reach home again. He served as a soldier 
ill the Wnv of 1812. In the year 1826 he removed 
to Missouri. 

James (IV I and his wife Nancy had three sons, 
to wit : (a) Giooucic (ITT), who was killed liy 
lightning; (b) Piiiui'. who married Elizabcih 
Sheely; and (c) Robert Ijvi.xo.stoxe, who married 
Jane jMurray. Robert L. was educated at Danville, 



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Ivy., aud became a rreshyteriau niinistor. Kobert 
L. and bis wife, Jane M. R. ^foore, bad cbildren, 
as folbtws: 1, Elizabetb, who died in infancy; 2, 
Mary Rochester, who married ^Marvin R. Ranks, 
who died in Columbia, ^Nfo.. May 13, 1S84; 3, 
James I'biliii. wlio married Anita Ale.xander. of 
Kentucky, and lias fimr children who will be noted 
in the section of the succeedinji" chapter devoted to 
James IMiilip ^McAfee; 4, Jane, who died in in- 
fancy; T), Cornelia Lawson, who is a sister in the 
ConA-ent of [Mercy at Louisville, Ky. ; and G. I-aura, 
who died at the ace of fifteen. 

III_MARCtARET McAFEE. 

The third child of George McAfee and Susan, his 
wife, was named Margaret, who married Abraham 
Irvine, of Boyle Ccninty, Kentiicky. 

IV_GEORGE McAFEE. JR. 
1777-1819. 

The fourth child of George McAfee and his wife 
Susan was George, Jr., who in nmture life came to 
be known as "Colonel Geo. McAfee." He was born 
A])ril L'S, 1777, only a little more than two years 
])rior to the final removal of his parents to Ken- 
tucky. He married Anne Hamilton, who was born 
January 11, 1777, and was therefore a few mouths 
his senior. Her portrait will be found in this vol- 
ume. Colonel (leorge aud his wife Anne had the 
following children, to wit: (a) Nakcissa W., born 
August 19, 1804, who married Andrew Forsyth; 
(b) Joiix, born January 9, 180t); (cj Margaret^ 
born December G, 1807; (d) Mary McClung, who 
married Joel D. Bennett,- (e) Wm. H. ; and (f) 
George (A'), avIio was a physician. Colonel George 
McAfee died May 28, 1819, and his wife Anne sur- 
vived him many years, dying April 7, 1851. 

The .section of the succeeding chapter devoted to 
ifr. William Stockwell Forsyth of Paris, Mo., and 
Mrs. Champ Clark, of Bowling Green, ^[o., will 
afford additional information concerning this 
branch of the familv. 



V— SUSAN McAFEE. 

The fifth child of George McAfee and his wife 
Susan was named for her mother, Susan. The date 
of her birth and death are not known to the writer. 
She marrietl Robert IMcKamey, who was a brother 
of the John ilcKamey who married Margaret, the 
daughter of James McAfee, Jr., and his wife Agnes. 

A'l — There was another daughter, and she nmr- 
ricd an .Vrmstrong. Sec Sketch 3l2, iu Part III. 

E— MARY McAFEE. 

The fifth child of James AfcAfee, Sr., and Jane 
his Axife, was named ^lary, and she was born, be- 
yond all reasonable d(mbt, in Pennsylvania, about 
the year 1743. Positive assertion's on these points 
can not be made, but there are good reasons for giv- 
ing the date name<l, and if that date be correct 
within even a few years, then the place of her birth 
was nnd(mbtedly as stated, ^fary was twice mar- 
ried. Her fii"st husband was John Poulson, by 
whom she had one daughter, I — MARGARET, who 
married William Ewing, one of the grandsons of 
Samuel Ewing, Sr. .Mr. Poulson having died, 3Iary 
married Mr. Thomas Gaunt (or Grant) by whom 
she had the following children, to wit: II — MAR- 
GARET, who nuxrried her cousin John Buchanan ; 
III— JANE; IV— JOHN, who married a Miss Dar- 
land ; and Y — MARY, who married Henry Eccles. 
Jane McAfee, the wife of James, Sr., who accom- 
panied her children to Kentucky in 1779, leaving 
her husband in Virginia, lived a part of her time 
with her widowed daughter, Mrs. Grant or Guant, 
whose husband was killed by Indians on Salt River. 
AVhen Jane — "Mother McAfee," she ought to be 
called, for the five pioneer brothers were her sons — 
died in 1783, she was buried on [Mr. Grant's farm 
beside his remains. This farm was on Salt River 
about three miles south-west of Harrodsburg near 
what is known as "The Mud Meeting Honse." On 
the map of Mercer County, given in this volume, the 
site of the graves referred to is correctlv indicated. 



I'.UIEF NOTICES OF THE i'lONEEU .M(AFEE«. 



10[> 



F— ROBERT McAFEE. 
1745-1795. 

Robert McAfei', tlic sixtli fliikl of .Tames .>TcAfee, 
Si'., luul Jane, liis wife, was born in Lancaster 
County, rennsylvauia, July 10, 1745. He was but 
an infant when liis parents made tlie several moves 
wliicli en(le<l. in llie tall of 1747, nr Ibe bcjLiinninu of 
1748, in their settling'- on Catawba Creek, Virjiinia. 
Gen). II. R. McAfee, son of Robert, as has been fully 
discussed in Chapter III, assigns the year 1755 as 
the date of the settkMuent of the family in An^nsta 
Connty,\'ir}iinia. The reasons which compel the edi- 
tor to fix n])on 174S, a date seven years earlier, as 
thepro])er time of that setthMuent, have been stafe(l 
at lenjith in that place, and need not be repeated 
here. (ienl. R. B, McAfee was only cdeven years 
old when liis father met with his untimely end in 
Xew Oi'leaus,iii 1795,and his mother had die(l some 
years before, so that he could hardly lave obtained 
from his parents any first-hand information about 
their early life. He says almost nothing- of their 
yiuiuii- (lays in his narrative. Some have thought 
Robert had a university education, but this is 
clearly a mistake. December 10, 170G, Robert 
.AlcAfee, when twenty-one years old, married Anne 
.McCoun, daughter of James McCoun, Sr., who had 
coiue to Virginia from Ireland in 1742. For some 
reason Robert McAfee, in the spring of 17(57, only 
a few mouths after his marriage, migrated to North 
Carolina, l)ut he only remained there a. year. Re- 
turning to Virginia, he settled in Botetourt 
Count}-, on Sinking Creek, some little distance to 
the south-west of his father's home. In 1770 he 
moved np to the head of that creek, and some of his 
brothel's ailso bought land in tbat section and re- 
moved thither. 

A'N'heu the tour of 1773 to Kentucky was under- 
taken, Robert was twenty-eight years old, and into 
that movement he seems to have entered with much 
enthusiasm. Whether he served the colony in the 
French and Indian wars is rather doubtful, as he 
was only eighteen years old when those wars came 
to an end. He may have taken some part during 



the last one or two years of that protracted con- 
flict, esju'cially as his .son, the chronicler of the 
McAfee family, states that "nearly all" of the 
.McAfees had participated, and it is certain he was 
an uncommonly daring .lud atliletic young man, 
the best possible material for a valuable soldier. 
During the tour of 1773 lie and his elder Itrother 
James, regardless n{' the gi'cat risks incurred, made 
frequent side trips off the main line of their route, 
for several days at a time, to explore the country; 
and when the party got near to where Newport, 
Ky., now stands, he went a long distance, apparent- 
ly alone, into the interior far up the Licking River, 
I'cjoining the company some days later on tlie Ohio. 
He seemed to be absolutely fearless of danger, 
tliough in an utterly strange land where bands of 
roving Indians might meet him at any nunnent. 
AVhen the ^IcAfee company reached the level bot- 
tom on the Kentucky River where Frankfort now 
stands, Robert had their surveyor measure and en- 
ter for him one tract of 400 acres, and another of 
200 acres, of land. These surveys included the fine 
.spring which heads a little branch. In this spring 
the party buried a tomahawk and a fish gig, and the 
spring has been called ".McAfee Spring" ever since. 
The last corner of the survey made was at a point 
alxnit 250 to 300 feet north-west of the present site 
of the capitol building, and the party camped that 
night (.July IG, 1773 j, on the very spot where the 
capitol afterward's stood. Thiswas undoubtedly the 
very first survey ever made at any point on Ken- 
tucky River; and this event, for all coming time, 
connects the McAfees with that stream in the most 
intimate manner. From July 8 to August 11 
this comi)aiiy were not any day more than a very 
few miles distant from it. For some reason Robert 
failed to complete his title to the surveys just 
meutione^l. In 1785, Humphrey Marshall — 
who is said to have bad a remarkabh' keen 
eye for land openings — having discovered 
that Robert McAfee had omitted to make good his 
claim, proceeded to enter a part of it for himself, 
which, it should be said, he had a ])erfect risht to 
do. 



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Robert's land on Salt Rivpr was surrered July 
'J.6 and 27. 1773. It was situated on the east side 
of the river aliout four miles north-west, by north, 
from Harrodsburji:. Other parties came along 
there in the following rear ( 1774 i with Col. James 



vention, of which body Robert McAfee was made 
sergeant-at-arnis. In the fall of that same year. 
Robert was ajjain in Kentucky with his brothers 
and a number of other men. This lime the 
.McAfees brouiiht cattle with them to their lands, 



Ilarrod; and tliouiili Kubei-t had deadened trees and and turned them loose in the rich cane. (lenl. Rob- 



piled up brush heaps on his land, and had even cut 
his initials on a beech tree, a man by the name of 
Williams nuule some additional improvements on 
the same lands, and laid claim to the i)roi)erty later 
on. This led to a most protracted and expensive 
law suit, which annoyed Robert McAfee to the end 
of his days, and which was not finally settled in 
favor of his heirs until the year 1820, when he had 
been in his grave a quarter of a I'entury. 

If the .McAfee brothers returned lo llieir lands 
on Salt River in the spring of 1774, as there is 
good reason for supposing theydid,we laa feel sure 
Robert was with them. For the discussion of this 
mooted (piestion, howevex', the reader is referred to 
('ha])ter IV, Part II. 

In the fall of 1774. Robert was with his two 
older brathers, James and George, in Capt. Evan 
Shelby's company at the battle of Point Pleasant, 
where Cornstalk and his army were defeated by 
Genl. Andrew Lewis. 

Early in 1775, he accompanied the ^IcAfee com- 
pany to Salt River, arriving at -lames ^McAfee's 
spring, March 11th. On the 15th, Col. Llarrod 
passe<l them on his way to re-occupy his cabins at 
Ilarrodsburg, six miles to the south, which the In- 
dians liad caused them to abandon the previous 
summer. April 21st, as the McAfees were on their 
way back to Virginia, by way of the ^^■ilderness 
Road, they met Col. Richard Henderson, and Rob- 
ert took a favoral)le view of his enterprise; and at 
Henderson's request (but against the advice of his 
brother Jaimes I, he turned ba^ck and went with 
Henderson to Boonesboro. His brothers George 
and Samuel accompanied him. James McAfee and 
the remainder of his party continued on their way 
to Virginia. The three brothers who joined Hen- 
derson spent some two months at Boonesboro. 
They were present at Henderson's famous May con- 



ert B. McAfee does not state positively whi,^-h of the 
five brothers, other tiian James, served as soldiers 
in the Revolutionary war, but merely says that 
'•most of them"' did so, mentioning Ijy name James 
only. Bnt as Roliert «as thirty years old when 
the war liegan, and was a fearless and active man, 
he was probably an active participant in all tha 
various wars and expeditions in which his brothers 
had a share. When the iMcAfees finally got their 
families to Kentucky, in the fall of 1779, Robert 
stopped at Wilson's Station, two and a half miles 
south-west of Harrod.sburg, and erected a cabin, as 
he claimed land adjoining the station. But Wil- 
son cont(\sted his claim, and the dispute was set- 
tled l)y the Commissioners adversely to Robert. 
Robert then made an entry of 400 acres one mile be- 
low the place fii"st chosen,his land covering on what 
is now the Perryville turn-pike. But not liking 
the land in that neighborhood very wtdl, he moved 
down the river several miles and built on land he 
bought from John ^lagee, his brother-in-law. But 
this nu)ve, as has already been narrated, proved a 
mistake, because it led him in 1780 into a law 
suit which lasted forty years. He was finally suc- 
cessful (that is, his heirs were, long after his 
death), but it proved a dearly-bought possession. 

In the spring of 1783, Robert ^fcAfee moved 
out of his brother James's fort to his own land, a 
few miles up the river, feeling that the danger of 
Indian attacks would not be great in future. This 
year he paid a last visit to his aged father who was 
still living in Botetourt County, Virginia, carry- 
ing to him many presents and affectionate remem- 
brances from the various children. In the fall of 
1783. after his return from Virginia, he built a 
mill on Salt River for grinding wheat and com. 
His brothers, James and Samuel, assisted him in 
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proved a success tinancially. some of the patrons 
coining from Frankfort, aliout tliirty miles distant. 

Robert McAfee was tive feet, eleven and a quar- 
ter inches hijjh, large around the breast, well pro- 
jiortioned, and jiossessed of great strength and 
activity. He was the most athletic niember of the 
family. It was he that on that terrible day on the 
Big Black IMountaius, August 12, 1773, refused to 
despair of life when the prospects of the company 
looked exceeding dark, and with a cheerful heart 
went in search of game,and succeeded in killing the 
deer that saved the wlude party from starvation. 
He had a large, well-i>roi)ortioned face, a 
prominent s(|nare forehead, a clear, strong mind 
and very black and thick hair, incline 1 to curl. 
His eyes were black, or very dark hazel. He was a 
man of great decision of character, wiiom no ob- 
stacles seemed to thwart. His wife was a kind and 
affectionate woman, with gray ej-es, a round, ex- 
pansive forehead, and very long and dark auburn 
hair. 

In the spring of 1780, Robert erected a new house 
of hewed logs, having heretofore lived in rude cab- 
ins. One night, this spring, Indians came within 
one hundred and fifty yards of his cabins, an.l stole 
nearly all of his horses. Robert raised a company of 
twelve men at once and followed the trail of the 
Indians, antl finally o\ertook tlieui, in I he foi-cnoon 
(d' the third day, near the Ohio River. He ordered a 
charge, and the Indians were routed, one of them 
being killed, and all their plunder and the stolen ]^u^ in this volume. His well-known "Biographical 
horses were captured. In the captured Indian and Family History," in manuscript,written by him 
packs were found many silver brooches, rings and jn is45, has been many times ct>pied, and is to be 
other ornaments. found in many public ;nid |n-ivate liliraries iuAmei-- 

In 1793, Robert rode to Philadelphia on horse- ica. It constitutes one main source of information 
back to get Congress to further some plans he had touching the McAfees up to the year 1845, and the 
for getting land grants in what is now Indiana, but editor has had a copy of it, before him during all 



to New Orleans and sold out most of his stock, but 
on the night of May 10, 17!tr), whil<> aslec]) in his 
boat, some unknown vilhiin crept upon liim and 
struck him a fearful iilow with au a.\e, which 
l)roved f;ilal. His body was iiuricd at the hosjiilal 
in New Orleans. 

The children of Robert .McAfee and his wife 
Anne, were the f(dlowing: 

I.— :MAR<JARET, who married Nathan Neelds; 

II. — SALLY, who married James Curran ; 

III. — ^lARV, who married .Tose]di .Vdams; 

IV. — ROBERT, .IR., who died in 1784, aged six 
yeai's ; 

^^ — AN'NIO, wild married .lolin R. ("ardwell; 

VI.— ROBERT I'.RECKINRIDGE. of whom a 
sketch will be gix'en ])r(seutly; 

VII. — JOHN, who died single at twenty years of 
age. 

VI— ROBERT BRECKINRIDGE McAFEE. 

1784-1849. 

The sixth child of Robert McAfee and Anne, his 
w ife, was named Robert Breckinridge, and he was 
born at his father's cabin on Salt River, ^Mercer 
C(Uinfy. Ky., February 18, 1784. In mature life he 
was known as General .Mc.Vfee. Inasmuch as ac- 
counts of General .McAfee's life have long since 
been published in Collins' "History of Kentucky," 
vol. 2, pages 621, ()22, and in various other works, 
there is the less need of anv extensive account of 



his mission failed, because the Indian title had not 
been extinguished. Mr. John Breckinridge, a law- 
yer at Lexington, was associated with him in this 
enterprise. In 1794, Robert's wife died, and soon 
after this bereavement he planned a trading trip 
to New Orleans, and began building a boat, which 



the years he has been engaged in editing the pres- 
ent work. To (icneral .Mc.Vfee, more than to any 
other individual, living or dead, the descendants 
of the Irish immigi'aiit, James .McAfee, Sr., owe 
grateful acknowledgments for the efforts he made 
to preserve, in writing, the scattered traditions and 



was completed in March, 1795. He made the trip items of information relating to the McAfees. 





GENERAL ROBERT B. McAFEE. 
1784-JS49 

SON OF ROBERT, THE PIONEER. THE FAITHFUL CHRONICLER OF THE MCAFEE FAAMLY. 
BURIED IN NEW PROVIDENCE CHURCH-YARD. 



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209 



General McAfee was, first of all, a Christian fjentle- 
man, and an elder in tlie New Providence church. 
He was an educated man. and wa.s favored with the 
society and friendship of the best people to be 
found in Kentucky at the time he was preparing 
for the active duties of life. As a soldier in the 
War of 1812, he served with distinction, having 
commanded the laroest company in Colonel Rich- 
ard M. Johnston's reoiment. at the battle of the 
Thames, October, 1813. As a member of the Ken- 
tucky Leo-islature for many years, as Lieutenant- 
Ciovernor of his native State for four years, and as 
the representative of the United States at the capi- 
tal of Colombia, South America, for a like term, 
he shed lustre upon the family name. Tn 1842, he 
was elected one of the visitors to West 
Point Military Academy, and was made presi- 
dent of the boai"d. TTe was a mendier of 
the Royal Antiquarian Society of Denmark, 
and of the Kentucky Historical Society. Tn Octo- 
ber, 1807, he was married to ;Miss ]Mary Cardwell, 
by whom he had a considerable family of children, 
(leneral McAfee died in 1849, in the sixty-fifth year 
of his age, and was buried in the New Providence 
Churchyard in the midst of a goodly company of 
his kinsmen. His monument can easily be dis- 
tinguished in the engraving to be found in this vol- 
ume, showing a part of the churchyard looking to- 
wards the north-west. 

G— MARGARET McAFEE. 

Margaret, the seventh child of James McAfee, 
Sr., and his wife, Jane, was prol)ably born in Penn- 
sylvania colony, about the year 1746. She went 
with her parents to Virginia when yet an infant, 
of her early life scarcely anything is known. 

Margaret married George Buchanan, and prob- 
ably in Botetourt County, Virginia, not far from 
tlie year 1770. George, her husband,was l>orn in Ire- 
land in 1745. and he was probably acquainted with 
tlic ^IcAfees in Pennsylvania, if not in Ireland. 
ilargaret and her husband settled in the Salt 
River (Ky. ") neighborhood not long after tho 
.Mc.Vfees did (in I'Sl"), and the next year, when 



New Pi<ividen(e church was organized, George 
Buchanan suggested the very appropriate name 
the church received, and was elected one of its rul- 
ing elders, a place he no doubt filled till his death 
in 1813. 

George Buchanan and his wife, Margaret, had 
the folloM-ing children, to-wit: L— JA:\IES ; II.— 
elOHN; III.— ALEXANDER ; IV.— GEORGE ; V. 
— 5IARY; VI.— JANE; VII.— MARGARET ; 
VIII.— NANCY; IX.— ANNIE; and X.— DOR- 
CAS. For appropriate notices of all the Buchan- 
ans the reader is referred to the sketch of the 
Buchanans given in Part III of this volume. 

H— SAMUEL McAFEE. 

1748-1801. 

Samuel, the eighth child of James McAfee, Sr., 
and his wife, Jane, Mas born in October, 1748. As 
his parents had by this time moved to Virginia, 
as shown in Chapter III it is reasonably certain 
Samuelwas born on Catawba Ci'eek,Virginia, a few 
miles north-west of the town of Salem. Of bis early 
life we know nothing. He was entirely too young 
to have taken any part in the French and Indian 
Wars, being but fifteen when they closed. There is 
no evidence that he enjoyed any better educational 
advantages than his older brothers — all had ap- 
parently a good, plain English ediication, as 
Scotch-Irish parents were sure to secure for their 
children. When the first tour to Kentucky was 
made in 1773, he was twenty-five years old, but it 
would have been an exceedingly hazardous thing 
for all the men of the family to have left their 
families and homes unprotected. It must be borne 
in mind that at that time, and for a good many 
years later, the region they lived in was on the 
frontier, and exposed to Indian attacks. Besides, 
there were farms and crops requiring to be looked 
after. For these reasons, no doubt, Samuel and 
his younger brother, William, remained at home. 
Every one of the five brothers had the courage and 
manhood neceasary, but it was out of the ques- 
tion for all to go off and leave a large number of 
defenseless women and children unprovided for. 



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Samuel may have had another reason for not 
going to Kentucky in 1773, in addition to that just 
given, tliougli we can not assert it as a fact. It is 
nearly certain that his marriage to Ilannah 
McCormick occurred either in 1774 or the year 
preriouR. and this lady may have had something to 
say in regard to Samuel's taking such a hazardous 
and protracted journey just as they were about to 
be married. Hannah's home, it would seem, was 
in that part of the Valley of Virginia, which is now 
included in Rockbridge County. Samuel is said 
to have been a man of more than ordinary self- 
possession and coolness; brave and determined, 
and yet without passion or rashness. It is prob- 
ably true that no one of the children of James 
McAfee, Sr., can count among their descendants 
a larger number of people of culture and distinc- 
tion than Samuel. For more than half a century 
past there have been among his descendants a large 
number of personswho in point of character, attain- 
ments and position have been above the average. 

Samuel was in Kentucky with his brothers in 
1775, and, as has already been shown, he was one 
of the three brothers who for a short time were 
associated with Colonel Richard Henderson in his 
scheme for establishing the Transylvania colony iu 
Kentucky. He was probably a soldier in the Colon- 
ial forces of Virginia during a part of the Revolu- 
tion, and he may also have gone with General 
George Rogers Clark to Ohio, iu his expedition 
against the Indians in 1780. He came with his 
brothers when they made their final move to Ken- 
tucky in the fall of 1779. His lands were surveyed 
for him under the supervision of his older brothers, 
July 26 and 27, 1773, and were situated on the east 
bank of Salt River not quite two miles west by 
south of the present village of McAfee. Part of his 
farm extends to the east of the turn-pike leading 
from that place to HaiTodsburg and is now owned 
by J. .1. McAfee, one of his worthy descendants. He 
was the first magistrate of Mercer County. In the 
noted attack by Indians on McAfee Station in 
the year 1781, he narrowly escaped being killed, be- 



cause of his agilityaud coolness, an account of which 
will be found in the previous chapter. His death 
occurred, as shown by the inscription on his tomb- 
stone, June 8, 1801. His body was first buried in 
his own private burial ground, but, as Collins in- 
forms us (Vol. 2, page 610), at the death of his 
wife, which occurred in 1817. his body, with hers, 
was laid away in the Xew Providence Churchyard. 

The following children were born to Samuel Mc- 
Afee and his wife. Hannah, to wit: I. — JOHN; 
II.— ANNIE ; III.— ROBERT ; IV —JANE ; V.— 
HANNAH ; VI.— WILLIAM ; VII.— SAMUEL, 
JR. ; and VIIL— MARY. 

For a full account of the above-named eight chil- 
dren of Samuel and Hannah the reader is referred 
to the section in the succeeding chapter devoted to 
the "McAfees of Parkville, Mo.," and to that de- 
voted to :Miss Annie T. Daviess, all of whom are 
descendants of Samuel and Hannah McAfee. 

The said eight children of Samuel and Hannah 
are mentioned in General R. B. McAfee's narra- 
tive thus : 

I. — JOHN, who married Margaret McKarney. 

II. — ANNE, who manned Thomas King of Shel- 
by County. 

III.— ROBERT, who married Priscilla Arm- 
strong. 

IV. — JANE, who married Beriah Magoffin of 
Harrodsburg. 

V. — HANNAH, who married Captain Samuel 
Daviess, attorney and Senator. 

VI. — WILLIAM, who married Mrs. Lowery, a 
widow. 

VII.— SAMUEL (Jr.), who died, young and 
single, at Harrodsburg. 

VIIL — MARY, who married Thomas P. ]M(X)re, 
member of Congress and United States Minister to 
Colombia, from 1829 to 1833. 

J— WILLIAM McAFEE. 

1750 (?)-17S0. 
William, the eighth and last child of James Mc- 
Afee, Si'., and his wife, Jane, was probably born 
about the year 1750, and on Catawba Creek. Vir- 



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jfinia. Nothiiija: is knowu of Ids early life. He 
was only about twenty-threo when his older broth- 
ers made the explorinsj tonr to Kentucky in 177;^. 
and he and Samuel remained at home to look after 
the families and farms of the absent brothers. In 
several of the subsequent tours which his brothers 
made to Kentucky, he accompanied them. ITe mar- 
ried Rebecca Curry, sister to Susan Curry, his 
brother Georjje's wife. The date of hi.' marriag^e is 
believed to have been about 1774. He moved to 
Kentuckv with thi families of his brothers in 1779. 
His lands were located on the M-est bank of Salt 
River at the mouth of the Town Branch near Har- 
rodsburiii'. and he built thei-e a station of his own. 
In ITSfl, when Oeneral Oporjie Roii'ers Clark called 
for men to accomi^any him on his expedition to 
Chillicothe, and Piijua, Oliio, William McAfee, who 
was probably his cousin, raised a company, of men, 
and was elected captain, and went to Ohio with 
Clark. At Piqua he was mortally wounded in the 
breast by an Indian ^^•]lilst pillantly doinsihis duty, 
and was carried on a litter Itetwccn two horses to 
the mouth of the Licking River, and thence down 
the Ohio to the Falls and to Floyd's station near by. 
But, as he grew worse, he was carried to the mouth 
of the Kentucky River for the pui-pose of conveying 
him to his home by canoe. He was too ill, however, 
to leave the mouth of Kentucky River. Here his 
wife joined him, having been notified of his injury. 
She got to him just before he breathed his last. 
Captain William McAfee Avas a brave and efficient 
soldier, and like his brother John, who died in 
1768, he lost his life at the hands of a savage. 

The following children were the fntit of the mar- 
riage of William and Rebecca, the last one named 
having been born only a few months after her 
father died, namely : 

I. — ANNE, who married Elijah Craig, who lived 
at the moutli of Kentucky River, and who was 
killed at the battle of the Thames, October, 1813. 

II.— MARGARET, who married Thompson 
Jones, and afterwards died in Indiana opposite 
Yellow Banks. 

III.— :\IARY, who married Willis A. Lee, Clerk 



of the Senate of Kentucky, and the General Court. 
After j\Ir. Lee's death she resided in Frankfort 
till 1848, and then moved back to Mercer County. 
In bringing to a close Part Second of this work, 
whicli is devote«l to the McAfees, it will not l>e con- 
sidered out of place, we trust, if we attempt to show 
what place in the history of Kentucky these men 
are justly entitled to occupy. A more modest set 
of men — men who made less claims for themselves 
— it would be difficult fo find among those whose 
nchicvements Jiave, in any marked degree, con- 
tributed to tlie advancement of civilization. Those 
five sturdy brothers never seem to have imagined 
that they had done anything unusual, much less 
heroic, in founding a permanent settlement in the 
Kentucky wilderness when there was not one hu- 
man family living anywhere within its bounds, and 
nothing had really been done to subdue its virgin 
meadows and forests to the service of civilized man. 
They seem not to have sought to pei*petuate their 
name by affixing it to any stream or mountain peak, 
or civil division of the countiT. They knew how to 
bring things to pass, but they did no boasting, and 
asked no reward. Such self-effacement was, in- 
deed, a commendable trait in them; but the truth 
of history is something we should maintain. It 
can not be wrong in their descendants to want to 
see the McAfees rated as they really deserve. It is 
very natural in a historical writer to select a few of 
the more prominent actors in a given undertaking 
for special mention and ignore the rest. It re- 
(luires far less of pains-taking study and discrim- 
ination to do this than to carefully look into the 
whole subject, investigate the details, and then try 
to do exact justice to all. The McAfees have been 
duly honored by some of the most prominent writ- 
ers on the pioneer period of Kentucky, but there 
are some others who haA'e accorded them but scant 
justice. The writer's aim is simply to fix their 
rightful place in Kentucky's history. 

It will not be contended, of course, that the Mc- 
Afees may rightfully claim the first place as pio- 
neers in the order of time; for many other men pre- 
ceded them to Kentucky. All that is here insisted 



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on is that, all the cirnnnstanccs of the early settle- 
ment of the State being considered, and especially 
when the character and motives of their work are 
duly taken into account, no historian can justly 
deny that tliese men should be regarded as at least 
among the first and worthiest. It may be noted, in 
passing, that the "doctors," as usual, do not agree ; 
the ablest historical writers on this subject not only 
differ as to which men deserve the greatest credit 
for the exploration and settlement of Kentucky, but 
the most contradictory positions are taken in re- 
gard to the matter. For instance, Collins (History 
of Kentucky. Vol. I. page 248') says: "Neglecting 
the obscure visit of Dr. Walker to the north-east- 
ern portion of Kentucky in 175S. and the equally 
obscure but more thorough examination of the 
country by Finley in 1767, we may regard the com- 
pany headed by Daniel Boone in 17fi0, and by 
Knox in 1770, as the earliest visits to Kentucky 
worthy of particular attention." Thus we see that 
Dr. Collins sets Boone before Walker in honor and 
importance, despite the fact that Walker was many 
years in advance of him. On the other hand we 
find Professor Shaler (see his excellent little vol- 
ume on Kentucky, pages 59 and 65) exalting Dr. 
Walker, and belittling the work of Boone. He says : 
"The first authentic report of a deliberate journey 
beyond the line of the Alleghenies is that of Dr. 
Thomas Walker, who in 1750 travelled to the cen- 
tral parts of the region afterwards called Kentucky 
and returned with a good report of the country." 
Then, farther on, he says : "Thus it will be seen that 
Boone's first visit was relatively late in the history 
of Kentucky explorations. Almost every part of 
its surface had been traversed by other explorers 
before this man, who passes in history as the typi- 
cal pioneer, set foot upon its ground." These last 
quoted sentences are tlie most unwarranted and in- 
judicious we have noted in Pi'ofessor Shaler's oth- 
erwise admirable and scholarly work. It reveals a 
carelessness and rashness of judgment not to be ex- 
pected of a writer who ordinarily is so fair and ac- 
curate. The estimate of Boone is not only unjust 
to that old hei-o, but it rests on the false assump- 



tion that no explorations subsequent to those of 
Walker, Gist ami Croghan are worthy to be con- 
sidered as being early, or as having contributed 
much to the founding of the great Commonwealth 
of Kentucky. 

Now just here the question emerges: "TMien did 
the period of exploration proper come to a close, 
and when did actual settlement commence?" To 
affirm that exploration proper had cea.««l with the 
visit of Colonel Croghan in 1765, or with the 
alleped. but unnvrvpn, visit of Ceoriie Washington 
in 1772, is to do violence to the facts of the case. 
(See Col. Durrett's very able and interesting Cen- 
tenary of Kentucky, page 30.) It is conceded that 
the dividing line between these two stages of the 
early history of Kentucky is not as distinct as it 
might be, and yet it is maintained that nothing 
worthy the name of permanent settlement occurred 
till the McAfees and Captain Bullitt entered the 
State in 1773. These men were all explorers, and 
the McAfees were certainly settlers as well. In 
fact, the years 1773 to 1775 mark the transition 
period when the last real explorations were made, 
and the first really permanent settlements were 
effected. It is simply unimpeachable history that 
with that year 1773, when the McAfees entered 
Kentucky, the permanent occupation of the State 
began. Dr. Collins, who was one of the best in- 
formed and most reliable of all writers on Ken- 
tucky, says in his "Histors* of Kentucky," Vol. II, 
page 517: "The present {?tate of Kentucky was 
visited by various parties, at different periods from 
1747 to 1772. The first visits that gave promise of 
return and settlement were those of 1773, with the 
large number of surveys in that year." Of course 
he has reference, in this statement, chiefly to the 
McAfees and Captain Bullitt. To the same purport 
speaksColonelDurrettin the passage from his"Ken- 
tuoky Centenary" just referred to. when he says: 
"In 1772 patents were issued to John Fi-y for lands 
in Lawrence and Greenup counties, said, without 
conclusive authority, to have been sui-veyed by the 
great Washington himself; but the snrveyors whose 
work led to prompt and permanent settlements did 



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not reach Keutuckv till the following jeur.'' Here, 
again, we assume, the reference is to the McAfees 
and Bullitt mainly. In view of all these facts 
and considerations it would seem clear that in 
speaking of the first explorers and settlers of 
Kentucky- \\e are bound to include in the ac- 
count the men who went there in ITTo, if 
not those in 1774 and 1775. This would 
make the dawn of Kentucky's history as ii 
distinct section of this country coincident with the 
momentous change in the political relations of 
America to Great Britain. The year 1775 marked 
the close of the Colonial period. AN'heu the Mc- 
Afees were surveying their lauds on (Salt IJiver in 
July, 1773, they were subjects of King George the 
Third, and their lands belonged to England ; when 
they got ready to move in witii their families and 
occupy the laud, the dominion of England over Ken- 
tucKj had been forever broken. Kentucky was now 
just entering upon a new career, in a double sense: 
tehe was no longer an unexplored and utterly unin- 
habited wilderness, and no longer an outlying por- 
tion of an English colony. A new era had dawned ; 
old things had passed away ; behold all things were 
become new; and the McAfees took an honorable 
part in renuering both these changes possible. 

feome writers seem to adopt very strange and 
illogical criteria for deciding the relative place to 
bti assigned the early settlers of a new region of 
country. Some of them have, apparently, no other 
test 01 priority than that of the date oi their com- 
ing. J-Uey w ouiu almost deny a man w ho got there 
_)cais 111 au\ance ol ;iii otUers, e\en liiougn he were 
conveyed thither against his w'ill by a runaway 
horse, or was a fugitive from justice, seeking to 
hide trom the oincers of the law, with::ut a thought 
of making a careful exploration of the country for 
a worthy purpose. If some Spaniard or Frenchman 
happened to oail down the Ohio or Mississippi on 
some business wholly foreign to that of examining 
the lands along the shore, they would parade his 
name to all future generations as a distinguished 
explorer o^that region whilst not mentioning men 
who came hundreds of miles at great personal peril 



expressly to explore the country and there make 
for themselves a home. 

There are a number of facts touching the move- 
ment of the McAfees to tlie wilderness of Kentucky 
which deserve thoughtful attention, and must be 
fairlj- considered if we are to determine their true 
place in the annals of the grand old Commonwealth 
for w hose settlement they so efficiently helped to 
blaze the way. 

It has already been fully conceded tliat the Mc- 
Afees were not the first men to explore Kentucky. 
The first real explorer of Eastern Kentucky was Dr. 
Thomas Walker in 1750, and he was followed the 
next year by Colonel Gist. Later — 1765-69 — came 
a class of hunters and adventurers like Croghan, 
Findley, Knox and Boone, dift'erent from AX'alker 
and Gist. Next came men, unlike all their forerun- 
ners, who had surveyors with them, and w ho looked 
to permanent settlement in the count ly — the Mc- 
Afees, Bullitt, Ilarrod, etc. Immigration proper 
was not possible till these three different classes of 
explorers had done their preparatory work. In the 
settlement of a new country the above-mentioned 
order of procedure usually obtains, and the men 
who are tirst in the order of time deserve especial 
credit, because their achievements render the sub- 
sequent efforts of other men possible. All three 
classes of the first explorers of Kentucky merit 
honorable mention; and yet the motives and aims 
of all were not equally high. (See Shaler's "Ken- 
tucky," pages 65 anil 66, and Durretfs "Kentucky 
Centenary," page 28.) Love of strange adventures, 
fondness for roving in ijrimeval forests where game 
is plenty, and a purely commercial, money-making 
aim are all admissible and proper motives in their 
place and measure, and yet they are not the very 
noblest of motives. Fearlessness amid the perils of 
untried conditions and a Avillingness to face death 
in the pursuit of one's aims are qualities all of us 
admire, quite apart from the governing purposes of 
the actors and the ultimate objects they had in 
view ; but when the men under review are known to 
be of high moral character, with something better 
than ])urely sordid aims, and exhibit inflexible 
purpose and persistency in realizing tlieir ideals, 
their courage and daring take on a new attraction, 
and they rise into the sphere of the heroic and 



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noble. The indisputable facte concerning the Mc- 
Afee Company sliow that tliev fairly earned the 
right to be thus regardfxl by posterity. The records 
.show tiiat they were not mere adventurers and spec- 
ulators, nor Indian fighters, intent on exterminat- 
ing .savages ; nor mere hunters passionately devoted 
to the chase; nor employed at a stipulated price to 
sun-ey lands ft>r other people; nor merely 
eager to make money. It is made clear riiat they 
were men of Christian training and high moral 
character, who feared God, who had families to 
whom they were devoted, who had already ;u(|uired 
some property but were hampered by the peculiar 
economic conditions of the country in which they 
had lived, who were moved by a desire to nuike a 
better home for themselves and their loved ones 
than it was possible for tliem to liave in Virginia, 
and who had enough of prophetic vision to discern 
the fact that the charming wilderness beyond their 
blue mountains had a glorious future, of whose re- 
wards they coveted an honorable share. 

But there are some additional considerations to 
be kept in mind if full justice is to be done the mem- 
bers of this company. For one thing, as to the 
matter of mere courage they exhibited a readiness 
to face deadly perils in a manner some of their 
most honored predecessors were not called on to 
do. Dr. Walker does not seem to have had any 
special reason to fear Indian attacks, as the tribes 
he was likely to encounter were at peace with the 
whites. The grave troubles which issued in the 
French and Indian AN'ars had not come to a head 
when Walker and Gist set jut on their respective 
expeditions. (See Colonel Johnston's "\\'alker and 
Gist," i)age 53, and Note 3 at bottom.) It was quite 
othemise when the McAfees started to Kentucky. 
There had then been long years of blootly encount- 
ers between the two races, and only five years prior 
to this date one of their brothers (John McAfee) 
had been slain by the Indians. Besides, the story 
of Boone's recent adventures with the savages in 
Kentucky was fresh in mind. All the men who 
went to Kentucky in 1773 went knowing full well 
the (hinger of meeting at any time roving bands of 



Indians who would l)e eager to take their scalps. 
Troubles were then brewing which culminated the 
very next year in the bloodiest battle ever fought on 
Virginia soil between Whites and Indians — that at 
Point IMea.sant, in October, 177-1, in which conflict 
all three of the McxVfees of this company bore a 
worthy part. 

There is something wortli noting also in tiie fact 
that the McAfees did not skim along the outer edges 
of the region known as Kentucky, nor seek to walk 
only in the tracks of pivvious explorers. They 
went to Kentucky with the full purpose of pene- 
tiatiug to the very heart of that region, and they 
entered lands where no surveys had ever been 
made before. Walker and Gist confined them- 
selves to the border portions, and the easterly and 
least important end of the State, but the McAfeea 
made their main surveys in the geographical cen- 
tre of Kentucky, and followetl the Kentucky River 
step by step from its mouth almost to its very head 
springs for more than three hundred miles, so that 
the marvel is the Legislature of the State did not 
call that picturesque stream by their name. (See 
Johnston's "\\ alker and Gist," page O.J Dr. Walker 
did not even see one square mile of bluegrass lauds. 

But, after all, the most notable feature of their 
achievements was the fact that they not only went 
far into the choicest interior section to locate, but 
actually .settled a community which they never re- 
linquished for a day, and which for one hundred and 
lhirty-ou>_ years, without a break, has been contin- 
uously held by them or their lineal descendants. 
The little village which bears their name is indeed 
but a small place, but it stands there as a land- 
mark to show that the McAfee settlement meant a 
permanent settlement and not a mere land specu- 
lation; and there on the brow of Salt River still 
stands the stone house which James ^IcAfee erected 
in 1790, marking the very spot on which once stood 
the station or pioneer fort which for many years 
was the rallying point for the McAfee settlement. 
And right over on the hill, not a thoupand yards 
away, stand some neat grave-stones which for more 
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iug place of the leader of the McAfee Companj. 
It is this fixedness of purpose, tliis stayiiijr quality, 
this permanencT, Avhich gives tlie work of tlic :Mc- 
Afees a character which docs not helong to tiiat of 
some wlio suddenly appeared in the wilderness, and 
as suddenly left it. no more to lie seen or heard of 
there. And if fnnn that stone house we look across 
the fields which the McAfees hegjui to cultivate be- 
fore the land had ceased to hclonii- to Enjiland, we 
shall see a substantial hrick churcli, the fourth of 
a series of sanctuaries used l)y a conij;regation 
which was founded soon after the McAfees settled 
there, showing that the pennaneuce of their choice 
was linked with godliness and a careful regard to 
the intellectual and religious welfare of the com- 
munity. 

Of course, it is not meant that these men were 
continuously j^resent as occupants of the farms sur- 
veyeil from Julj', 1773, and onward. The actual, 
permanent occupation l(y the McAfee families did 
not begin till the fall of 1779, when they all arrived 
on their pack-horses after a long and perilous jour- 



ney from Virginia by way of Cumberland Gap. But 
the land was regularly looked after from time to 
time after July, 1773; it was annually visited by 
some member of the family; fruits were planted; 
cattle were driven in from Virginia; land was 
cleareil, and everything was done that was possible 
to l>e done under the trying circumstances of the 
situation. Never, for one hour, was their hold on 
those lands relaxetl ; not for one day did they relin- 
quish their purjiose to make the settlement they 
founded on Salt River their lasting earthly home; 
and just as soon as the exigencies of war would ad- 
mit of it the}' took leave of Virginia, and journeyed 
to their new home west of the mountains, there to 
toil and abide till God should call them to a place 
in the "house not made with hands." 

These incontrovertible facts, it would seem, war- 
rant us in holding that the McAfees were among 
the very noblest and first of the real founders of 
Kentucky, and as such merit honorable mention in 
every history that piofesses to tell, with au\ full- 
ness and truth, the story of Kentucky's genesis. 



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NOTES ON PART SECOND. 



THE MCAFEE FAMILY. 



1 — The information j^iven in this narrative has 
been derived almost entirely from the following 
works, to wit: (a) "The Scottish Clans and Their 
Tartans," issued by Johnston of Edinburgh and Lon- 
don, Sixth Edition, and republished in New York 
by Scribner's Sons. This valuable little volume 
gives the history and the beautifully colored Tar- 
tans of nearly one hundred Highland Clans, the 
McAfee Clan being numbered 50. The descendants 
of the McAfees should all have this book, though 
they will probably be amazed at the wretched char- 
acter of the binding. It ctisis but one dollar, (h) 
"Highland Clans and Highland Regiments," by 
John S. Keltie, London, 1882, Volume 3, page 165; 
(c I Lan's "Costumes of the Clans," Vol. 2; (d | The 
Autobiography of General R. B. McAfee, in MS. 
(e) Map of Highland Clans at page 498, Vol. 21, 
British Encyclopedia, Ninth Edinburg Edition. 

2 — (Itueral It. B. McAfee, in his Autobiography, 
tells us that John McAfee, the earliest known head 
of the American McAfees treated of herein, settled 
near Glasgow, and then later on migrated to County 
Armagh, Ireland; and that in 1690 — only forty- 
tive years after the deuth ot Malcolm, the chieftain 
of the McAfee Clan — he and his son, John, Jr., 
were with King William at the Battle of the Boyue. 
The two narratives fit well together. 

3 — It is not altogether an insignificant fact that 
in the year 1739, when James McAfee, Sr., had a 
son born to him, he chose for him this name Mal- 
colm. Whilst we have no right to assert that this 
choice of a name was made by James in honor of 
the hero, his kinsman (and possibly his ancestor), 
who sleeps in lona's sacred soil, we can but surmise 
that such was probably the case. 

4 — The authoi'ities on which all the historians 
have had to relv for their facts in regard to this 



company are the follawiiig: 1. the daily journal 
kept by James McAfee, Jr., on the tour of 1773; 2, 
the daily journal kept by Robert .McAfee on the said 
tour; 3, a manuscript volume, written in 1840, by 
General R. B. McAfee, entitled "The Rise and 
Progress of the First Settlement on Salt River"; 
and 4, a second manuscript volume by the same 
author written 184.>9 entitled "The Life and Times 
of Robert B. ^McAfee and His Family Connections." 
The two .Journals are printed in full in the Appen- 
dix, with copious notes by the editor. The two doc- 
uments by General R. B. McAfee, who was a son of 
Robert, the pioneer, and, of course, a nephew of 
.James ilcAfee, .Jr., contain, in addition to a great 
deal of other information about the family, a sort 
of running commentary on the matter of the two 
journals, enriched with many valuable items de- 
rived by him from the lips of his uncle James Mc- 
Afee in 1804. Then the editor of this work has, 
during the last ten years, been engaged in some- 
what extensive researches which have borne consid- 
erable fruit, the results of which are embodied in 
the narrative now presented. Numerous individu- 
als living along the route travelled by the McAfee 
Company have been called upon for information; 
the editor has personally visited some of the most 
important localities in question, and has been 
enabled to solve some puzzling problems of the 
tour ; and, finally, a series of maps has been drawn 
and engraved expresslyfor this work. embodying the 
most of the results bearing upon the geography and 
topography of the regions traversed by the company 
in 1773. The maps can be relied upon as accurate. 
.") — Dr. Hale — "Allegheny Pioneers," pages 34, 30 
and 102 — shows that the Indians who invaded the 
Draper's Meadows Settlement in 1755 followed an 
old trail which was probably the same as that the 



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il7 



McAfees travelled on their way to the hjwer Ka- 
nawha. 

6 — For an interesting account of this place and 
of some of the more important expeditious wliich 
set out from thence, see Dr. Hale's "Traus-Alle- 
yheuy riouwrs," ])aii-es 101-8. lie savs this was the 
point of departure of this company. 

7 — General R. B. McAfee in his "Kise and Prog- 
ress of the First Settlement of Salt River" states 
that the point on the Kanawha to which the Mc- 
Afees came on horseback, and at which they em- 
barked ou the river in canoes, was four miles above 
the mouth of Elk River. This river enters the 
Kanawha at Charleston. The famous Salt Spring 
at the mouth of Carapbell's Creek is beyond ques- 
tion the place intended. Here salt for the journey 
could easily be made, and here canoes could be built 
with the assurance that in their course down to the 
Oliio no dangerous falls or rapids would be encoun- 
tered. In his Autobiography the General states that 
the party built their canoes at a point one hundred 
and twenty miles above the mouth of the Kanawha. 
This is clearly an error, for that would locate the 
embarkation on the river at a point sixty milea 
above the Salt Springs, and Dr. Hale, who was 
reared on that river, and knew every mile of it, 
\\rote the author of this volume that it would have 
simply been impossible to carry loaded canoes over 
the mauj- dangerous rapids in that part of the Ka- 
nawha. The Salt Spring, sixty miles from the Ohio 
by the river, was the place at which the party sent 
back their horses and constructed their boa Is. 

S — From this point onward the journals of 
James and Robert McAfee afford ail needful infor- 
mation as to most of the details of the journey, to 
^\■hich documents, and the notes of the editor there- 
on, the readei- is i-eferred. 

1) — See Collins' "Kentucky," Vol. 2, page 117 ; 
Shaler's "Kentucky," pages 65 and 66; Colonel Dur. 
rett's "Centenary of Kentucky," page 30; and 
Foote's Sketches of ^'irg■iuia, Second Series, page 
160. 

10 — The party spent some days at this lick which 
has been famous for more than a century. It bears 



the utuue of tiie man Drenuou, one of Hancock 
Taylor's assistants, who with Bracken had pre- 
ceded the party to this place in a way displeasing 
to their companions. While here thousands of wild 
animals were observed licking tiie salt mud around 
the various salt springs — buffaloes, elk, deer, bears, 
etc. For an interesting account of the place, and of 
a thrilling incident in which James McAfee and 
Samuel Adams were tlie ]Kirricipants, see G.^neral 
McAfee's Autobiography. 

11 — Collins' "Kentucky," Vol. 2, pages 517-18. 

12 — Foote's Sketches of Virginia, Second Series, 
pages 159-168. 

13 — General McAfee's Axitobiography, year 
1774; and Dr. Hale's "Trans-All(>gliany Pioneers," 
page 182. 

14 — Humphrey Marsliall's History of Kentucky, 
Vol. 1, page 27; and General ^McAfee's Autobiog- 
rapliy, year 1774; and also his "Rise and Progress 
of the First Settlement on Salt River," under year 
1774. 

15 — Collins' "Kentucky," Vol. 2, page 519; Gen^ 
eral McAfee, for the year 1775 ; and Marshall, Vol. 
1, page 27. 

16 — See the map of South-Wcstern Virginia, and 
South-Eastern Kentucky, showing tliis route, and 
tlie two gaps only fifteen miles apaii:. 

17 — See General McAfee, under year 1775; and 
the various larger Kentucky histories, which men- 
tion this trij) in some detail. 

18 — For a full account of the Henderson Com- 
pany and their proceedings in Kentucky, see Col- 
lins, Vol. 2, pages 49G-514. 

19 — See General McAfee's Autobiography, years 
1776-77-78. 

20 — Dr. Hale (page 267) says this was tiie first 
wagon road ever constructed across to the Green- 
briar. jMr. George Alderson, who is a grandson of 
the Rev. John Alderson (not Joseph, as Dr. Hale 
has it) who opened this road, resides now at the 
town of Alderson, West Virginia, named for his 
family, and he informed the editor that the road be- 
gan on Catawba Creek, ran across John's Creek 
and Potts Creek, to Old Sweet Springs, to Picka- 



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way Plains, in between Flat Top Mountain and 
Swoopes Knob on to Alderson, West Virginia, on 
the Greenbriar River. This road was seventy to 
seventy-five miles long, and it must have been ex- 
ceedingly I'ough, and at some points in getting over 
the mountains as steep as a wagon road could well 
be. Not less than four or five days would be re- 
quired in making the journey with heavily laden 
pack-horses or wagons. 

21 — See General McAfee's Autobiography for 
the years 1770, etc., which goes more fully iuto the 
details than the limits of this volume will admit of 
our doing. 

22 — Ramsey's "Annals of Tennessee,"' pages 152 
and 1G5. 

23 — It may occur to some who read these pages 
that this chapter is a needless repetition of the nar- 
ratives contained in the journals of James and Rob- 
ert McAfee to be found in the Appendix. The 
author's apology is found in two facts, to wit : 
First, that the chapter contains a good many items 
which needed to be presented, but which could not 
properly apx>ear in the notes on those journals, as 
the reader will discover on carefully comparing the 
matter in this chapter with the journals and the 
notes thereon ; secondly, the journals, with the 
notes, are not adapted to the purposes of a con- 
tinuous and readable narrative, being suited rather 
to separate study. 



24 — The grave of the venerable mother of the Mc- 
Afee piouK'rs luis. with filial care, been exactly 
identified and pointed out by her grandson, Gen- 
eral R. B. McAfee, and it will be found duly indi- 
cated on the map of Mercer County, contained in 
this volume. If tlic editor may be pardoned the sug- 
gestion, he would express the opinion that the de- 
scendants of this lady can not afford to allow her 
grave to go unmarked and neglected — it deserves a 
neat monument, securely enclosed with an iron rail- 
ing, which sliall tell to those yet unborn where lies 
the body of the mother of five of the bravest and 
noblest of the men who helped to found the Com- 
monwealth of Kentucky. (See General McAfee's 
Autobiography under year 1779. ) 

25 — There is a multitude of details relating to the 
life of this colony on Salt River given by General 
McAfee in his Autobiograpliy which it would be in- 
teresting to have transferred to these pages. This, 
however, would consume more space than is at our 
command in this volume, aud the reader is there- 
fore asked to consult that manuscript work, which 
can be fouHd in a good many libraries. 

26 — For somewhat elaborate accounts of the 
New Providence Church, see Dr. Cleland's Life; 
General McAfee's '"Rise aud Progress o" the Salt 
River Settlement," etc., aud Davidson's "History 
of Presbyterian Church,'' pages 71-73. 



PART THIRD. 

THE PATRONS OF THIS WORK 





REUBEN T. DURRETT, A. M., LL. D.. 
PRESIDENT OF THE FILSON CLUB. AUTHOR OF INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME. 



WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL 

PART THIRD. 



GROUP ONE— PATRONS NOT DESCENDED FROM EITHER WOODSES OR McAFEES. 



Niuety-three persons are listi'd below as patrons 
of this work, and all but six of them are lineal 
descendants of either John "\^'oods of Ireland or 
of John ^IcAfee of Scotland, or of both. For con- 
venience these patrons are distribnted into four 
separate groups. First, there are six individuals, 
who, though not descended from either the Woods- 
es or the JIcAfees, have rendered the editor valu- 
able assistance, in one way or another, in further- 
ing this publication. It was at his request that 
these gentlemen kindly furnished him w\i\\ mate- 
rials for the sketches of themselves which will be 
found herein. They deserve the thanks of all the 
other patrons for their kind encouragement. Five 
of these gentlemen have made the history of the 
Virginias and Kentucky a matter of careful study, 
and there are probably no equal number of persons 
living wlio kliow as much about the genesis of 
Kentucky as they. They are all gentlemen of 
anti<iuarian tastes, and have all published valu- 
able historical works bearing on the earlier days 
of Kentucky. The editor is hajipy to be able to pre- 
sent in this volume a sketch and portrait of each 
of them, especially as he ventures to belieA-e that 
at least a portion of the matter contained herein 
is of tlie kind in which they take special interest. 

Tiie second group, containing twenty-seven 
names, is composed of lineal descendants of John 
^IcAfee of Scotland. The third consists of lineal 
descendants of John ^A'oods, of Ireland, and num- 
bers forty-seven individuals. The fourth group, hav- 
ing thirteen members, is made up of pei'sons who 
claim Ifotli (he Woo<lses and ]\[cAfees as their an- 
cestors. Tlie nund)er of people now living in Am- 
erica who are closely relateil, by blootl or marriage, 



to one or more of the patrons of this work and 
their for'l)ears probaldy includes thousands of in- 
dividuals. 

SKETCH I. 

REUBEN THOMAS DURRETT. A. M., LL. D., 
LOUISVILLE, KY. 

lieuben Tiiomas Durrett, son of William and 
Elizabeth (ncr Rawlings) Durrett, was born in 
Henry County, Kentucky, January 22, 1S24. After 
enjoying such educational advantages as the 
scjiools of his native county afforded, he went to 
Oeorgetowu College, at Ceorgetown, Kentucky, in 
1844, and remained there until 1840. He then went 
to Brown TTniversity, in Providence, R. I., where 
he graduated with the degree of A. B., in 1849. The 
same year he entered the law department of the 
University of Louisville where, by superior appli- 
cation, he combined the courses of study for two 
yeai*s into one and was graduated with the degree 
of LL. B., in 1850. In 1858 tiie degree of A. M. was 
conferred upon him by Brown University for con- 
tinued advaucement in learning, and since then he 
has received from each of the three colleges he at- 
tended — Brown University, Georgetown College 
and the University of Louisville, the degree of 
LL. D., which was the highest hcmor they could 
confer upon him. 

Immediately after leaving tlie law school, Mr. 
Durrett began the practice of law in Louisville, 
and was one of the most finishetl scholars of his 
age who ever appeared at the Louisville bar. His 
k'nowledge of different languages, Greek, Latin, 
French, Italian, Spanish and German, and his rare 
gifts as both a speaker and a. writer contributed 
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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



at the practice for thirty years he was able to re- 
tire in 1880 iipou the competency he had earned. 
A number of his speeches to jnrii^, and arciiments 
to courts, were deemed worthy of i)ublication, and 
appeared in the newspapers at the time they were 
made. His speecli in defense of Heitz for the mur- 
der of Lobstein. pnblislied in the Cnnnfr-Joiirnal 
of January 29. 1871, and liis arjiument in behalf of 
that paper in defense of the lil>el suit of Hull, 
Jfarch 30, 1872, are specimens of learnings, style 
and eloquence which have seldom been surpassed 
in the Louisville Court House. His fame as an 
orator, however, will more permanently rest upon 
his orations prepared for public occasions. When 
he was jiraduated from the law school in 18.50 he 
delivered the valerlictory. and it was so much ad- 
mired that it was published and hijihly praised in 
the newspapers. His Fourth of Jul.y oration at the 
invitation of the City Council of Louisville in 1852, 
his address before the ilechanics' Institute of 
Louisville in 185fi, his Centennial orations for 
Louisville in 1880 when the city was an hundred 
years old, and for Kentucky in 1892, when the 
Commonwealth had reached the same venerable 
age, and his address to the Alumni of Georgetown 
College in 1894, all of which were published at the 
dates of delivery, were so rq>lete with learaing and 
so beautifully written that they can not fail to oc- 
cupy a permanent place in our literature. 

In his earlier years, Mr. Durrett yielded to an 
imagination which demanded the expression of 
thoughts in verse, and had he not acquire<l distinc- 
tion in other lines he might have been widely known 
as a poet. In poetry he was exceedingly versatile 
and pa.s*ied from the humorous to the gi'ave with 
marketl facility. His serious humor, however, pre- 
dominated, and his best productions may be con- 
sidered in this vein. His "Night Scene at Dren- 
non's Springs" in 1850, his "Thoughts Over the 
Grave of the Rev. Thomas Smith," in 1852, and his 
"Old Year and New in the Colliseum at Rome," in 
1856, each of which was published when written, 
are fine specimens of classic thought expressed in 



blank Aerse and entitle him to high rank among 
Western poets. 

It is as a prose writer, however, that ^Ir. Durrett 
will be most favorably and most enduringly known. 
So soon as he left college he l)egan writing for the 
newspapers and j)eriodicals. ^lost of his articles, 
however, appeared in print as editorials or over 
anonymous signatures, so that he got no credit for 
them except among a few intimate friends. From 
1857 to 1859 he wa.s the editor-in-chief of the Louis- 
ville Courier, and his leaders, always distinguished 
for their l)road range of knowledge and vigor of 
style, matle him an enviable reputation as a jour- 
nalist. After retiring from the bar in 1880 he de- 
voted much of his leisure to historic studies, for 
which he always had an inclination. His aiiicles 
in the ffoutlicrv Birnuac for March, April and May, 
in 18SG, on the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798-99, 
may serve as specimens of his writings in this line. 
He corrected the errors which had prevailed for 
three-quartei's of a century concerning these cele- 
brated resolutions, and placed the authors and the 
resolutions themselves in their true i>osition in his- 
tory. His numerous historic articles published in 
the Courier-Journal since 1880 have been widely 
read and much admired for their original research 
and the new color with which they invested im- 
portant events and subjects. In the annual re- 
ports of the American Historical Association for 
1891 and 1892, several pages are occupic<l with a 
list of his historical writings. 

In 1SS4 a few of his associates of similar tastes 
joined Mr. Durrett in establishing an association 
in Louisville for co-operative effort in collecting 
and preserving and publishing historic matter re- 
lating to Kentucky. This association was named 
"The Filson Club," in honor of John Filson, the 
first historian of Kentucky, and Mr. Durrett, who 
was made its president, prepared and read the first 
paper before it. This paper was entitled "The 
Life and Times of John Filson," which was pub- 
lishefl as No. 1 of the series of club publica- 
tions. It is a quarto of 132 pages, so full of orig- 
inal matter and so l>eautifullv written that it at 



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223 



once gave the club a prominent stand among kin- 
dred associations. ]Mr. Durrett is also the author 
of No. 5 of the club publications, entitled "An 
Historical Sketch of St. Paul's Church, Louisville, 
Kentucky;" of No. 7 entitled the "Centenary 
of Kentucky;" of No. 8 entitled "The Centenary 
of Louisville," and of No. 12 entitlwl "Bryant's 
Station." Tlie charactorislic of 'Slv. Durrett's his- 
torical writings is original research, and he invests 
his new matter with such charms of style that it 
is always a pleasure to read what he has written. 

In his litei'ary studies ^Ir. Durrett has always 
bought the books he needed, and in thus purchasing 
from year to year he has accumulatcMl a large and 
valuable library. The volumes and pamphlets and 
papers and manuscrijits ui)nn his shelves number 
more than 50,000, and he is adding to them every 
year. His collection embraces works in almost 
every liranch of human knowledge, but is particu- 
larly rich in history, and especially American his- 
tory. He has the principal histories of every 
State, as well as those of the Ignited States at large 
and of the North Americiin Continent. In Ken- 
tucky histories and Kentucky books his collection 
surpasses those of all others combined. He has 
made it an object to secure evei-y book about Ken- 
tucky or Kentuckians or that had been written by 
a Kentuckian or even printed in Kentucky. He 
has thus covei'ed the w'hole field of Kentucky bibli- 
ograi>hy, and the other libraries of the world con- 
tain nothing to compare with his collection. He 
is so familiar ^\■ith his books that he can promptly 
lay his hands on any one of his fifty thousand vol- 
umes without the aid of a catalogiie; but, better 
than this, he is as familiar with the contents of his 
l)ooks as he is with their location upon the shelves. 

In recognition of his varied attainments, Mr. 
Durrett has been made a member of numerous his- 
toric, scientific and learneil societies in this coun- 
try and in Europe. Unlike most men distinguished 
for learning he has a clear business head and sound 
judgment, which have weight among men of affairs. 
As president, vice-president, director, tnistee, eom- 
jnissioner, etc., he is connected with various cor- 



porations in Louisville, and is noted for giving as 
unremitting attention to those of a diaritable as to 
those of .a business charactei'. He is a man of broad 
benevolence, and contributes libci-ally to all the 
cliaritics wjiicli lie (l<'(Miis worthy. 

In ]S."')2 ^Ir. Durrett was married to Miss Eliza- 
beth H. Bates, the only daxighter of Caleb and 
Elizabeth (iicc Humphreys) Bates, of Cincinnati, 
Ohio. j\rrs. Durrett was a lady of rare intellectual 
attainments, and, like her husband, had literary 
tastes of a controlling nature. Tliere were but 
few good books in the accessilde range of literature 
\\hich had not contributed to her knowledge, and 
^\r. Durrett owes much of his varied learning and 
culture to the companicmship of his gifted wife. 
She l)ore him four children, three of whom pre- 
ceded her to the grave, and one of whom, Lily Bates 
Durrett, who died at the dawn of young woman- 
liood, had written a series of lettei"s from Europe 
ami from Florida, which were published in theCotir- 
irr-JniiriKiJ in the winter and spring of 1S80, and 
which gave abundant pnrof that sjie had inherit(\l 
her father's gifts as a writer. The only survivor 
of their children is Dr. William T. Durrett, of 
Louisville, Kentucky. 

The Durretts are of French origin, and the fam- 
ily traditions date back to Louis Duret, an eminent 
French physician and author, who fiourislied about 
the middle of the sixteenth century. He was the 
author of several learned books and especially of 
a commentary in Greek, Latin and Fi-ench, upon 
the works of Hippocrates, which was first published 
in Paris in 1588. It is a venerable folio bound in 
thick boards covered with vellum, and now in pos- 
session of the subject of this sketch. :Mr. Durrett 
has also other venerable volumes of which different 
members of the family were the authors, and which 
are quaint specinums of the art of printing and 
I)inding in early times. Among these may I)e men- 
tioned "A Commentary on the Customs of the 
Dutch," by Jean Dui-et, a folio published at Lyons 
in 1584 ; "A Treatise on the Causes and Effects of 
Tides," by Claiide Duret, an octavo published at 
Paris in 1600; "A History of the Languages of the 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



East,'- hy Claiulo Durot. a (luarto published at 
Coloa:iie in 1613. After the Ma.ssacre of St. Bar- 
tliohiiiu'W some of the Dui-ets erossed the British 
Cliaiiiiel and settled in England. In 1644, Christo- 
pher Duret was prominently connected with the 
Baptists in London, and his name appejirs siih- 
scribed to the Articles of Faith put forth that year. 
In England the French pronunciation was dropped, 
and the name pronounced Dnret, as it was spelled, 
instead of Dnrav, as the French had it. In the 
course of time this English pronunciation was em- 
phasiztHl by doubling the "r" and "t"' which pro- 
duced the name "Durrett," as we now have it. 
Early in the eighteenth century three brothers, 
John, Eiehard and Bartholomew Durrett, came 
from England to t?pottsylyania County. Virginia, 
where they purchased lands and permanently set- 
tled. From these Virginian ancestors the DuiTctts 
in the United States have descended. Francis Dur- 
rett, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, 
was with General George Kogers Clai'k in the Illi- 
nois campaig-u of 1778-9, but returned to Virginia 
instead of .settling at once as othere did in the new 
country. Early in the pre.sent century, howeyer, 
he moved to Kentucky, and settled upon land which 
he purchased in Henry County. Here William, the 
oldest son of Francis aji<l the father of Mr. Durrett, 
became a wealthy farmer and erected upon his 
plantation the first brick house rhat was built in 
Henry County. That house stands to-day as sound 
as it was when erected, a centuiy ago. 

]dr. Durrett is a well-preserved man of health 
and vigor, who bids fair, with his regular and mild 
habits, to live through a generous number of the 
years of the future. He belongs to the school of 
old Virginia gentlemen, now so rare among us, and 
his hospitable home is ever open to those w^ho wish 
to see him. His colle<tion of books and anti(iaities 
ha.s made him a kind of sli(>w in Louisville whither 
strangers as well as acquaintances resort with an 
assurance of seeing something worth seeing 
and learning .something worth knowing. He 
is never more delighted than wiien in his 
great library with one or more i>ersons in 



swirch of information from rare books and 
manuscripts. In this way most literary per- 
sons at home and many from abroad have been 
placed under obligations to him, and his constant 
regTet is that he has not been able to do more good 
to others with his books. The introduction to this 
^'olume is fr.oni the pen of this distinguishetl writer. 

SKETCH 2. 

COLONEL J. STODDARD JOHNSTON, 
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. 

Colonel J. Stoddard Johnston was the second son 
of .Judge John Harris Johnston, a native of ^la-son 
County, Kentucky, and elder brother of General 
.Vlbert Sidney Johnston, who removed at an early 
age to Louisiana, and died there in 1838. He was 
a la\\'yer and planter, speaker of the Louisiana 
House of Eepresentatives in 1830 and Judge of the 
Parish of Eapides at the time of his death. He 
was a half-hrothei* of Hon. Josiah S. Johnston, 
three times elected Senator fi'om Louisiana, for 
whom the subject of this sketch was named. The 
mother of Colonel Johnston was Eliza Ellen David- 
.«m, eldest daiighter of Dr. Richard Davidson, a 
Virginian, of New Orleans, La. Her mother was 
the daughter of John Pintard, a noted citizen of 
New York, whose ancestors emigrated from France 
to America in 1786 after the revocation of the edict 
of Xantes. He was the founder of Tammany, orig- 
inally an Historical Society, in 1790, and its first 
Sagamore; Editor of the Piihllc Advertiser in 
1802 ; founder of the New York Historical Society 
in 1804; a promoter of the fii'.st Savings Bank and 
its president ; and one of the founders of the Am- 
(Tican Bible Society. He was a vestryman of the 
French Church of St. Esprit, New York, and 
translates! into French the Book of Common 
Prayer still in use. He died August, 184.5. Among 
Colonel Johnston's other ancestors was Colonel 
Abram Brasher, a member of the first, second and 
third Provincial CongTesses of New York ; a Revo- 
lutionary officer, and a member of the Committee of 
One Hundre<l, when Washington occupied New- 
York. 

Col. Johnston was born in New Orleans, La., at 



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the house of liis ;ni-;iii(lfather Davidson. February 
10, 1833. On tlie deatli of Iiis mother in 1S37 his 
father intrusted liis tiiree lilth' sons tn liie i-are of 
tlieir niotiier's sister. .Mrs. .Mar_\' Daxidsun Ilancdik, 
wife of Toloiiel (Jeorji-e FTancock, of .Tctferson 
rounty, Kentucky. Tiie elih'st son. .Inhn I'intard 
Jolinston. (lied of eholera in lS4it. 'i'lie youngest 
l)rotlH'r. Harris Haueoek Jolinston, wIki was an in- 
fant a few months old wlicn liis uioMici- died, lie- 
came the adoiited son of ("ohmel and .Mis. Ifan- 
eook. was educated at the T'niversity, and served 
with distinction thi-onmh tlie Civil War in tiie Ton- 
federate Army on the staff of Tieneral William 
Preston, and as Captain of Cavalry. For tlie ^i-eat- 
( r part of his life In- was en.i;ap^d in farminji until 
his death iu 1877. Colonel .Johnston was a pupil 
of Samuel V. Woniack. of Shelliyville. Ky.. a noted 
teacher of classics. an<l afterwards a cadet iu the 
Western Military Institute at Geornetowu. Ky., 
wlien James (t. Blaine was a iirofessoi- there. In 
18o0 he entered the so])homore class at Yale Col- 
lege, where he was inraduated in ISoo. He studied 
lawat thelaw scho(d of the University of Louisville, 
and took his diploma in 1851, with no immediate 
intention of engaging in the practice, l)ut to com- 
plete his education and as a future resource in case 
of necessity. In tlie same year, June 13, 1851, he 
married Eliza Woolfolk Jolmson, daughter of 
(.leorge W. Johnson, (if Scott County, Kentucky. In 
the succeeding y(^ar he became a cotton planter near 
Helena, Arkansas, where he lived four years. In 
1859 he sold his interests iu Arkansas and bought 
a farm in Scott Couuty, Kentucky, where he was 
living wlieu the Civil War broke out. At that time 
lie was tendered the lumunation for the Legisla- 
ture, but (le(dined it in view of his purpose to enter 
the Confederate service. Circumstances, however, 
prevented his carrying out his purpose until the 
first raid (d' (Jeiieral John H. ^lorgaii into Ken- 
tucky in July, 18(12, when after his retreat he made 
his way through the I^^'deral lines and was there- 
after in active service in the field in the Adjutant 
Generars department continuously until the close 
of the war. He scr\('d on the staff of (Teneral 



IJragg with the rank ()f Lieutenant C(doneI thr(mgh 
I lie Kentucky cami>aigii, taking ]iart in the battles 
of rerryville,.Murfreesl)oro and other lesser engage- 
ments, in June, 18()3. he l)ecame a member ()f (Jen- 
eral S. 1>. liuckner's staff, seiwing witli him in the 
camjtaigii in ICast Tennessee and in ihe battle of 
( 'hickamauga. (icneral l>uckner lia\iiig been trans- 
ferred to the 'rraiis-.Mississi])])i, he I hen became 
Chief-of-Staff to (Jeiieral John C. Breckinridge, 
who was .shortly aftf^rwards. in January, ISfil, 
assigned to tlie command of the I »e|>aitment of 
South-western ^■irgillia. The cam])aign of that 
year was an ardu(uis one. embracing the battles of 
New .Market, Second Cold Harbor, .Monocacy. 
.Maryland, Winchestcn- and many others of less 
note, including the invasion of ^laryland under 
rieiieral Early and occii]>ation of the territ(uw up 
to the fortifications of Wasliiugton in full view of 
the Capitol. He continued with (General Breckin- 
ridge until that officer was appointed S(H-r(4ary of 
War, six weeks before the snrr(Mider at .V])p(miat- 
tox and serv(>d on tlie staff of liis successor. Gen- 
eral John Echols, until the surrender of <;(>neral 
Joseph E. Johnston, when he was paroled at his 
headquarters May 1, 1805. 

After the war, b}- which he lost his entire estate, 
Colonel Johnston went to Helena, Arkansas, and 
entered upon the practice of law, meeting with 
immediate success, but in the fall of 1807, owing to 
an impediment iu his hearing he returned to Ken- 
tucky, and became the (^ditor of the Frankfort Yeo- 
ni(ii), the official organ of the Democratic party of 
the State. In 1809 he assisted in organizing the 
Kentucky Press Association, and was its president 
from 1870 to 1S80 h\ annual election. He was 
Adjtitaut General of Kentucky in 1871, and Secre- 
tary of State from 1875 to 1879. In 1867 he be- 
came secretary (d' the Democratic State Centi'al 
Committee, and was secretary or cliairman for the 
gKater part (d' eighteen years, effecting a th(n'OUgh 
organizati(m of the party and maintaining its 
ascendancy. In 1886 he retired from the Yeoman, 
in which he had become a partner, and in 1889 



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aliaiiilonetl political life and removed to Louisville, 
wliieli has siuce been his place of residence. 

In addition to his editorial and iwlitical activity 
Colonel Johnston lias fonnd time to render service 
in other fields. He has alwavs taken ^reat interest 
in the matter of education and comnum schools, 
having- been for four years a meintier of the State 
Board of Education, and delivered fre(inent public 
addresses, besides advocating the most liberal pol- 
icy as an alitor. He has also rendereil valuable 
service in the development of the natural resources 
of Kentucky, having been largely instniinental in 
the establishment of the (Jeologital Survey of Ken- 
tucky, and having made himself, for the purpose of 
keeping ui» with its work under Professor Shaler, 
and his intimate friend, I lie late Professor John R. 
Proctor, its directors, one of tlie best practical 
geologists in the State. In the tlora of Kentucky he 
is e(|ually proficient, as also in arboriculture, in 
which he has always taken a lively interest. 

Of late years Colonel Johnston has devoted him- 
self chiefly to literary work and authorship. In 
1S9G he compiled a valuable history of Louisville 
in two large quarto volumes, which is reco^ized 
as authority upon everything pertaining to the 
city's past, and includes much Aaluable information 
incidentally relating to the State of Kentucky. As 
a member of the Filson Club, of which he has been 
vice-president ten or twelve years, he has made val- 
uable researches into the early history of Kentucky, 
upon which he has read many papers before that 
body. He is also the author of a valuable v<dume of 
the Filson Publications, entitled "First Explorations 
of Kentucky," in which he first definetl the routes 
of Dr. Thomas Walker in liis t<mr through the 
State in IT.jU, and of Colonel Christopher (Jist in 
1751, with their complete diaries accompanied 
with valuable explanatory notes. It was published 
in 1S9S. In the same year he wrote the Confeder- 
the Filson Publications, entitled "First Explorations 
Volume IX of the Confederate Military History, 
published in Atlanta, (ia.. under the auspices of the 
Coufedea'ate Veteran Union, in twelve large octavo 
volunu's. 



Two years ago Colonel Johnston had the misfor- 
tune to be bereaveil of his wife, with whom he had 
leil a happy life exc(H?ding forty-seven years. He 
continues to make L(misville his home, although 
his children, of whom he has four, reside without 
the State. His eldest son, (Jeorge W. Johnston, 
and his youngest. naine<l for his father, live in New 
York City; his daugliter. .Mrs. AVilliam B. Wisdom, 
in New Orleans, and his second son, Harris H. 
Johnston, in St. Louis. They are all married. 

SKETCH 3. 
COL. BENNETT H. YOUNG. LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. 

Bennett Henderson Young, son of Robert Young 
and Josephine HeTiderson, was born in Jessamine 
County, Kentucky, .May 2~^, 1S43. He was edu- 
cated at Bethel Academy. Xicholasville. and at 
Center College. Danville, Ky. He also took honors 
at the University of Ireland, Belfast. 

In the summer of 1802, with his education half 
finishe<l. when the great War of the Rebellion was 
breaking on the country, he cast his fortunes with 
the South, and enlistetl with John H. ^[organ's 
Cavalry. In General ilorgan's great raid through 
Indiana and Ohio in 1863, he was captured on the 
26th of July, and was confined with a large ntinil)er 
of his comrades, first in the Columbus penitentiary 
and afterwards in the ililitary Prison at Camp 
Chase, ColunU)\is, Ohio. He was afterwards re- 
moved to Camp Douglas, at Chicago. He escaped 
from Camp Douglas, Decend>er l.j, 1863, and 
nuide Jiis way lo Halifax. Nova Scotia. He ob- 
tained pa.ssage thence to the ^Vest Indies, and suc- 
ceeded in running tiie blockade into ^Vilmington, 
North Carolina. At Richmond, ^'il•ginia. on the 
16t]i of June. 1864, he was given a commission by 
the Confederate (iovernment, and sent abroad on 
secret service. In .Vugust. 1864, lie was .sent on a 
secret mission to release the prisoners at Camp 
Chase. Returning to Canada, he was commissioned 
to lead the St. .VU)ans raid, now famous in history, 
which he successfully ^conducted on the 10th of 
October, 1864. This raid led to international com- 
plications with Great Britain. The Unititl States 



SKETCHES OF PATKONS. 



(Toveruiiicnt souylit to oltt^un posst^ssinii of Ills per- 
son Iiy extriiditioii procccdiiiiis. wliicli cikIimI in the 
release of Colonel Voniiii, and his comrades, on the 
ground that Colonel Young; lui.d coumnuuled the St, 
Alltans raid in oliedienee 1o military orders from 
the Confech'rate ( iovernnienl. So iiiiier was the 
sentiment, against Colonel Young tlnit amnesty was 
refused him until late in 1S(>S. When he returned 
fi'om his four years" exile \u Kuro]ie. during whicli 
time he had eom]deted his education, as hefoi'e 
slated, he came to Louisville, and entered u]ion a 
successful career as a lawyer. 

In ISSd, he and his law ]iartner. Si. John Iloyle, 
revived ])uli]ic interest in tlie construction of the 
I-ouisville and St. Louis Air Line Itailway, whicli 
tliey comph^te(L 

Colonel Young, immidiatidy after this enterprise 
had been ])hued upon a thoroughly sound tinancial 
basis, and tlie work of construction being well ad- 
vanced, undertook to reorganize and extend the old 
Louisville, New Albany, and Chicago Kailway, 
which was then practically abandoned. Whh 
others he rehabilitated the road and completed it to 
Chicago. During the year of ISSo, C(donel Young 
was president of the new road, whicli took the 
name of the Monon Route to Chicago, and now 
known as tlie ^Moiron Road. He next set about the 
organization of a company to bridge tlie Ohio 
River. The Kentucky and Indiana bridge, one of 
the finest structures of the kind in the country, is 
the result of that entei-prise. 

In 1888 he undertook the coustniction of the 
Louisville Southern Railroad between Louisville 
and Lexington. At Tyrone, some confusion re- 
snlteil from a misunderstanding with the bidders 
f(n- (he contract to construct a liridge across the 
Kentucky River. As it was important tiie road 
should be finished by a specified time, the failure 
to lia\'e the c(uitract properly executed for the 
Imilding (d' this Inidge seriously threatened the 
success td' I he enterprise, when C(donel Young, 
wilh the aid of his chief engineer, ^Ir. •rolin .Mc- 
Leod, undertook the work, and successfully com- 
ideled ihe bridge ill ample time to comiily with the 



contracts made with the subscribers to the capital 
stock of the road. During the first year of the 
operation of the Soutiiern Road, Colonel Young 
was its president, and succeeded in securing recog- 
nition for it as the great connecting link between 
the Northern and Southern systems t>\' railway, and 
affording Chicago direct communication with Jack- 
sonville, by way of the East Tennessee & Yirginia, 
the Georgia Central and the I'lant System. 

In 1S7.~) he founded ]>ellewood Seminary, for the 
education of young ladies, lie w:is one of the 
original promoters and incorporators of the Cen- 
tral rniversity of Kentucky, to the endowment 
fund (d' which lie contributed lilierally, and served 
more than twentv-five years as one of its trustees. 
He was one of the founders anil original incor- 
porators of the Ijouisville Presbyterian Seminary, 
and lias been from the beginning, and is now, one 
of its trustees. His devotion to the cause of Pres- 
byterianism has been enthusiastic. He was one of 
the originators of the Evangelistic work of the 
Southern Presbyterian Church. For years, he and 
Mr. Richard S. Yeech gave about f 5,000 annually to 
set in motion the forces which enabled the South- 
ern Presbyterian Church to doulde its membership 
in Kentucky in eighteen years, beginning in 1881. 

In 1878, when the Legislature j^assed an enabling 
act, for the purpose of allowing the Polytechnic 
Society of Kentucky to take charge of and manage 
the public library of Kentucky, located in Louis- 
ville, Colonel Young was one of the leading mem- 
bers of the Society, and took an active interest in 
the new and responsible duties it assumed. 

The Society chose the late Rev. Stuart Robinson 
as its president, reorganized the Society, elected 
Colonel Young and live other associates, members 
of the Executive Committee. Soon afterwards, on 
the death of Dr. Iiobinson, C^douel Young became 
president, and has held that oflice from ISSl to the 
present time. 

In 1890, Colonel Young was elected a delegate to 
ilie Constitutional Ciuivention, from liie Fifth Dis- 
irict of L(Uiisville. Aliout that time he publishetl 
a hist(U-v id' the Conslilutions of Ken lucky, contain- 



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iug; copies of the Constitutions of 17!»8 and 1851. In 
tlie Convention lie took a more active part than 
any otlier iiieinher. He is llie autlior of those pro^ 
visions cnihraced in Sections 218. 214, 21.5 and 216, 
wliicli pi-event discrimination of the railroad coin- 
panics aiiainst each other, in the transmission and 
delivery of freights. One of the hijihest judicial 
authorities declares these provisions of the Ken- 
tucky Constitution to he the Avisei^t and most care- 
fully constructed i>rovisions of that document. 

In li)0() he was elected jH-esident of the Ken- 
tin-ky Institution for the Education of the Blind, 
an office he still holds. He was the principal pro- 
motor of tlie estalilishment, in 1002, of the Ken- 
tucky Institution for Indigent Confederate Sol- 
diers, known as the Kentucky Confederate Home; 
which, hy act of t)ie Kentucky Leiiislature, is one 
of the imjiortant eleemosynary institutions of the 
State. He is the president of its I'.oard of Trus- 
tees, and has heen since the time of its organi- 
zation. For thirty-six years he has heen Super- 
intendent of the Sunday School of the Stuart 
Kohinson Memorial Church. In 1902 the 
Kentucky Division of the ITnited Confederate 
Veterans elected him Commander, with the 
rank of Major-General, and have continued 
to re-elect him annually. He hais beesn conspicuous 
in the work of organizing the greaf Association of 
Confederate Veterans, for purposes of benevolence 
as w^ll as social enj()yment. 

During the time he was engaged in the building 
of railroads, and bridges, he devoted all his time 
and best ett'orts to this work; Init, after fifteen 
years, he returned to his profession, and in less 
than a year's time he had taken a commanding posi- 
tion at the bar. To-day he is recognized as one of 
the most successful lawyers of the bar of Kentucky, 
and as a jury lawyer he has few, if any, equals, and 
no superiors in this couutiT. 

Colonel Young is often spoken of as Kentucky's 
most progressive and enterprising citizen. In all 
public enterprises for the advancement of the peo- 
ple's interests he is esteemed by his fellow-citizens 
as a leader. 



Amid the busy and multifarious activities which 
have been successfully inaugurated and prosecuted 
by Colonel Young, he has found time to make many 
valuable ccmtributions to the history of the State. 
Plis first important work is entitled "A History of 
Tresbyterian Evangel i.>itic Work in Kentucky.'' In 
1890, he published "A Histoi-y of the Constitutions 
of Kentucky." He is a leading member of the Fil- 
son Club, of Louisville. In 1900 he published "A 
History of the Rattle of the Rlue Licks." He is the 
autlior of "A History of Jessamine County." and 
"A History of the Battle of the Thames." In re- 
viewing his contributions to history, the editor of 
the Kentucky Historical Register, calls him Ken- 
tucky's Macaulay. His style as an author is bril- 
liant and attractive, at the same time methodical 
and analytical. 

SKETCH 4. 

THOMAS SPEED, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. 

(Deceased) 

Thomas Speed was born near Bardstown, Ken- 
tucky. yoYcndier 20, 1841. He was the son of 
Thomas S. Speed, and grandson of ^[ajor Tliomas 
Speed, both of whom were residents of the ])lace 
where the above Thomas Speed was horn. His 
grandfather. Captain James Speed came to Ken- 
tucky from \'irginia, 1782. He served in the Revo- 
lutionary AA'ar as captain in a Virginia regiment. 

The above Thomas Speed was educated in the 
schools at Bardstown, and at Center and Hanover 
Colleges. During the war he served in the Union 
Army as Adjutant of the Twelfth Kentucky Volun- 
teers. 

After the war he studied law at the University 
of Michigan, and in the office of Hon. James Speed, 
of Louisville, Kentucky, whose partner he became, 
and he also practised law as the jyartner of John 
Speed. 

In 1892 he was appointed clerk of tlie United 
States Court at Louisville, which office he held till 
his death. 

He has written and publishetl several works, 
"The Wilderness Road." "The Political Club," 
"History of the Sjieed Family." "Histiu-y of the 



ski>:t(;iiks of i-atkons^. 



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Fnioii KcniiiuMits of Kentucky ;'" iilso piunplilcts 
an<l addresses, aiiKiiiii' them an accnimt of tlie I'at- 
tle of l''i-aid<liii, w liicli is used in Larned's "Jlis- 
torv for Ijcaidy IJefd'enee." 

Mr. ypecd died iu Louisville, .January '.W, 1 !)(>."). 

SKETCH 5. 

DR. JOHN P. HALE, DECEASED. l.ATE OF 
CHARLESTON, W. VA. 

I>v. .lolm P. Hale was l.orn .May 1, 1824, at 
Indies Ferry, Yiriiiuia, on New IJiver. Tlis ma- 
ternal iirand-parents were William Tniiiles and 
Mary Drajier, who in 174S founded the famous 
Draper's .Meadows Settlement, now marked by the 
town of Blacksburg, Virginia. The massacre of 
the wliites at tliat plaee in IT.")."), and tjie carrying 
away into captivity of liis grandmother, ^Irs. 
Ingl( s, by the Indians, and lier almost miraculous 
escape and return to jier liome, are matters familiar 
to all who are at all accpiainted with Virginia his- 
tory. Dr. Hale, wlien yet a boy of sixteen, moved 
down into the Kanawha Valley, where he lived for 
sixty-two years, dying July 11, lit02. He studied 
medicine, and in 184.") he was graduated from the 
Medical Department of the Fnivei'sity of Pennsyl- 
vania. He practised medicine only a short time, 
however, and engaged in the manufacture of salt 
near Charleston, W. Va., in 1847. In this business 
he was engaged for about forty years. The discov- 
ery iu other parts of the United kStates of ricli 
mines of almost pure rock-salt in inexhaustible 
(quantities gradually destroyed this industry iu the 
Kanawha \'alley, and Dr. Hale was probably a 
heavy loser tliereby. He later becaine interested in 
coal properties, but only iu the latter yeairs of his 
life did he reali/A' much therefrom. He was a pub- 
lic-spirited man throughout his whole career, and 
tlu? city of Charleston is largely indebted to him 
for its having been made the capital of West Vir- 
ginia. He was for many years of his life a prolific 
contributor to magazines and newspapers, and be- 
came the author of a number of valuable publica- 
tions, chief among which was his book on the 



jtioneer history of the N'irginias and Kentucky, en- 
titled "The Trans-Allegheny IM(>ne(«rs.'" Early in 
18',M) lie look a b-ading pari in oi'gani/.ing the West 
X'irginia Historical and Anti(piarian Society, and 
was its first ])resident. His fondness for anticjua- 
rian research was almost a jKission with him ; and 
it may be douliled \\hcliiei- tlu>re lias escr lived a 
man who was more thoroughly infoi'mcd IJian Dr. 
Hale was concerning the early history of the whole 
region adjacent to the Kanawha, (ireeid)rier and 
New Rivers, and their several tributaries. The 
place of his birth ( Ingles Ferry) was (.nly a few 
miles distant from l)ra]ver's ^leadows (now Blacks- 
burg), and there was never a locality in all that 
I)art of (mr country at which so many ancient trails 
and highways centered. The supply-store which 
stood there from IT.")!) onward was .a famrms ren- 
dezvous and point of dejiarlnre for exjilorers, hunt- 
ers and emigrants from \'irginia and tlie< 'ai-oiinas. 
Dr. Hale's boyhood was spent in tiiat neighlior- 
liood; and his ancestors had ma<le the original 
white settlement there, and had had some of the 
most bloody encounters with Indians that ever 
hapi)ened in the South during the eighteenth cen- 
tury. It was liut natural, therefore, that a man of 
his turn of mind should pay special attention to the 
early history and traditicuis of that region. It was 
under his guidance, to a great degree, that tlii' 
atithor of this volume drew the map to be found 
herein, entitled Map of the I'arting of the \\'ays. 
Dr. Hale remlered the author of this volume most 
valuable service in the way of information on the 
pioneer history of Virginia. Dr. Hale was never 
married. His death occurred, as above stated, 
•Tidy 11, 1902, when a little past his seveut^'-eighth 
year. 

SKETCH 6. 
CHARLES M. DEDMAN, HARRODSBURG, KENTUCKY. 

Charles Mortimer Dedman was the only child of 
Dr. Dickson CJooch Dedman by his .second wife, 
Mrs. ilary Sea {iicc McBrayer), and was born in 
Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, May 22, 184!). His 
father was a native of N'ersailles, Kentucky, and 



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the son of Nathau Deflman l»y his wife Elizabeth 
i)wc Gooch). A full account (if the l>cflmans aud 
Goodies will be found in Skc(cli !i:>, ami mcd not 
Ik' repeated here. 

Mr. Cliarles M. Dednian settled in Ilarrodsburg 
in 1SG8, and for many years lias conducted in that 
place a drug store with uuirked success. In 1876 
he was married to Miss MoUie B. Curry, daughter 
of the late W. T. Curry, of Harrodsburg. Three 
daughters aud one sou have been born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Dedman, to wit: Bi«sie G. ; Majy Wallace; 
Nellie; aud Thomas Curry. They have one of the 
most beautiful lunnes in Harrodsburg. A brief 
account of the Seais aud ^IcBrayers follows : 

ilARY McBBAYEK was born on i^alt River, in 
Franklin, now Anderson County, Kentucky, on 
.March 30, 1811, and died in Lawrenceburg, Ken- 
tucky, 26th of July, 1857. She was the daughter of 
Andrew McBrayer aud .Martha Blackwell. Her 
father was the son of William ^IcBrayer, oue of the 
<'arliest ])ioneers of Kentucky, aud was born Octo- 
ber 20, 1770, and died about 1838. He was for 
nianj' years a member of the Kentuckj- Legislature, 
and was such, as is believed, at the time of his 
(Icalli. His wife, .Martha J'.lackwcll, was the 
daughter of i;(tbert Blackwell, and was Iku-u .March 
22, 178'J, aud died .Vpril 20, 1801. 

Mary .McBrayer was twice nuirried — tirst, to 
ivobwit W . Seii, on tSeptemher 3, 1835; aud second, 
to Dr. Dixon G. Dedman, on August 22, 1818. 

Mr. Sea was the son of Leonard Sea, and was 
born ou Salt River, in \\hat is uow Anderson Coun- 
ty, Kentucky, .Vpril 15, 1810, and died in Law- 
renceburg, Kentucky, September 25, 1845, at the 
early age of thirty-tive, having aniasseil a handsome 
fortune. He was also a member of ilie Kentucky 
Legislature, and a speech he made there is said to 
have been the indirect cause of his death. During 
the course of his speech, he became excited and 
overheated, and retired to an ante-room, aud uufoi'- 
tunately got in a draft, whi( h brought ou "quick"' 
consumption, and soon ended his life. He was in 
many resijects a renytrkable man, and possessed 
the I'espect and contidence of his fellow-citizens to 



such an extent that he was constantly called upon 
to settle disputes aud controversies, and liis decis- 
ion ended the matter. 

Of this first uuirriage, tive children were born. 
only two of whom grew to manhood. 

1 — Captain .Vndrew .M. Sea, born 1840, now liv- 
ing in Louisville, Ky. He was Second Lieutenant 
in .Marshall's S. C. Battery in the Civil 
A\'ar, afterwards known as Morton's battery; 
was ](reseut at. and ])articipatetl in, the battles of 
Shiloh, Resaca, l'ea( li Tive Creek. Chu-kamatiga, 
('(dumbia, Franklin and others. Was for some 
years Secretary of the Kentucky State Sunday 
School T'nion. and Grand blaster of the Kentucky 
\. O. V. ^y. Has been an elder in the First Pres- 
byterian Clnirch of Louisville, Kentucky, since 
1880. He married Miss Sophie I. Fox, of Danville, 
Kentucky, daughter of the late Judge Foutaine T. 
Fox and Eliza .lane llunton. 

2— Robert W. Sea, born 1844; married, 1804, 
Miss .\melia ]M. Grimes, daughter of Robert 
(irimes, of Harrodsburg. .Mr. Sea at present lives 
in Chicago. His only sou, Robert G. Sea, private 
in Company I, Twentieth Infantry, U. S. Kegulars, 
v\as in the battle of Santiago, aud came home only 
to die with typhoid fever at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan- 
sas, October, 18! 18. 

Charles Mortimer Dednmn was the only child of 
Dr. Dixon G. and Mary Sea Dedman, and was born 
in 184'J. His father died on the 15th of May, 1850. 

Mrs. Mary Sea Dedman had the following 
brothers aud sisters who grew to manhood and 
womanhood. 

1 — Sanford McBraytn-, born 1806, lost his life at 
the burning of the steamer "War Eagle" in the 
Mississippi River, May 15, 1870. He married his 
cousin, Elizabeth McBrayer, aud their only daugh- 
ter, Mattie, married Rev. J. Y. Logan, D. D., of 
Central University, Danville, Kentucky. Mr. Mc- 
Brayer was a merchant and banker, very wealthy, 
and one of the most hospitable of men. 

2 — Robert C, born 1809; died voting, sine prole. 
He was very prominent in military matters, and 
held a high command in the K. S. G. 



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8 — lane, horn ISlo. She inarricd a Kev. ^Ir. 
Slicrnian, hut of licr and her Inisliaiid notliinji is 
know 11. 

4 — Sarali, horn 1S15; married Tarlton Iiaih'v; 
has hccn (U-ad jirol>ahly half a (riitury. 

5 — Dr. Jolin Allen, horn ISIT; he studied medi- 
cine with Dr. Dixon O. T»edinaii at Lawrenoelniri;; 
cstahlished himself at Mt. K<leii, Kentucky, and in 
the sprinji' of 1S42, received the dejjree of il. D. 
from the .Medical Institute of Louisville, and lo- 
cated at Ilarroilslmr.ii-; sjH'ut Novemher of the year 
1S4(> in Cuha to re.uain his fast failing;- health. In 
Novemher, 1847, he left f(;r iIe.\ico; was appointed 
Assistant Surjicon in the I'liited States Army 
there; served until ilarcii, 1.S48. Dr. AIcBrayer 
kept a journal while in Cuha and Mexico, which is 
considered valuable as an accurate description of 
the country and peo[)le half a century ago. In poli- 
tics, he \\"as a Jettersonian Democrat, and in relig- 
ion, a. Preshrterian, with which church he he- 
came connected in 1840. In the .May niimlier (1S4-) 
of the W'cxtci-ii ./oiiriKiI of Medicine und Siirc/cri/, 
is a description of a surgical operation performed 
hy him uix»n wounded intestines, which for that 
date ^^■as a reniarkalde operation. Dr. McBrayer 
died Mai'ch '2'.i, 1850, of consumption, aged thir- 
ty-two, with the iinmistakahle promise' of a hright 
and useful future hefore iiim. 

(1 — J. Mortimer, horn 1810; died young, xiiw 
jirok'. 



7 — William 11.. horn 18:21; died Lawrenceburg, 
Kentucky, Decemher (i, 1888. He married (1) in 
J848, Henrietta 1 )aviess. wlio died 1851, and (2) in 
18.")(;, .Mary Walhice ((hiiigliter of Dr. -Tohn Wal- 
hice), who still siiivives. His only child. Hen- 
rietta, man led ("olonel Dan L. .Moore, and died in 
1882, leaving llin c children. Judge >[cHrayer was 
for some years judge of the Anderson ('oiinty 
Court, a mcmher of the Kentucky Senate, and held 
many otlier oftices of trust and honor. He was the 
maker of the celehrated "W. 11. Mcl>rayer Cedar 
Prook" whisky. 

8 — Kathei-iiie, horn 1825; married Pendleton 
( Jarvey, of Cincinnati. 

— Franci.s, horn 1827; married Dr. Will Ded- 
nwvn, a son of Dr. Dixon < J. Dedmaii. 

10 — Jlartha A., horn 1882. She never married, 
and died very young. 

11 — Elizabeth, horn 1834; married .lohn Curry, 
and died about eleven years ago. 

Mr. Charles M. Dedmau, though not descendi^l 
from eitlieir tlie Woodses or McAfees, is coiinectetl 
\\ith one family of the AA'oodses, in that Sarah 
Everett Dedman, who was his father's sister, be- 
came the wife of James Harvey \\'oods. He is 
tlierefore interested, moi'e especially, in the ai- 
ccnints of the Detlmans and Gooches, given in this 
volume. 

Mr. Dedman has long been a deacon of tlie First 
Presbyterian Church of Ihirrodslmrg, and lie rank.s 
among the most honored citizens of his community. 



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GROUP TWO. 

PATRONS DESCENDED FROM THE McAFEES— THE BUCHANANS. 

SKETCHES 7, «, 9, lo. ii, 12 AND 13 ARE COMBINED IN ONE. 



It sociiis lo he an easy lliini;- for iiiaiiv persons in 
thi.s (lay and ;^vncrarion. and lias hcconio quite the 
fasliion, to construct for tlieniselves a. loui; line of 
(Icsccut fi'oni an ancestor who ''came over with 
William the ('on(|ueror."' Sucli persons invarialily 
heji'iu "tli( ir line" liicic; luil no attempt in tlmt 
direction will lie made liy I In- wi-iter. It is proli- 
ahly trnetiiat. at tlu- tinuMtt tin* liatlle of Hastiniis, 
tlie ancestors of all the Buchanans in this country 
were existing- sonu^xhere in the lliiihlands of Scot- 
land. 

It is also, douhtless. true that the Buchanan 
name originated in Scotland — the lirst bearing the 
name being one Anselan O'Kane, who went to Scot- 
land from Ireland, and took tlie estate and name 
Buchanan ; and. there is exery reason to believe that 
all the Buchanans in this country are of Scotch 
ancestry, more or less remote. The name is one of 
the (eldest in Scotland, and has been borne by many 
distinguished men tiiere, and is found all over the 
United Kingdom. The principal street in Glasgow 
is Budianau Htrcct. (In Scotland the imme is pro- 
nounced as if spelled "Bieu-cauon," with accent on 
second syllahle. ) 

In a llislori/ of llir Aiicicitl t^iinidiKc of Jiiicli- 
iiiKiii. inillcii 1)1/ oik: \\ tUUiiii lUirhdmiii . of Aitcli- 
UKir, jiriiilrd for u Buchionni Jlooksrlhr (ihorc tlie 
Crufis MDVV, XVlll (Ihistjoir, [lickcd u]. by tlie 
writer in a book-stall in Edini)nrgli, it is related: 
"The name originated in Scotland, and was first 
borne by one Auselau (J'Kyan, or O'Kane, who left 
Ireland in 1010, and twelfth year of King Malcolm 
II, his reign." The account further says : "He w'as 
a nobleman, and livcxl upon the northern coast of 
Argvleshire, near the Lenno.x." The Buchanan 



("i-est and Coat-of -Armsisalso pictured in this book. 
The liook says: "The Arms assigned by the King 
{'o Ans(-lan, on account of his heroick atchieve- 
ments are: Or, a Lion Rampant Sable Armed and 
Langu'd Gules, with a double Treffune, flowered 
and counterflowered with Flower-de-luces of the 
2d; Crest: A hand coupee holding up a Ducal Cap 
tor l>uke's Coronet proper!, with two Laurel 
iirancheis wreaitlud surronnding the (^Pi?t, dix- 
jxised Orleways iiro]K'r, Supported by two Falcons 
garnished Or; .Vncient Motto above the Crest 
'ACDACES .irVO."" The claim is also nmde by 
some that (Jeorge Buchanan, the distinguished 
Scottish Latin poet, scholar, soldier, and author, of 
the fifteenth century, was of the same family. He 
wais a Scotch Pmsbytcn-ian fnun the Highlands 
and wrote a number of works against tlu^ ^[onks 
and Fi'iars ; translated The Psalms into Latin 
verse, and also wrote a work entitled "De jure 
Ivegui Apud Scotos," inculcating the doctrine that 
governments exist tor the sake of the governed, 
violently assailing the Scottish form of govern- 
ment, which work was gathered up and burned by 
order of the Scotch I'arliament. The writer has 
met men of the name in nmny States of the Union, 
and elsewhere, and has marked that they all have 
certain characteristics in common. They are 
either Scotch or of Scottish origin; they are all, 
with rare exceptions, I'resbyterians, at least by 
birth if not in church affiliation; and all have a 
Scotch stubbornness of character and tenacity of 
opinion; many have attained distinction in the 
various callings and professions of life. Commo- 
dore Fraiikliii Biichomni was in command of the 
"Merrimac" during the Confederate war, the con- 



sKirrciiKs OF patijons. 



stvuctioii and eaicci' nf wliidi vcvuliit ionized the 
navies of tlic wm-ld. ( )nr (if llic kinsmen, I'rcsidenI 
Hnciianan. rearlied liie pinnarle <>( imlilical itrel'ei'- 
ineni in lliis connH-y. 'riicrc ai-e si reels, low ns and 
coiinl ii'S, niuiMilain |ieaks, and sireains, in se\'ei-al 
States (if llie riiioii^ liearinu tlie nann- IIihIkukiii : 
oil of wliicli is evidence ilial some one lieai-in,!i' the 
name lefl liis impress njion ihe commnnil y in wiiicli 
lie li\('d. TIh' \\riter \\ould not foree kinslii]) witli 
all ilii' Bnelianans in this country, hiil expresses his 
o]>iniiin. after many y( ars" si mly of Hie snlijecl. I iial 
all are more or less related. To adhere to aiitlientic 
history, the writer must hefiin the acconnt of the 
family of Georsie I'.nchanan ( Die jnoneer ) \\ ith one 
•lames Buchanan, who. dnrini; I he tirsi half of Ihe 
eiiihteeuth century, came wilh his family and his 
hrothers and their families, from Aruuiiih County, 
Inland, and settled iu Lancaster ("ouutj, Pennsyl- 
vania. One old record says "they called themselves 
•.McKane," on acconnt of relijiious persecution, huv 
after lauding' in this country, they resumed the hon- 
orable name of IMuhanan." This use of the sur- 
name ''^IcKane" seems to be a couuecting link be- 
tween those people and Anselan O'Kayan, ])revi(ms- 
ly mentioned; but the writer assumes nothing — 
merely throwing out the conjecture. 

The writer en(lea\ored to acquire information 
concerning the family bey(ind the i)erio(l nanuHl, 
but without success. 

George Buchanan, tin- pioneer, son of James 
Buchanan, was boi'u in Armagh County, Ireland, 
in 1745; was one of eight children who came with 
their jwrents to this country (to J^aucaster County, 
rennsylvania ). It is, dout)tless, true that tlie Buch- 
anans c;inH' to I'ennsylvania with the McAfees, 
thence lioth families renio\ing to ^'irginia about 
the same time, and thai they had previously inter- 
married with the McAfees before leaving Ireland. 
The beginning of accurate information concerning 
George Buchanan is that he married Margaret Mc- 
Afee, daughter of Janu^s McAfee, Sr., and sister of 
James McAfee, Jr., the pioneer (one of the central 
figures in this book), and that he lived in Botetourt 
County, Virginia. No written record of his mar- 



riage is extant. It is recor<led that when the ^Ic- 
.\ fees brought their families from N'irginia to Ken- 
Incky, alunil 1 TT!t,< leorge jtnchanan .-ind his family 
lanie willi liiem. and sell led near Ihem in .Mercer 
("onnly. lie iiad a inollier who came wilh the Mc- 
.Vfees and Bnclmnan families as far as ( "nmbeiland 
Gii|), and then xcered off soul h-wcsl wardly and set- 
lied in Tennessee, near Naslnille. 

(ieovge Bucliamm, tiie ]>ioneer. and his wife Mar- 
garet .McAfee, as we learn from an old record, had 
eleven children, as follows: .V — T.\mi:s. who died 
in .Mercer County, Ivenlncky. in 1S:JS ; U — A\'iL- 
l,I.\M, who died in .Mercer County, Kentucky, in 
ls:!ll; C — loii.x, who moved to Taylor County, Ken- 
tucky; 1) — AL];x.\.\ni;i!, who died in Mercer County, 
Kentucky, in ISOi;; K — Giiouci;. Ju. ; !•' — .M.vuy; 
G — Ja.m:; II — .Maikj.vukt. w ho moved to Indiana; 
J — X.wcv; K — A.wii:; and L — Dokcas. It is a 
matter of regret to the wrilei- that he was umible 
to obtain mtich informal ion in regard to most of 
the children. 

George Buchanan settled permanently iu Mer- 
cer County, Kentucky, died, and was buried there 
iu 1813. The writer has conversed with those who 
knew him personally. His reputation was that of 
an unpretentious farmer, who "miiuled his own 
affairs'' and endeavored to live uprightly. lie was 
an elder iu New Providence Church, a brief notice 
of which is given in this book. 

No history of an individual family, or nation, is 
of value unless accurate. The writer kept that 
truth in miml when preixiring the following ac- 
count of the I'.ucliauans, who are descendants of 
(tecn-ge Buchanan and .Margaret ilcAfee, his wife, 
the pioneers to Kentucky. He is aware that there 
are several families of Buchanans in Kentucky ami 
elsewhere, who [)i-o[)erly belong iu this book, but he 
has not had the leisure to devote to tile gathering 
of such information as would enable him to desig- 
imte them all. In a large measure he has had to 
rely up(ui correspondence for information, a weari- 
some task, and oftentimes most unsatisfactory. 
Many of his letters were never answered, and many 
answers received were known to be inaccurate. The 



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magnitude of the imdei-taldug to jiuther toj^etiiin- in D— ALEXANDER BrCIIAXAX, fourth child 

book foain, all, or even any considerable uuuiber of of (leoige Buclianau and .Margaret McAfee, was 

the di^cendauts of George Buchanan, tlie pioneer. Ixirn in Botetourt County, Virginia, in 17()9; 

will be appreciated when tlie following cireuiii- ( iiiiie witli liis fatiier to Kentucky, and married his 

staai'ces are considered: cousin, Xancy McAfee, daugiitcr uf James McAfee, 

He came to Kentucky about the year 1780, with Jr. He never removed from Mercer County, and 

a family of ten children (four sous and six daugh- "lied there in INOti. His grave is plainly marked, 

ters). Kentucky at that time was a wilderness by hi-ad and foot-sttmes, in the family lor in Xew 

still subject to the depredations of Indians, settle- Providence Burying-gnmnd, ncai- .McAfw Station, 

nieuts were many miles apart, no iiul)lic roads laid His wife is bniied l)y his side. Alexander and 

(mt, with no mail facilities, and with no commuui- Xancy had six ciiildren : (I) MARY; (II) 

caticm with the outside world, these ccmditions JAMES MILTOX ; (III) WILLIAM; (IV) 



existing for many years and until that part of Ken- 
tucky became more thickly ])eopled. George Buch- 
anan's children in the meantime having grown up 
and most of them removed from the original settle- 
ment in Mercer County, Kentucky, while the fam- 
ily of George Buchanan endiraced his wife and ten 
children, wliom he brought to Kentticky, it appears 
that but two of bis children (Alexander and Wil- 
liam Buclianau) remained permanently in Mercer 
County, and there raised families — his other chil- 
dren as they grew to age having moved to other 
counties in Kentucky and a ]iart (if tlu^m to other 



ALEXANDER, JR 
GEORGE (THIRD). 



(V) CALEB; (VI) 



I— MARY (BCCHAXAX) DrXX. 

MARY (familiarly called "I'olly"), first child of 
Alexander Buchanan and Xancy Mc^Yfee, was born 
in .Mercer County in ITIIS. Ilei- whole life was 
spent in that county. She nuirried Peter R. Dunn, 
a native of ilaryland, who took up his residence in 
Mercer County, Kentucky, when a yotmg man. 
Peter R. Dunn and wife are buried in Xe^v Provi- 
dence Burj'ing-grouml. They had eight children. 



States, and it has been impossible to trace them f.^,,^. ,,f ^^.]^,,j,^ .u^.,, j^ jnfancv. 



farther than tlie details here following: 

C— JOHX BUGHAXAX, tiiiid child of George 
Buchanan and Margaret Mc.Vfee married and went 
to Taylor County, Kentucky, where some of his 
descendants now live. 

(Ij WILLIA.M BUCUAX.VX, sou of John 
Buchanan, married Susan Miller, of .Vdair 
County; they had live children. 

(II) WOOD U. BUCU.VXAX, who married 
Alethia Sublett, of Taylor County; they had no 
children. 

(IIIj ISAAC C. BUCHAXAX, who married 
Lila Harris, of Marion County, Kentucky; they 
lived in Baltimore. 

(IV) NORA, who married J. >\'. Davis, and re- 
moved to Kansas. 

(V) LIZZIE, who is unmarried and lives with 
her father in Taylor County, Kentucky. 



( a ) Sus.vx. their tirst child, mairied Dr. JohnW. 
Powell, a native of Warren County, Kentucky, who 
was reared in .Mercer C(mnty. Dr. Powell and wife 
had but one child who sniwived infancy — A\'illiam 
Dmiu l'<»well, who was born in 1859. He is afllH 
phjsician in good practice in ilarrodsburg, Ken- 
tucky. He is unmarried. Susan Dunn Powell died 
in 18G4. Her husband married a second time, an< 
now lives near ilc.Vfee Post-office, Mercer County, 
Kentucky. 

(b) Geouge DuxN;, second child of Peter R. 
Dunn, \\as born in 1836. He is a farmer in Mercer 
County, Kentucky. He married .Mary Robb, 
daughter of A>'. X. Robb, of Franklin County, Ken- 
tucky. They have five children, all unmarried : 
Mary, ilargai'et, George, John and Sue. 

(c) X.\NX"Y, third child of Peter R. Dunn, mar- 



(VI) LEE, who married and lives in Tampa, li^'d John W. Davis, of Mercer County. They had 
Florida. two children: Mary Alma, who married Phil T. 



SKETCUES OF PATIJONS. 



Allin, of Harrodslmrji', iiud Williiiin A\".. who mar- 
ried Xaiinic IMcAfco, of ^rcnci- ("(luiiiv. Nancy 
(Dunn) Davis (lied in 1S4(). llcr hiishand iiuirricd 
ai;ain and now lives in Texas. 

(d) John Dinx was hdni in is:',!). In ISGl he 
niai'iied ^Fary, daiijilitei- of l%di;ai' and Eveline Rob- 
inscn, cf Ahvcer ('(innly. Tlieii- only child who 
lived to adnit aji<' was T'o\v(dl I{. Dnnn, who was 
Itorn in 1S(U. He is nnnian-ied and lives in Har- 
vodshnvii', Kenlncky. John Dnnn died in March, 
1SS!». His widew niairied C. D. Kyle, and now 
lives at I'of tstow n, Pennsylvania. 

II— .TAifES :\r. HUrHANAN. 

JAMES MILTON DT^CIFANAN. seceiid eiiil I of 
^Vlexan(hn' Bnchanan, was hoi-n in .Mercer Connty, 
Kentucky, Novend)er 27, 1799. Ilis father, dyiuc; 
when he was hut eight years (dd, James was I'eared 
hy his ji'randfatliers, (rcoriic llnchanan, and James 
McAfee. Ilis early life was s]ient on a farm, and 
he received such an education as the schools of the 
neijihhorliood could bestow, and afterwards ac- 
(juired a classical education tlirou<;h his own exer- 
tions, aided by private tutorage. lie, in connection 
with one or two others, oi>eued a higli scliool in 
Danville, Kentucky, iu 1820. Tliis school Avas 
mei'getl into Cetntiei* Coillege, Kentucky, iu wiiich lie 
became professor of mathematics iu 1823. He con- 
tinued at Oeivttw Oollege until 1835. He was a 
man of nuirked individuality of character, strong in 
Ilis likes and dislikes, with a flxed purpose in mind 
alwajs to live uprightl}' and stpuue his dealiug 
with his fellow-meu bj* the gohlen rule, ^^'heu any 
nuitter was presented for his consideration and ac- 
tion, the <mly thought with liim was wliat was his 
dut^-; solving this to liis salisfaction, no ([uestion of 
policy or fear of consecpu'uces could change his 
course of action. He paid little attention to what 
others thought on a question of right or wrong, but, 
as lie used to say, lie "did his own thinking and 
acted in accordance willi liis own views, and lei lire 
consequences take care of themselves." No better 
example of this trait in his cliaracter can be cited 
tliaii a i-efereiicc Id ;i dccil of recoi'd, i]i the Mercer 



County, Kentucky, clerk's office, made in 1834, by 
him, Avherein he freed his slaves. When it is re- 
membered wlint it meant, socially and ollierwise, to 
be an abolitionist in a sla\(' Stale .-it ihal lime, the 
grandeur of Ibis act of niaiiniaissiou can lie appre- 
ciated. The preamble in the deed referred to re- 
cites: 

■'Whereas, I, James M. Hiichanan, lielieving that 
liunian slavery is op]Mised to the law of lovt' to our 
iKughbor, enjoined by (rod upon every man, and 
o)i])osed lo the great fundamenlal truths that all 
men are created free and equal and are entitled to 
life, liberty, and tlie pursuit of happiness, and being 
desirous of doing, as a man, that whicli will be most 
beiieticial to my fellow-creatures, and, as a citizen, 
thai whicli will most tend to peiq>etuate the bless- 
ings flowing from our happy Government, do here- 
by eiuaiu'ipate, set free, and forever discharge from 
the bonds of slavery the following named persons:" 
etc. 

In this matter he was a generation ahead of his 
day, as he was in most things. The writer, his son, 
has heard him say: "I became convinced that hu- 
man slavery Avas wrong, and det(u-mined to wash 
my hands of the whole business." While he did not 
try to force others to think as he thought, nor do as 
he did, he knew that his views and action on the 
(piestlon of slavery would render him unpopular, 
and he, therefore, resolved to remove to a "Free 
State." To resoh-e, with him, was to act. He re- 
signed his chair in Centre Cidlege, and removed to 
Carlinville, Illinois. A sojourn of about two years 
in that community proved to him that the social 
atmosiibere of a free State was not agreeable to a 
man who had been born and reared iu a slave State, 
and that the idea and aggressixc met bods of free- 
State abolitionists concerning the "man and broth- 
er" were not such as he could ailopt, and he re- 
turned to Kentucky with his family, and located in 
the town of Ilopkinsville, where lie opened a school. 
After a few years iu Ilo])kinsvillc, li(> removed to 
Slielliyville, where he resided until within a short 
lime of his death. In jierson, he was six feet two 
inclies in lieigbl. Standing or walking, he was 



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erect. He was a modest man, and wliile more ac- 
complished than most of his associates, he never 
assumed to know more tlian uthers, and never 
tlirnst his o])inii)n ujiou anyone. lie i)oss('sseil 
many peculiarities, and was consideied an eccen- 
tric bv manv Avho did not know him tliorouohly 



I -Airs. Samuel Tevis), Eliz.vbeth (Mrs. Thomas 
Wilson), and Amkkka (Mrs. James M. Buchan- 
anl. America (Jrcatliouse, wife of James .M. 
Buchanan, was educated at Science Hill, the fa- 
mous school of Mrs. Kolicrt Tevis, at Shelbyville, 
Kentucky. At an earlv age she became a member 



and understand him; he fully understood this, and of the riiurch. and was a constant attendant upon 



laughed at it. He had a thorouiih knowledge of 
himself, and went through life renmining, as he ex- 
pressed it, "on good terms with himself." letting 
the world construe, judge, or misjudge as they 
chose. He maintained his physical vigor up to 
within a short time of his death, on January 17, 
1875, in his seventy-sixth year. He died at the 
resid(^nce of his son-in-law. Prof. R. F. Duncan, in 
Eminence, Kentucky, and is buried at that place in 
the city cemetery. For nearly sixty years lie was a 
niend>er of the Presliyterian Church, was scrupu- 
lously exact in his dealings witli bis fellow-men. and 
heartily despised anything like duplicity or deceit. 
In lS2f> he married America Greathouse, a daugh- 
ter of Isaac Greathouse. of Shelby Oounty, Ken- 
tucky. Isiaac Gi-eiathoiise was one of the picmeers of 
Kentucky. The records in the County Clerk's office 
in Shelby County, Kentucky, show that he bought 
land in that ccnintv in 17nr>. Isaac Greathouse lived 



religious services during her long and useful life. 
With gentle and affectionate disposition, site was 
(h'voted to her family; ])atieut and enduring under 
all conditions, she was the trtisted physician an<l 
ministering angel of the houselmld in time of sick- 
ness or discomfort. .Vs a neigbbor, she was belove<l 
by all. ever seeking to relieve want, distress, and 
suffering. Blesscnl v.ith a vigorous constitution, 
she spent the latter years (d her life visiting the 
families of her children scattered over the Southern 
States, a faithful ".Mother in Israel." She died on 
July 17, lSft2. in the eighty- fourth year of her age, 
at tlie home of her son-in-law. Dr. Wm. C. Warren, 
at AN'aterford, ^lississippi, and is burie^l in the fam- 
ily lot of hei" son, Geoa-ge M. Buchanan, in the city 
cemete'ry at Holly Spi'ings, ^Mississippi. 

Charles Howai"d Gi-eathouse, son of John 
Stull Greathouse ami Catherine IJ. ^^'aring, 
and grandson of Isaac Greathouse, was born Oc- 



many years in Shelby C<»unty, and died there in tober 13, 1857, near ilorganfield, Kentucky, gradu- 



1838, and, with his wife, who was Elizabeth Rigby, 
is buried in what is kno\\Ti as the "Old Presby- 
terian Churchyard," now abandoned as a burial- 
ground. 

America Greathoiise Buchanan, the wife of 
James M. Btichanan, was born near Shelbyville, 
Kentucky, July 11, 180!t. ber aiitestral history dat- 
ing back only to the settlement of the family in 
Maryland, in the seventeenth century. Her father, 
Isaac Greathouse, held high rank in the military 
and civil service of the State after he located in 
Kentucky in 171)G, where he raised a large family 
who were educated with great painstaking, ami 
nearly all of whom liecame iiTdiiiiiient in ih(> local 
affaii-s of their surroundings, and lo tlieni wcicborn 
eight sons and daughters : ^\■^J,IAM . Stii,!,. Is.v.\c, 
RlUGELKV. N.x.xcv (Mrs. Clarke .McAfee l, S.\.LLY, 



ate of High Schools, (ireenville, 111., 1S74, and Ann 
Arbor, Mich., 1870; T'niversity of Miciiigan, B. A., 
1S7!», and M. A. on examination. 1880; 1880-1882 
Priiici])al of Scho(ds, Hanville, Jlicbigan; Barbour- 
ville, Kentucky ; and IJichmond, Missouri; 1882- 
1S!I7, an editor, reiiorter and corresjiondent on stal 
of Itoti'isrilh ('(ini nici'i-idl . four years; LonisvUlff 
('(ii(ri<r--lniiiii(il. seven years; \\'<iN]iiii(/t<ni Times, 
three years; also during this ]yeriod corivsixmdent 
for Xrir Ydil,- 110/7(7. Nvir Toil: Trihiiiic. St. fAiiiis 
I'dsl-Disjuili-h . ('h\c<iii<i y<irs. and agent for the 
.\ssociated Press at Louisville. Also owner and 
])ublisher. 1880-1803 of Honiv (uuJ School EiJurn- 

finind Willi ji, LiMiisxille. Ky. : 1897 an as«<is»t- 

aiit i'(liior, hivision of I'ulilicaiions, Cnited States 
Heitaitniciil of Agricnllnre, \\':isliinglon. I». C. 
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Agriculture; Development of Asrricultural Li- 
l)rarie!<; Free Delivery of Kural Mails; Index to 
Yearliooks, 1894-1900. 

.^[arried 1SS6 to .Mary .Melissa Curtis. Ann .Vr- 
lior, ;Micli., who is alsn a iiradiialc <>f I'liivi rsitv of 
:\ri(hi,caii. 15. A., 1S82, M. A., 1SS:5. Children: 
Kuth ("uriis ( ireatliouse. sixteen; l-ucicn IIi'liu 



souri. His son (Jeornc was horn in July, ISti'J. lie 
married Naney Boiigess in 1885. They liave four 
children: I'raid;. Susie, I'.utler and Xell. 

^\'illianl r.uchaiian. second son. was horn in 
IStiS. lie is a raniier. His iiHtthcr makes iiis hduse 
her home. In ISiMI he married l.ula -iDlinsDn, 
daughter of -lames H. and .Vlice ( l-'razier i John- 



Crealhouse. twelve; liaymond Kidgley C.reathouse, son, of Jackson Ccuintv, .Missouri. He has two 
,ij,i,, children: Ruth and Harry. 

\\iiile my residence ( domicile I is Washington. D. 
C., mv legal residence and citizenvhi]) has heen at 
Uuiontowu. Kentucky, where I still oavu the farm 
on which I was brought u]i and speciticallv retain 
a residence in lease to tenant. 

The children of Jann>s .AHlton Buchanan and 
America Grdathouse were the following: la) Wn.- 
i.iAM, horn Januarv 11, 1S:>1, and died June 13, 



SKHTCH 7. 
(ci JAMES BUCHANAN. 

James I'.nchanan, thii-d cliild of .Tames .\l. Iluch- 
anan, \\as hm-n in Danville, Kentucky, A]»ril 30, 
1S34. His education was such as titled him for 
business pursuits, and at the age of abont eighteen 
rears he came to Louisville, where he at once 



181."); l^b) ALi;.\.\.NnEU H., born May 31, 1S32, and secured employment as a ch ik in a large mercan- 



died July 28, 1876; (c) J.v^iics, born April 30, 
1834; Id I (iiKKX, born January 21, 1S3('), and died 
June 13, 183S; lei CiXHtfu-; :Mc.\f]:e, born March 
19, 1838; ( f I M-VKY YunEU. born February 27, 1840; 
(g) N.VNCY McAfee, born February 7, 1842; (h) 
S.vuAH E., born October 29, 1843; I j ) John W., 
born June 4, 184.3, and died Septend)er 7, 1901; 
(k) Anx.v M.viu.v. born August 9, 1847; and (1) 
THOM.S.S. born April 23, 1849; and died January 
22, 1853. 

(b) Dr. Alex-vnuer U. Buchanan. 



tile house. Three years after, at the age of twenty- 
one, he was admitted to a itartuership. and con- 
tinued in the saim- business for ten years. His 
tirm, abuig with many otheis, A»as broken up by 
the Civil '\^'ar, and he went from Louisville to 
Chicago, and in a short time formed a partnership 
there, and the tirm did a large grain and provision 
business and were members of the Chicago Jioard 
of Trade for several years. Subsequently he re- 
turned to Louisville, and, in 1871, engaged in the 
real estate busiue.ss, which he has pursued until 



Dr. Alexander H. Buchanan, second child of the present time. 1904. 



James M. Buchanan, was born May 31, 1832, in 
Danville, Kentucky, and died at Hardin, Missouri, 
July 28, 1870. He received a good education at the 
hands of his father, studied mtM:licine while clerk- 
ing in a drug-store, and graduated in that profes- 
sion from .McDowell Medical College, St. Louis, 
Missouri. He removed to Richmond, .Missouri, and 
entered upon practice with Dr. Ceorge \\'. Buchan- 
an, his cousin. In May, 1861, he married Laura 
Hughes, a daughter of Dr. Berry Hughes and Susan 
(Campbell) Hughes, of Ray County, ^Missouri. Dr. 
Buchanan continiietl to [U'actice with marked suc- 
cess until his death in 1870. His widow and two 
sons now reside near Hardin, Ray County, Mis- 



In January-, 1860. he married Rebecca Graham 
Smith, daughter of Thonms V. and Cornelia (Sim- 
ralll vSiiiith, of Louisville, i Thomas 1*. Smith was 
Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of the 
Louisville Chancery Court from 1835 until his 
death in 1890 — a period of sixty-one years). 

Janu's Buchanan and wife are both actiA'e mem- 
bers of the Second Presbyterian Church. They have 
had four children: Cormdia Smith, born and died 
in November, 18(n ; I'^umie Smith, liorii l^-brnary, 
1870, died November, 1S75; Thomas S. T?ucimiian. 
the eldest son, born .May 20. 1802, and died May 9, 
1903; and James S. P.uchanan, born September 14, 
1864, who is the only surxiving one of the chiidreii. 



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SKETCH II. and was sfvcrelv wdunded iu a sharp euu;agement 

Tlumias S. Ruchaiian. son of .lames ami Kcbccca, at rolliervillo, Tciuicsscm', in one of <;('neral For- 

was ('(1 Ilea ted in the LouisviHc puhlic si-iiools, and rest's famous cavalry raids. Near the dose of the 

was admitted to the Bar of the Lonisville Courts, war he married Victoria Nunnally, dauiihter of 

iind inaclised his profession foi- some years. He James R. Xnnnally, a i)lanter of .Marshall ("onnty, 

afterwards joined his father iu the real estate IMississippi. Five childreu were horn of the union ; 

business, and remained iu that business until his tlioir names were Mary Coleman, Charles Xuu- 

,!,..,(], nally, Susan Dean, Nannie "Wairen, ami Fanny 

He married Ida Shalleross. daughter of Stephen Dean; all of wliom di(«d in infancy or early child- 

H. and Marcia (Mimnis) Shallciws, of Louisville, li'ood. His Avife die<l in Holly Spnn}.rs, .Mississippi. 

wlio is still living. They had ik* childreoi. i" l^''^-'- I" December, 1SS(!, he nmrried his sc.-ond 

wife, Susie F. Dean, dauin'hter of .Tos«>iih E. and 

Fannie (Xnnnally) Dean, of Holly S]u*ini;s. Ther 

James S. Buchanan, se,-..nd son of James and ^^^^ ^^^.^^ children: Geoi-e McAfee, born Au-ust 

28, 1S88; and Victoria X'unnally, born FeluMiary 



SKETCH 12. 



Rebecca Buchanan, was born in Septend)er, 18(i4. 
He likewise was educated in the Louisville public 
schools, and has been entiajied in the real estate 
business in Louisville for eijihteen years, both on 
his own account, and as partner of his father, and 
his uncle, John W. Buchanan. He married in 
November, 1U03, Elizal)eth Cantield, daughter of 



21, 1890. 

At the close of the war Georije ^I. Buchanan set- 
tled iu Marshall County, ^lissi.ssippi, and enjia^od 
in cotton raising. He has lived there continuously 
since. He was for eight years sheriff of his county, 
and in the past thirty years has held many posi- 
W. Q. Cantield, and graud-dauohter of the Rev. ^-^^^^ ^^ ^^.^^^^^ ^^^^^j^ private and public. He served 
Isaac '\^ . Cantiidd. ong term as United States Internal Reve- 

James S. Buchanan is a ini'mbei- of the Second ^^^^^. CyUeotor for the Northern District of 
Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky. .Alississippi. He is a member of the l»re*i- 

SKETCH 8. b\'teriau Church, and active in business gen- 

ie) GEORGE M. BUCHANAN. erally, was for four years United States Marshal 

George McAfee Buchanan, fifth chihl of James for the X'orthern District of Jlississippi, under ap- 
M. Buchanan, was born ilarcli 19, 1838. He re- pointment of President McKinley (1899), and is 
ceived a good education at the hands of his father, now president of "The People's Bank," Holly 
His advent into the business world was as a clerk Springs, Mississippi. 

in a store in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1857 he re- Susie F. Dean, wife of George M. Buchanan, was 

moved to Versailles, ^lissouri, and subsequently to born in Marshall County, Mississi^jpi, on December 
Sedalia, where he secured employment as a clerk. 3, 18o8, and completed her education at Uigbee 
AMien the Civil War began he enlisted as a private, High School, ilemphis, Tenn. Her father, Joseph 
afterwards becoming a lieutenant, in the Second E. Dean, came with his parents t() Marshall Couu- 
Missouri Cavalry, Confederate States Anny. He ty, Mississippi, in 1835. Her father served during 
participated in the several battles fought in Mis- the Civil War as a Confederate soldier, and was 
souri and in the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, severely wounded. His business has always been 
After the Battle of Pea Ridge, his regiment was that of a cotton i>lanter. Susie F. Dean's mother was 
transferred to Bragg's Army, at Corinth, ^lissis- Fanny V. Nunnally, the daughter of .Tames B. Nun- 
sippi, and afterwards assigned to Forrest's com- ually and Dorothy Couch, who came from Virginia 
maud. He remained with that organization until to Tennessee, and from there removed to ^Marshall 
(he war ended, surrendc ring in the spring of 1865, County. :Mississippi. .James B. Nuunally's father 



I 





JAMES BUCHANAN. 

LOUISVILLE. KY. 

[See Sketch No. 7.J 



MRS. JAMES BUCHANAN. 

LOUISVILLE, KY. 

[See Sketch No. 7.] 





JAMES S. BUCHANAN. 

LOUISVILLE, KY. 

ISee Sketch No 12. | 



JOHN W. BUCHANAN, 

( Deceased. 1 

[See Sketch No. io.| 





^^^2^6^^^^^^ 



^l^^-^£Z-n/ 



[See Sketch No. 8.1 




e^-^^ t/f Z^c<.^:,^^L*i->.«_-«-*^ 




[See Sketch No. 8.] 



FAMILY OF GEORGE M. BUCHANAN. 

HOLLY SPRINGS. MISS. 

[See Sketch No. S.I 



SKETCHEJS UF PATKONS. 



243 



was Arthur Niiimally, Avliose wife was Kaclicl 
Coiicli, a sister itf Daniel Cimdi. and tlie laltei's 
wife Mas Jane Tlionias, Artinir Nnnnallv and 
Daniel Coueli bein.ii' l)i'i)(liers-in-liiw, James 15. 
Nnnnallv havinji' married liis first consin. Dorothy 
Conch, a dantjliter of Daniel roncli. The elder 
Nnunally and Conch families were all horn and 
raised near Lynohhnrsi-, Virginia, and came of 
English family originally. James B. Nunnally, with 
his wife, came to Marshall Connty, Mississippi, in 
1835, where they raised a largo family, and are 
hnried at the old family homestead six miles sonth- 
west of ITolly Springs, where is also hnried Rachel 
Conch XnnWlly, the mother of James B. Nnnnally. 
Joseph E. Dean's father, Joseph Dean, was horn in 
]\[aryland. His father, Samuel Dean, emigrated 
from Wales, and settled in ^Nfaryland in the early 
]tart of the seventeenth century; and from thence 
came to Pickens District, South Carolina, where 
Jose])1i Dean married Elizabeth Ivlmonson, they 
removing to 3Iarshall County, IMississippi, in ISo.", 
where they raised a large family on their planta- 
tion near Chulahonm. Jt)seph Dean lived to the 
advanced age of uiuety-three j'ears, and died in the 
year 1871 ; and his wife died in the year 1874. in 
the eighty-ninth year of her age. Both are buried 
at the old plantation homestead near Chnlahonia, 
Jlississijjpi. 

(f) Mary Yoder Buchanan. 

Mary Yoder, si.xth child of James ]\r. Buchanan, 
was born Febrnary 27, 1840. She is a member of 
(he Baptist Church. Tn 1801 she married Wm. 
Oscar C(deman, son of William L. Coleman, of 
Trimlde Connty, Kentucky. Tliey have had seven 
chihlreu. 

]Mary Oscar, their first child, was l)orn in 1862. 
She married George W. Williams, of Henry 
County, Kentucky. Williams and wife have two 
cliildren : Lily May, and Howard. 

(ieorge D. Coleman, second son of W. o. and 
.Mai-y Y. Coleman, Mas l)orn Sejitember, 1S(;7. lie 
married A]i>ha K. Peiiii, and resides al I'^rankfoi-I, 
Kv. 



Charles C. Coleman. Iliird cliihl, was born in No- 
veml)er, 1868. lie married Sallie Graham Hamil- 
ton. Tliey have one child ( Hamilton). 

\\'ia. L. Coleman, fonrdi chihl, died at the age of 
eleven. 

America (frealhonse Coleman, fifth child, was 

horn in 1872. She married ilr. Snyder, and 

now resides at ■Milton. Kentucky. 

James Buchanan Coleman, sixth child, was horn 
December, 1874. He is now married, and resides 
near Sulj)hnr, Kentncky. 

Nora Sibley Coleman, seventh child, was born 
July. 1877. In 1895 she married E. B. McCain, 
and died in 1898. 

W. Oscar Coleman espoused the Confederate 
cause, and joined the Fonrth Kentncky Cavalry in 
1862. He served honorably until the general sur- 
remler in 1865. His occupation is that of a farmer. 
He has served one term as sheriif of his connty, and 
two terms as representative of his District in the 
Kentucky Legislature, and for one term was a 
member of the Kentucky State Senate, and now 
holds the position of Superintendent of the Confed- 
erate Soldiers' Home at Pewee Valley, Kentucky. 

(g) Nancy McAfee Buchanan. 

Nancy McAfee Buchanan, seventh child of 
James M. Buchanan, was bom in Shelbwille, Ken- 
tucky, February 7, 1842, and is a member of the 
Presbyterian Church. In December, 1868, she mar- 
ried Dr. W. C. Warren, of Marshall County, Mis- 
sissippi, and lives there now. Dr. Warren is a 
native of Green County, Alabama. He was born 
in 1832, and is a cotton planter and practising 
physician. He received a classical education, and 
graduated in medicine at the University of Penn- 
sylvania, at Philadelphia. By steady practice and 
thorough acquaintance with the current literature 
of his profession, he maintains the position of one 
of the leading physicians of this State. Dr. and 
^frs. Warren have three children. 

Janu's Buchanan, their first child, was born in 
1X70, lives in IMemphis, Tenn., and is engaged in 
business there. 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



Mary, their second child, was boru in 1873. She tributing to the pleasure and comfort of others. In 



married Robert F. Malone, of La^vs Hill, Marshall 
County, Mississippi, in 1893. They iiave one child, 
William Ross, born in 1894. IMalone is a farmer. 

Clara, their thiit child, was boni in 187.J, is un- 
iiiarried, and lives with her parents. 

SKETCH 9. 
(h) SARAH E. BUCHANAN. 

Sarah E. Buchanan, eighth child of -Tames M. 
Buchanan, Avas bom October 29, 1843, and is a 
member of the Presbyterian Churcii. In 1867 she 
married Professor B. F. Duncan, of Shelby County, 
Kentucky, son of Daniel B. and Eleanor (Cook) 
Duncan. B. F. Duncan is a cultured man. He 
graduated at Georgetown (Kentucky) College, and 
subsequent to gra<luation, received the degree of A. 
M. at that institution. His pursuits have been 
«nitirely in literary ways. He taught school for 
several years in Kentucky, and is now Superintend- 
ent of Public Schools at jMaryville, Missouri. B. 
F. Duncan and wife have four children : 

James Buchanan, born in 1869. He is a lawyer 
in good standing in the town of Carrollton, Ken- 
tucky. 

Blanch Duncan; John McAfee Duncan (born in 
1876), and Mary Eva Duncan, children of B. F. 
Duncan and wife, are all unmarried and live with 
their parents in Mary^ille, Missouri. 

SKETCH lo. 
John W. Bucii.wax, ninth child of James M. 
Buchanan, was born June 4, 1845, and died at 
Louisville, Kentucky, on the eighth day of Se|5teni- 
ber, 1901. As a boy he developed great fondness 
for books, and being the youngest son, his father 
gave him special opportunities for the cultivation 
of his tastes in literature, and his leisure moments 
were spent in adding to his knowledge from the 
choice works and standard authorities in art and 
literature. ^A^hile below the average in stature, he 
was a man of splendid physique and command- 
ing presence, and his genial, kindly nature and 
princely bearing served to make him always a wel- 
come visitor. He was never so happy as wlien con- 



1873 he became associated with his Itrother James 
Buchanan in the real estate business in Louisville, 
Kentucky, in whicli business he continued until his 
death. Few men in the city of Louisville had more 
friends. Fond of mingling with his fellow-men, 
he was a leader in a number of social, charitable 
and other organizations. .\s a member and secre- 
tary of the Kentucky branch of the "Sons of the 
Revolution" he took great pride in the order, and 
in developing the history of his own ancestry and 
that of other pioneer Kentucky families. As a 
Mason he was a zealous and active member of that 
order. It was only a few days before his death that 
the National Assemblage of the "Knights Templar" 
met at Louisville, and from his residence window, 
while propped on his couch, he witnessed their 
grand parade and with an improvised sword ex- 
changed salutations with the Knights of his acr- 
quaintance, and fully conscious of his condition, 
remarked : "This is the last parade that I will 
ever witness." In 1883 he married Nathalie Clai- 
borne, a daughter of the late Colonel Nathaniel C. 
Claiborne of the St. Louis bar, and one of its most 
distinguished members. Colonel Claiborne came 
of an illustrious Virginia family, his father having 
served forty years in Congress, and his uncle was 
one of the early Governors of ilississippi. John 
T\'. Buchanan's widow with three children survive 
him. Their names are Claiborne, Warren and Mil- 
dred. They reside in Louisville, Ky. 

The untimely death of John W. Buchanan was 
the occasion for great grief and sorrow on the part 
of his kinspeople throughout the land, and espe- 
cially so to the four sisters and two brothers who 
survive him. He was cut off, as it were, without 
warning in the prime of life and in the full vigor 
of physical and mental manhood. 

He was suddenly stricken with total paralysis 
and passed away in a very few days. He was a 
membei- of the Presbyterian Church. 

(k) Anna Buchanan. 
Anna Buchanan, tenth child of James ^L Buch- 
anan, was born August 9, 1847, and is a member 



SKETCHES OF PATKONS. 



of the Methodist Church. In 1875 she married 
Charles B. Hardy, sou of Baruett Hardy, a plauter 
of Marshall Couuty, Mississippi. Charles B. 
Hardy is a fai*mer uear Victoria, Mississippi. 
They have three childreu. 

Charles B., born in 1S7G; in 1897 he married 
Miss Alice lloustou, and they have three children 
and live at Victoria, Mississippi. 

John Buehauau, born in 1878, and resides with 
his father. 

J. Warren, born in 1880, and died after a short 
illness on August 1, 1899. 

Oscar, born in 1891, and lives with liis father. 

These three bo^'s are bright, mauly fellows, and 
live with their parents, who have made a life study 
of the proper training, education, aud Christian 
care of their cliildreu; devoted to their church, Mr. 
and Mi's. Hardy speud their time and means freely 
for the cause of religiuu. 

(V)— CALEB BUCHANAN. 

Caleb Buchanan, fifth child of Alexander and 
Nancy (McAfee) Buchanan, was born in Mercer 
County, Kentucky, in 1801. He was reared in that 
Couut}', and when he attained manhood, removed 
to Madison Couuty. lu January, 1830, he married 
Sallie \\ood, daughter of ^^■iley ^^'ood, of that 
Couuty. Caleb Buchanan aud wife both died in 
Madisou Couuty, Kentucky, and are buried there. 
They had three children : 

John B. Buchanan^ their first child, was born 
iu llichmoud, Kentucky, September, 1837. He 
joined the Federal Army, in 1801, as Captain of 
Company "D,"' Sixth Kentucky Cavalry, and served 
during the War. Iu 1807 he married Sarah E. 
Boulware, daughter of A\'illiam and Arthusia (Mc- 
^Villiamsj Boulware, of Madisou Couuty. In 1809 
he removed to Missouri, and is now living at 
Carthage in that State. They have five children. 
Their first child, Sue, was born iu 1808. In 1889 
she married W'm. Duncan Gregory, a farmer of 
Fort Estill, Madison County, Keutuclcy, where they 
now live. Wm. Gregory aud wife liave two chil- 
dren, Elizabeth (born in 1889), aud James (born iu 



1895). Sallie Buchanan, second cliild of John B. 
Buchanan, was born in Carthage, .Alissouri, in 1809. 
She is unmarried, and lives with her parents. 
Arthur Buchanan, third child of John B. Buchan- 
an, was born in October, 1871. He lived awhile in 
tlie Province of Nova Scotia, where he married 
Laura Pemberton, in 1890. He uow lives in Buf- 
falo, N. Y. Lucy Buciiauan, fourth child of John 
B. Buchanan, was born in September, 1873. Mary 
E. Buchanan, fifth child, was l)orn in December, 
1875. Lucy and Mary are both uumarried, and 
live with their parents. 

Andeuson Wood Buchanan, secoud child of 
Caleb Buchanan, was born iu March, 1842. He was 
uever married, aud died iu 1871, at Winusboro, 
South Carolina, aud is buried there. 

Mauy D. Buchanan, third child of Caleb Buch- 
anan, was born iu June, 1811. She was never 
married. Died in Madison County, Kentucky, in 
March, 1871. 

SKETCH 13. 

(Ill) WILLIAM BUCHANAN, third cliild of 
Alexander Buchanan and Naucy McAfee, was born 
iu Mercer County, Kentucky, iu July, 1805. He 
was reared in that county. Iu early manhood was 
engaged iu l)usiuess iu Uarrodsburg. He married 
Phoebe Ann McCoun, daughter of James T. and 
Mary (Caldwell) McCouu, also of fiercer County. 
He died iu May, 1830. His wife died in Septem- 
ber, 1829. They are buried in New Providence 
Graveyard, Mercer County. Their only child, 
Geokge \\illiam Buchanan, was born iu Har- 
rodsburg, August, 1828. At the age of six years 
he was taken, by his maternal grandfather, to Kay 
County, Missouri, and reared on a farm. He re- 
ceived a finished education, graduating at Centre 
College, Kentucky, in 1852, and in medicine, at Jef- 
ferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1855. He 
at once began the practice of his profession at Rich- 
mond, Kay County, Missouri. In 1850 he married 
Emily R., daugiiter of Joseph B. and .Alary (Chew) 
Terry, of Lexington, Missouri, formerly of Fred- 
ericksburg, Virginia. When the Civil AVar lici,'an. 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



Dr. Buclianan espoused the cause <>f tlie Cdufcd- 
eracy, aud served as surgeon in (leneral Sterliuii 
Price's Army, two years — 1861-62. He removed to 
Central City, Colorado, in 1S()4. His wife died 
there in 1869. They had five children, four of 
whom died in infancy. Their surviving child, Wil- 
liam lYn-ry Buchanan, was born in Le.\ingtou, 
Jlissouri, June, 1861. He now lives at Colorado 
City, Colorado. In 1887 he married Cora Zimmer- 
man, of Troy, Kansas. They have one child, Terry 
Buchanan, born October, 1888. In 1871 Dr. 
George W. Buchanan returned from Colorado, and 
resumed his residence at Richmond, Missoui'i, and 
there died ]March 14, 1899. He was a ruling elder 
in the Presbyterian (.'hurch. In Xovendjer, 1873, 
he married his .second wife, Henrietta Rives Wat- 
kins. Dr. Buchanan had four children by his sec- 
ond wife: George Watkins, born in 1875, w^ho is a 
farmer, and lives in Ray County, Missouri ; Charles 
Allen, born 1876; James :McAfee, born 1880; and 
Henry Rives, born 1883. 

(IV) ALEXANDER BUCHANAN, JR., fourth 
child of Alexander Buchanan, was born in Mercer 
County, Kentucky, in 1803. Early in life he moved 
to Garrard County, Kentucky, and about the year 
1852 moved to Indiana, he having quite a large 
family. 

SKETCHES 14, 15 AND 16. 

14— REV. DR. JOHN A. MCAFEE, DECEASED. 

15— REV. DR. SAMUEL L. MCAFEE. 

16— MR. ROBERT W. MCAFEE. 

The three individuals whose sketches are here 
combined were all sons of Joseph ]McAfee, who 
was the sou of John McAfee, who was the son of 
Samuel McAfee, the pioneer, who wa.s a son of 
James McAfee, Sr., the Irish immigrant, who died 
in Botetourt County, Virginia, in 1785. 

A brief sketch of Samuel McAfee, the pioneer, 
is given in Part Second of this volume, but a few 
additional particulars will here be presented. 

Tlie histoi-y of Samuel McAfee, the pioneer, as it 
is preserved in the annals of the family is very 
meagre. From the incidents that have been prc- 



serv(Hl, he seems to have been a man of more than 
usual self-]>ossessi(m and cool deliberation, brave. 
bill always cautious, determinwl, but without pas- 
sion or rashness. He was tlie fii-st magistrate in 
Mercer County, and Avas filling the oflice of sheriff 
of tlie coinity wlien the State l>ecame a part of the 
nation. 

He was married to Ilauuah McCoriuick, of Rock- 
bridges County, N'irginia, some years before the 
family immigrated to Kentucky. The fruit of this 
nuirriage was eight children, viz : 

I. JOHN, born October 26, 1775; died April 28, 
1833. 

II. ANNIE, born . 

III. ROBERT, born ; died January 31, 

1849. 

IV. JANE. ^ 

V. HANNAH. ™ 

VI. WILLIAMj born August 27, 1787; died 
October 29, 1852. 

VII. SAMUEL, born 1792; died October 18, 
1819. 

VIII. MARY, died July 9, 1833. 

John was twice married and had a family of 
eleven children. 

Annie married Thomas King, and left a family of 
five. 

Robert married Priscilla Armstrong, and reared 
a family of four daughters. 

Jane married Beriah Magoffin, aud had a family 
of nine, among whom was the Hon. Beriah Magof- 
fin, Governor of Kentucky in 1861. 

Hannah married Captain Samuel Daviess, and 
left one son. 

William married late in life, and left no heir. 

!Mary nmrried Colonel Thomas P. Moore, and 
had a family of two daughters. 

Most of tlie children lived in IMercer County un- 
til after the father's death, wliich occurred October 
10, 1825. The wife and mother followed him June 
27, 1833. Their bodies are entombed in the old 
graveyard of Providence Church, of which church 
they were both members from its organization until 
their deaths. 



SKETCHES or PATIJONS. 



247 



I. JOHN ilcAFEE, the eldest sou of Sanmel Mc- 
Afee and Htmuah McCormick, was boru iu Bote- 
tourt roiinty, Virginia, October 2(>, 1775. He was 
four years of age when his parents came as pioneers 
to Kentucky, and grew up amid the hardsiiips and 
perils tliat attended life in those eiirly days. Wl-.en 
he reached his majority his fatlier gave him a por- 
tion of the homestead. Upon this he made his home 
and passed a (piiet, uneventful life, leaving behind 
him an unsullied record of a true citizen, and 
consistent Christian, and a family whose careers 
testify to his tidelity to the divine covenant. A 
portion of tiit' original building which he erected 
is still standing on the farm, now owned by his 
sou, James Jackson McAfee, one mile south of the 
village of ;McAfee, on the pike leading to Harrods- 
burg. 

His first marriage was to Elizabeth McKamey. 
Six children were the crown of this union, viz : 

(a) Samiukl^ born July 12, 1800; died December 
2J>, 1869. 

(b) ROBEUT, b(U'n ; died in infancy. 

(c) Joseph, boru June 3, 1803; died November 
1», 1876. 

(d) Cyntuia_, born March 3, 1805; died . 

(e) John Clauk^ born October 1, 1807; died 
January 1, 1874. 

I f j WiLi.iAM, born October 3, 1810; died , 

184—. 

His second nife was Mrs. Dicy (Caldwell) 
Currj', of which marriage there were live children, 
as follows : 

(g) Caldwell, boru .Tan\iary 16, 1817; died 



(h) ^lAitY Ann, born August 31, 1819; died 
February 2, 1888. 

( j ) PuoEiiE Elizabeth, born September 8, 1821 ; 
died Noveml)er , 1849. 

(k) James Jackson^ bom February 23, 1824. 

(1) Francis Monroe_, born March 31, 1827; died 
June 15, 1889. 

All the children of the first marriage re- 
mained on the farm until their majority, except 
Samuel, who was apprenticed to a carpenter of 



Cieorgetown, Kentucky, at fourteen, until he was 
twenty-one. The family circle was not broken by 
any distant ivmovals, until the fall of 1S30; when 
Joseph married and removed to North-eastern Mis- 
souri, to open his farm which he had entered from 
(he govornmcnt the yaw before. His laud was 
located ten and one-half miles north of west from 
I'almyra, the county seat of Marion County. The 
country was very new, and ouh' a few settlements 
had been made in the neiglii)orhood, and these of 
very recent date. There was no such thing as a 
grist, or saw mill, aud the nearest base of s\i implies 
of auy sort was the county seat. 

In 1834 his brothers, John C. and William, fol- 
biwed him, and located their farms about four 
miles west. About the same time his sister Cyn- 
thia, who had married Jack Allen, Esq., of Har- 
rodsburg, came with her husband to the State, but 
settled near Huntsville, Randolph County, where 
they reared their family of six sons and two daugh- 
ters. Samuel followed the others in the fall 
01 1835, and opened his farm on Flint Creek, ad- 
joining John C. on the west. 

In August of the same year that Samuel came 
to Missouri, the New Providence Presbyterian 
Church was oi«ganized. The organization was ef- 
fected in the house of John C. McAfee, and Joseph 
and John C. McAfee, and Joseph Blackwood, were 
the original elders. Subsequently Samuel McAfee 
was made a deacon. The church took its name 
from the Providence Church in Kentucky, of which 
Dr. Thomas Cleland was so long the cherished pas- 
tor, and from which a majoiity of its original mem- 
bers had come. 

In 184 — this circle of lirothers was broken by 
the death of the youngest, William, who left a 
widow and two children, a son and a daughter. 
These socm after a-eturned to the old home in Ken- 
tucky. The only smwivor of this family is Mr. 
Allen McAfee, of Alton, Kentucky. 

There was no more break in the circle until 1849, 
when Samuel left his farm and removed to La- 
Grange. Missouri, to engage in the lumber, and sub- 
sequently iu the book and stationery business. 



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John followed liim in 18.">S. and iilauted a uuiserv His second wife was Hannah Bobon, to whom he 

near Laixrange. Joseph remaiued on his Marion vas married Jannarv 12, 1SS2. The children of 

County farm until the spring of 18G6, when he also this union were: 1. Snsnii Mary, who married 

remove*! to a small fanii near LaCJrange. Homer Howard Winchell and had a family of 

It may safely he said ll:al no three men in the eleven children, five of whom are now living. Her 
comnmnity exerted a more powerful influence for residence is at rai-kville, Missouri, where her hus 
good than did these tliree hrothers. They were liand is engaged in the general merchandise husi- 
uuiversally recognized as men of honor and in- ness. 2. John Walter, who died in Texarkana, 
tegrity, as men of settled convictions, with courage Texas, at the age of thirty-seven and unmarried, 
to maintain them. They did not seek political His death occurred at Palmyra, Mis.souri, De- 
preferment, or covet official positions. Except cember 29, 18G!>. His wife survived him about 
Samuel, who served as Mayor of the City of La- seven years, dying October 24, 1876. 
(irauge, and was, at the time of his death. United Joseph McAfee was married October 2G. 1830, 
States Revenue Colleoror, none of them ever held to Priscilla Ann Armstrong, daughter of ^Major 
a public or civil office. Politically they all ad- Thomas Lanty Armstrong and Tiny Dorland, and 
hered to the Democratic party, were the admirers granddaughter of ('a]itain John .Vrmstrong and 
of Hon. Thomas H. Benton, Missouri's illustrious Priscilla ^IcDonald. Tiny Dorland was a daughter 
Senator, and followed him in his opposition to the of Garrat Dorland, who was commissioned by the 
extension of slavery, until the (iimi)aign of 18G0. Convention of the State of Pennsylvania, August 
In this campaign they all withdrew from the Demo- 27, 1776, as "Second Lieutenant of a Company of 
cratic party. Joseph supported the Constitutional Foot for York County in the Flying Cam]) for the 
Union candidate, and both the others voted for iliddle States of America." [This commission is 
Abraham Lincoln. From that time until their signed by ''B. Franklin, President," and is now the 
deaths their atHliations were with the National Re- property, or is in tlie possession, of Miss Helen 
publican party. Armstrong, Louisville, Kentucky.] She was a 

They were always more prominent in the affairs true help-meet, and lived to share his trials and 

of the church than of the State. They were recog- triumphs, joys and sorrows for about thirty-five 

nized as pillars in the New^ Providence Church as years. Her death occurred July 16, 1865. 

long as they were connected with it, and when one The children of Joseph McAfee and his wife 

after another transferred his membership to the Priscilla Ann, w^ere: 

LaGrange Church he was almost immediately John Armstrong, born December 12, 1831 ; died 

called into the session there. They were all well June 12, 1890. 

known in their Presbytery and Synod, and each of Ivebecca Jane, born February .j, 1834 ; died April 

them represented his Presbytery in one or more l.j, 1880. 

General Assemblies. Each lived to a good old age Tiny Elizabeth, l)orn April 24, 1836. 



and departed as a shock of corn fully ripe. 

Sajiukl^ the tirst child of John McAfee and 
Elizabeth McKamey, was twice married. First on 
December 5, 1822, to Martha Curry, daughter of his 
step-mother. 

Their children were William Curry, and two 
daughters who died in infancy. AVilliam lived to 
about thirty years of age, and h'ft a widow and 
two children, a son and daughter. MarAa Curry 
died July 6, 1830. 



Charlotte Clcland, born July 2, 1838; died No- 
vember 2, 18!J1. 

Samtiel Lanty, liorn if ay 13, 1841. 

Margaret Ann Gray, born November 27, 1843 ; 
died March 27, 1849. 

Mary Helen, born July 2, 1846 ; died Septendier 
27, 1865. 

Robert William, born October 11, 1848. 

Hannah Catharine, born June 7, 1851. 



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John C, fifth cliild of John aud Elizabeth, was 
also twice married. His first wife was .Matilda 
Bohon, whom he married JauuaiT i, 1832. 

The children of this marriage were: 

ilai-T Hannah, who died in infancy. 

Cynthia, who married Joseph H. Uargis, of l.a- 
(Jrange, Missouri, and had a family of four chil- 
dren, only two of whom are now living. She died 
August 22, 1874. 

Samuel Bohon, who resides at Augusta, Hlinois, 
and whose family consists of nine children, six of 
whom are living. 

William, also living at Augusta, Illinois. Four 
of his children are living. 

George Fletcher, now the liev. George F. McAfee 
of 2se\v York City, Superintendent of the School 
Work of the Board of Home Missions of the Bres- 
Ityterian Church. He has no children. 

John C.'s second wife was Catharine Bohon, ;i 
cousin of his first wife. (,)ne daughter only was 
born of this union. She grew' to womanhood aud 
was married, but died soon after, and left no 
family. 

His death occurred at LaCrauge, Missouri, Jan- 
uary- 4, 1S74. 

SKETCH 14. 
John Armstrong McAfee, the eldest son and 
child of Joseph McAfee and Priscilla Aim Arm- 
strong, was born on his father's farm, near the vil- 
lage of Houston (.now known as Emerson j, Marion 
County, Missouri, December 12, 1831, the first year 
after the removal of his parents from Kentucky to 
Missouri. Those were pioneer days in Missouri 
when hardships were many and advantages few. 
He availed himself of such advantages as the local 
schools afforded, until he was twenty years of age, 
when he began to teach in the common schools of 
the day. He prepared for college under the pri- 
vate tuition of liev. Josiah B. Poage, and gradu- 
ated from Westminster College at Fulton, Mis- 
souri, in 1859. Twentj'-tive years later the college 
conferred upon him the honorary doctor's degree 
in divinity. In August, 1859, he was married to 
Miss Anna W. Bailey, daughter of Major James G. 



Bailey, of St. Charles, Missouri. He became a 
teacher, and though later ordained to the ministry 
in the Presbyterian Church, counted himself a 
teacher and educator nil her than anything else, 
throughout his life. 

In 1859 I'rofessor McAfee taught in a young 
ladies" school in Fulton, Missouri, still in existence. 
1800-1807 were spent in teaching at Ashley, Mis- 
souri, wliere his life-work began to take shape in 
his mind. During this period, also, in response to 
earnest solicitation of the church and friends, he 
was ordained to the ministry. Three years were 
spent in Louisiana, Missouri, in college teaching, 
w lien, in 1870, a call came to the professorship 
of Greek in Highland Fniversity, Kansas. There 
were soon gathered about him here stiuleuts who 
W'ere without means, but who were ready to per- 
form whatever manual labor was assigned them. 
They were counted members of his family, living 
in a large hall which he erected by the help of 
friends, and called "Hufford Home,"' and their tui- 
tion in the University was remitted in lieu of his 
salary. Having won his own college course by his 
own eft'orts, aud with great difficult^-, he felt his 
life-work to be that of aiding those similarly situ- 
ated and equally desirous for education. 

It became evident, after five yeai's of effort, that 
the peculiar purposes and methods which were in 
I'rofessor .McAfee"s mind could be better de- 
\eloped aijart from any already established insti- 
tution, and friction appeared in the University on 
that account. He at once resigned his position, 
not knowing to what place he might go. An opening 
was providentially uuide for his work in Parkville, 
Missouri, whose founder, the Hon. George S. Park, 
offered him land and a lai-ge stone building, form- 
erly used for a hotel. Here he began in 1875 what 
was to be his great work. As an educational insti- 
tution, the enterprise w'as called Park College. 
As a peculiar training school for the Missouri Val- 
ley and the entire West, it was called Park College 
Family for Training Christian Workers. As the 
name suggests, the institution was aggressively 
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made first of all. From the bcjiinning all its stu- 
dents have I)e<'n expected to he present at two de- 
votional chapel services each day, and eadi must 
take part in the sinjiing and readinji; of Scripture. 
As a I'csulf. few students jio through a year of at- 
tendance unconverted, and all of its itraduates have 
been j)rofessin,<i' Christians. 

I'rofessor JIcAfee offered no course of study but 
the severely classical one, and the colle>^e has had 
no other. All the members of the fannly were re- 
quired to pursue that single course. At first most 
of the teaching was done by advanced students, 
other teachers casting in their lot with tlie money- 
less leader and students, with little or no salary, 
all supplied from the common treasury. The fac- 
ulty has grown until it now (18i>S) includes twen- 
ty-three professors and instructors, all classical 
graduates from many institutions, aiul all receiv- 
ing very moderate living salaries. 

Each student, according to Professor McAfee's 
plan, becomes part of a family in whose behalf he 
spends part of each day in assigned manual labor. 
It is not supposed that he can support himself by 
his work; and if he can pay the -liiOO required each 
year to supplement his labor, he is expected to do 
so. If not, the amount is secured from friends for 
the family treasury. The manual lalior is not, 
therefore, meant for teaching trades, but to lessen 
the expense of the education provided, and a part 
of the training for usefulness. The young w(nnen 
do all the "home" work; the young men do many 
kinds of ()ut(h>or and indoor Avork. Dr. McAfee 
established a jninting ottice, ear])enter sbo]is, stoue- 
(inarries, l)iai-ksmithing and sexcral oilier (lejtart- 
meiits, besides the farming and gai-deiiing. Several 
buildings were erected ])y student labor before his 
death, and many have been since erected. The 
lands have been gradually accpiired until there are 
about 1,200 acres contiguous to or near the campus, 
besides 2,000 acres in other places. Some of the 
latter tracts are not of great value. Considerable 
money endowment has been secure<l, now more 
than 1225,000. 

Dr. McAfee died June 12, 1800, on the evening of 



the commencement day of that year. At his death, 
his family undertook tlie work, under the title of 
John .\. McAfif's Sons, his five sons and one 
daughter joining with ill's. MiAfee in the manage- 
ment. 

Ilis sons are: 

1. Lowell Mason McAfee, born 18(»0, graduated 
from I'ark College 1880, attendcnl McCorniick Sem- 
inary 1883-4, sn]>erintendent manual labor depart- 
ment Park College 1880-83 and 1884-"), principal 
of academy and chairman of college faculty from 
1885 to the present time, ilarried Carrie Imogene 
Canfield, 1887. Children: Ralph Canfield, Ken- 
neth P.ailey, Esther Lucille. 

2. Howard liailey McAfee, born 1801 ; graduated 
I'ark C(dlege 1880; attended Fnion Theological 
Seminaiw, New York, 1882-84 ; prof(^.sor of Mathe- 
matics Park College, 1880-82; bu.siuess manager 
and superintendent, 1884 to present. Married 
Lucy H. Ilindman 1880. Children: Paul Hind- 
man; John Armstrcmg; Anna Helen, died 1896; 
Lou Marie, died 1890 ; Hehna Louise. 

3. Lapsley .Vrmstrong McAfee, born 1804 ; grad- 
uated Park College 1882; graduated MeCormick 
Seminary 1885; ordained Presbyterian Church 
1889; pastor I'arkville Presbyterian Church 1889- 
1898; superintendent and disciplinarian Park Col- 
lege Family 1885-1898; i>astor Presbyterian 
Churcli, Plueuix, Arizona, 1898. Married Ella 
Taylor, 1887. Children: Hugh Bailey, Anna 
Ruth, Lapsley Ray, Wallace Taylor. 

4. Cleland Boyd ilcAfee, born 1800; graduated 
Park College 1884; Union Seminary, New York, 
1888; ordained Presbyterian Church 1888; co- 
pastor Parkville Presl)yterian Cliurcli 1889-1898; 
pastor .sanu' 18!»8; Professor Jlental and IMoral 
Philosophy Park College 1889 to present, ilarried 
Hattie L. Brown 1892. Children: Ruth Myrtle, 
Catherine Agnes. 

5. Joseph Ernest McAfee, born 1870; graduated 
Park College 1889; graduated Auburn Seminary 
1893; Helper Park College Family 1893-95; Prince- 
ton Semiimry 1890; professor Greek Park College 
1890 to present. :Married Adah E. Brokaw, 1898. 




SAML MCAFEE. 
1800-1869. 



JOSEPH MCAFEE. 

1803-1876. 

(See Sketclies 14, 15 and 16.] 



JOHN CLARKE MCAFEE. 
1807-1874. 




REV. SAML L. MCAFEE, D. D. PRESIDENT JOHN A. McAFEE. D. D. 

PARKVILLE, MO. 1831-lSciO. 

[See Sketches 14. 15 and 16. 1 



ROBT WM. MCAFEE. 
CRAWfORDSVILLE, IND. 




MRS. SALLIE McAfee EDMUNDS, 

RELfCT OF 
EDWIN SHORT EDMUNDS. 

Only Surviving Grandchild of James McAfee, the Kentucky Pii 
Taken on Her EighHeth Birthday. 
[See Sketch No, 36. 1 



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6. The daughter is Helen Bailey ^IcAfee, born 
1872; graduated Park College 1S!)2; Western Fe- 
male Seminary, Oxford, Ohio, 1804; teacher of 
Latin, Park College Academv, 18!t7 to i)r('seii(. 

Rebeeca Jane (McAfee) ^FeKamev, (he eldest 
daughter of Josepii ^[oAfec^ and Piiscilla Ann 
Armstrong, Mas horn near Sal visa, Kentucky, Feb- 
ruary o, 1834. She was married to .Tose]ih McAfee 
ilcKamey of Paris, Missouri, September 10, 1854. 
Her family consisted of one son, Calvin ^FcAfee, 
who was killed by a nude wlien fourteen years of 
age; and two daugliters, Margaret and Josephine. 
The latter died in early womanhood and unmar- 
ried; the latter married, but died childless in 1894. 
She was never possessed of a robust constitution, 
and, after a lingering illness of seveT'al years, died 
in the triumphs of a Christian faith. .Vpril 1.5, 1880. 

Tiny Eliza l>eth (McAfee) Kizer, daughter of 
Joseph ]McAfee and Priscilla Ann Armstrong, was 
born near Emerson, ^lissouri, April 24, 1836. On 
the 19th of March, 18.57, she was married to Jacob 
R. Kizer of Illinois. Her residence has been for 
many years at Louisiana, ^lissouri, where her hus- 
band has been engaged in mercantile business. Her 
cliildren have been two daughters, Nettie and Effie, 
both of whom died in infancy ; and one son, Joseph 
Leslie, who was born in Louisiana, Missouri, Feb- 
ruary 20, 1870 ; married Bell Wilson, and has one 
son, Thomas Leslie. He is at present in Lincoln, 
Nebraska, engaged in mercantile business. 

Hannah Catharine (McAfee) Robinson, was the 
youngest child of Josepli McAfee and Priscilla 
Ann Armstrong. She was born on the old home- 
stead near Emerson, Missouri, June 7, 1851. She 
was given the best advantages of the school facili- 
ties at hand, as had been given to all her l)rothers 
and sisters in their day, but these were very meagre. 
AA'hen she was fourteen years of age her father re- 
moved to LaGrange, and she liad the advantages of 
such school facilities as were provided for the 
youth of that little city. In 1872 she entered High- 
land University, of which hei- brotlier John A. was 
then president, and graduated in June, 1875. In 
the fall of that year she engaged as instructor in 



Park College, l)ut her health soon gave way, and 
slie was compelled to abandon her clierished work. 
On October 2, 1878, siie was iiuirried to Rev. Joseph 
Carle Rol)inson, who was a classnuite in the Uni- 
vei-sity, and a graduate of Princeton Theological 
SeiiiiTiai'v in (lie ehiss of 1878. Her cliildren are: 

Harold ifcAfee, and lOtliel. Her home for a 
number of years has been at White Bear, Minne- 
sota, where her husband is tlie esteemed pastor of 
th(> Presbyterian Church. 

Charlotte Cleland (^McAfee) Pollock, daughter 
of Joseph IMcAfee and Priscilla Ann Armstrong, 
was born near Emerson, ^Fissouri, on the 2d day 
of July, 1838. .Vfter her mother's death she became 
her father's housekeeper, and made a home for him 
and the family as long as he lived. On January 
11, 1877, she was married to James F. Pollock, of 
LaGrange, JHssouri. She was a woinan of sterling 
character, the life of the circle in which she moved, 
and foremost in every good work in the church of 
which she was a member. She died November 2, 
1891, leaving two daughters, Nellie McAfee and 
Elsie May. 

SKETCH 15. 
Rev. Samuel Lanty McAfee, D. D., second son 
of dosepli McAfee and Priscilla Armstrong, was 
born on the old homestead, near Emerson, Missouri, 
May 13, 1841. He remained with his father on 
tlie farm until he was twenty years of age,enioyino- 
onlysuch limited facilities for education as the pub- 
lic schools of Missouri of that day afforded. In the 
fall of 1S(>1, he entered Watson Seminary, at Ash- 
ley, Pike County, Missouri, of which institution his 
brother John A. was then principal. After one 
year of study there, in October, 1862, he enlisted as 
a private in Company A, Third Missouri Cavalry, 
United States Volunteers, and served until tlie 
close of the Civil War, rising to the rank of First 
Lieutenant, and Quartermaster of his regiment. At 
the close of the war, he returned to school, and was 
graduated from Pardee College, Louisiana, Mis- 
souri, in 1869, and from the North-western — now 
.McCormick — Theological Seminary, in 187L He 
was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of North- 



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eastern Missouri, Mar 14, ISfiO. and ordained by Beconiiuir interested in the work of snppressin<r 

the I'reslnterv of Missouri IJivcr, Deccnilu'r 17, obscene literature, in the line adopted l»y Anthony 

1S71. At the same tiuie of his (irdiiiation he was Comstdck nf New York, he took an active interest 

installed as ])astor of the rresbyterian Church of in it, and in 1877 sncceeih'd in coiM]ilelinii active 

lied Oak, Iowa, which ])astorate he held until ilay, organizations in Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago, 

1882. After a few months' iiiiuistry iu AVinncba.no to sustain the work iu tlie West, in co-ojx'ration 

City, Jlinnesota, he accepted a call from the Tres- with the New York Society, and became the Gen- 

byterian Church at Malvern, loAAa, \\irKh }tosition eral Agent of the Western Society for the Suppres- 

he tilled until called t(» organize the I'rcsbytcrial sion of Vice, composed of the above-mentioned 

Academy at Corning, Iowa, Octolier, issri. lie branches. He has been the active agent of the 

gave up the principalship of that institution iu same to the present time. His vigorous prosecu- 

18S9, and went to Park College to organize the De- tion of tlie work attracted the attention of the Post- 

j)artuient of Biblical History and Practical Christ- Office Department, and in June, 1884, Judge Wal- 

ian Training, which professorshiit he still holds, ter Q. Gresham, then Postmaster-General, ap- 

llighland I'niversity conferred upon him the de- pointed him a Post-Offtce Inspector, and issued to 

gree of Master of Arts in 1872, and Parsons Col- him a commission, commanding that he be ''obeyed 

leg(> that of Doctor of Divinity in 1S!»7. and respected accordingly by mail contractors, 

On the 19th day of April, 1871, he was married postmasters, and all others connected with the 

to Miwy Esther, daughter of Rev. Josiah B. Poage, postal service," and requiring "all railroads, steam- 

of Ashley, :\[issouri. Only one child was born to boats, stages, and other mail contractors to extend 

them, Samuel Poage, who was born at (Nn-ning, to him the facilities of free travel." Each succeed- 



lowa, August 22, 1888, and .lied at Parkville, Mis- 
souri, April 16, 1892. 

SKETCH i6. 
Robert William McAfee, youngest son of Jo- 
sei)h McAfee and Priscilla Ann Armstrong, was 
b(U-n in Clarion County, ^[issonri, October 11, 1848. 
He I'emained on the fann with his father until the 
autumn of 18(i7, enjoying very limited school priv- 
ileges at any time, and during the A\ar of the l!e- 



ing Postmaster-General has treated him likewise. 
He has secured legislation on the subject in almost 
evei-y Southern and Western State, and many 
municipalities. Probably the most valuable work 
accomplished by him was securing the passage of 
an Act of Congress forbidding the dejiositiug Avith 
any express company or other common earlier, 
for delivery in another State or territory any ob- 
scene, lewd or lascivious book, etc., which went in- 



bellion, more limited still, when he entered Pardee ^^^ effect on tlie 8th of Februarv, 1897. 
C.dlegiate Institute at Louisiana, Missouri, of He was married June 9, 187.J, to Grace L. Deane, 

which his ol.lcst biothcr. Rev. John A. .McAfee, was ^^ho was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, May 10, 

president. He went with him to Highland T'lii- is.^s, of Puritan stock. They have four living 

versify, Kansas, in 187(1, and uas gra.lnalc.l from children: Emile AVadsworth ^dcAfee, born Sep- 

that institution in the class of 1872, and received tember 16, 1876, and is a member of the class of 

from it the degree of ]\Iaster of Arts in 187--.. He 1900, in Wabash College; Robert William McAfee, 

took up a special course of study at I'rinceton Sem- Jv., born Febniary 12, 1881, and is a member of the 

inary, but, finding weakness of eyesight forbade dass of 1903, Wabash College; Grace Deane Mc- 

continuous study, turned his attention to interest- Afee, born November 25, 1884; Ruth Winchell Mc- 

ing people in the w..rk uf his brother, John A. Mc- Afee. born January 18, 1889. His residence is at 

Afee, and remained with him nearly two years. He Crawfordsville, Indiana, Avhere he manages to 

then took np etlitorial work at St. Joseph, Missouri, spend his Sabbaths, though under the necessity of 

but had to abandon that on acconiil of his eyes, traveling about .")0,(I00 miles a vear. 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. 



255 



Tlie follnwiii.t!,- from the many imblislicd ictVi- 
enccs to liiiu and his work arc sek'oted. 

The I iih ridf of ( "liifaiid says: 

"A notable victory was scored last week for pnb- 
lic decency by Mr. li. W. ^IcAfee, aijent of the So- 
ciety for the Snppression of Vice, in the conviction 
of Jos('])li 1{. Dnnlop, editoi- of the fMiica.uo J)is- 
liattli. before Judg-e Grosscnp, and his sentence of 
two years in the penitentiary autl the payment of 
$2,000 tine, with the large costs of prosecution." 

The I'resbytery of Chicago i)assed the following 
in reference to the same case: 

'•Jf)s<)lr((I, That tliis Presliylery ex]tress its sn- 
preme gratitication for the zeal an<l liilelity exer- 
cised in the snccessfnl prosecntioii and exclusion 
of the Chicago l)i.'<iHitch fr<mi the Ignited States 
mails. Further, be it resolved, that we recommend 
the Society for tlie Suppression of A'ice to the sym- 
pathy of all our churches." 

The officers of the Woman's Christian Temper- 
ance T^nion sent the following as a personal letter 
to :Mr. McAfee: 

"In belialf of 300,000 white-ribbon women who 
love ]tnrity and righteonsness we desire to thank 
yon for the great victory tliat has crowned your ef- 
forts in convicting the editor and publisher of a 
Chicago paper of sending through the mails mat- 
ter calculated to pollute society. You certainly 
are to be congratulated, and all good men and 
women rejoice at the result of the trial in the 
United States Court. 

"Sincerely yours, 
(Signed) "Fu.vxcis Wirj>.\ni), Pirsidcnt. 

"K.VTHAItIXE LeXTE STEVENSOX, 

"TTelex M. B.vuker. Trcdsiirci-." 
From the report of the Executive Committee of 
the Society for the Su]i]U"('ssion of ^'icc: 

"At present tlie entire work of tlie country in 
tliis line, with the exception of an occasional case 
of glaring notoriety attacked by tlie police, is con- 
ducted by two heroic men wlio stand between the 
twenty-seven millions of youth and the greedy 
monsters who would sap their life lilood. The 
lives of thi'se men have been consecrated to this 
■work of discovery, rejiression and rescue. Tiiey 
have won battles of which any general on the field 
would be proud. Tlicy have endured trials, hard- 



ships, persecutions, attacks; have sacrificed finan- 
cial and social privileges. They have been ready 
to suffer for the cliildren they have saved. They 
stand sui)])orted liy the united voice of the fathers 
and mothers of (he land in theii- demand for vigor- 
ous non-iiolit ical, non-sectarian action." 

The following from Mr. Anthony Comstock to 
the Western Society for the Suppression of Vice: 

"I desire especially to speak of 'Sir. McAfee, my 
co-laborer and co-sufferer. 

"I have known Mr. ^McAfee, 1 think. Iiefoi-e any 
member of your organization knew him. I have 
never known a more faithful, self-denying ami effi- 
cient officer. There is no man in this couuti'y for 
wlioiu I have a more profound respect and admira- 
tion, because of his noble fidelity to an unpopular 
cause. I have symjiathized with him in his nmny 
discouragements, ]iri vat ions, trials and hardshii)s, 
but have never km>wn him to complain or speak 
disloyally or disres])eetf\illy of any of his dii-ectors. 

"I do not believe that there is a member of your 
soci(>ty who realizes what it is to be, as he has been 
throughout many weary years, often separated 
from home and home ties; to be far removed nu)st 
of the time from the sympathy and love of wife and 
children; to s])end a portion of his nights, week in 
and week out, month in and month out, year in 
and year out, on a sleeiiing car or at some hotel 
away from home infinence and comforts, in order 
that he might, as a minute man, respond to every 
demand nmde upon him. Tie is deserving of a 
monument while he lives. *»»»•♦♦ 
"ilcAfee is a whole regiment in himself, and 
when backed by your organization with a purpose 
as faithful as has been his effort, yim will be a 
whole army corps in this nnignificent battle for 
the nuu'al purity of the youth of this great nation." 

SKETCH 17. 
MRS. CHAMP CLARK, ROWLING GREEN, MISSOURI. 

Mrs. Clark was iliss Genevieve Davis Bennett, 
the daughter of Mi-. Joel D. Bennett, by his wife 
:Mary :\[c('lnng .McVfee, who was the daughler 
of George .McAfee, -Ir., and Anne Hamilton. 
George ^fcAfee, Jr.. was the son of George ^fc.K fee, 
tlu' pioneer, au<l liis wife Susan Curry. Genevieve 
Davis Bennett was the youngest of the seven cliil- 
dren of her pai'cnls, and was liorii near New 



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Bloomfield, Callaway County, iMissouri. On her ":Ma Bennett," as she was affectionately called, 

father's side she is descended from the Bennetts came of Scotch-Irish Calvinistic families on both 
of Maryland, who came over from England witli sides— ifcAfee on the paternal side; Hamilton and 



Lord Baltimore. Her grand fa tln-r, Joseph Ben- 
nett, and his brothers, Elijah. Moses and John, set- 
tled in ^ladison County. Kentucky, at an early day. 
Her father was born in that touuty. and her mother 
in fiercer County. Joel D. Bennett and ^fary ^Ic- 
Cluns: McAfee were married in Callaway County. 
Missouri. ^liss Bennett (the subject of this 
sketclil was married December 14, 1881, to Mr. 
Champ Clark, then a lawyer in Bowling Green, 
l\[issonri. Her husband is now known all over the 
Unitwl States as the Hon. Champ Clark, M. C, 
from the Ninth ^lissouri District, he having been 
for many years a member of the Lower House of 
Congress, and one of the wittiest and most elo- 
quent members of that body. 'Mr. and Mrs. Clark 
have had four children liorn to them : Champ, Jr., 
and Anne Hamilton, who died in infancy ; and Ben- 
nett and Genevieve, who are still living, and whose 
handsome faces can be seen portrayed in this vol- 
ume on the same sheet as that which contains por- 
traits of their parents. 

Mrs. Clark's father was born March 1, 1805. 
Her mother (Mary McChing- McAfee) was born 
November 22, 1813, and died March 20, 1903, when 
in her ninetieth year. Her grandfather, George 
McAfee, Jr., was born April 28, 1777, and died 
May 28, 1819. Anne Hamilton, wife nf George Mc- 
Afee, Jr., was born January 11, 1777, and died 
April 7, 1851. An excellent portrait of Mrs. 
George McAfee, Jr., will be found in this volume. 
George McAfee, the jtioneer, was born ,\pril i:'>, 



]\IcClung on the nuiternal. They are strong, 
brainy, prolific stocks. Mercer County. Kentucky, 
is full of them. 

With such ancestry it was inevitalile that Mrs. 
Bennett should be a Presbyterian and a Democrat. 
When a child, and until she migrated to the West, 
she attended New Providence Church, a famous 
seat of Presbyteriauism, where many of her kin- 
dr(Ml lie buried, hei' grandfather, George McAfee. 
Sr.. a soldier of the Revolution under (ieneral 
George Bogers Clark, being the first who was laid 
to rest in that historic spot. 

Her grandfather entered 1,400 acres of land near 
by upon a warrant granted him for his services to 
his country tinder "The Hannibal of the West." 

Her father was Colonel George McAfee (son of 
George, Sr., the pioneer), who fought under Col. 
Dick Jolinson, at the River Thames, and under 
Andrew Jackson at New Orleans. 

She was only two years old when her father re- 
turned from the expedition in Canada, and such 
were her powers of memory that slie recollected 
his home-coming to her last days. 

Mrs. Bennett was a woman of great strength,, 
mentally and physically — a fine type of the Ken- 
tucky pioneers who settled in Missouri, drove out 
the Indians, conquered this rich wilderness and 
established civilization west of the Mississippi, 
making it the most delectable place for human hab- 
itation beneath the stars. 

She reared .seven children of her own, and twice 
that many negroes. She never became reconciled 



1740, and died April 14, 1S03; and his wife, Susan ^^ Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. 

Curry, was born October 8, 1740, and died Septem- All her children grew to manhood or woman- 

ber 10, 1810. Mrs. Clark's paternal grandfather, hood. 

Joseph Bennett, and two of his brothers (Elijali John McAfee and Sedocia Bacon died in the 

and Ptoses), married ladies l)y the name of Davis, flower of their years without being married. They 

who were sisters, Joseph's wife l)eing named ilar- were successful farmers and stockmen. Sedocia 

garet (Peggy). was a Confederate soldier. 

Mrs. Mary McClung (^McAfee) Bennett was a Anne Hamilton married William W. Pitzer, a 

remarkable woman. lawyer, now deceased. She and her only child, 





MRS. GhNEVIEVE B. CLARK. 

WIFE OF HON. CH.^.HP CLARK. 

ISee Sketch No. 17. 1 



HON. CHAMP CLARK, M. C. 

BOWLING GREEN. MO. 

[See Sketch No. 17. 1 





MRS. JOEL DAVIS BENNETT. 

NEE MCAFEE. 

I See Sketch No. 17.] 



BENNETT AND GENEVIEVE CLARK. 

BOWLING GREEN. MO. 

(See Sketch No., 7. 1 




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MR. JOEL DAVIS BENNETT. 
(See Sketch No. 17.] 



.WRS. JOEL DAVIS BENNETT. 
(See Sketch No. 17.] 





tSee Sketch No. 



illN WcAFEE BENNETT. 
(See Sketch No. 17.] 



SKETCHES OF I'ATUONS. 



259 



Anne Bennett Pitzer, reside at Colorado Springs, 
Colorado. 

Joel A., of Kansas Citv, Missouii, married Annie 
Ri'adf(vrd rierndon. To tliciii liavc heeii horn seven 
cliildreu: Little Joel. Sallie Belle. Joel A.. Ed- 
ward Rnckner. (ieorjic (Jrant. Anne Craii; and Sn- 
sie Herudon. 

Creorsie Lisle, of Kansas City, ^lissunri. niarri(>d 
Sue Reattie. Tliej have no children. 

Mollie Coulter married John O. Herndon, 
farmer, of Fulton, Missouri. To them have been 
linrn four children : Sedocia Bennett. Belle Har- 
ris, Mary ^FcAfee. and Champ Clark. 

Genevieve married Champ Clarlc, lawyer of 
Bowling Green, Pike County. [Missouri. 

Mrs. Bennett was firm iu the faith that Presby- 
terians are the salt of the earth. One of her greatest 
cro.sses was that four of her children, Anne Hamil- 
ton. Mary Coulter. Joel A. and Genevieve all mar- 
ried outsiders. 

T^^len a young woman she was tall and well 
built, remarkably strong and active. She was next 
youngest of the child I'en of Colonel George IMcAfee 
and his wife, Anne Hamilton. T have heard her 
brother William McAfee, late of ^NFercer County, 
Kentucky, say that in a scufflle, IMaiy was six to 
anybody's half dozen. Her brotlier. Dr. George 
^FcAfee, late of Hardin County, Kentucky, was two 
yeai-s her junior. When he was just graduated 
from college he came home and said to her, banter- 
ingly, "Now, madam, T am a. ninn. and will run 
things to suit myself and you must mind me." In 
a minute she was wrestling with him, and laid him 
on his back, whei-e he capitulated and begged for 
mercy. i 

^Fy molliei- has ahvays been noted for her benevo- 
lence; I suppo.se there never was a more unselfisli 
person than she. She is a natural-born nurse, and 
can do more to make a sick person comfortable than 
anybody F ever saw. Like all tlie old stock of 
^FcAfees she had an inexhaustible fund of humor. 
Although she had a great head for business and un- 
dei'stood ;i11 kinds of work, she has ahvays been 
a greal reader. To this day, if ^e gets interested 



in a book, she is liable to sit up till 12 o'clock at 
night reading it. 

Her fadiei-'s sisters. ''Aunt Armstrong," "Aunt 
Irving," and "Aunt .McKamey," F have beard her 
spciik of and describe so often tliat 1 feel that they 
are pnsonally known to me. "Aunt Armstrong" 
would never allow the door to be shut winter or 
summer. Tliis came from iier early environments 
w ben (lie Indians were lialile to ci-eep uj) unawares 
and make a forcible entrance into the house. 
George McAfee, Sr., had liis house burned three 
times by the savages. Aunt Armstrong used to tell 
tlie children of that day (my motiier among them), 
many tliiilling stories of encounters with the In- 
dians. She said that one evening she went out to 
milk the cow, her father, George McAfee, Sr. 
standing guard with his gnin, they heard what she 
thought was the cry of a panther, when her father 
told her to hurry and milk the cow — that they were 
to be attacked by tlie Indians — tliat it was an In- 
dian cry instead of a panther's. They drove the 
stock to a hiding place in the woods; fhen they 
built up a large fire in the house to make the In- 
dians think they were still there and tied to the 
fort which was owned liy James :\FcAf'ee. That 
nigiit about !) o'clock George JIcAfee, Sr., and a 
negro mau, under cover of darkness, slipped back 
and witnessed the conflagration of the house; the 
Indians were all iu high gh^, dancing around the 
house thinking that it was iidiabited, and were pre- 
pared to tomahawk them whcTi tliey ran out to 
escape the flames. Aunt Armstrong used to tell 
how. when they fled to the fort she carried her little 
sister Susanna, then a baby, on her back, and that 
she felt a-s light as a feather as slie bounded over 
logs and tlirougli the foi'csts on her way to the fort. 
SusaTina was the youngest of George, McAfee's 
children. She married Robert ^FcKamey. Robert 
McKamey's family and tlie family of James ^FcAfee 
(lie was the oldest son of George McAfee, Sr., liis 
wife was Nancy ^FcKamey, sister of Robert) moved 
to ]\Fissonri in ISiIfi. Thirteen years afterwards, my 
mother, (lien (wcnly-six years of age, came to Jlis- 
souri on a visit lo lier kinsfolk, met mv father, Joel 



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Davis Bennett, of Madison County, Kentucky (his 
older brother, Moses Bennett, had married my 
mother's cousin, Lnciuda, tlie older dauiihter of 
Robert ^McKamev and Susanna McAfee), they were 



D— MARY ROBERT BANKS, who married 
William H. Schuerman, of Oincinnati, Ohio. She 
has no children. 

E— ANITA :\rO()RE BANKS, who married T. 



attracted toward each other from the first; indeed, Parker, of Laurel, Delaware. She has n<> children. 
they were "cut out" for each other by mutual F — CLINTON S. BANKS, who is single, and re- 
friends before they met, and their ac<iuaintance sides in Denver, Colorado. 

ripened rapidly to love. They were married at The mother of the above listed individuals was 

Robert McKamey's house February 19, 1839. My .Xfary Rochester ^IcAfee, and her line is as follows: 

mother has a great fondness and pride in recount- ][(.r father was Robert Livingston JI< Afee, of Co- 

ing the daring deeds of her ancestors, the McAfees, himbia, Misst)uri, and her mother was Jane ^Fur- 

I think her stories of her father's bi'other, James ray Rochester .Moore. Robert L. died in 1870, and 

McAfee, would till a volume, while all of her aunts his wife died in 1855. The said Robert L. :McAfee 

would come in for a fair share. Her own father, was the son of James IMcAfee (a soldier in the AVar 

Colonel George J^IcAfee, died when she was six of 1812), and Nancy McKamey. The said James 

years old. He was a tall, handsome man who al- [McAfee was the son of George McAfee (one of the 

wavs wore ruffled shirts and rode a good horse. tire pioneer McAfee brothers, and a soldier in the 

"Uncle Jimmy," Cousin Robert's father, was a man Revolution of 1770). Said George McAfee was the 

of tremendous size, and was known up and down son of James [McAfee, Sr., and one of the founders 

the river as "Bio- Jim McAfee," and wasn't afraid of Kentucky, and his wife was Susan Curry. Said 

of the devil himself. 

Genevieve Bennett Cl.vrk. 

SKETCH i8. 
MRS. ROBBIE SCHUERMAN, NASHVILLE, TENN. 
]\Irs. Schuerman is a sister of Mrs. Jennie Mar- 
shall, of Unionville, [Missouri (see Sketch 19), and 
the following exhibit shows one of the genealogical 
lines of these ladies and their brothers and sisters. 
It will be seen that their name, before nmrriage, 
was Banks. Their parents were Marvin Rhoten 
Banks and [Mary Rochester {nee McAfee). Their 



James McAfee, Sr., was the sou of John McAfee of 
Ireland, and married Jane McMichael. Said John 
McAfee of Ireland was the son of John McAfee of 
Scotland and married Mary Rogers. Said John 
[McAfee of Scotland married Elizabeth [Montgom- 
ery. John of Scotland and John of Ireland — father 
and son — were soldiers under William of Orange 
and took part in the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 
lfi90. 

Professor Wm. IT. Schuerman, husband of the 
subject of this sketch, is the Dean of the Engineer- 



Si^ETCH 19. 
MRS. JENNIE M. MARSHALL, UNIONVILLE. MO. 



mother was a woman of great beauty of form and ing Depaitmenl of Vanderbilt T^nivcrsity. 
face, and of the most lovely character. The chil- 
dren of Marvin R. Banks and wife were the fol- 
lowing : 

A— LAURA ALICE BANKS, who married 
Thomas C. Lipscomb, of Tennessee, and died June 
13, 1895, without issue. 

B— JENNIE MOORE BANKS, who married 
Neal B. Marshall, of Unionville, Missouri. She 
has one child, named Mary McAfee. 

C— WILLIAM ROCHESTER BANKS, who 
married Sarah Northrup, relict of John Adams. 
He has two children, to wit : Northrup, and Mary 



1 



Boothe. 



Mrs. Marshall is the daughter (d' Marvin Hhoten 
Banks and his wife, Mary Rochester McAfee. She 
is the wife of IMr. Neal B. Marshall, of Unionville, 
Missouri, by wliom she has one child, a daughter, 
named Mary McAfee [Marshall. In the sketch of 
her sister, Mrs. Schuerman. which precedes this 
(uie, will be found additional particulars in regard 
to lier familv. 




MRS. MARGARET D. GUTHRIE. 

HATTON, A\0. 

(See Sketch No. 20.) 





JAMES I. McKAMEY. 
[See Sketches Nos. 2n and s 



MRS. MANDY BROWN. 
[See Sketch No. 20.) 




EDWIN MCAFEE. 

SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. 

[See Sketch No. sj.J 



SKETCHES OF I'ATIJONS. 



2tj3 



SKETCH 20. 
MRS. MARGARET D. (jUTHRIE, HATTON, MO. 

^frs. CTiidivie, whose iiuiidcu iiaiiic was Urown, is 
(lescpuded from George McAfee, the iiotiMl pioneer 
— one of tlie five McAfee brothers — tlirough his 
(laugliter Susan, and was horn October 25, 1853. 
Her father was C. Haniilion Th-own, who was born 
August 14. 1812. and died A].ril 2, 1897. Her 
muiher, whose maiden name was Amanda Mc- 
Kaniey, wa.s born July 23, 1811, and dietl Feb- 
ruary 12, 18U2. Miss ^Margaret D. Krown married 
Mr. D. Baxter Guthrie, who was born December 
23, 1813. The children of D. Baxter Guthrie and 
Margaret L). Brown are the following: (a) Koit- 
KUT B. Guthiue; (,bj Mauy Ve Guthrie^ who is 
dead; (c) U. Taylou Guthuiio; (d) McKajiey 1'. 
Gutukie; and (e) A. Gkace Guthrie. 

C. Hamilton Brown, the father of Mrs. Guthrie, 
moved from Kentucky to near New Bloomfleld, Cal- 
loway County, Missouri. Her maternal grand- 
parents (Kobert McKame\- and Susan ilcAfee) 
came from Mercer County, Kentucky, to ilissouri, 
and settled near New Bloomfleld. Mrs. Guthrie 
had the following brothers and sister: (a) WiL- 
LLv.M Biiuww; (h) BoKEUT McKamey Bkow.x; (cj 
James McAfee Buowa'; (d) JosEi'ii Buuwa' ; (ej 
CiiAKLES H. BitowN ; [i) J. SiiAX.NUN Bitowx J and 
(gl Maky A.nx J>i!(nvN\, \Aho married a Mr. Fry. 

One uf Mrs. Guthrie's maternal genealogical 
lines is as follows: She was the daughter of 
Amanda McKamey by her husband, C. Hamilton 
Brown; and the said Amanda was the daughter of 
Susanna McAfee by her husband, Ivobert Mc- 
Kamey; and the said Susanna was a daughter of 
( Je(jrge McAfee, one of the five pioneer brothers 
wild iiclped to found Kentucky. 

Several (»f the McKameys married McAfees, as 
follows : 1, as just shown, Bobert McKamey mar- 
ried Susanna McAfee, daughter of George McAfee, 
the pioneer, and his wife, Susan Curry; 2, Nancy 
McKamey married James McAfee, a son of George, 
the pioneer, and brother to the Susanna McAfee 
who married Robert McKamey ; 3, John McKamey 
(Robert's brother) married Margaret McAfee, 



daughter of James ^FeAfee, the pioneer. There 
were otlicr intermarriages between these two 
families wiiich need not now be mentioned. 
One of tiie Rickenbaughs also married a Mc- 
Kamey, namely; Jacob Bickenbaugh. who married 
Nancy Clark .A[cKaiiii'y. a daughter of the afore- 
mentioned John ^IcKamey and Margaret McAfee, 
of whom mention will be made in Sketch 21, which 
relates to Miss Sara liickeubaugh. The Robert 
McKamey who married Susanna McAfee had a son, 
Janu'S Irving McKamey, born in 1818, who was 
Mrs. Guthrie's uncle. Of this gentleman we shall 
presently speak. Ivobert ilcKamey was born in 
I'ennsylvania Marcii 7. 1780, and died in Missouri 
in 1850. He was a devoted member and officer of 
the Presbyterian Church in Missouri, and a man of 
noble chai-acter. His wife, Susanna McAfee, was 
born in Virginia August 2(1, 1779, just as the Mc- 
Afees were starting for Kentucky, and died in 
1852, leaving four cliiblreu. 

Mrs. Amanda Bi'own (nee McKamey) was born, 
as above stated, July 23, 1811, and died Feliruary 
12, 1892. She was born near Uarrodsburg, Ken- 
tucky, and when a girl of thirteen her parents 
moved to near New Bloomfleld, Missouri. Here she 
tinited with the I'resbyterian Church in 1828 when 
fourteen years of age, and down to her closing 
days she was a devotcdl\- i)iotis woman. March 9, 
1837, she was married to ^Ir. C. H. Brown. In a 
modest, unassuming way she let her light shine as 
a Christian \a ife an<l mother. .Vmong her last 
words were the cheering ones: "All's well with 
me.'' In the cemetery of Westminster Church her 
dust reposes, waiting for that morning without 
clouds when Christ shall ((uue in power and glory 
to call his people to their full inheritance in his 
completed Kingdom. 

James Irving McKamey, to whom reference has 
already been made, was a beloved uncle of Mrs. 
Guthrie, and it would not be proper to close this 
sketch without a word concerning this godly man. 
He was born near New Bloomfleld, ^Hssouri, Feb- 
ruary 10, 1818. Early in life he confessed Christ 
before men in the Presbyterian Church. In 1850 



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THE WUODS-McAFEi: MEMOKlAl.. 



lie was made a deacon, and about 1878 was made a 
ruliug elder. When the t<yuodioal Female College 
at Fulton was organi/.ctl lie was made one of its 
first Board of Trustees. To this school ilr. Mc- 
Kamej- gave liberally, pledging his word for its 
debts to the point of parting with his childhood 
home. In 1881, when he was sixty-three years old, 
he was mai-ried to Miss Margaret Curry liickeu- 
baugh. He died about six years later, leaving no 
children, but having a considerable estate to be- 
queath to his widow and other loved ones. Modest, 
devout and couscieutiou.s, he was one of the quiet, 
reliable, good-natured and useful men on whom the 
life of a church and the welfare of a community are 
dependent. He was one of four brothers and sis- 
ters, to wit: [a) \\'illiam H., who married Ange- 
lina iScott; (h) Lucinda, who married Moses Ben- 
nett; (cj .Vmanda, who married C. Hiimilton 
Brown; (d) James Irving, who married Margaret 
liickeubaugh. 

SKETCH 21. 
MISS SARA RICKENBAUGH, FULTON, MO. 
Miss Rickenbaugh is a lineal descendant of 
James McAfee, the pioneer, through his daughter 
Margaret, who married John McKamey. One of 
her maternal ancestral lines is as follows : 1, 
James McAfee, the eldest uf the five McAfee pio- 
neers, and his wife, Agues Clark, had a daughter 
Margaret; 2, this daughter, Margaret, who was 
born May 15, 1780, married John McKamey, who 
was born April 12, 1769, and to them was born a 
daughter, Nancy Clark ilcKamey; 3, this daugh- 
ter, Nancy C. McKamey, who was born in Mercer 
County, Kentucky, December 7, 1801, married 
Jacob Eickeubaugh, who was born in Hagerstown, 
Maryland, December 10, 1798. Tliey were married 
December i, 1822. This couple (Jacob and Nancy) 
had eleven children, as follows: (a) Mary Mc- 
Kamey, who married Arthur Barnett; (b) Eliza- 
beth, who married Adam McDounald; (c) Mar- 
garet Curry, who married James I. McKamey; 

(d) Susan Harriet, who married John Barnett; 

(e) James McAfee; (f ) Martha Anne, who mar- 
ried Edgar Rogan; (g) John Thomas; (h) Maria 



Jane, who married Robert Young; (j) Sara 
Frances, the subject of this sketch; and (k) Laura 
Anna. 

It is said liy liie older members of tlic .McAfee 
connections that the McAfees, as a rule, were dark- 
skinned people, with large muscular frames. The 
^IcKameys, on the other hand, were of slender 
iiuild and tlorid cniiiiiicxioii, iiud light or rcnldish 
hair. Nancy Clark McKaiuey resembled her fath- 
er's side of the family, and was a beautiful girl with 
fair skin and blue eyes. Agnes Clark, the wife of 
James McAfee, the pioneer, was unlike her hus- 
band's family in complexion and features, and it is 
said their children had a larger share of good looks 
than the other ^McAfees possessed. It may be that 
this fact, also, helps to account for Nancy Mc- 
Kamey's pretty face. 

Jacob Rickenbaugh came to Mercer County, Ken- 
tucky, in company with I'eter Dunn about 1820, 
from Maryland, and they engaged in the business 
of mill-wrights. Their wives were first cousins, 
both being grand-daughters of James McAfee, the 
pioneer. .Vfter being associated for some years 
with Mr. Dunn iu business Mr. Rickenbaugh moved 
to Missouri. He made his home at Fulton, where 
several of his children still reside. The Ricken- 
baughs have always been known as staunch Pres- 
byterians, and they have long been among the most 
devoted and tiseful members of the Fulton Church. 
Their home was the gathering place for Presby- 
terian elders and ministers whenever Synod or Pres- 
bytery met in the town. 

Miss Gretcheu Yates, whose portrait appeal's in 
this work, is a daughter of ^Ir. and ^Ir.*. Randolph 
Yates, and 3Fi-s. Yates is a datighter of Maria J. 
Rickenbaugh, who is a Mrs. Young. Mr. Chalmers 
B. Young, ^Ir. Carl Price Barnett, and Mr. Robert 
McAfee Bamett are all grandsons of Jacob Rick- 
enbaugh and Nancy Clark McKamey, and lineal 
descendants of James McAfee, the pioneer. 

SKETCH 22. 
J. P. MCAFEE, DILLY, TEXAS. 
James Philip McAfee is the son of Rev. Robert L. 
McAfee bv his wife Jane Rochester Moore, and was 





JAMES McAFEE RICKENBAUGH. 

FULTON, MO. 

[See Sketch No. 21.] 



JAMES 1. McKAMEY. 

(DECEASED.) 

I See Sketch No. ai.l 





JACOB RICKENBAUGH 
[See Sketch No, 91. ] 



MRS. NANCY CLARK RICKENBAUGH. 
[See Sketch No. ji.i 




MISS GRETCHEN YATES, 

FULTON, A\0. 

[See Sketch No. 21.] 




CARL PRICE BARNETT. 
[See Sketch No, 21.) 



ROBERT Al.AFEE BARNETT. 
(See Sketch No. 21.] 




MRS. ANNH IIA.WILTON McAl LE. 

WIFE OF COL. GEORGE MCAFEE. 

[See Sketches 21, 24 and 25.] 




CHALMERS B. YOUNG. 

LEXINGTON. MO. 

[See Sl<etches ^i. 24 and 25, 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



born at New Bloomfield, Missouri, July 24, 1837. 
He formerly resided at Columbia, Missouri, but 
now lives at Dilly, Texas. His fatiier (Robert L. ) 
was a sou of James McAfee by his wife, Xancy ^Ic- 
Kamey; and said James McAfee was a sou of 
George McAfee, the pioneer, by his wife Susan Cur- 
ry. Said George was a son of James McAfee, the 
Irish immigiant, and one of the live McAfee broth- 
ers who helped to found the Commonwealth of Ken- 
tucky. 

James McAfee and Nancy {ncc McKamey) had 
three children, to wit: (a) George; (b) Philip, 
and (c) Robert L., the only one who left children. 
Robert L. McAfee became a minister of the Gosi>el. 
He married Miss Jane Rochester iloore, the daugh- 
ter of Lawsou Moore and Jane Rochester, liobert 
L. and Jane left four children, as follows: (a) 
James Philip, the subject of this sketch; (b) Cor- 
nelia, who is in a convent in Louisville, Kentucky; 
(cj Laura, who died unmarried; and (dj Mary, 
who married Marvin Banks. 

Mr. Jamt^ Philip McAfee was married to Miss 
Anita Mays Alexander, a daughter of James B. 
Alexander and Lucy Fitzhugh Dade, October 22, 
1862. Four children were born to them, as follows : 
(a) Jennie Moore McAfee, who nmrried William 
B. Bates; (b) Lucy Dade McAfee, who married L. 
D. Brewer; (c) Ellen Fitzhugh McAfee, who mar- 
ried Robert Courtney; and (d) Mary McAfee. 

SKETCH 23. 
EDWIN MCAFEE, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
Edwin McAfee is the son of Thomas Cleland Mc- 
Afee by his wife, Martha Amelia Shrodes. Said 
Tliomas Cleland \\as a son of Thomas Clarke Mc- 
Afee by his wife Nancy Greathouse. And said 
Thomas Clarke was a son of James McAfee, the 
eldest of the five McAfee brothers, who helpwl to 
found Kentucky, by his wife Agnes Clark. Edwin 
McAfee, the subject of this .sketch, was l)oru in 
Louisville, Kentucky, January 5, 1851. He now re- 
sides in San Francisco, California, where he is em- 
ployed in the Wells-Fax-go Bank. His father, 
Thomas Cleland McAfee, was born Dectnnber 7, 



1817, married Miss Martha Amelia Shrodes, and 
died jMay 28, 1885. His mother, Martha Amelia, 
died April 27, 1891. Both parents died in San 
Francisco. Thomas Cleland and Martha Amelia 
had tiie following children, to wit: (a) Clarke 
AVilliam McAfee, who married Miss ].,izzie Cook, of 
Louisville, Ky., and had two children, Lloyd and 
Harrison; (b) Lewis Carroll McAfee, who nmrried 
iliss Lena Haggin, daugliter of J. B. Haggin, of 
San Francisco, pioneer and millionaire, and had a 
son, James Ben Ali Haggin McAfee, and a daugh- 
ter, Mabel; and (cj Edwin, the subject of this 
sketch, whose modesty caused him to withhold from 
the editor any details concerning his own life. 

SKETCH 24. 
GEORGE M. FORSYTHE, VANARSDELL, KY. 

George ilcAfee Forsythe was born in Mercer 
County, Kentucky, October 20, 1837, and his pres- 
ent home is near the place of his birth and only a 
few miles from the farm on whicii lived the worthy 
old pioneer wiiose honored name he bears. It is 
probably true that no man mentioned in this vol- 
ume is so closely and so variously related to the 
McAfees as is ilr. Forsythe; for not only both of 
his own parents, but both of his wife's parents were 
lineal descendants of one or more of the five Mc- 
Afee i>ioneers. If Mr. Forsythe were blessed with 
children they would be lineal descendants of 
James, George, Robert, and Samuel McAfee — four 
of the live pioneers — and their exact relationship to 
their numerous McAfee kin could lie reckoned only 
with the aid of a professional genealogist. 

First, his father, Andrew Forsythe, was the son 
of Jane McAfee ( daughter of Robert McAfee, the 
pioneer) 1»y lier husband ^fatthew Forsythe; sec- 
on(lly,his mother. Narcissa W. McAfee, was a daugh- 
ter of Colonel (ieorge ilcAfee, and grand-daughter 
of George, the ])ioneer; thirdly, his wife was the 
daughter of .lohu 15. McAfee, grand-daughter of 
John McAfee, and great-granddaughter of James, 
the pioneer ; and lastly, Mrs. Forsythe's mother was 
Margaret McAfee, a daughter of the Robert McAfee 
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Mr. Forsvthe iss engajix^d iu fanning on lands 
which the McAfee Company prohablj surveyed in 
1773. He has been, since 1887, an elder in the New 
Providence Cluirch, which his ancestors founded in 
1785. A more Ihorough-going ^fcAfee tlian lie it 
would be difficult to find. He is one of ^[ercer 
County's worthy citizens. For additional items in 
regard to his family see the sketch next following, 
namely: that of his twin-bi-othcr. Wm. S. Forsyth. 

SKETCH 25. 
WILLIAM S. FORSYTH, PARIS, MO. 
William Stockwell Forsyth, now a citizen of 
Paris, Monroe County, Missouri, was born in Mer- 
cer County. Kentucky, on the twentieth of October, 
1837. His father was Andrew Forsyth, son of 
Matthew Forsyth. His mother was Narcissa W. 
McAfee, daughttn- of ('(doncd (Jeorge ^IcAfee, and 
his wife, Anne Hamillnii. and said Colonel (ieorge 
McAfee was a son of (Jeorge .AIcAfw, the pioneer. 
The mother of William S. Forsyth's father was 
Jane McAfee, daughter of Ivoliert ^McAfee, the 
pioneer. Thus Mr. Forsyth is a lineal descendant 
of two of the pioneer ^IcAfee brothers, namely : 
Robert and George. ^Ir. Forsyth was a twin 
brothel" of George M. Forsythe. whose sketch pre- 



Jannary 11, 1777, and died April 7. 1851. A good 
])ortrait of this lady will be found in this volume. 

Andrew Forsyth, father of ^N'illiam Stockwell 
Forsyth, was boi'n December 2(5. 1700. He married 
Narcissa W. ^fcAfee. who was born August 10, 
1804, and died April 22, 1875. This couple had 
eight children, as follows: (a) 'Mary J. Lee For- 
syth, who was born October 2, 1831, married Wm. 
R. Evans, M. D., and by him had Ludwig, Jennie, 
ATollie, and An<lrew; (b) Robert R. Forsyth, who 
was born May 21, 1834, married Mary E. Irvine, 
and had AVilliam and Bettie; (c) William Stock- 
well Forsyth, who was born October 20, 1837, mar- 
ried Annie M. Fulton, and now livc^ in Paris, ^Mis- 
souri; (d) George IMcAfee Forsythe, who Mas 
twin brother of the said William S. Forsyth, born 
October 20. 1837, married M. E. IMcAfee, and now 
lives in IMercer County, Kentucky, as stated iu the 
]ireceding sketch ; (e) M. L. Forsyth, who was bom 
December 10, 1840, married Bettie Griffin, and has 
had Yevie, Dunbar, Louise, and Willette; (f) Jos. 
IT. For.sythe. who was bom May 23, 1843, married 
Adeline Shryock January 10, 1873, and died Feb- 
ruary 27, 1880, leaving Wylie and Jean; (fr) Ann 
E. Forsyth, who was born October 17, 1846, married 
William P. ^loyes. and has Joe, Maggie and Wil- 



cedes this one. The ^lissouri brother leaves off the lette; Ch) W. Etta Forsyth, who was born April 

17, 1840, and married Edwin Ferguson, and has 
Andrew and William F. 

Matthew Forsyth, the grandfather of William 
Stockwell Forsyth, was lioi-n March 10, 1700, and 
died August 7, 1840. His wife was Jane ^McAfee, 
daughter of Robert ^fcAfee, the pioneer. She was 
born July 20. 1700. and died February 17. 1839. 
This couple had eight children, as follows: (a) 
Robert; (b) Andrew; fc) John; (d~l William H. ; 
(e) Samuel; (f) Sarah; fgl James; and fh) Julia 
Burford. 

William Stockwell Forsyth was marricxl to Miss 
Annie Mariah I'ulton, by the Rev. J. M. Travis, D. 
D.. :May 18, 1871. :Miss Fulton was a daughter of 
John [Milton Fult()n and his wife, Mary Julina Mc- 
Cutcheon, of Williamsburg District. Soutli Caro- 
lina. Mv. and Mrs. Forsyth have had tlie followiiig 



final r from his name, but the Kentucky brothei- 
retains it. Wm. S. Forsyth was taken to live with 
his uncle. John Forsyth, when a boy of eleven 
years, and by this uncle he was reared. 

Colonel George McAfee, son of George, the pion 
eer, married Anne Hamilton, and by her he had the 
following children, to wit: fa) Narcissa W. Mc- 
Afee, who was born August 10. 1804. and marrietl 
Andrew Forsyth, and died April 22. 1875; (b) 
John McAfee, who was born January 0, 1806, and 
died ]\Liy 29, 1870; fc) Margaret McAfee, who was 
born Decend^er 0. 1807. and died January 21, 1820; 
fd) Mary Bennett :\IcAfee; (e) AY. H. McAfee; 
and (f) George Mc.Vfee. :M. D. Colonel George 
McAfee, the father of the foregoing si.x children, 
was born April 28, 1777, and died May 28, 1810. 
Anne Hamilton, wife of the foregoing, was born 



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childreu, to wit: (a) a son who was hnm and who elected ehler, and lias been an active and capable 
also diet! February 13, 1874; (b) James Fulton officer from the start, first in NeT\' Hope Church and 
Forsvth, who was born October 24, 1875; (c) ^Nlary now in T'luis. lie, in 1880, was a delesjate to the 
Juliua (called "Liua"), who was born October 15, General Assemlily in Tbarleston, South Carolina. 
1881 ; and (d) Ben Travis Forsvth, who was born He often attends llic chincli rourls, and is a work- 
June 4, 1885. ing- tnisteo of Westminster rolletje. 

The followinii- sketch of Mr. Forsyth is from the "Mux 18, 1871, he was married by the Kev. J. M. 

pen of his ]iast()r, the TJev. Dr. J. ^1. Travis: Travis, D. D., to ^fiss Annie ^Fariali Fulton, who 

"I became acquainted with Mr. Wm. Stockwell mi^i'ated from "S^'illiamsburc;, South Carolina, at 

ForsA'th in the summer of 1850. He had just left tlie close of the war. They are the parents of three 

Westminster Collejje. His fatlier had offered to livin;L!: cliildren, two havinii' sione befoi"e. 

liivc liim a medical education, liut after consnlta- "He and his wife are staunch adherents of Pres- 

tiou witli his uuclc John Forsyth, he began busi- byterian usages and pillars in the church. Theirs 

ness for himself on his farm in Monroe County, too is a hospitality open and unostentatious, refined 

IMissoui'i. He was bom in Mercer County, Ken- and genial, such as reminds one of Missouri before 

tucky, October 20, 1837. the dnys of Tkeconstruction. Possessed of ample 

"His uncle John Forsyth, of Missouri, on a visit means, and with a heart for the work, good causes, 

to his father in Stock\\eirs infancy said to his such as he approves, find in him a generous snp- 

uiother: 'When I gi^t innrried T want that boy.' porter. Outspoken in his opposition to immorality 

The mother said : 'Well, you may have him,' and little^ness in conduct, he has enemies; independ- 

hardly aware of what she was promising. After ent in his opinions and self-reliant in his undertak- 

his marriage he sent for his boy, now about eleven ings, there are those who oppose him; successful in 

years of age. The mother, with almost the tears of business, there are those who envy him ; but his 

bereavement, adhered to her promise, and Stock- warm heart and itnselfish kindness bind friends to 

well's home henceforth was in Missouri. His uncle him in tenderest affection and confidence. The 

and his wife (Isabella Berry) were persons of writer is one of them. Thirty and six years of inti- 

sterling qualities, botli of strong minds and refined mate association enables him to write with confi- 

tastes, and wei'e strong chai-acters. They had two dence. He, his wife, and dear children occupy the 

daughters, Mary Lock, wife of Mr. J. N. PoAvers ; place of a brother and his family in the old pastor's 



and Ella Adair, wife of Judge Jas. M. Crutcher, all 
of Paris, IMissouri. JMr. John Forsyth was an elder 
in NeAv Hope Presbyterian Church. This was 
Stockwell's houie, and while he holds in tenderest 
regard his parents he never forgets the wise and 



heart. J. :\[. Tit.vvis." 

SKETCH 26. 

MISS DAINGERFIELD, FOWLER, CALIFORNIA. 

Miss Sallv Daingerfield is descended from James 



faithful training that he received from boyhood to jMcAfee, the pioneer, throngh his son, Thomas 

manhood. A pure heart and an unldemished char- Clarke McAfee. She is a daughter of Joseph 

acter, was his aunt's ideal; true mnnliness, that of Fauntleroy Daingei'field, M. D., by his wife, Mec 

his uncle. Edmunds. Miss Mec Edmunds was the daughter 

"He started in life in war times, ^^^rious circuin- of Edwin Short Edmunds, by his wife, Sally Mc- 

slances kept him out of the regular army of the Afee; and the said Sally ^IcAfee was a daughter 

Confederacy and he would join no marauding of Thomas Clarke McAfee, by his wife, Nancy 

bands. Besides, his uncle's negroes had been taken Greathouse ; and said Thomas Clarke McAfee was 

fi'om him and ho was needed at home. He united the youngest child of James McAfee, the pioneer. 

with the church when young and was soon after Miss Daingerfield's father was the son of Major 



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Joseph FaiuiUeio.v Diuiniicrticlil iind Sally AVith- 
row; and said Joseph I'^uiiitlcroy \\as Ihc son of 
LeKov Dainiicifield, by his wife, Elizabeth Tai-ker; 
and said LeKoy was the son of Colonel William 
Dainijei-tield, by his wife, A])]ihia Fauntleroy ; and 
said Colonel William was the son of Colonel Dain- 
fi'erfield, by his wife, a ^fiss Jferiwether. Her 
mother, ^liss Mee Edninnds, aflei' the death of her 
lirst husbaml (Dr. Daingertield i, married the Key. 
Ileury VanDyke Neyins, 1). ]>. Slie was, as aboye 
stated, the daughter of l-'dwin Short Edmunds, by 
his wife, Sally ircAfee; and sjiid Edwin Short was 
the son of John Thomas Edmunds, by his wife, 
Eliza K. Kauibdph ; and said John Thomas was the 
.'■■on of ^lajor Thomas I'^dnuinds, of the Order of the 
Cincinnati, by his wife, . ^[ai-tlia Short. The wife 
of James MeAfee, the iiioneer, ^fiss Agnes Clark, 
was the daughter of Tliomas Clark, who is believed 
to haye been a near kinsman of ( Jeneral George Rog- 
ers Clark, "the Washington of the West." This re- 
lationsliip of Agnes to General Clark has been 
claimed by yarious members of the ^NfcAfee con- 
uectiou, but the preseut writer is unable to assert 
it as an ascertained fact. S(»yeral considerations 
may be mentioned as giving some coloi" to this 
claim. First, there is the name. The maiden name 
of James McAfee's wife was Clark. Secondly, 
General Clark came from Albemarle County, Vir- 
ginia, and Agnes (Clark) McAfee came from Bote- 
tourt Connty in the same State. Thirdly, General 
Clark's middle name was Rogers (after spelt Rod- 
gers), and James ^rcAfee's grandmother was a 
j\riss Mary Rogers. Fourthly, \\iien General Clark 
first visited the Kentucky wilderness in 177."), he 
came to the very neighborhood in which the ^Fc- 
Afees had made a settlement two years before, and 
in which several of them were busy putting in a 
crop when General Clark reached it. We think 
it very probable that the Clarks and McAfees were 
blood kin, but can nrrt assert it to be the case. 

^frs. Sally McAfee Edmunds, who is Miss Dain- 
gerfield's maternal grandmother, is the only living 
daughter of Thomas Clark [McAfee and the only 
living grandchild of James McAfee, the ])ioneer. 



\n excelleni iMirliail of her will be fonnd on page 
i'.")!', which was made fmiii a ])hotograi)h taken 
on her eightieth birlhday. She was born at James 
^[cAfee's old Slone llonse (which was erected in 
1700, and is still a lialiilalile dwelling), in ;^[el'cer 
(/ounty, Kentticky, April 4, 1S22. She was mar- 
ried to Mr. Edwin Short Edmunds, Septend>er 12, 
1843. She hais had tive children, to wit : (a) Mec 
Edmunds, who married, first. Dr. Daingerfield, and 
Jaler, the IJev. Dr. Nevius; (b) George McAfee Ed- 
munds, wJKt married Ida Craig, and left no chil- 
dren; (c) Tlidinas AfcAfee Edmnnds, who married 
Nettie A'an N'lear, and left three chiblren, Evaline 
Louise, ^larguerite and Thonuis, Jr. 

^liss ^fec Ednninds, who became the mother of 
[Miss Daingerti(dd, was born at Clay Hill, Christian 
County, Kentucky. She married Dr. Daingerfield, 
February 3, ISO!), and by him had two children, as 
follows: (a) Sally, the subject of this sketch ; and 
(b) iNfarion Louise, who died in infancy. After 
the death of her first husband, ilrs. Daingei-field 
mai-ried the Rev. Dr. Nevins. 

Thomas Clark McAfee, son of James, the pioneer, 
and great-grandfather of Miss Daingerfield, was a 
favorite sou of his father; and when bis father 
wrote his will shortly before his death in 1811, he 
be(|nealhed his homestead and a large body of land 
to him, and made him one of his executors. Thomas 
Clark [McAfee was born at [^[cAfee Station (or 
Fort) in 1785, married Nancy Greathouse, daugh- 
ter of ^lajiU' Isaac Greathouse, in 1808, and died at 
the old Stone House in 1Sl'7. His wife survived 
him about five yeiirs. To this couple eight children 
were lioiii : (a) George Greathouse [McAfee, who 
became a Presbyterian minisler, -was born Novem- 
ber 20. 1809, and married [Martha Anne Eliza [Mary 
Jane Sally Edmunds, the only daughter of John 
Edmunds and Eliza Hannon Randolph. George 
and wife had our daug'hter, George Anne, who mar- 
ried Charles F. Ratcdiffe, JM. D., of Christian Coun- 
ty, Kentucky. Ciiai-lcs F. and (ieorge Anne hail 
oleveu cliildrcii, io wit: 1. Charles Tlieodore; 2. 
Kale; :>. Kiciiard ; i. lOdwiu I*[;(luiun(ls; ."). .\nue. 
iKU'n in ISCl, and died in 181)2; •>. (ieorge, \vhi> 



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iiuiiTied and has cliildivn; 7. .Mec, who iiiavried 
and has chihlrcn ; S. IIciivv ; 0. ^[ary, who uianied, 
has om* child aud lives in Alexandria. I^misiana ; 
10. ;\[attie, who died in childhood; aud 11. Jenny 
Carroll, who with her inolher lives in San Antonio, 
Texas. 

(b) Tlie second child of Tlionias Clark ^McAfee 
and Xaucy Greathouse was Isaac, wlio was born 
-March 3, 1812, and died March 19, 1818. He mar- 
ried Maiy Da\is, of Tayloi'sville, Kentucky. 

(c) The third child of Thomas and Xaucy was 
Elizabeth Eidiiley, who was born ilay 19, 1815, and 
died July 28. 1834. 

(d I The fonrth child was Thomas Cleland Mc- 
Afee, who was Iwrn r)eceml>er 7, 1817, and died 
:May 28. 1885. He married :Martha Shrodes, of 
Pittsburc:, Penu'sylrania, who dic^l in San Fran- 
cisco, California, April 27, 1894, leaving thi'ee chil- 
dren, as follows : 1. Clarke William, who married 
Miss Lizzie Cook, of Louisville, Kentucky, and had 
issue, Lloyd find HaTrison; 2. Lewis CaiToll, who 
married a Miss Tx^na Hajijrin; and 3. Edwin, who 
now lives in San Francisco. 

(e) The fifth child of Thomas and Nancy (to be 
mentioned hea-e) was William Lewis IMcAfee, who 
married Cornelia Zane, of Wheeling, W>st Vir- 
ginia. The children of William L. and Cornelia 
are the following: 1. Blanche, who married 
Tlionias Atclierson, and had several children, all of 
whom died in infancy except Blanche and Corne- 
lia ; 2. ^lai'y, who married Vess Hamilton, and had 
two daughtei's; 3. Cora, who is nnmaTi-ied. ^[rs. 
William L. ^fcAfee. ^Mi-s. Hamilton. ^liss Cora Mc- 
Afee and the four gTanddanghters live in Asheville, 
Noi-th Carolina. 

(f) TIh' sixth child of Thomas Clarke McAfee 
and Nancy frreathons^' was Sarah. Avho was bom 
April 4, 1822, of wlioni an a(<<innt has already been 
given in this sketcli. 

(g) Tlie seventh cliild of Tlionias C. and Nancy 
was America ^IcAfee. who was born April 26, 1824, 
and died December 28, 1845. She married Thomas 
Porter, of Versailles. Kentucky. an<l liad one 
flaughter, Mec, who married a ^Ir. Craig. 



( hi Tlie eighth and last child of Thomas Clarki' 
McAfet:" an<l liis wife. Nancy, was named Nancy 
Clarke ^McAfee, wlio was born July 11. 1827, and 
died NoAX'mber 17. 1832. 

SKETCH 27. 
MRS. W. L. MCAFEE, ASHEVILLE. NORTH CAROLLNA. 

Mi's. McAfee is the widow of William Ivewis Mc 
Afee, the youngest child of Tiiomas Clarke 31cAfee 
and Nancy Greathouse. lie was l>orn in Mei'cer 
County, Kentucky (and prol)ably at the old "Stone 
House''), Octolier l(i, 1S19. When a ycmng man 
he moA'ed to Louisville, and became a ]»romiuent 
busiiness nuin of that city. There he met and nmr- 
ried iliss Cornelia Zane, youngest daughter of 
Noali Zane, of A>'h(*ling, West Virginia, on tlw 
28th day of April, 1846. He afterwards moved to 
Wheeling, West Virginia, and took an active part 
in the development of that place. To this couple 
three childivn were l)orn, to wit: (a) Blanche, 
who married Thomas Acheson, by whom she had two 
children, Blanche and Conielia. (b) iMary Lizzie, 
who marrit^I Sylvester Hamilton, of Woixlsfield, 
Ohio. ;Mr. Hamilton is dead. Two daughters of 
this couple. Blanche and Maud, now live in Ashe- 
ville, North Carolina, (c) Cora, the third child 
of William L. and Cornelia, is unmarriefl and lives 
with her widowed mother in Asheville, North Caro- 
lina. William L. ^NfcAfee diixl in Asheville, North 
Candina, November 8, 1890, aged seventy-one years. 

Noah Zane. the father of ^Irs. ^McAfee, was a 
man of large landed estates in Wheeling, West Vir- 
ginia, and gave li)>erally to the endowment of sev- 
eral churches in that city, and to Lindsley Insti- 
tute, and also to various other institutions. Coluui 
bus. Lancaster and Zanesville, Ohio, were laid out 
by Uiiii. tlie last-meiitioni^l Cj^ty being namwl for 
him. During the investment of Fort ;McHeni-y 
l)y the British, in September, 1814, the Elizabeth 
Zane who carried powder to the besieged Americans 
in the fort was a great aunt of ^Mrs. ;McAfee. 

Many of the details presented in the sketch next 
preceding this relate to the family of AVilliam L. 
^McAfee, lo which the reader is referred. 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. 

SKETCH 28. 

MISS ANNIE T. DAVEISS, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. 



•2T6 



Miss Annie Trinililc Davt'iss, fonrtli cliild of llic 
late AA'illiani Davciss, of llaiTodslmrii^KcntnckyJiy 
Iiis wife, .Maria Tlioinitson, is a lineal descendant of 
^>aimud 3rcAf(H% the itioncer, Avho niove^l to Ken- 
tnoky with the ^IcAfee (-(donY in 1770. Tlor father 
— known as Alajor William Dareiss — was the only 
child of .Indite Samuel DaAT'iss l)y his wife, Han- 
nali McAfee; an'd the said Hannah wass the fifth 
cliihl of Samuel .Mc.M'ee, llie pioiieei-, liy his ^\■ife, 
Hannah Mc< "oiniick. .Mrs. Maria Daxciss, inc 
Thompson, the iiiotlier of the siihject of this sketch, 
was tile daujilifer of thi> Hon. Jolin linrton Tivonip- 
son, former Tnited Stated! Senator from Kentnoky, 
from 18.");? to 18."ilt. ;Mrs. 'William Haveiss came 
of a family noted for their iutellectnality and 
strength of clniracter, and havinf;' enjoyeid fine edn- 
cational and social advantajivs and heini; a devont 
adlierent of tlie Preshyterian Cliurch, she was hon- 
ored and admired by all who knew her as one of 
the lu'st e.xamides of tlie culture of Central Ken- 
tucky during the period covered by iu'r long life. 

Jn<lge Samuel Daveiss was a brother of the dis- 
tinguished Colonel Josejih Hamilton Ihirass, who 
was killed Novendicr 7, ISll, at the battle of Tip- 
jiccanoe, and was prominent in the history of Ken- 
tucky, lie was an able and successful lawyer, a 
gentleman of the old scIkhiI, and accumulated a 
c(unl'oi-table estate, which he left to his only son. 
He was connected by ties of blood or marriage with 
a number of the most ])roniinen't families of Ken- 
tucky. 

Samuel AIcAfee, the pioneer, the great grand- 
father of Mi.ss Annie T. Daveiss, was one of the 
five distinguished sons of James McAfci', Senior, 
who took an active anil prominent part in that 
early uiovement which resulted in the founding of 
the Commonwcaltli of Kentucky, lie was born in 
October, 174S, as aiijieais from the inscription on 
hi.s grave-stone in New I'rovidence Churchyard. 
He dieid June 8. 1801. His wife was .Miss Hannah 
McOormifk, a lady of Scotch-Irish descent, Who 



came to A'irginia from Pennsylvania. This couple 
had eight children, to wit : 

(a) The first cliild of Samuel and Hannah Mc- 
Afee was John Ale. Vice, who married Margaret AIc- 
Kamey. 

(b) The secon<l was Anne, \\lio marrie<l Tliomas 
King, of Shelby County, Kentucky. 

(c) The third Mas Kobert, who married Pris- 
cilla Armstrong. 

(d| The fourtii was Jane, w iio nuirried Heriah 
Magoffin, Senioi', the fatiier of the late I>eriah 
.Magoflin, who was <io\eiiior of Kentucky at the 
outbreak of the Civil War, and resigned August 1<S, 
18(iil. C.overnor .Magoflin married a .Miss Shelby, 
a daughter of (Jcnernor Isaac Shelby, and had a 
large family of children. Among these were the 
following: 1. Sue, who married a Air. (laither; 
1!. Periali (tltirtl), who has long resided in Dnluth, 
.Minnesota; 3. (Sertnide, who married Afr. Frank 
Singleton; 4. Ebenezer, wln> resides in Harrods- 
burg, Kentucky. 

((') The fifth was Hannali, who married Judge 
Samuel Daveiss, as already i^hown. 

I f I The si.xth was "Willhuu, A^ho was a merchant 
in Harrodsliurg, and married ai Airs. LoAvery. 

(g) The seventh was Samuel, Jr., who died 
young witJrout having married. 

(h) The eig'hth and last child of Samn(d AIcAfee, 
the pioneer, by his wife, Hanmali AlcCormick, was 
Alary, a most beautiful woman, who nmrried the 
Hon. Thomas P. Aloore, once a mendier of the 
Fnited States House of Kepresentatives, and 
United States Alinister to the Republic of Colondiia 
from 1829 to 1883. 

Judge Samuel Daveiss and his wife, Hannah 
McAfee, seem to have had only one child, a sou, 
A^'illiam, who nrarried Afiss Alaria Thompson. TN'il- 
liara and Alaria had eight children, whose names 
appear below: 

(a) The first child of ^^■illiam and Alaria was 
IIa,nnah Daveiss, who nmrried William II. IMtt- 
man, by whom she had six children, as follows: 1. 
Nannie Trabno Pittman, who nmrried Archer An- 
ders(m and by him had one cliild, named Jean llani- 



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ilton Anderson; 2. William Daveiss Pittmau, wlio 
married Sallie D. Patterson by whom he had four 
children, Velona (deceased), Marie, Cora and Wil- 
liam Daveiss Pittman, Jr.; 3. Asa Pittmau (now 
deceased), who married JIazie Walker, and had 
one child, Martha Pittman ; 4. Marie D. Pittman, 
who died in infancy; 5. Trabue Pittman; and 6. 
William H. Pittman (deceased). 

(b) The second child of William and Maria Da- 
veiss was John Burton Thompson Daveiss, who 
married Miss I^eouora Hamilton, by whom he had 
two children, to wit : 1. Max'ia Thompson Daveiss ; 
and 2. Mortiiucr Hamilton Daveiss. 

(c) The thii-d child of William aud Maria was 
Nannie, who died in infancy. 

(d) The fourth was Annie Trimble, the subject 
of this sketch. 

(e) The fifth was Samuel, who died iu infancy. 

(f) The sixth child was Jean Hamilton, who 
married William Warren, and by him had four 
children, to wit : 1. Marie, who married Liicien 
Beckner, and had issue, Jean and Elizabeth; 2. 
William Warren (deceased) ; 3. Jean Hamilton; 
and 4. Letitia Craig. 

(g) The seventh child was William J. Daveiss. 
(h) The eighth and last child of Major William 

Daveiss and Maria Thompson, was Samuel Daveiss, 
who resides in Louisville, Kentucky. 

The father of Judge Samuel Daveisvs, and Col- 
onel Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, was Joseph 
Daveiss, and his mother was Jean Hamil- 
ton. The said Jean was the daughter of 
Robert Hamilton by his Avife, Margaret 3Ic- 
Kee. Jean had a brother, William Hamilton, who 
married and moved to Kentucky ; and a sister, 
■Miriam Hamilton, who marriwl a Mr. Robinson, 
and became the mother of General Robinson, who 
was in the ilexicau War. The above-mentioned 
Robert Hamilton was a son of Xinian Hamilton, 
and came from Scotland to Ireland, and thence to 
Pennsylvania, whei"e he met and married ^Margai-et 
McKee. The McKee family to which said Mar- 
gai"et McKee belonged were Scotch-Irish. They 
passe<l from Scotland to Ireland, and sided with 



the Protestants under William and ^lai-y (1690). 
In 1737 they migrated to Pennsylvania, and from 
tlience moved down into the Valley of Virginia. It 
thus apiJeai's that the Daveiss family in Kentucky 
are descended along several lines fnmi excellent 
v'^cotch-Irish Preslyyterian stock. 

SKETCH 29. 
SAMUEL D. JOHNSON, FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY. 

Samuel Daveiss Johnson, younger of the two 
sons of Benjamin F. Johnson, by liis wife, Hannah 
Ellen Mooi-e, was Innrn in Frankfort. Kentucky, 
August 31. 1S50. On the 27th of Januaiy, 1S92, he 
was niaiTied to Miss Margaretta Harrison Martin, 
daughter of William Howard IVIartin and his wife, 
Margaretta Ross Harrison. Mr. Johnson is one 
of the successful merchants of Frankfort, Ken- 
tucky. He is a lineal descendant of Samuel Mc- 
Afee, the pioneer, and his wife, Hannah McCor- 
mick, and is nearly related to tlieMoores.^Magoffins, 
Daveisses and other prominent Kentucky families. 
5Iuch of the matter given in the foregoing sketch 
of iriss Annie T. Daveiss relates directly to Mr. 
Jdmson's family and need not be repeated here. 
His mother, Hannah Ellen ^loore, was a daughter 
of the Hon. Thomas P. Moore by his wife, Mary 
ilcAfee ; and the said Maxy was the youngest of the 
eight children of Samuel ^IcAfee, the pioneer, by 
his wife, Hannah ^IcCormick. ]Mary was a lady 
of great beauty, and became the Avife of Thomas P 
ilooi-e, as above stated. The children of Thomas 
P. ^rooi"e and ^lary ^McAfee wei-e the following: 

(a) The first cbild was James J. Moore, wiio ac- 
companied his father to ]\[exico as a Lieutenant 
in the regiment of which his father was Lieuten- 
ant Colonel, and was a gallant and meritoiiou.'' 
young officer. 

(h) Tlie second child of Thomas P. and ^FaiT- 
was Mai-y Lock Moore, wiio married Dr. C. S. 
Abell, a surgeon in the I'nited States Regular 
Army during the ^Mexican War. Dr. Abell and 
ilary L. iloore left two children, to wit: 1. Rus- 
sell Abell, M. D., who died in St. Ivouis, Missouri, 
in Januarv. ISO."; and 2. ^farv, who is unmarried. 



SKETCHES Ol- I'ATHONS. 



Afrs'. AIk'II (li«l Ix't'oi-c n'-achiuji- iiiidillc life, tiiid 
!)r. Ahcll lived to (tld ;ii;('. dyiiij; in ]'M):\. 

I c I The Ihird and last child of 'riiiiinas 1'. Moore 
and .Marv .McAfee, was Hannah Kllen Moore, wiio 
married lieiijaniin l\ Johnson, and was the niolher 
of the snlijeci of I his sketch. 

Tlioniiis 1'. .\Iooi-e was liul a hoy, aliendinji school 
at Transylvania ruiversity. \\lien the War of 1812 
broke out. but a year laiter, fiiv<l by the fervent 
IHitriotism of his race, he enlisted. He was made 
rajitaiii of one of the Kentucky companies, and 
render(>d conspicuous services in the campaign 
aii'ainst the British and Indians in Northern Ohio 
ami Canada. In 1823 he was elected to represent 
Ins district in Congress, and soini after he was ap- 
]iointed by Presid(>nt Jackson to represent the 
United States as ^Minister to Colondiia. Tie was en- 
gagefl in the peaceful pui-suits of life at Harrotls- 
burg, Kentucky, when the War with Mexico began 
tl846). and he tenderefl his services to the Govern- 
ment. Soon after he was commismoned as Lieuten- 
ant-Golone!l in the Regular Army, and served 
throughout the campaign in ^lexico with distim- 
tion. He was a gallant and brilliant man, both in 
war and in political life. 

-Mr. Uenjamin Franklin Johnson, husband of 
Hannah Ellen Moore, was a prominent and suc- 
cessful merchant of Frankfort, Kentucky. Mr. 
and .Mrs. 1>. F. Johnson left but two ciiildren, both 
olllieni sons, as follo^vs: (a) AVilliani .McAfee 
Joiinson; and (b| Samuel Daveiss Johnson, the 
snlijeci of this sketch, who is the leading dry goods 
nici'clianl of Frankfort. 

SKETCH 30. 
fJVVIGHT A. MCAFEE, SHEl.BYVILLE. KENTUCKY 

.Ml". Dwight A. McAtw is a lineal descendant 
of George McAfee, the pioneer, and his wife, Susan 
<-'nrry, as is shown herein. \\'e regret that the 
records of .Mr. .McAfee's family have, for some 
reason, noi heen accessible to him or to the author 
of this work; and this fact, together with the ex- 
treme modesty of the subject of this sketch, ac- 
crmnis for the veiy meagre details presented con- 



cerning him and his family. .Mr. McAfee resided 
in Law rencebnrg, Kenlncky. uji to alMiut 1!)02, 
when he niove<l to Slielliy ("onnty, Kenlncky. and is 
now tin re engaged in farming and stock-raising. 

The father (tf Dwiglit .^. :McAfee Was AN'iiliatn H. 
^fc-^fee; and said W'illian: 11. was the son of Col- 
onel George .Mc.\fee and .\nne Hamilton; an<l said 
Colonel George was a son of George ^[c.Vfee, the 
])ioneer, ami Susan Curry. 



SKETCH 31. 

R. J. ALEXANDER, McBRAYER. KENTUCKY. 

!Mr. Richard JtVhnson .Mexauder is a son of 
James Alexander and Mary Cardwell, and lives 
in Andei'son County. Kentucky, near the village of 
^[cBrayer, where he was born and has spent his 
life. He is engaged in farming and stock-raising 
netar the bank of Salt River, very close to where 
the McAfee Company first began suiweying land 
on that stream in July, 1773. He is a lineal de- 
scendant of Robert ^fcAfee, the pi(uieer, who was in 
that immediate A'icinity with his four companions 
131 year.s ago. ^[r. Richard J. Alexander mam'ed 
^liss Julie .Vnn Dicker', by whom he has had five 
children, to wit: (a) Mildred Alexander, who 
married Robert Phillips; (b) Fannie Alexander, 
who married ^A'illiam Painter; (c) Emma Alex- 
ander, who married J. W. Sale; (e) William Alex- 
ander, who nmrried .Maiy Cutiningham; and (f) 
Jingei* Alexander, who married Fanny Hardwick. 

The aforesaid Jaim»s Alexamler who nmrriei^l 
Glairy Car<lwell was a S(m of AVilliam AlexandiM*. 
by his wife, ^fargaret Railey, whom he nmrneil in 
Virginia, in 1783. Tlie said ^Fary Cardwell, the 
mother of R. J. .Vlexander, was the daughter of 
John R. Cardwell; and said John Cardwell mar- 
ried Anna ^[cAfee. daughter of Roliert McAfcv, 
the pioneer. The aforesaid William Alexander, 
who married .Margaret Railey, came to what is now 
Anderson County, iui 1783, and erected the first 
dwelling evei- built there by a white man, and on 
this place Mr. R. J. Alexander now resides. 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



SKETCH 32. 
J. M. ARMSTRONG. ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA. 

James :Mitcliell Aniistruiii; \\;is boi-n ami reared 
ill Mercer County, Keutucky, in llie Salt River 
neighborhood. His wife was Miss :Mary Yinceiit 
Turner. His fatlier was Joseph Annstronc;, who 
married :Miss Charlotte :May. Joseph Annstrong 
had a brother William, who was a member of Cap- 
tain. Robert B. McAfee's company in the regiment 
of Colonel Richard il. Johnson and served in sev- 
(>ral of the campaigns of the War of 1812. Mr. 
James ^l. Armstrong is a lineal descendant of 
Georo-e McAfee, Sr., tlirough his eldest daughter, 
^klary. His paternal grandfather was Rol)ert Arm- 
strong, the husl)and of the Mary McAfee just men- 
tioned as the eldest daughter of George ^McAfee, 
tiie pioneer, and his wife, Susan Curry. Atten- 
ti(m is here called to the fact that in tlie list of 
the children of George McAfee, the pioneer, a« 
given by General Robc-i-t B. :\rcAftt' in his Auto- 
biography, the name of :Mary dives not appear. 
That was a strange omission fivr such a clironicler 
as General McAfee to make; and we incline to the 
opinion that the fault lies not with him, but with 
some careless copyist of his manuseript history. 
:^Ir. Armstrong, the subject of this sketch, is thor- 
oughly infonned in regard to his family history, 
and he positively asserts that his grandmother, the 
wife of Robert Armstrong, \\'as name<l :Mafry, and 
was the eldest daughter of George IMcAfee, Sr., tlie 
pioneer. 

From :Mr. James :\I. Armstrong, the author has 
obtained the following items of interest: 

1. He states that George McAfw, the pioneer, 
was the tallest one of the five McAfee Iwothers, he 
being six feet, four inches liigh, and of slender 
build. He was called "The OornstaJk" by his rela- 
tives. 

2. Josejih Armstrong, father of the subject of 
this sketch, married Cluulotte 3Iay, whose mother 
was a sister of old Dr. Thomas Cleland, of precious 
memoi-y. Joseph was a boy four years old \\')icn 
George McAfee died, and lie used to tell his chil- 



dren that he remenibere<l seeing the old )uonecr 
(his grandfather I licfore his deatli in ISICI 

3. Robert Armsti-ong and :Mary McAfee, his 
wife, were in James :McAfw^'s Fort on Salt River, 
'May 9, 1781, when about one hundred and fifty In- 
dians attacked it. This is Mr. James ^M. Ann- 
strong's statement, but it conflicts with Generai 
Roliert B. McAfee's narrative. The General ex 
pressly afltirms that it was in the fall of 1781 — 
months after this attack on the fort — that Robert 
and Alexander Armstrong, tlie eldest sons, re- 
spectively, of John and William Armstrong, 
joined the ^IcAfee settlement. The author does 
not undei'take to reconcile these two accounts. ^Ir. 
James ]\I. Armstromg says it was his grandfather 
(Robert), who was sent out of the fort that nioiii- 
ing as a niessengei' to run the gauntlet, as it wwe, 
and convey to the men at the Harro'dsburg Station 
information of the perilous situation of the thii-teen 
beleaguered men in tiie fort and who met them as he 
ran, coming in full gallop, about forty-five strong, 
to the i-elief of tlie McAfees, led by Colonel :Mc- 
Gary. 

4. George ifcAfee, the pioneei", had two sons who 
wei"e men of tremendous size and daring, namely: 
James, and George, Jr. The former was known 
as '"Big Jim ^McAfee," and his courage and resolu- 
tion were equal to his physical strength. George, 
who was afterwards known as Colonel George IVfc- 
Afee, and mairrietl Anne Hamilton, was also a man 
to be shunned in an encounter. Tlic^se two broth- 
ers, and Joseph Woods, and TS'illiain Annstrong, 
Sr., and Jr., Robert Forsythe, and William Adams, 
all related to «icli ot1u«r by blood or maiTiage. one 
or botli, were niembei"s of that company of Colonel 
Richard ^f. .Tolnison's regiment in the War of 1812, 
of which Robei't B. ^FcAfee was the captain. That 
company numbered one liundred and sixty-three 
men and oflficei's, and took a conspicuous ])art in 
tlie cliai'ge agJiinst Tecumseh's warriors in the 
swamp at the Battle of the Thames, October. 1813. 
5. Mary McAfee (the graiwlmother of Mr. J. M. 
Armstrong) Avas milking the cows at lui" father's 
place below James ^McAfee's Station late one even- 



ski; TCI IKS (»l^ TATIJONS. 



iiiji', ami S'lie licanl tlie li(>(>tin<>- of what souiidcil 
like an owl in the dark forest just across tlie rivor. 
A( llial iiimiu'iit licr fallicr ( (icoi-tic. tlic ]>i(in('ci') 
caiiic lip In III I-. lie iilsii hail licanl llial invstcri- 
uus, ((inhKiiis lidol, ami he iiii|uii'cil nf his ilan.nh- 
tcr, then a, iiicrc tx'wl — whether In lid in l'(i'niiat ion 
oi- to wafu iier, does not a]>|iear — "\\'as that an 
owl that JKKtted then?" llei- innocent reply was 
"Vfs; and another one hooted a little farther up 
the river a Axhile ayo." ller father, who, like all 
I he McAfee men, was fully versed in the tricks of 
the savages, said to her: "lluny up ycmr milking; 
that's Indians." His wife was sick in hed at the 
time, hut he went at once into tiie cahin and told 
her to get up, ats he liad just heard Indians hooting 
across the river. !She saiid he must lie mistaken; 
and, furthermore, she was too ill to go out. He told 
her he was going at once, and wcmld take the chil- 
li reu. She s'aiw he was sure oi daiUger, and she 
ipiickly arose, ami was soi>n on the oidy available 
horse with cue child behind her, and another in 
her lap. Mary \\ent afoot, carrying her three-year- 
old sister on her back. It was threi' mik^ to the 
fort, but they all got there in safety. The next day 
some men of the setitlemeint found the unmistakable 
signs of Indians behind a fodder stack wiiei'e they 
had hidden in order to kill anyone who should 
venture out of the house in that direction. Uad 
the family attempted to remain that night in that 
defenceh ss cabin all (d' them woidd ]>robal)ly have 
been scalped jr carried away into captivity. This 
is a sample of the conditions under which tlie pio- 
iiec rs settled Kentucky. 

Miss Mary \'incent Turner, whom Mr. J. M. 
Armstrong married, passed thrtrtigh some remark- 
able vicissitudes in her early life, iler parents 
came from Alabama to Louisiana in 1857 and set- 
tled on the Calcasieu Kiver, forty miles west of the 
town of Alexandria. During the ("ivil War she 
lost both parents, four uncles and three aunts. The 
male relatives died in the army. Thus she was left 



without a white relative to care for her, and she 
\\as sent to the Cam]) Street Orphan Asylum iu 
Zs'ew (M-leaus to be reared. 

The children of James M. Armstrong and his 
wife Mary are the following: (a) Joseidi Lapsley; 
(b) Iiichard Turner; 1 1 I Lotta Hermenia; (d) 
James Mitcliell, Jr. ; lei Tvtifus Vincent, and (f) 
Martha Ashley. 

SKETCH 33. 

MISS HARRIET L. MCAFEE, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. 

Mr. James Alexander McAfee, of Louisville, Ken- 
tucky, was the grandson of (ieneral Koliert B. Mc- 
Afee, \\ ho was the son of IJoliert, the pioneer. lie 
was born in tlie ohl Stone House in fiercer County, 
Kentucky. His father, >\'illiam A. McAfee, mar- 
ried Anna E. Crockett, who was a daughter of 
Anna E. Histone and Samuel Crockett. Samuel 
Crockett was a son of Colonel Anthony Crockett, of 
the Revolution. 

Mr. James A. McAfee was a man ot superior at- 
tainments, and bad a strong personality. In every 
sphere of life he did his duty ; no responsibility was 
sihirked, but he nle^'er impressed you that duty was 
irksome. His manner, sympathetic and quiet, gave 
a strong assurance of the man's ability and sincer- 
ity. In appearance, the high cheek homes, broad 
forehead, blue eyes ami dark hair, besides his 
height, 6 feet 2 1-2 inches, he had the characteris- 
tics of the McAfees. He married Stella Joyes, a 
daughter of Judge John Joyes and granddaughter 
of ]dajor ThomaiS .Martin, of the Kevolutiou, and 
one of the original mend)ers of the Society of Cin- 
cinnatus. They had three children : Harriet Lanier; 
Annie, who nmrried Koliert Dalaney ; and Leal. In 
Ills home life, the man showed at his best. They 
spent half of their time in Louis\ille and the rest 
in a suburb, Pewee Valley, about sixteen miles 
away. His nephew, John Woods, made his home 
with them. Mr. James A. McAfee was drowned 
while fishing in Florida. 



THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



GROUP THREE. 



PATRONS DESCENDED FROM THE WOODSES ONLY. 



SKETCH 34. 
JAMES W. LAPSLEY, LATE OF ANNISTON, ALABAMA. 

Judge James Woods Lapsloy, who was among 
the earlier original snliscribt^rs to this pul)lioation, 
died before it was issned. He was a lineal descend- 
ant of Michael Woods of Blair Parle, through two 
of Michael's children, namely; his daughter Sarah, 
and his son Andrew. The iltita concerning his 
family and himself were all derived from him, and 
nearly all that appears in tliis sketch \\as from 
his own pen. He was the son of liobert Armstrong 
Lapsley and his wife Catharine N\'alker; and the 
said Kobert A. Lapsley was the sou of John Laps- 
ley and his wife Mary Armstrong; and the said 
John Lapsley was the sou of Joseph Lapsley and 
his wife Sarah Woods; and the said Sarah Woods 
was the daughter of Michael AVoods of Blair Park 
and his wife Mary Campbell. This exhibits one of 
the lines of his descent from the old pioneer of 
Albemarle County, Virginia ; the other will now 
be given. 

The aforesaid Catharine Walker, who was Judge 
Lapsley's mother, was, like the man she married, 
a lineal descendant of Michael, of the fourth re- 
move, as follows: She was the daughter of Mar- 
gai-et NVoods by her husband John M. ^^'alker; and 
said :Margaret Wooils was the daughter of James 
Woods by his wife Nancy Kayburn; and said 
James Woods was the son of Andrew Woods and 
his -wife ^Mai'y I'oage, and said .Vndre^\• ^^'oods was 
the sou of Michael \\'oods of Blair Park by his wife 
Mary Campl>ell. 

The Lapsleys came from the Xia-th of Ireland to 
Pennsylvania, where some of their descendants 
still reside. TJie Joseph Lapsley who married 
Sarah AVcmxIs came to ^'irginia about 1734. July 
G, 1742, he bought 338 acres of land from Benjamin 



Borden, near where Lexington, ^'irginia, now 
stands. June 18, 1752, he bought 100 acres more 
from James McDowell, adjoining the first named 
tract. His will Ijears date November 29, 1787, and 
in it his wife Sarah, and his sons Jolm and Joseph 
are named as executors. John and Jose^jh were 
iK/th in the Bevolutiouary Army. John was with 
"Morgan's Mounted Men," and was wounded at 
tiie Battle of Brandy wine wliile caiTjing orders 
across the field. He mai'ried Mary .(Vi-mstrong 
December 22, 1778, and moveil to Lincoln County, 
Kentucky, about 1795, for in Octol)er of that year 
lie sold his lauds near Lexington, Virginia, and 
iu the deed he is said to be then a citizen of Lincoln 
County, Kentucky. 

To return to the t>rigiual settler, Joseph Lapsley, 
Sr., in "Foote's Sketches of North Cai'olina" are 
(juotations from the diary of the Kev. Mr. McAden, 
a young Presbyterian preacher, who in 1755 went 
from I'enusylvania to North Carolina on horse- 
back, starting up the valley of the Shenandoah, on 
the lyth of Juue. He saj's: "Alone in the wilder- 
ness! Sometimes a house iu ten miles, and some- 
times not that." On July 13th, he preached at 
"The Forks"" ( /. c, the forks of the James River), 
afterwards called HalFs Meeting House, then New 
-Monmouth, and now liexingtou. "Preached to a 
considerably large congregation, rode home with 
Joseph Lapsley two miles from meeting, where I 
tarried till Wedues<lay morning the 16th." Mr. 
McAden goes on: "Here it was I received the 
most melancholy news of the entire defeat of our 
ainiy by the French at Ohio, the general killed, 
numbers of inferior ofl&cers and the whole artillei'y 
taken." (This was Braddock's defeat by the 
French and Indians.) On Wednesday the 16th, 
:\Ir. :McAden left ]Mr. Lapsley's. 



SKETCHI S OF PATRONS. 



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But we of this gcneriitiou have closer eouuec- 
tion witli the Woo<lses, uiy mother's motlier bc- 
iiij; .MiiijiJiret Woods, wife of Jolm .Moore Walker, 
who was the sou of Joseph Walker aud Jaue 
.Mooi'e. They had in their family au orphan niece, 
Mai'y .Moore, the heroine of our Sunday -sciiool 
book, "The Captives of Abb's V'alley." Joseph 
Walker, my great-graudfather, was an elder in the 
cliurch, a, magistrate of Kockbridge Conuty, a 
worthy and intlnential citizen. He was for thirty 
yeai"s, ui> to his death in 1815, couuected as Trus- 
tee and Treasurer with Liberty Hall, afterwards 
Washington College, now Washington and Lee 
University, at Lexington. My great-grandpareuts 
were James ^^■ooils and Xaucy Ivayburn, of iMont- 
gomery Count}-, N'irgiuia. My grcat-great-grand- 
parents \\ere Andrew ^^'oods and Martini. I'oage of 
Botetourt. My grandfather, John Moore Walker, 
with his wife .Margaret \Voods, moved from Buf- 
falo Mills, seven miles South of Lexington, Vir- 
ginia, to Kentucky, about 1811', aud liveil on a 
tarm near Eddyville, Kentucky. My father, liob- 
erl .Vrmstrong Lapsley, was born January 11, 
1T'J8, iu \\hat is now Gai'rai'd County, Kentucky. 
.\ talented and promising young preaclier, edu- 
cated at i'rinceton, he was offered a ilesiralde 
pastorate in the older part of Kentucky, but chose 
the more needy and harder work offered in the 
South-west central part of the State. There he 
married my mother, Cathai-iue IJutherford \\alker, 
.May 11, 18L'3. lie pretiched and taught school, as 
so many other i'resbyterian preachers did iu those 
days, some ten or twelve years, and then moved to 
Nashville, where 1 was born, December 20, 1835. 
.My father preached regularly, but was also con- 
stantly engaged in teaching, being president of the 
Nashville Female Academy, aud afterwards of the 
Nashville Female College, founded by him. lie 
was widely known aud beloved, and his pupils 
were from the best families all ovei* Tennessee and 
North Alabama. Not satisfied with these responsi- 
bilities, he was induced by some trusted friends to 
engage in a mercantile business in Nashville, and 
as partner became responsible for them. This, 



in a little while, endeil iu disaster, and everything 
was lost. There wa« a sale; the family servants 
were bought in for us by my mother's uncles, liob- 
ert, Jo.seph and .James Woods, who wei-e merchants 
and bankers iu Nashville and New Orleajis, and irou 
masters down on the Cumberhind. .My father was 
the lirst pastor of the second church in Nashville, 
and was a successful preacher aud pastor. Under 
iiis pastorate of eight or ten years, the Second 
Church became a very nourishing church. His 
health faile<l, however, aud he resigucxl and moved 
to the country about 1855 or 1850. Meantime he 
had married Mrs. AUeu, widow of Colonel Kobert 
Allen of Smith County, and he moved to Greeu- 
\\(i(.d, her country home near Carthage, Tennessee, 
ller maiden name was Alethia Van Horn, and she 
w;ts a native of \\'ashiugtou County, where Colonel 
Allen, then a member of Congress, met aud mar- 
ried her. Site was au elegant, high-spirited, good 
woman. She dietl iu 1803. Shortly aftei'wards 
the Federal army came by aud buruetl them out, 
and my father and sister Margaret came to a little 
farm I had in Shelby County, Alabama, and he 
took care of my wife and two children, till I came 
liome at the close of the war, in June, 1865. 

After peiice was establishetl, he returned to the 
(dd associations in Tennessee and Kentucky; and 
soon married Airs. Mary llichardsou of New Al- 
bau}-, Imliaua. Louisville was then a kind of 
storm center for our churches. North aud South; 
but my father retaineil the entire confidence and 
affection of both parties, and was a member of our 
Southern General Assembly in Nashville, iu 18GT, 
iu which 1 was also a commissioner. He died iu 
1872. His widow survived him a few years; and, 
haviug no near relatives when she died, left her 
very large estate to the boards of the Church, aud 
other charities. My father is buried iu New Al- 
bany. 

My oldest brother, Joseph, was educate<.l at the 
Univea-sity of Nashville, aud from there went to 
Princeton Theological Seminary, but his health 
faile<l, and he never conipletetl his coui"se. He 
came back to Nashville, aud for a while was em- 



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TiTK WOODS :n[(AFEk :\ii:.Moi;i.\ I-. 



ploviHl as tutor or assistant iirolVssor in I lie Uui- 
V(M-si(y. ^ly iiueles joined liiia in Ini.viu^ the Ty- 
I'ee Sprinjis on the Louisville luru-piUe, .some twen- 
ty miles from Nashville. It was a waterinii' place 
in suinmei-, and a staiie stand all the year. I was 
a delicate, and rather precocious lad, aud on ac- 
count of my health, had l)(>en taken away from 
school, and sent one winter to my uncle's in .Mem- 
phis and Arkansas; and for like cause was sent to 
study under brother Joseph. His failing health 
devolved cousiderahle responsibility upon me. 
I kept the post-office, aud actetl as landlord, col- 
lectiug the fares, ami putting ont on the sideboard 
the decauter of whisky, as was the custom of the 
times, for the free use of the stage passengers, who 
passed twice a day. Brother Josejih died in Nash- 
ville, in 18r)2, after 1 had come to Alabama. :SIy 
brother Joseph left college after his sophomore 
year, weut into a business house in St. Louis, of 
which my great uncle, James ^^■oods, was the head, 
and was high in their coufideuce. He was a very 
popular "society" man, highly giftcMl as a singer, 
aud so drifted into umny dangerous courses. In 
1801, he came South and joined a Tennessee regi- 
meut. He was badly wounded at Sharpsburg, aud 
again at Second Manassas, lie came, wounded, to 
my house in Shelby County, aud was there when 
the war closed, lie died in Sehna, about 1SG8. 

Brother Norvell was educated aud practised as 
a physician ; aud was acting as surgeon in the Con- 
federate Army, wheu in 18G5, he was captured and 
coutiueil at Ship Islaud, in the (iulf of Mexico. The 
privations aud sufferings of those prisoners were 
very great. He was a man of delicate coustitu- 
tion, and .seems never to have recovered from the 
effects of his imprisonment, lie died in Selma 
shortly after the v,iiv. 

The youngest of the family, Samuel Kiitherford, 
was taken, on our mother's death, in ISl-l, to the 
home of our auut, Mrs. ELsie M. Kay, wife of 
Keubeu L. Kay, then a \\'ealthy merchant of Mem- 
phis, Teuuessee, aud the}' raised him as their own 
sou. While yet a boy, he went into the ai'uiy, and 
was shot down at Shiloh, in 1862, with the colors 



of his regiment in bis hand. He was moved homo 
to :Memphis, and dicil there from his wounds. Our 
only sister, ilargaret, mari-ii<l 1 >r. Jauies W. 
Moore, of Arkansas, a surgeon in the Confedei-ato 
llo.spital at Shelby Springs in 1805. Upon his 
death in .Vikansas she returind 1o us in S(>lma, 
where she subse(|nently married .Mr. James 11. 
l-ranklin, with whom she is now living in New 
Orleans. 

My brother Kolieit, upon his graduation at the 
University of Nashville,aboutl8.jl, went into busi- 
ness in .Memphis. Subse(iueutly he became cashier 
of a bank in Nashville, aud a little before the war 
became cashier of a bank in Selma. In 1801, he 
went (mt with the Eighth Alabama Infantry, but 
afterwai-ds was (piartermaster of the Thirty-third 
Alabama until the close of the war. lie was then 
a merchant in Selma several years, until he became 
treasurer for the receivers of the Selma, Kome & 
Daltou liailroad Company, and he remaiuwl a most 
trusted and valued officer of that railroad till his 
death in 1S!»5. llis first wife, Mary Alberts I'ratt, 
died in 1800, without children. By his second 
wife, Mary Willie Pettus, daughter of Governor 
Pettus, of Mississippi, aud uiece of Uuited States 
Senator Pettus, of Alabama, he had children : 1, 
Robert Kay; 2, John Pettus; 3, Edmund Winston, 
and 1, William Werdou. Wheu 1 was a little past 
my sixteenth birthday, iu 1852, 1 came fi-om Nash- 
ville to Selma, Alabama, to enter the law office of 
my first cousin, John ^^'. Lapsley, theu at the head 
of the bar. Upon his retiring from his law practice 
iu 1850, he made an advantageous arrangement for 
me with his successors, 31e.ssrs. Byrd and Parscms, 
afterwaids Byrd and ^lorgau, w itli whom 1 W(U-ked 
until 1 became a nu'uiber of their firm in January, 
1858. Iu January, 1801, upon the call of the Gov- 
ernoi", I went with the military company, of which 
I v\as a mendier, to Ft. Morgan, aud was there 
some months. Afterwards, ou the organization of 
the Fifty-first Alabama liegimeut, 1 weut into it 
as a private iu Company I. Subsequently, for 
"acts of gallantry iu the tield," as my commission 
read, I was promoted to be First Lieutenant of 



SKKTrilHS OF TATIIOXS. 



2M 



('()iii]);iny 10, and 1 Wiis in I'micsrs ;iiiil Whcclci's 
r.'iids ."ironinl X;islivilli', \\;is in ilic lialilt- nf Mnr- 
IVccshiMn anil Cliickaniauiia ; and w as caiM iircd in 
X(i\ciiiliri-. lS(i:'.. in a lii^lil al Kinusliai, l'',asl Tcn- 
n(ss((', and was lakcn In -Inlinscn's Island, Laki' 
I'h'ic. wlicic I was Ic'])! nniil -Iniic, ISC)."). In 
[)visnn I l)usicd ni vsclf w il h sianc nf i lie liandicrafis 
us((l ilici-c. I also tauylil some vonni: men law and 
liii<d<k( ( i)inii. I sindicd I'l-cndi vcrv can'riillv 
and did ;i liond deal t>\' w riling. 1 kf|)l 
hnsy all llic liinc llavinL; nniiicrnns kin 
and acqiiainlanccs inside the I'cdcral lims 1 
j;()(, all tlir liiMiks and pajxTs I needed, and 
such Until sni)iilies as ^\•el■e allowed U) lie scnl in. 
In lS(ir>, 1 nuiile a. formal offer U> llie (loNci'nnient 
at. ^^■asllini;tou to "ive homl and .seenrit\- to ^o ont- 



ilie three iron companies, Siu'lliv. riifton and 
Woodsioek. whicli iliilies liroii;:lii me lo .\niiiston. 

Tlie arran.uemeni lielweeli llle liilTe eonilianies ex- 
pired hy limiialion in l.s'.lj, when I resumed prae- 
liee, from wliieh I was called liy I he <iovernor's 
appointnu-nt to tiie .Indiicsliip of the Citv Coiii't of 
Anniston in Mavcli, lS!t."., and was r('a|t))oiutc<l in 
18!)T. 1 was elected ii: the Siaie Leiiislal lire in 
lS8(i, hilt resijiiu'd before llic .session hejian. I was 
■1 member of tlie (ieneral Assemhly of our (Miurcli 
in ISCT, 1883, 18!»3 and l.s!l7,and am now a|)])oinled 
tor l.s'.lS. I was .Mi.d(raloi- of the Synod of Alabama 
in 1S!»L', and of ihe ^leiieial Assend)ly in LS!*;',. 
1 joined the chnrch in Selma in the s])riin; of ls.')i;, 
was ma(h' a (h-acon two or three years lalei, and 
was made an ehh-r about A|»ril, lS()(i. We organized 



side fhe United wStates, and stay out, if they would the A'ine Hill church about 187!). We nmved our 

let nie go without taking the oath of allegiance, but membership to Anniston in 18S!». In Novembei-, 

rhey declined the proposition. Colonel Ilottnian, 18!)4, I changed my membership to the West An- 

commauder of prisoners, wrote 1 lack that he had no niston church, a missicni work needing my assist- 

power to make such a bai'gaiu with lue. My plea a nee. 



was to go to the I>ahanuis or Brazil, and make 
there a home tor my family. 

.Vfler the war, we resumed our law business in 
Selma, under the okl name of liyrd, .Morgan and 
Lapsley, which contiuueil till Judge Byrd became 



The follow^ing are the names of such of my grand- 
fathev's descendants as I am able to gatlier. 

.T(.hn and .Mary l>a|)sley, my grandparents, had 
children as fctllows: (a i i I'riscilla aud John A. 
are omitted from this list by .Imlge ]-,apsley — Edi- 



Supreme Court Judge; aud theu General Mcu-gau tor). Joseph 15. J.apsley, born October ,">, 177!), 

graduated at Washington College in 1800, preached 
in Kentucky and J']ast Teuuessee. lie marrie<l, 
first, Kebecca Aylett, Seplendier 1'7, 1804. He af- 
terwards married his cousin, bailie Lapsley. 

By his first wife he had children : 1, John W., 
hmg time a successful lawyer in »Sehua, Alabama; 
died in 188!t, leaving children, John B., living at 
Cave Spring, (ieoi-gia; .Mary Deans, living at 
Calera, Alabama; Ammie Kellar, li\ing in Florida. 
2, \Mlliam Fairfax, w ho died in Alabama without 
issue, aud 3, Josejih ,M., who (lie<l in Sehna, leav- 
ing by his first wife, two children: C.eorge II. 
Lapsley and Emma Baker, miw living iu Kausas 
Vity, ^lissouri. By his second wife, Sallie, said to 
have been his first cousin, he had two children, one 



and I continued together (with ^^■. IJ. Nelson), till 
he went to the United States Senate iu 187t). 1 
ilii'u determined to retire to the c(aintry to live, 
but did not get rid of my business for sonu' time. 
We eventually shut up house in town and renuiiued 
permanently at our home at \ine Hill, where for 
man.\ yiars (Jeniral Alorgan. my biother Koberf, 
.Mr. Ka.\ and I had spent our summers. We built 
a little church aud school-house, and 1 hoixil and 
expected to live and die there; but in .March, 1883, 
<}o\'ernor (>"Ni'al telegraidied for me to come to 
.Montgomery, and asked me to accej)! the office of 
Examiner of I'ublic .^ccouuls. 1 accepted the 
place and continued its duties till iu October, ISSG, 
1 was appointed Judge of the Fifth Circuit, which 



1 resigned in 1888 to take charge of the sale and "f whom, 4, .Margaret, married a Taylor, and is 
distribution of the proceeds of the iron product of now iu South-western Texas; and the other, 5, 



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TIIK WOODS-McAFEK MEMOlilAL. 



Saimiel, who married Mary Broiionjili, who is 
(lead. Tlie widow is said to be living at Pleasant 
Hill, ^Missouri. 

(It) James F., born January 7, 1T8(», married 
Charlotte Cleland. 

((•) Samnel, born Sei)tend>er 22, 1789, married 
Sal lie Stephens. 

(d) Sarah W., born February 1, 1791, married 
William Walker. Their children were: 1, Cath- 
arine, unmarried. 2, Adeline, married General 
W. J. Landrum. They, and cousin C. with them, 
live at Lancaster, (larrard County, Kentucky. 
(Jeneral L., a Federal soldier, also served in the 
Jlexican War. They have a. large family. 

(e) William, born Septend)er 28, 179H. 

(f) Mary (\, born February 2(;, 179(1, married 
James McKee and had four children. 

(g) Kobert Annstrong, born January 11, 1798. 
Married Catherine Kutherford Walker (daughter 
of John :\Ioore Walker and Margaret Woods), 
May 11, 1823. Their children were the following, 
to wit: 

(1) Joseph W., died unmarrietl. 

(2) John D., died unmarried. 

(3) Norvell A., died unmarrieil. 

(i) Kobert, born February 19, 1833, married 
lirst, Mary Albert! Pratt (no children). Married 
second, Mary Willie Pettus. Their children: 
Uobert Kay, John Pettus, Edmund Winston and 
William Weeden. 

(5) James Woods, the subject of this sketch, 
who was born December 20, 1835, married Sarah 
E. Pratt, June 9, 1857. Their children: Rohert 
Alhcrti, now pastor Bethel Church, Greenville, 
Virginia, married Eugenia Brown. Their children : 
Robert A., Jr., Mary V., James W., Horatio Brown, 
Sarali Pratt and Eugenia. James, preaching in 
Dawson, Alabama, married Florrie Morrcnw 
Their children, Samuel B., Elsie, Bessie, Kate and 
James Norville. Sdiiiiicl JSiorvell, missionai-y 
to Congo Free State, died not quite 26 years old, 
at Underhill Station near Matadi, Lower Congo, 
March 26, 1892. Murtj Alhcrti (died October 31, 
1897), married Julian (-. Keeth; their children: 



Lncian, Mary, Ishani. Imhcl marrietl Kev. K. T. 
Liston, one child, Margaret. Zaidce, married W. 
C. Smith, one child, Cothran G. Rittherfnrd. 
Kdlc. Norrcll. 

(6) Margaret, born Jiine 4, 1838, marritnl first, 
Dr. James W. ^Moore; second, James 11. Franklin, 
no children. 

(7) Samuel Kutherford, born June 25, 1842. 
Dieil at ilemphis in 1862, having been shot down 
at Shiloh with the colors of his regiment in his 
hands. Sam McKee and Sam K. Lapsley, both 
died in 1862, one on one side, the other opposing 
him. Samuel N. Lapsley died in 1892; died lead- 
ing a forlorn hope in Africa — that is, he knew 
the deadly climate which he was invading. 

K. A. L. married second, Mrs. Alethea Allen; 
third, Mrs. Mary Richardson. The latter sur- 
vived him. He died in 1872, she a year or so later. 
She lived and died in New Albany, Indiana. 

(8) Harvey; died unmarried. 

(9) Margaret; married Moses Jarvis. Their 
chikh'en : Mary Jane, married Sharp, no children. 
John L., married Miss Sharp, five children. 

[Note. — ^The manuscript submitted to me by 
Judge Lapsley had many erasures, and the desig- 
nation of the sevei'al generations was not always 
clear, and I may have made some mistakes in de- 
ciphering, though I have tried to be accurate — The 
Editor.] 

SKETCH 35, 
DR. J. Y. LAPSLEY, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. 

Dr. J. Y. Lapsley is a lineal descendant of 
Michael Woods of Blair Park, through his daugh- 
ter Sarah, who married Joseph Lapsley. 

John Lapsley, son of Joseph Lapsley, Sr., and 
Sarah AVoods, was born December 29, 1753. On 
December 22, 1778, he married Mary, daughter of 
Captain John Armstrong, a Virginian, who emi- 
grated to Kentucky among the early pioneers. 
John Lapsley served in the Revolutionary Army 
under General Morgan. 

Priscilla Catherine Lapsley, oldest daughter of 
John Lapsley and Mary Armstrong, was born June 



BKETCIIKS <»1- I'ATKrtNS. 



1S:\ 



2:», 17S1. Slu' iiiiirricd ("oloiicl Joliii Yiintis, oC 
Garrard County, Kentucky, son of Jacoh 
Yantis (or Yandcs), a. Ilcvolutionaiy ])atii()l 
of (lorman birlli. ('oloncl Yantis ((umiunKk'd 
a reyimeut in the AVar of 1812, and rcj)- 
resented Garrard County in the Kentucky Leg- 
islatni'c f()r many years, lie lived near Lancaster 
iinlil 1S:>2. wlieii lie iiHiNcd lo Liifnyette ("(innly. 
Missouri. Here lie was iKUiiinaleii U>\- Congress 
in 1S:;4 hy the W'hiiis of iiis districl, hiii failed nf 
election. He died three years later. 

J lis oldest son, IJev. John Lapsley Yantis, I). 1>., 
was horn Septenilier 14, 1804. lie bej:,an tiie study 
nf luediciuc with Di-. I'auiding of llarnHlsburi;. 
His uudical education was aluuKst conipleteil when, 
liavini; become a member of the Presbyterian 
Clmrcli, he detc^rmined to consecrate his life to the 
ministry of Chi-ist. He studied theolosiy under his 
uncle, Dr. Koberl Armstronu Lapsley, witli the in- 
tention of conii)letin.ii the work of preparation for 
tii(^ pulpit at I'rinceton Theolojiical Seminary. IJy 
too close application to books, his health was se- 
riously impaired, and he was compelled to finish 
his studies in private. Un August 21, 1828, he 
married Eliza Ann Markliani .Montgomery, daugh- 
ter of Colonel .lames iMivntgomery, of Lincoln 
CcMinty, and grand-daughter of .Markham Marshall, 
who was an uncle of the illustrious Chief .Justice 
Marshall. Dr. Y'autis was licensed to preach in 
Aiu-il, 182!(, and was la'dained a minister of the 
(Jospel in the fall of 1830. lie preached at Stan- 
ford and Lancaster until iS'A'-i, when he removed to 
Missouri, whither his father and father-in-law 
had preceded him. Ilere he entered upon that 
career which has indissolubl.y linked his name with 
the history of rresbytei'ianism in ^lissouri, and 
nuide him celebrated thro\igliout the State as a 
bi'illiant, earnest and fearless preacher of God's 
word. The pioneer of his church in .Missouri for 
many years, his history is that of rresbyterianism 
in his adopted State. He organized the (luu-ches 
(d' Kansas City, \>'esti>ort, Lexington, I'^uiton, Lib- 
erty, and many others in Western Missouri. From 
1841 to 1848, he Avas i)astor of the Lexington 



ciiuich, and during jmrt of this time was register 
of the I'nited States land ottice. On account of ill 
health he i< moved to ilie Sweei S|u-iiigs, iu Saline 
Couuly, whicli he purchased, niid iu the fall of 
1S4S, opened llieica lioai'diug s( liool for boys. hi 
18.")2, Dr. Mantis, iu company with his lhre<> 
brothers and his brother-in-law. Dr. Natlianiel 
Ostrander, undertook an overland journey with 
their families to Oregon. Dr. Yantis preached all 
over the AVillamette Yalley, and returned to Mis- 
souri in ]8.").~>, to assume the ]iresideu<-y of Rich- 
mond College. He also pr(»ached to the IJichmond 
church. Four years later he accepted a call to 
tiu- Presbyterian Church at Danville, Kentucky. 
Here he remained until the breaking out of the 
war in 1S(>1, when he retui'ued to iiis home at 
Sweet Springs. During the war he was an ardent 
Soulhei'n sympathizer, and three <d' his sons served 
in the Confederate army. In 18(».") he took charge 
of the Westport churdi, and, soon afterwards of 
the church at Kansas City. During the stormy 
years that followed the close of the wai*, Dr. Y'antis 
was one of the ablest champions of the Southern 
Presbyterian Church, and, in the unflinching cour- 
age with which he fought his battles, showed the 
splendid lighting qualities of his ancestors. A 
jiowerful debater, he always took a Iwiding part in 
the proceedings of the Synods and General As- 
semblies. In 18(57 he returned to his old home at 
Sweet Springs, where he continued to reside until 
his death on jMay 28, 1884. During this period he 
preached to tlu^ churches of AVaverly, JIarshall, 
St. Joseph, Hrownsville and Prairie. The most 
conspiciuais traits of Dr. Yantis' charactei' were 
his frankness, modesty and courage. Never for- 
getting the sacredness of his calling, he was full of 
a (|uiet, comical humor that made him one of the 
most companionable of men. Imbued with the 
true spirit of Southern courtesy, he commanded 
the respect and admiration of friends and foes 
alike; while his classic grace of diction, his wonder- 
ful skill in debate, and his sclndarly address made 
him one of the most popular preachers of his day. 
The two oldest sons of Dr. J. L. Yantis and Eliza 





REV. WILLIAM J. LAPSLEY. 
[See Sketch No. 35. | 



COL. JOHN P. LAPSLEY. 
[See Sketch No. 35.I 





REV. JOHN L. YANTIS. D. D. 

(TAKEN IN 1861.) 

[See Sketch No. 35.] 



REV. EDWARD M. YANTIS. 

(TAKEN IN 1884.) 

[See Sketch No. 35. 1 



SKETCHES (»!' I'ATiatNS. 



A. ]M. I\[onts'oiiH»ry, died in inniiicv. Tlioir oldest 
daughter, Priscilla. ratlieriiie, inai'ried Jolin T>eii- 
nctt Bean, a wealthy planter and slaxclmlder (if 
f'ass r'ounty, ilis.sonri, who died shoi-lly aftei' the 
war. Five sons were the fi-uit of this niai'i'iaji'e, 
fiidy one of whom survives — A\'illiani Vaidis Bean, 
of St. Louis. The others were T-ai)sleT Yantis, 
John Lai)sley Yantis, Frank Gay and John Tlen- 
nett. 

WilliaTu Lapsley Yantis, third son of Di-. J. T.. 
Yantis and Eliza A. yi. ^Mont^oniery, was ('d\icaled 
at Centre Collei^e, Danville, Kentucky, and served 
in the Confederate army on the escort of General 
John S. ^Farmaduke. He married, first, ^Fariiaret 
Sloan, by whom he had one son, who died in in- 
fancy, ^fai'fiaret Sloan was a daughter of TJev. 
Tvohert Sloan, a tii'st cousin of Senator Cockrell's 
wife, and a n'riind-dauiihter of Kev. Finis Ewinu, 
fouTidei' of the Cund)erland Presbyterir.n Church. 
William L. Yantis' second wife was Eli/caheth. 
dauiihter of Captain Samuel Tavlor, a Confedei-ate 
officer, a nei>li('w of General Zachary Taylor and a 
first cousin of General TJidiard Tayloi". They have 
one son, Tayhu' YaTitis. 

John Marshall Yantis, fourth son of Dr. J. L. 
Yantis and Eliza JNfoutfiomery, was also c<lncated 
at Centre Colleiic and served on General !>ranna- 
duke's escort in the Southern Army. TTe studied 
law and, after hein<j- admitted to the liar, practised 
that profession for several years, after which he be- 
came editor of the ^NFarshall Drmnrraf-Ynr.'^. De 
diefl in September, 1880. FTis wife was Annie, 
daujrhter of Judce Luther ^Jlason, of Kansas City, 
and a first cousin of Governor Crittenden's wife. 
Their only son, John Lapslev Yantis, lives in Tn- 
(h'penih'uce, ^fissonri. Three (hiu<;hters died in 
childhood. Four other children are yet alive, to 
wit: Martha Elizabeth, Florida INfason, Vesta 
Price and John Lapsley. 

Ifev. Edward ^[ontjiomery Yantis, fifth son of 
Di*. J. L. Yantis and Eliza ;M(udjiomery, was edu- 
cated at Centre Collejic and ^lissouri T'niversity. 
With his two nldei- brotliers, he was a Confederate 
soldit'r (in (iciicial .Marmadnke's escort. After llie 



war lie slndied law. was admilfed to the bar and, 
after a few years" practice of thai ]ir(ifessioii, de- 
cided to study fur the ministry. .M'ler being- or- 
dained he preached successfully Uir several years 
in ilissouri, and then leaving the jiulpit but re- 
maining biyal to his Church, he accejited an ap- 
]>()intnient as chief clerk in tlu' (;f1ice of the Pe- 
cordw of Deeds of .lacksoii Cdunty, which he held 
until his death in March, 1887. His first wife was 
h'lizabeth I'auntleroy ^NFartin, daughter of Samuel 
.Martin, whose niollier \\as a .Miss I'^annlleroy, of 
the Virginia family of that name. l>y her he had 
four children: Samiud Edward, FTelen Kate, John 
Paul and Elizabeth ^fontgomei-y. His second wife 
was Mary Smith. 

The second daughtir of Dr. J. 1>. Yantis and 
Eliza, ^rontgomery, Eliza Ann, married hei- kins- 
man. Pew ^^'illiam Johnston liajisley. .Mary Prown 
A'antis, the third and youngest daughter, died in 
childhood. Their son, Dr. John Yantis Lapsley, is 
the subjecl of this sketch and was born Xo\'endier 
-M, 1874. The sixth son of Dr. J. L. Yantis and 
I'^liza ]Montgomei'y, Pobert I'l'anklin, an eldei- in 
his father's church and a man of singular ]Mirity 
of character, died unmarried at the age of thirty- 
t wo. 

Judge Van Court Yantis, seventh son of Dr. J. 
L. Yantis and Eliza irontgomery, was educated 
at the Fni\('rsity of ^lissouri, and ^^'as elected to 
the chair of mathematics in the Polla Schoid of 
Mines, a department of the T'niversity. He after- 
wards practised law for several years, and was 
elected to the State Legislature from Saline Coun- 
ty. In 1885 he became private secretary and con- 
fidential a<lviser to Governoi* ^rarniaduke and was 
retained in that office by Governor ^forehonse. In 
1890 he was elected Proliate Judge of Saline Coun- 
ty, and re-elected in 1894. Judge Yantis married 
Sadie Kennedy, by whom he has one son, \'an 
Court Yantis, Jr. 

Colonel James Anil Yanlis, eiglilli son of l>r. 
J. L. Yanlis and Eliza .Montgomery, gi-aduatcd 
at the law school of the .Miss(mri Fniversity, and 
|iractised law in St. Louis and I'ort Smith, .\rkan- 



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THE WOODS-MeAFEE MEMORIAL. 



sas. While at the latter place ho was made a Cir- ('(ninty, Keiitiukv, Jaunaxy 7, 178(). In early 

cuit Judge aud Colonel of State militia. In 1886 nianho(Ml he wiMit lo fiercer Couiuv. lie died 

he returned to Missouri and was elected a member April 15, 181!t. His wife was (Miarlotte Adeline 

of the faculty of Missouri T'niversity's law depart- t-leland, grand-daughter of Thomas Tleland, of Vir- 

iiicut. Cnlniicl Vantis inaiiicd Lucy, daughter of giuia, and sister of Dr. Thomas H. Cleland, the 

Major James H. Sparks, of Arkansas, a Confeil- ( niineut Tresliyterian iiiiuistcr. I?y her lie had 

crate soldier aud a leading lawyer of Fort Smith. two sons and two daughters. 

They have four children: Sydney Markliam, Ed- Eli/.a Lapsh'y, tlic cldf-r daiiglitci-, niarriefl her 

ward Montgomery, James Sparks aud Marshall cousin, Landiert Darlaud .\rmstr(Uig, aud was the 

Lapsley. mother of six children : James Lapsiey, William 

Besides Dr. John L. Yantis, Colonel John Yan- Lauty, Philip, Jennie, George Francis aud Henry. 

tis and Priscilla C. Lapsley were the parents of The second son, William Lauty, sened as orderly 

three sons and three daughters. Benjamin Frank- of General Marmaduke's escort during the war. 

lin, the second son, married Ann Hall and emi- The younger daughter of Jauu^s F. Lajisley and 

grated with his two younger brothei-s to the Paci- Charlotte A. Cleland, Sarah Jane, marri(Ml Wil- 

fic Coast, where all three have a large number of liam Robinson, aud bad two children, Charlotte 

descendants. The third sou, Alexander Scott Yan- and George Armstrong. Charlotte married James 

tis, married Sarah, daughter of Colonel Lewis H. Hohnan aud has three sons aud two daughtei's 

GriH'U, of Lexington, ^lissouri. James Yantis, _^;allie, Charley, Blanche. Price and Jesse, all 

the fourth and youngest son, married Sarah Ann of whom are living except Price. George A. Robin- 

Hamiltim, a granddaughter of Governor Owslei , ^ou married Ella Jones, by wlmm be had tliree 

of Kentucky. The oldest daughter of Colonel John ,.inian-n— r^lartba Liuwood. William Lnpsb-y and 

Yantis and Priscilla C. Laiisley, Sarah Chrismau, j^,yff\f, Estelle 

married Judge Joseph W. Hall, of Lafayette Couu- c^ioiwl John Philip Lapslev, the ebler son of 

ty, Missouri, a native Kentuckian and a brother of j^^^^^^^ ^ j^^^^^^^^^. ^,,^,^ charlotte A. Cleland, was 

bom January 16, 1815, and lived, until his death in 



Ann Hall, who nuirrie<l Benjamin F. Y'antis. 
Sarah Yantis aud Judge J. W. Hall \\ere the 
])areuts of eight children, two of whom — John aud 
William — fought for their native Southland in 
the Army of the Confederacy. Priscilla Yantis, 
second daughter of Colonel John Y'antis and Pris- 
cilla C. Lapsley, married Dr. Worthiugton Larsb. 
The youngest daughter, Eliza Jane Yantis, mar- 
ried Dr. Nathauiel Ostrander, Avho emigrated to 
Washingtou in 1852, aud has been for yeai-s a lead- 
ing physician aud politician in that State. They 
had eleven children: Priscilla Catherine, Mary 
Ann, Susan Charlotte, Sarah Teresa, INIargaret 
Jane, Maria Evelyn, Isabella ilay, John Y'antis, 
Florence Eliza, Fannie Lee and Minnie Augusta. 
Their ouly son, John Yantis Osti'ander, is a ]>i-oiiii- 
nent lawver of Washington. 



1892, on the farm he inherited from his father. 
Colonel Lapsley A\'as a planter all his life and a 
slaveholder and a Colonel of Kentucky militia 
before tlie war. During the so-called Rebellion he 
\\as an ardent Southern sympathizer, but took no 
active i>art in the conflict. He contributed liberally 
towards the cstablislmiciit of Central I'uivei'sity 
at Richmond. For nmny yeai"s an elder in the 
Providence Church of Mercer County, be was often 
sent as a, delegate to the various councils of the 
Presbyterian Church. In politics he was a life- 
long Democrat. .V man of well-ltalanced judg- 
ment and splendid Imsiness capacity, liis character 
was in every respect upright aud honorable. In 
1830, Colonel Lapslev was married to Eliza .Vnn 



James Finley Lapsley, third son of John Laps Johnston, daughter of Silas Johnston, a Woo<l- 
ley and Mary Armstrong, was liorn in Lincoln ford County planter. By her he had four sons 



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287 



and two ilauiilitci's. Slie died in ISfif). and he al- 
tcn-wai'ds niarricd Mi-s. Jennie l{iile. 

Hon. James Harvey Lapsley, oldest son of Colo- 
nel John P. Lapsley and Eliza Ann Johnston, was 
educated at Centre Collejic and for several years 
conducted the McAft^e Academy, in tlie vicinity 
of his father's farm. He afterwards sei\-ed his 
county as scliool cduimissioncr and i'e|iresenl:i- 
ti\e in tlie Legishiture. His \\if(> was Emma Fer- 
guson, of Columl)ia, Missouri, by wliom he had 
one s(Ui and one dauiihter. Tlie sou. Dr. i'^rauk 
Lee Lapsley, is a prominent physician of Paris, 
Kentucky. The only daujilitei", Martha AVashinii- 
tou, maiTied Edward Patton, of Viriiiuia. 

Dr. John lirowu Lajjshy, second son of Colonel 
John P. Lapsley and Eliza, Johnston, also received 
his college education at "Old Centre," after which 
he graduated in medicine and began the practice of 
liis profession at his old home in Mercer County, 
where he still resides. Dr. Lapsley married his 
second cousin, Eugenia Armstrong, by whom he 
had nine children: Mary Eliza, Dr. John Powell, 
AYilliain Kobert, Helen Louise, Inez, Elizabeth, 
Allen Johnston, James Thomas and Addie Chdand. 

Colonel Lapsley's third son. Rev. William John- 
ston Lapsley, graduated at Centre C(dlege and 
Fnion Theological Seminary, Ham]»den-Sidney. 
\'^irginia. His first regular preaching was in the 
pulpit of the Pine Street Presbyterian Church of 
St. L(mis, which he occu])ied several mcmths dur- 
ing the absence of the pastor. Dr. Beverly Tucker 
Lacy. His first pastorate was Des l*eres, St. Louis 
County, and ]\lizpali Church, near Bridgeton, in 
the same county. Here he remaiiu'd seven years, 
when lie was called to the Troy Church, Woodford 
County, Kentucky. He preached to the Troy 
Church for several yeaj's and afterwards at Shel- 
byville, Kentucky, and Brownsville, Missouri. He 
died in August, 1890. His wife was his second 
cousin, Eliza Ann, daughter of Dr. John Lapsley 
Yantis, the ]>ioneer of Presbyleriauism in Missouri. 
By her he had two sons and four daughters: 
Elizabeth Blanche, Virginia Johnston, John Yan- 
tis, Robert Jov Van Court, Ida Louise and Addie 



.Maikliani. The two (ddest daughters died — one 
in cliildiiotKl, the other in early woiiiauliond. 

(►f tlic two dauiililcrs (;f Ciibmcl Ji.lm !'. Lajis- 
ley and Eliza Johnstxm, the older, Mary Eliza, died 
in cliildlicnd. The ycimger, Mary .\deline, mar- 
ried Samuel I'lirsylli, of fiercer County. They hax'e 
iKi children. 

('oldiicl Lajisley's youngest s(mi. Thoiiiits t'liUunl 
IaijisUii, marrie<l Stella .loiies, in ISSO, and died 
two years later. 

IJev. James Thomas Lajtsley, D. !)., younger 
brother of Colonel Lapsley and the youngest child 
of James Finley l.,a]>sley and Charlotte Adeline 
Clelaiid, was boiu in 1S1!I, graduated at Centre 
College and Princeton Theological Seminarv, and 
has been for many years one of the leading Presljy- 
terian ministers of Kentucky. Dr. Lapsley has 
been married three times. His first wife was Fan- 
nie Ewing; his second, Elizabeth Brammel; and 
his third, Sallie Webster. By his second wife he 
had three daughters, one of whom, Bell Lapsley, 
became the wife of Thomas Bruce and died soon 
afl:er her marriage. The other two daiigliters, 
Elizabeth L. and Mary H., died unmarried. 

William Camiibell Lajjsley, seventh child of 
John Lapsley and Mary Armstrong, was born Sep- 
tember 28, 1793. He married Sarah Rednmn Al- 
corn in 1826, and in 1837 moved to Clark County, 
IMissouri, Avhere he died. He had four children — 
one son and three daughters. The oldest daughter, 
Mai*y Ann Lapsley, was the only one who had is- 
sue. I do not know the names of the other three. 
Mary Ann Lapsley married a Colonel Bishop and 
had six children. She is still living at Eustis, 
Florida ; her husband died several years ago. The 
children of Mary Ann Lai)sley Bisliop are: 

1. Albert AVilloughby, who married Carrie Day 
and lias two children — Gertrude Bell and Bertha 
Cecilia. 

2. Walter Humboldt (unmarried) lives at Ka- 
liojca, Missouri. 

o. Maury Erskine nmrried Ida Bell Heuston 
and has three children — Mary Eliza, Dora Kath- 
eriiie and ^lanry ^A'bipple. 



288 



THE WOODSMcAFEK :\IE.M< >RIAL. 



4. Ilcnvv William niaiTied Eva Power ami lias 
two cliildrcn — .Alarv I'riscilla and Clayton Power. 

5. Na]ioleou ('lav, niimairied. 

G. 3Iarv Belle, also iiiiiiianied. 

SKETCH 36. 
DR. R. M. LAPSLEY. KEOKUK, IOWA. 

Dr. Robert McKee Lapsley is a lineal descendant 
of Michael Woods of Blair Park.tlirnn-li his dan.oli- 
ter Sarah, who married Joseph Laptev. lie was 
born in Missouri, .TanuarT 22, 1870. His fa I her 
was David Nelson I>ai)sley, who was born in \\'()od- 
ford County, Kentucky, Ajn-il 1(1, 1830. His mother 
was 3Iiss .Alaryaret Jane Jenkins, born April 23, 
1810. His parents were nmrriwl Marcli 2. 18(55, 
in Clark County. 3Iissouri. The said David Nel- 
son Lapsley was the son of John A. La]»sley. who 
was born in Eockbridge County, Virjiinia. Sep- 
tember 5, 1783. Said John \. was an ofiicer in 
the rep,iment of Colonel Bichard ^f. Johnson and 
took p.art in the War of 1812. He died Deceudier 
13. 18r)0. Said John A. niarrii-d :\Iiss :\rary Wear 
.AfcKee, who was born Novendier 20, 1783, and who 
nuirried Jolm A. Lap.sley, Au^iust 10, 1805. Said 
Mary Wear died October 21. 1851>. The Lajisleys 
and ^IcKces miijrated to Kentucky in 17!)3. Said 
John A. Lapsley was the son of John Lapsley, who 
was born in 'S'irjiinia, Septemljer 2fl. 1753, who 
nuirried Mary Armstrong;. December 22, 1778, and 
was a Revolutionary s«ddier. Said John Lapsley 
was a son of the Joseph Lapsley who married 
Sarah AVoods. dauiihter of ;Michael Woods of Blair 
Park and his wife, [Mary Campbell. 

Dr. Lapsley (son of David N. Lapsley find ilar- 
jiart^ J. Jenkins") graduated from Rusli ^Fedical 
College, Chicago, in iSitl. when aliout twenty-one 
years old. He was elected l*rofess(u- of Ophthalmol- 
ogy and Otology in the Medical College of Keokuk, 
iu I8!tl. which ]iosition he still occujiies. He is 
also a practising oculist in Keokuk. His father, 
David N. Lapsley, graduated from Jelferson Col- 
lege, Pennsylvania, about 1850-7. lie stiulied law 
and was admitted to the bar. but he soon gave up 
his profession and went to farnung. He has been 



Circuit Clerk of Clark County, ^lissouri, and 
.Judge of the County Court. He has two children, 
fi> wit: (a I Dr. BolH-rt .McKw^ Lapsley. the sub- 
ject of this sketch; and (bi :Nriss Mary Elizabeth 
Lapsley. 

SKETCH 37. 
MRS. HELM BRUCE, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. 

;\ris. Sallie Hare Bruce (vrc White"), wife of 
Helm Bruce, Esq., is the daughter of the late Pro- 
fessor James Jones A\'liite and his wife, .Mary 
Louisa Reid, and was born in Lexington, A'irginia. 
She is a lineal descendant of iHchael Woods, of 
Blair Park, through his daughter ^ragflalen, whose 
first husband was John ilcDowell. She was niar- 
rie<l to ilr. Bruce Decend)er 17, 1881. 

Jlary Louisjx Reid, the mother of ^Frs. Bruce, 
was born July 20, 1S;!2, at Lexington, Virginia, 
and (lied Mny f), 1001, in Louisville. Kentucky. She 
married July 14. 1858. James Jones White. In the 
resolutions drawn up by the Colotiial Dames of 
Kentucky at tlie time of hei- death, are tln-.se words : 
"^^[rs. White, in her personality, stood for all that 
was fine and uolile. Of a distinguished lineage, 
none of her raci' did more to ennoble it — a "N'irginia 
gentlewoman of the old regime, of culture, gentle 
dignity and g-racious charm, her influence was not 
only felt in tlie historic old town, where her home 
was the center of a graceful and elegant hospital- 
ity, but, in othei- communities, she won and held 
the respect and love of those who came in contact 
with her. To those of us who Avere so fortunate as 
to know her in her declining years, it seems like a 
benediction, that iu her own beloved city, and from 
her daughter's home, her s]iirit should have ]iassed 
into the m'^v and beautiful life which ( Jod had pro- 
l)are<l for Ilis own."" 

James Jones AMiite \\as born iu Nottoway 
County, '\'irginia. Novend)er 7, 1828, and died in 
Lexington. Virginia. April 20. 1803. He was the 
son of the Rev. \^'m. Sjiotswood White, of Hanover 
County, A'irginia. at who.se death, Noveudier 20. 
1873. it was said that '*the Synod of N'irginia lost 
one of its most distinguished members,"' ami of 



fc>KETCHE!S Ui" I'ATKc »NS. 289 

Jane Isabella Watt. He was of pure Euglish Wliite and Mary Louisa Keid, was born at Lexing- 
(lesceut on his father's side — was a man of niai;nifi- ton, Virginia, July 17, 1S()2, and niarrieil Novein- 
cciii iiiiysi(|iic, six feel r.piii- inches (all. and of bcr 14, l^!!."), \\'ni. (Jcorgc lirown. 
gracious, courtly manners. Ho was a graduate of Win. (Jcorge ]{ro\vn was born November .">, 1853, 
llic Tniversity of ^'irginia, and Professor of (Jreek in Xew-Castlc-iui-Tyne, England; came with his 
in ^Vas]lingtoIl ('ollcgc ( afterwai-ds Wasliiiigion parents 1o Albemai-le County. X'irginia, in 18G9, 
and Lee rniversityl. frimi ISol' until his death. was educated at the Cnivcrsit ies of X'irginia. Ilar- 
AVhen the Civil War iu'oke out he entered the ser- \ard, and ilei(h'lberg. ;iiid is at present (1004) 
vice as (\Tptain of the college boys, the "l.,iberty Professor of Chemistry in tlie University of .Mis- 
llall X'olnnteers," a pai-t of the immortal Stonewall scniri. The chiidi-en of W'ni. (Jeorge Hrown and 
IJrigade. After the war he took \ip his educational IsabeJle X\'hite are: .Mary Loui.se, lioru Decemlier 
work, devoting his culturetl intellect, his ripe e.\- •"), ISDG; Wm. George, liorn Septend)er 14, LS!»8; 
perieuce of men and things, his i)ractical km)wl- nnd Henry Clilford, lun-n .May I'O, 1!»00. 
edge as an educator, and his great e.xecutive abil- Agues Keid White, third daughter of James 
ity to the interests of Washington and Lee. This Jones White and Mary Louis;i IJeid, was Itorn -Inly 
part of his life was deeply enrieluHl by an intimate 14, 1SG4, and married in October, 1SS4, Joel Wal- 
associatiiin witli (Jeneral Kobert E. Lee and his ker Winston CJoldsby, of ^lobile, Alabama, 
fiimily. ami by tlu' loyal devotion of the college Joel Walker Winston (iold.sby was born Xovem- 
boys. her 24, 18G2, and is the son of Tlionms Jetferson 
Sallie Hare White (the subject of this sketch), (Jcddsby and Agnes Wins'ton, a daughter of Jcdin 
eldest daughter of James Jones White and Mary Anthony Winston, govei-nor of Alabama for two 
Louisa l{ei<l. was b(uai at Lexington. Virginia. Feb- terms lieginning in IS")."., and afterwards elected to 
ruary 2!l, ISGO, and married I)ecend)er 17, 1S84, <he United States Senate. Joel W. \V. Goldsby 
Helm Bruce, of Louisville, Kentucky. served two terms in the Alabama Legislature and 
Helm Hruce was born November IG, 18G0, and is was President /v/'o fciii. of the State Senate in l!t08. 
the son of Hon. H. W. Eruce, who was first a mem- He is now one of the attiu-neys for the Lonisxille 
ber of the State Legislature, then of the Coufeder- & Nashville Kailroad Company at Mobile, .Ma- 
ate Congre.ss, afterwards Judge of the I.iOuisville bama. The children of Joel Walker Winston 
Chancery C(Uirt, and, at the tinu' of his death, (len Coddsby and Agnes Keid White are Mary Easier, 
eral Counsel of the Louisville & Nashville Kailroad boi'u .Vjnil 11, 1887; Louise Keid, Ixn-n Se])tembei- 
Company, and of Elizabeth Barb()ur Helm, daugh- 4. 188!»; Isabelle Wliite, born February 1!), 18!)3; 
tei- of John L. Helm, twice governor of Kentucky. \\'inston, Ixu'ii Septendier 11, 18t>(;; Keid White, 
iind grand-daughter of the famous Pen Hardin, of boi-n February 1."!, iX'.)S\ Joel Walker, Iku'u Jan- 
Kardstown, one of the most noted lawyers and puli- nary 21, l!lt)l. 

lie men that Kentucky ever produceil. Helm Bruce Keid AX'hite, son of James Jones White and ^lary 

graduated at Washington and Lee University in Louisa Keid, was born March 28, 18G8, and gradu- 

1S8(I, and is now a member of the law tirm of Helm, ated in medicine at tlw Universit^y of Pennsylvania 

Itruce & Helm. The children of Helm P.ruce in Mny, 18!»2. He received an appointment at (Mice 

;iiid Sallie Hare \\hile are: James White, born to St. Agnes" Hos])ital, I'hiladeljdiia, and al the 

(>ciobei-27. 188G. and enleicd Yale University Sep- close df the ye;ir. another at Johns-Hopkins Hos- 

teiiiiper. 1!»(»:',; Ltuiise Peid, born September 27, pital, ISallimnre. He married Lucy \X'addell Pres- 

1 S8S; Elizabeth P>arbour, born March ir>, 1880; iind (on, a daugliter of I'liomas Lewis Preston, and 

Helm, born January G, 18!».~). Lucy Coi-don Waddell. Keid While is now (1004) 

Isabelle White, second daughter of James . tones ])i-acl isiiig medicine in Lexington. N'irginia. 



290 



THE W(MH)S McAFEE MEMOKIAL. 



The cliildreu of Rcid White aii<l Lucy Wiuhlell 
Preston, are Preston, born Wepteniher 1<>, ]89(i; 
James Jones, Inirn Decenilicr 21. IS'.tT; and TJcid, 
born Octobei- S. 1000. 

SKETCH 38. 
WILLIAM STONE WOODS, M. D., 

KANSAS CITY. MISSOURI. 

■pr. William Stone Woods is a lineal descendant 
of Michael Woods, of P.lair Park, throuiih his fav- 
orite son, Colonel Jolin ^^■(l^ils. lie was born No- 
vember 1, 1840, and on the Icntli of July, ISOO, 
married Miss Albina :Mcliridc. His father was 
James Harris Woods, ami his mother was Martha 
Jane Stone. His father was born in :Madison 
County, Kentucky, danuary 24, IRIO, and died Jan- 
uary 11. 1S45, in Columbia, 3Iissouri. His mother 
was born in Madison County, Kentucky, August 
7, 1815, and died at Nebraska City, Nebraska, 
ISIarch 17, 18G8. She was I he dausihter of William 
Stone and Nancy Harris, both of Madison County, 
Kentucky. The aforesaid James Harris Woods 
was the sou of Anderson Woods and his wife Eliza- 
beth Harris. An<lerson Woods was born in Albe- 
marle County, Viruiuia, January 18, 1788, and 
with his father moved to Garrard Connty, Ken- 
tucky, in 17iM>. He moved to Boone County, ^lis- 
souri, in 1823, and died October 22, 1841. Eliza- 
beth Harris was born September 30, 1791, and 
married Anderson Woods ^Nlay 4, 1809, and died 
Octolier 13, 18tiS. The said Anderson ^^'oo;ls was 
the son of James Woods, who was b(U'ii in Albe- 
marle County, ^'iI\^inia, January 21, 1748, and 
died in Kentucky in 182.">. Said -Tames AVoods 
married Mary Garland I'ebruaiy '2~>, 1779. ^lary 
Garland was born Octolier i:'.. 17(iO. and died in 
1835. Said James Woods was the son of John 
>Voods and Susannah Anderson, and dohn was the 
son of Michael Woods, of Blair Park, and jMary 
Campbell. Said James Woods was, aecordini;' to 
the statement of Dr. William Stone ^^do<ls, his 
great-fi;randson, commissioned Colonel in the Vir- 
ginia Kevolutionary forces November 12, 1776. 

Dr. William Stone Woods is the President of the 



National Bank of Commerce, of Kansa.s City, Mis- 
souri, and one of the most prominent financiers of 
the State. 

I'orn in Columtn'a, Missouri, Novend)er 1, 1840, 
our suliject was a son of James Harris Wowls, a 
native of Madison County, Kentucky, who became 
a leading merchant of Columbia and died there in 
1845. The Doctor was educated in his native town, 
graduated with the class of 1801 in the State T"ni- 
^■ersity, aftei'ward took u]i the study of medicine 
and attende<l a course of lectures in the St. Louis 
-MedicaL Col lege and the Jeft'ei'son .Medical College, 
of Philadeljdiia, Pennsylvania, being graduatetl at 
the latter institution in March, 1864. For four or 
five years he jiractised medicine at ^liddle Grove, 
ilonroe County, ilissouri, and then removed to 
Paris, where he resided for a year. At tlie e.xpira- 
tion of that period he joined his brother in busi- 
ness at the terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad, 
which was then being constnicte<l from Omaha 
westward. They engagetl in the grocery trade, 
moving their stin-e as the road was extended nntil 
it reached Ogden, Utah. This proved a profitable 
venture. Soon thereafter Dr. Woods moved to 
liochepoi-t, Boone County, ilissouri, where he 
established the Bocheport Savings Bank, which he 
successfully conducted frcnn January, 1869, imtil 
January, 1880. His residence in Kansas City dates 
from January. 1880, when he entered into business 
as a member of the firm of Grimes, Woods, La- 
I'^orce i^ C(Mn]>aiiy, wholesale dry goods merchants, 
doing the largest business of the kind in the city. 
The eslablislimeut is still carried on, under the 
name of the Sw(dford Brothers Dry Goods Com- 
]>any, and Dr. Woods yet retains an interest in the 
business. 

It is ju-obaidy in the line of banking, however, 
that the Doctor has become most widely known to 
the business public. A few months after his ar- 
rival in Kansas City he pnrchase<l an intercut in 
the Kansas City Savings Association, and succeed- 
ed ilr. Powell as president, assuming the active 
management in 1882. This bank was organized in 
180.5, and had an authorized capital of .|100,000, 




WILLIAM STONE WOODS. 

KANSAS CITY, mo. 

(See Sketch No. jS.! 




MRS. BINA McBRIDE WOODS. 

WIFE OF WILllAiM STONE WOODS. 
KANSAS CITY. MO. 

[Sfe Sketch No. 38.] 



4l 



SKKTCIIKS Ol" I'A'I'KOXS. 



293 



lint, only .flO,000 was paitl in. When Dr. Woods 
licciiinc iircsident, (lie linsincss of the hank was at 
(tiicc inci-eascd, and Ihc (apilal slock, raised lo 
.fl'fKMMM), was all paid up. The name was chan-fd 
to liank of Comniei-oe, nndor which operations 
wci-c cnndncl(>d for live years, \\ lien in 1SS7 this 
hank was liquidated and nierycd into tiie National 
Bank of Conunerce, the old stockholders receiving- 
three iloUars for every dollar investeil. The Na- 
tional I>ank i)( ("onnnerce was ornanized in ]NST, 
with a capital of one million dollars, and from the 
beginning Dr. Woods has servetl as its president. 
Llis close and carefnl attention and ahle manage- 
ment have given it an euviahle standing among the 
banking institutions of the West. The National 
Bank of Commerce ranks first among nu)netary in- 
stitutions of the city, an<l its ])resident occupies an 
equally high position in business circles. 

Though the Doctor devotes tiie griater part of 
his atteutiou to banking inten sts, he has iuter(^sted 
himself in other enteri>rises. In connection with 
his brother, James M., he emiiarked in the cattle 
business in Dakota, of which his brothei-, a practi- 
cal stocknuiu, had tlie management. They took 
government contracts to supply In^ef to the forts 
and Indian agencies for about eight years and 
prospered in this undertaking, Dr. ^A'oods contin- 
uing the partnership until 18!>4, when he disposed 
of his interest to his brother. lie is now an exten- 
sive stockholder in the Kansas City, rittsbnrg cJc 
Gulf IJailroad, which was first perfected simply as 
an outlet for a tract of coal lands owned by W. S. 
Woods, E. L. .Martin and others; but there seemed 
to be a demand for railroad facilities in this direc- 
tion and the road was extended until it has 
assumed extensive proportions and now tevminates 
at tlie Gulf of ilexico. The Doctor has also been 
extensively interested in real estiite, and is to-day 
I he owner of considerable A'aluable property, in- 
cluding some fine business buildings in Kansas 
City. 

Through his own elt'orts Dr. Woods has achieved 
a success which numbers him among the successful 
business men of ^lissonri. Dr. Woods has also estab- 



lished in business a nundier of young men who to- 
day are proMiineiii in ((uuinercial circles, and has 
gi\cn liberally of his means to clinrily and tor the 
education oi those not able !(► educate themselves. 
He is a nwudu-r of the I'irst Christian Church of 
Kansas ( 'ity. 

Uu the 10th of July, iSHf., the Doctor was united 
in marriage at Paris, Missouri, with Mi.ss Bina 
.Mcliride, daughter of Judge Ebenezer Mcliride, a 
successful and highly respected citizen of Monroe 
County, Missouri. Mi-s. Woods is a woman of fine 
education, charming social qualities, and broad 
and liberal in her ideas. She is interested in many 
charities, and in all the imp(U'tant questions of the 
da3', and has done much to assist her husband t<i 
attain so high a iiosition in the commercial and 
social woi-ld. They have one daughter, Julia, who 
was educated at a college foi- ladies in Baltinu)re. 
^Maryland, and is now the w ife of Arthur Gris.soni, 
of New York City, who devot^^s his life to literary 
work and is a contributor to many leading maga- 
zines. 

SKETCH 39. 
DR. FRANCES J. WOODS, RAPID CITY, DAKOTA. 

Miss Frances Jane >\'oods (who is a regular 
physician) is a lineal descendant of Michael A\'oods 
of I'.lair I'ark, through his .son, Colonel John Woods. 
As her father is full brother to Dr. Wm. Stone 
^^'oods, whose sketch next precedes this luie, the 
reader is i-eferre<l to that sketch for Miss A\'oods's 
ancestral line. Her father is James IMoses Woods, 
of Rapid City, South Dakota. Her mother's 
maiden name was Matilda, ("'aroline Stone. 

JAMES HA inns WOODS was lunn January 24, 
]N1(I, in Madison County, Kentucky; was marrietl 
ilay I'S, 1835, in Boone County, .Missouri, to Martha 
Jane Stone, who was also born in ^iadison County, 
Kentucky-. The parents of each were pioneers in 
Boone and Mom-oe Counties, Mis.souri. James 
Harris Woods died Jantiary 11, 1S47, at Cohunbia, 
Missouri. His widow rearetl and educated their 
children, whose names will now be given in order, 
as follows: 



294 



I'lii: \\«>oi)8-M(Ai"i:i; .mi:.M()i;ial. 



(a) Jajies Moses, tlie eldest son, was his moth- 
er's chief helper. At his Imiiie she died. With him 
the yonnjiest dau.yliter, .Mailha I'laiices, made her 
lioiiu^ until her marriajic at his house, June 1, 1S.~)S. 
James ^foses AVoods was married to ^fatilda Caro- 
line Stone. Wirli lier lliere laiiie inlo rlie family 
an influence that is valueil hy every memlier of the 
youniier generation, (►wing to the jiractical nature 
of her Christian character, and the superior tine- 
uess of her mind, she has fui-nished a moral, intel- 
lectual, and spiritual stimulus to all who know her. 
James Closes, driA'en hy the reverses of the war and 
the spirit of his fathei-s, no doubt, left Missouri 
early in life, and became a jiioneer in Nebraska. In 
ISG.j he established a home in Neliraska City. At 
that time he was eugaiivil in tlie lucrative business 
of freighting- from the .Alissouri Uiver to western 
points. In 187(5 this took him to the Black Hills, 
South Dakota. Since then his main interests have 
b(H^n in that section, where he has been forenu)St 
among those who have developed the country. He 
estiiblished the first bank, loc-ated and helpetl de- 
velop mines, controlk^l large cattle interests, en- 
couraged agriculture, demoustrateil his faith in 
irrigation by forming companies to construct 
ditches, and thus made valnaltle large tracts in his 
own possession. As mayin- of Ifapid City, lie en- 
couraged railroad enterprises and all internal im- 
provements. A staunch Democrat, he served his 
party as National Committeeman for South Dakota 
until advancing age made i( impossible. He still 
lives in Rapid City, South Dakota. 

James Moses ■\Vcw)ds and Matilda Caroline have 
seven children now living, as follows: 

1. ^Madison D. Woods was mariiid in Snutb Da- 
kota. He has two children, Annie and Pauline. 

::. Ann Elizabeth (Mrs. S. T. C.arth I is now liv- 
ing in Larned, Kansas. She luis two cliildrcn, Ma- 
tilda and Catharine. 

3. I'rances Jane was gradualeil from Christian 
College, Colundiia, ^Missouri, June, 1S,S2, and from 
the Woman's :Mediial College of I'liiladelphia, in 
1804. She went willi Die lirsi coiuiiauy of Ked 
Cross nurees sent to ]>lanila by iliat organization. 



In the hospitals of .Manila she gave, gratuitously, a 
year of etticient service for her country and the snf- 
b ring liomesick soldiers. Slie is a woman of iutel- 
bclual jiower, tenderness, and lir.iad symiiathies. 

4. Cliarles Edward, and .'>, Paul Scott, are suc- 
c( ssful bankers and irreju-oachable citizens in Lib- 
eral and Kingman, Kansas, re.s])ectively. The six- 
year-old siiu of the former bears the first name of 
his grandfather and ihe full luune of his great- 
grandfather, Janu's II. 

(J. Matilda was graduated from Wellesly Col- 
lege, Massachusetts, in 1002. She is at present the 
only wonuin mendier of the faculty iu the State 
Scliool of .Mines of South Dakota. 

7. Martha, the seventh and last child of James 
M. and ilatilda C. Woods, will be graduated from 
the University of Nebraska in the class of 1!)05. 

(b) Ann Eliz.viuoth, the .second child of James 
II. and :Martlia Jane Woods, possesses a splendid, 
strong Christian character of the old stern Baptist 
school. In the family she is to nephews and nieces 
■'the grand (dd woman." 

(c) Wi[>M.\ii Stone, the third child, is an emi- 
nently successful liusiuess man, having accumu- 
lated more money, as far as the present writer 
knows, than any other member of the familj-. He 
is i>resident of the Bank of Commerce in Kansas 
City, Missouri. 

(d) MiNKitv.v AxiiKUsox was the fourth child. 

I el FitAxcKs J.s^xE^ fifth and last child of James 
II. and Martha J. Woods, tvIio is loved and honored, 
lives with her son, William Fallis, who is a very 
successful baidcer in (iarnet, Kansas. 

SKETCH 40. 

REV. HERVEY MCDOWELL. BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI. 

Ilev. Ilervey JIcDowell is a lineal descendant of 
Michael ^Voods, of Blair Park, through his daugh- 
ter, ^lagdalen, and by her tirst husband, John 3Ic- 
Dowell. He is a son of the late Dr. Hervey Mc- 
Dowell and his wife, Louise Irvine McDowell. His 
father die<l in P.tOl. His mother survives her hus- 
band and still resides at Cynthiana, Kentucky. 
Rev. llervevMcDowell was Vtorn inCvuthiana, Ken- 



sKi;'i'(iii:s (»i' I'ATiioNs. 2'.io 

tiicky, June 15, 1871, iUKl Wiis I'ducjitctl ;ii ilnC.vn- (l;iuuhi<i- of AlcxaiKlor Keith .Marsliall .McDowell 

rliiaua. iiii;li ScIkkiI, ami \A'asliiiiiilnii and Lee liii- h.v liis seciinii wife, Aiiiie Iia>ii»t ( his tirsl wife w:us 

vei'sily. lie dedicaled his life to ihe \\oik cd' the I'risciila.a dan-lilei- nf ( leiiera! ilnheil 15. McAfee, 

(Josjud ministry in the I'reshyterian Cliundi, and of Meii-er ("onnty, Kentucky i. Alexander Keith 

was iiraduated from the Preshyterian Theolojiical Marsliall McDowell was the son of Samuel Mc- 

Seminaiy id' Kentucky in lS!t!». On the I'itth of Dowcll, dr., and his wife, .\nna Irvine; and Sam- 

A]U-il, lilt);!, he was married to .Miss daiie Kave- iicl, .ji-., was a son (ddudiic Samuel McDowell and 

naunh laisk, and iu the fall of that \-car took his wife. Maiy .Met "liinji ; and Judjie McDowell was 

fliaruc of (he ri'esliyterian Church at Hiloxi, Mis- ihe s(ui <d' <"ai)tain John .McDow(dl and .Maiidali-n 

sissipjd. ills connection with the W'oculs family is \\'()((ds. 

exceedingly close, for both of his iiaiciils, and also Ilervey McDowell, .M. D., son of Jidin Lyle Mc- 
his wife, are descendants of Michael, of I'dair I'ark, Dowell and his wife, Xancy Hawthorne Vance, was 
as will be shown presently. His wife i Jane horn in Fayette County, Kentucky, April 15, 1835; 
Kavenaugh Lusk ) was the daughti-r of \\illiam graduate (d' Kenlu(ky .Military Institute, 185G; 
Lusk by his wife, Mary Faulkner; and .Mary Faidk- studied under Drs. II. .M. Skillman and Ethelhert 
ner was the daughter of John Faulkner by his wife Dudley, and gi-aduated at .Missouri Medical College 
Jane Kavenaugh; and Jane Kavenaugh was the iu 1858; physician; elder in Cyuthiana Presby- 
daughter of William Kavenaugh by his wife, Eliza- terian Chuich; Kentucky State Vice-President 
betli Miller; and AVilliam Kavenaugh was the son Scotch-Irish Association of .\merica; membei- Ken- 
of I'hilemon Kavenaugh by his wife, Elizabeth lucky Society of Sous of the Cobmial Wars; Royal 
Woods; and Elizabeth ^\'oods was the daughter of .Vrch Mason; for twenty-five years President of 
William AVoods by his wife Susannali Wallace; Cyuthiana Board of Education. During the war 
and AVilliam AVoods was the eldest son of Michael l)etweeu the States went out as Captain of a Com- 
\>'oods, of Blair i'ark, by his wife :Mary Campbell, pauy he raisetl in Cyuthiana. At its close was 
The said Susannah \\'allace was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel comnumding the First Ken- 
Peter Wallace, Seiuor, whose wife was Elizabeth tucky Infantry, C. S. A. (the fanums "Orphan 
AVoods, sister of .Michael Woods, of Blair Park. Brigade") ; married Louise Irvine .McDowcdl (his 
Bev. Ilervey .McDowell is, as above remarked, cousin), October 20, 18()1); was the father of six 
the .son (d' the late Dr. Hervey .McDowell by his j^^ns and one daughter. Died November (5, 1901, 
wife, Louise Irvine ^McDowell; and Dr. McDowcdl beloved and honored by all who knew him. 
was the son of Jolm Lyle McDowell by his wife, John Lyle McDowell, son of Colonel Janice and 
Nancy Hawthorne Vance; and John L. McDowell ;Mary Paxton (Lyle) McDowell, was born iu Fay- 
was the son (d Cohund James .McDowcdl by his ette County, Kentucky, .August 21, 1794; marrietl 
wife, .Mary Lyle; ami ('(vlouel James .McDowell was Nancy Hawthorne Vance, October 1, 1817; died 
the son of Judge Samuel McDo\\ell by his wife, Deceudier 2;), 1879. Fanner. Served in Trotter's 
Mary McClung; and Judge McDowell was the son KegimeiU in the War of 1812. Elder in Presby- 
of Captain John .McDowell by his wife, Magdalen terian Church in Lexington, Kentucky. 
Woods; and Magdalen was the (ddest daughter of (Coloncd) James McDowell, son of Judge Sannnd 
.Micluu 1 \\(iods, of Blair Park, by his wife, Mai-y ^McDowell and .Mary McCluug, his wife, was born 
Campbell. .\])ril 29, 17t;(». .Alarried :Mary Paxton Lyle iu 
Miss Louise Irvine .McDowell (who becanu- the 1779; died December 22, 1S4:>. Farnu'r; built llic 
wife of her distant kinsnuui, Dr. Hervey McDowidl, first hricl.- hoitsr in Fayette County, on a land grant 
and the mother of the siibject of this sketch I was given him foi- military service. Ensign in Revo- 
born in Snmter Conntv, .\laliania. and was liie lulionaiv War. Came to Kentuckv in 17S:>. Ctm\- 



29<1 



THE WOODS-McAFl^E MEMORIAL. 



iiiiUKliMl a 1)at(alioii iiiidcr General Wilkinson in 
17IM. Major in the War of 1812. A(. the l.attle uf 
Massi.s.sine\va (owing- to temporary illness of Colo- 
nel Simrall) lie took command of his reiiinienl. 
Was a, Eevolntionary ]>ensiouer. 

Jndoe Samnel ^McDowell, sou of Captain Jolm 
and Magdalene (Woo<ls) :^r<•Do^vell, was horn in 
Ireland October 27 (O. S.— Nov. 7. N. S. I. 173.">. 
Married Mary McCluus'- January 17, 1754. Died 
Septenibei- 25, 1817. Came with his father, Captain 
John iMcDowell, to Mrginia in 1737, to Augusta 
(now Kockhridge) County. Educated at "Augusta 
Academy" — now Washington and Lee University. 
W'as one of the first trustees of \\'ashington Col- 
lege. Private in Captain fc^amuel Lewis's Compauy 
at Eraddock's defeat, 1755. Conimanaed a com- 
pany at Point Pleasant, 1774, in Colonel Charles 
Lewis's Keginient. Colonel of Augusta llegiment, 
which he commanded at (iuilford C. H. Also 



inglon, Kentucky. (See ITenning's Statutes, Vol. 
XI, ]>age 28:5.1 

Jolni McDowell, son of Ephraim .McDowell and 
his wife ^Margaret Irvine, was born in London- 
derry; was a land surveyor; married .Magilalen 
Wood.s. (.My grand-aunt, ^Mrs. ;Martha Ruford, 
wife of General .\bram Huford, of the l{(>volution, 
in her record of the .McDowell family of Virginia 
says: "Her mother's maiden name was Campbell, 
of Ihc Argyle Clan.") In response to a petition 
fi-om the settlers Governor Gooch issutnl a com- 
mission, dated July 8, 1742, to John .McDowell as 
Captain of a Compauy. In a fight with the 
Hhawnees, at what is now known as Balcony Falls, 
John McDowell, with eight of his men, was kille<l 
on December 25, 1742. 

Those eight soldiers and their Captain who were 
killed at Balcony FalLs, December 25, 1742, were 
not buricHl "in one common grave." I have in mv 



raised a battalion at his own expense to aid in the possession the cottin handles ft-oni Captain John 
repulse of Benedict Arnold's raid on lUchmond, McDowell's first coffin. Some years after Colonel 
Vir"inia. Member of the House of Biu-gesses 17G5, James McDowell (Dr. llervey McDowell's grand- 
1773 1775; member of the liichmond Conventions father) removed to Kentucky, he returned on a 
of March, July and December, 1775, and of the Wil- \isit to Virginia. AMiile there he assisted at the 
liamsburg Convention of .May, 1770; member of the disinterment and removal of John iMcDowell's re- 
first House of Delegates of Virginia, Octobei', 1775, mains from Tindier liidge to the .McDowell family 



which, under Governor I'atrick Henry, framed "the 
first written Constitution of a free Common- 
wealth"; member of the State Council of N'irginia. 
He came to Kentucky in 1783, presiding with Judge 
Floyd over the First District Court convened in 
Kentucky. Was cliairnum of tlie nine Danville 
Conventions, held to consitler the erection of Ken- 
tucky into a sepai-ate Commonwealth. President 
of the first Constitutional Convention of Kentucky. 
He was an elder in the Presl)yterian Church for 
many years. \Vhen eighty years of age, being 
named a Commissioner to the General .Vssembly 
convening in Nashville, Tenn., he rode thither from 
.Mercer ('ountj' on his famous saddle hoi-se "Fo.x,'' 
returning the same wa^- and making forty-one miles 
a day on the journey. ^Vas appointed one of the 
first trustees of TransNh aiiia rniversil\- at Le.\- 



burying-ground, near I'airfield. The cotfin was 
crumbling to dust, l)ut the small brass handles 
were still intact, but were thrown aside in placing 
the remains in a new cotfin. .James ^IcDowell 
asked to be allowed to have them, and no one ob- 
jected. He brought them back to Kentucky. He 
had a sort of "chest of drawers" built iji a recess 
between a chimney and side Avail of a bedroom in 
the fine <dd brick house he built (about two and one- 
half miles from Lexington, on the Georgetown 
pike I ; on these drawers the coflin handles were 
put. When Dr. Hervey McDowell was a lad it was 
decided that this chest of drawers should be torn 
out, that a window might be cut in this recess. He 
was already in possession of his grandfather's (old 
Coloiud James McDowell's) sword, captured at the 
battle of the Cowpens from one of Tarleton's troop- 
ers. The drawers were piled up in the garret (as 



ski:t(11i:s oi" i'atkons. -'> 

(liin-s ..rioi iii-c. nf im use, l.nt ln<, -.mmI 1o ll.n.NV siiid .M i.l.iicl, Jr.. Avas the son of Michael Woods of 

awayi: 1 !.■ lia.l l.car.l ilio sioi-v .,r (he lian.llcs lUaii- J'ark, l.y his wife, Mary ranipl.Hl. 

,„;,n'y a I in,.-, ask.d for ih. „,. ;,.„! Ili.y w.-iv oivcn The sai.l I'ill Van.l.'ll .M.Coy. wlio marri.Ml Ncl- 

|,i,„. I have always hranl aiiH^n- my kin in Ko.k- li<' \V"<"ls, was llic son ..f l»r. (Iroi-.- Ki.c .McCoy 

iMi.lu.- tlnil .lohn McDowclJ-s ImkIv was canic.l I'.v his wife, .\laiy .\nn I'icid ; an.! Ihc said .Mary 

In.nu. and l.nricd at Tinihci- Kid-c. Ann was the .hiniiid.T of Daniel I'i.dd l.y his wife, 

Alexander Keilli .Marshall .McDowell was horn Kli/.aheth Daily; and Ihe sai<l Kli/aheth was the 

in Mercer rounty, Kenlncky. April l!i. Isdd. Died .lan-hter of l'hilii> Daily l.y his wife .Mary. Said 

in Cynthiana. Kentn.Uy. -lune l.'.. IS'.ti'. Civil I'liilip Daily was a Kevolntionary sohlier and 

en-ineer, j-lanter, -Indp of ihe I'rohaie Court of •"'wvod in the Third Maryland Ite-inu-ut. 

.Mareiip. Counly, Aial.ania. ICl.h r in I'reshyterian Jessie McCoy is the dau-liler of I'itl V. McCoy 

Church. Was edncated al Dr. I'riistley's School, and Nellie Woods. Horn at Salem, Kentncky, 

at St. Juseph-s, in I'.ardst.nvn. K.-ntncky; and at -M'H-'-I. iV,. ISCC. Her ni.Mher died at iheir hon.e in 

Nashville, lie was the son of Samuel .McDowell, Columhus, Kentncky, .May K!, ISTl. after which 

dr., .d' .Mercer, and his wife. Aunn Irvine (dau-h- •'•'•^sie .McCoy made her honu- in (iolcuala, Illinois, 

lerof Ahram Irvine, of .M..rcer C.,uuty i. ^vith her C.ran.lmot her .McCoy. In Decendu-r, IST."., 

Sanimd .McDowdl, dr.. n( Mer.-er, son n( -Tud-e l'«-i' i'-ithi'V married Ettie Carr, in KvansviUe, Indi- 

Saniu.d .McDowell i wh.r was t he ,-<ou r.f Cajdain ana, when Jessie made Ikm- h.un.- with them, till her 

J.,hn .McDowell an.l .Maplaleu (W Is) McD..w- nuirriage, Octoher :'.(», ls,s!», to dale Kichard Nnlly, 

ell I and .Mary .AlcClun-, his wife, i'.orn in An-ns- "f Vienna, Illinois. .Mr. Nutty was connecte<l with 

ta(N.nnty, Vir-inia, March S, ITIU. .Married Anna the National Lead Ccunpany, of New York, for 

Irvine, Octoher 4. 17S5. Died June L'd, 1831. thirteen years, the last si.x as assistant general 

Farmer in fiercer County, Kentncky. managei' in Cincinnati. In VM)-2 he accepte*! a 

[The (/(//(/ relating to this branch of the. McDow- position in rittslmrg, J'ennsylvania, as genci-al 

ells were kimlly furnished me l.y Mrs. L(.uise I. numager of the (iulIVy IVIrohMini Company (of 

.McDowell, wid..w of the late Dr. llervey .McDowell, Te.vas I, which place is their Nome, at present. Jes- 

an.l motiici- .,f li. v. ll.rvey McDowell.— Editor.] sie McCoy was educated at Daughters C..llege, 

Llarrodslinrg, Kentncky, and also at Hamilton Col- 

SKETCH 41. ioge, Lexington. They have tw(. children: (iale 

MRS. JESSIE NUTTY, PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. Kichard Nntty, Jr., horn in Evansville, A].ril IS, 

:\Irs. Jessie Nutty («rr McCoy 1 wife of Mr. Gale IS'Jl, and I'itt .McCoy Xutly, l.oin in lOvausville, 

Kicdmrd Nutty, is the danghler of Pitt Y. McCoy Febrnary 10, 18!):{. 

and his wife, N(dlie Woods, ami was born at Salem, Nidlie Woo<ls was the daughter (.f Nellie Hodge 

Kentncky, .March I'ti. ISdd. She is a lineal descend- and Henry Williams W(.(.ds. He was born at 

ant of .Michael Woods, of Blair Park, through his Salem. Kentucky, .March :;o, ISll. Died there July, 

son, .Michael Woods Jr. ISSd. Nellie Hodge died there also, about 1845. 

The said N(dlieWoo<ls was the daughter of Henry Dr. Pitt Y. ilcCoy (Jt'ssie's father ) was born at 

William Woods by his wife, Nellie Hodge; ;iud (iolconda, Illinois, June, 1841. He was edncated 

the said Henry William was the son of David at Franklin C(. liege, Indiana, which was founded 

WtK.ds by his wife, Sallie Neal; and the said David by his grandfather, J(.hn McCoy (a Baptist 

was the sou ot William W Is 1 somet imes know n preacher ), in 1834. He was a graduate, also, of 

as "Bai.tisL Billy W(.<ids"') l.y his wife, Joanna Push .Medical Ctdlege of Chicago, in June, 18()3. 

Shepherd; and the said William was ihe son id' lie married .Xdlie W(.ods al Salem, ISfif), ami live<l 

.Michael AN'oods, Ji-., l.y his wife, Anne; and the at Columbus, Kentucky, till her death, 1871. He 



•298 Till-: WOODS :\r(AFEi: Mi:.A[OnTAL. 

set.tletl in Evausville, S('i»t('iiilicr, l^To. \\ licit' ho all s|iiiiiu fnnii llic saiiio stock with the Fields of 

soon became the leadin.u' ])h.vsi(ian aiul surgeon. N( w .Icisex ami New Enghind. Tliey were .1 ])rou«l, 

Has hccii cliicl' sm-i;c(}ii of tjic l.uiiisvillc i^ Nash- aiislo( lalic ]»co|»lc. |ilanlcrs, slav('liol(h'i*s, anil fox 

villc Kailroad for llic past tiflccii years. He was hunlcrs. Their (h sccndaiiis are scattered over 

the son of 1 >r. ( ieoriic iiiic .McCoy, of < "harlestown, \'ir,iiinia. Kenlucky, llie Sniilli an<l W'esl. 

Indiana, and Hilary A. I'iehl, of (iolconda, Illinois. .Many of them have occupied high places in society 

1. James McCoy, ori)lian lad td' ten yeait<, came and tln^ State. Among them. Judge Ale.x Polk 

from Scotland in 170(1. lie landed at I'.allimore. IMeld, Judge Richard I'icld, id' < 'nlpejier, N'irginia, 

After a. few years lie emigrated to Kentmky, and and Judge A. II. r.nrnaiii, now of the Kentucky 

subsequently married a member of the illustrious Court of Appeals, also Chief Justice lirewer. First 

Bruce family, of Scotland, locating near Union- was: 

town, Fayette County, IV'unsylvania. He was 1. Henry Field, wlio came from l^iigland, in the 

blessed with six children, the third of wlnnii was «lup "Expeot<itiou," and landed at Jamestown, Vir- 

2, William McCoy, born in Fayette County. He ginia, November, 1 (>;{.">, at the age of twenty-four, 

married Elizalieth l{ice, and resided in his native He prospered and obtained large grants of land 

county several years, where he was ordained (o be from Ihe <'i-o\\n. Among (dher (diildren were: 
a. J}ai»tist minister. In ITDO he moved with his -. Abraham Field, born in Culpeper County, 

family to Kentucky, as a pioneer preacher. At the Virginia. .Married .Mary . Died Westmoreland 

beginning (d' Ihe present century, he moved to the <'onnty, ICTI. Second son was: 
s(jutliern part of the territory (d' Indiana, where he 3. Abraham Fitdd, Jr. Born Culpeper County, 

spent his last days. He was blessed with six .Marrieil .Miss I'.yrd, whose pai'euts owned a farm 

children, of whom, 3, John .McCoy was the second, on James Kiver. He was elected vestryman of the 

born February 11, ITSl', in Fayette County, Penn- <Jn'at Fork Church, 1774, and served until his 

sylvania. The third son, Isaac, was liorn in Penn- death, in Scplcmbcr, 177."). He hdt eleven children, 

sylvania also, June 13, 1784. He became the great of whom Ihe second was: 

missionary to the North .American Indians. John 4. Ctdonel John Field. Born Culpeper County, 

McCoy married Jane Collins Oclolur 13, 1803, and Virginia. .Alarricd Anna Rogers Clark, sister of 

located in Clark grant, Indiana Territory, about (ieneralOdirge IJogers Clark. He was educated in 

ten miles north of Louisville, (Ui the cast bank of England, and serv( d as ensign in the British army, 

Silver Creek. They had ten children, of whom the until prtmioted to Colonel of a regiment. He was 

ninth was, 4, George Bice .McCoy, born .March 10, a Lieutenant under Cohniel (leorge Washinglon, in 

1817, in (Marke County, Indiana, and married .Mary tlie Braddock campaign. He also comnuunled the 

Ann Field, .\pril 15, 1838, in (icdconda, Illinois. Virginia troops, in the battle at Point Pleasjint, 

He died there Decendier, 1848, leaving four chil- wh( re he lost his life in this gallant tight, at the 

dreii, the second of whom was. ."), Pitt Yandell .Mc- head (d' his regiment, October. 1774. U>v which ser- 

Coy, born in Golconda, June 1".», 1841. He niarrie<I vices his heirs were granted a large (ract of land 

June I'O, 1865, Nellie ^Voods, of Salem, Kentucky, in now Bonrbon County, Kentucky, by (iovernor 

whodi<'d in .May, 1871, at their home in Columbus, Lord Fairfax. He lived at his home, the "Field 

Kentucky, leaving one child, 0, .lessie .McCoy, the Manor." St. .Maik's Parish, Culpeper County, 

subject of this sketch. which place is still owned by his descendants. 

C(donel John I'Mtdd was a member of the House of 

THE FIELD LINE. Burgesses from Culpeper, in 17(;5. His brother 

The Field family, to wJiich the Kentucky branch ]ienry was a Lieutenant in the (Nuitinenlal lim^ of 

Ixdongs, were of English and N'irginia descent, and (||,. i;,.v,,|n(ionarv army, and died in service, hi 



ski;t('I1i;s oi' I'ati;(>ns. -i'j'j 

ITTS. AiiotluT hrotlicr, KcuIkmi, \v;is liciitcniuil in fanner and teacher. The fatlicr of said William 

liic Kijilitii \'ii-i;iiiia IkC.uiiiiciit, was in-oinotcd in T. O'Kcar was Daniel O'lieai', who was born in 

17S1 to rank of <'ai)tain of Ihe I'onvlii Kciiinienl. l"au(|nicr ('onnlv, \ir;;inia, NovcihIhi- ir>, 1777, 

lie scr\('(l sc\'en years, and was al tlic snrrendei- of moved lo Kcnincky aflcr llic close of ihe K'evoln- 

("ornwaliis. lion, maiiiid lOliy.aliclh llusii, i>\' Ciai-k Connlv, 

Several of ( "olonc! John field's children came to Kcnincky, -I a unary 1(1, 17!l'.i, moxcd lo IJooiie Coun- 

Kentiicky i lioiirlion ("onnly) alioiil 17it4. lie had ly, .Missonii, in 1 Sit."), and llieredied April ir>, lS(i4. 

eleven, of wlioin the eii^iiih was: The fat lici- of said haniel was .Icrciniah O'K'ear, 

."). Lewis Fi(dd, horn in ('nli)e])er County. Vir- ^vho was hoi'n in I''an(|uier ("onnly, N'irininia, mar- 

ginia, about 17(i4. .Married . lie emigrate<l to i i''d Mai-y Catlell, and spenl, Ihe latter years of his 

liourhon County, Kentucky, and later to delfer- 'if'" in -Montgomery County, Kentucky, where he 

son County, where his seven children were born, i'l'd his wife died. 

He diwl in Tope County, Illinois, at the home of The aforesaid Elvira F. Slavin was born in 

his<dd(st son, who was: I'.ooiie <"ounly, .Missouri, Xovemiier 23, 1S2S, niar- 

r>. Daniel Field, born in Jelt'ersou County, Ken- >i«''l \\illiani T. ( ("Mear May .1, lS4(i, by him had 
lucky, XoNcndjer 30, 1700. He marrieil Elizabeth f"'!!'- sons and six daniihters, and died August 1'7, 
Daily, at Charlestown, hnliana. He settled in Gol- l''^''^-- The father of .said Elvira, F. was William 
<-onda, Illinois, about 1810, dying there in 1855; Slavin, who was born November 20, 1703, married 
was a man of great enterprise, engaged in merchan- Ei'imces A\'oods Octoher 14, 1S17, in (Jarrard 
ilising, and became a large land-ludder, farmer, and <^'«><iuty, Kentucky, moved to l!o(uie County, Mis- 
stock-grower, and extensive shii)i)er of stock an<l «'"i"b i» l'^--'^ wiiere he carried on farming till his 
produce to the lower ^Mississippi markets. He tleath, .May 1, 1848. The wife of .siid William 
reareil a large family, of whom Slavin (Frances ^Voo(Lsj was born in (iarrard 
7. -Mary Ann Field, was the second. Born in County, Kentucky, April 2(;, 1800, had six daugli- 
(i(dconda, llliuoi.s, November 11, 1818. She mar- tcrs an<l (Uie son, and died February 11, 18;!(;. The 
ried April, 1838, Dr. George Eice McCoy, of father of the sai<l William Slavin was John Slavin, 
Charlestown, Indiana. He died in Golconda, De- ^^li" ^vas born in ^'irgiuia or Nculh Carolina in 
cendjer, 1848, leaving four children and his widow, 1'^''^ served as a private in Captain -Michael Bow- 
where she resided till her death, March 5, 1002. yi'i''« Company of the Eighth ^'irginia, Beginient, 

8. Pitt Yaudell McCoy was their second child, having enlisted October 10, 1770. After the Kevo- 

Horn in (Jidcouda, June, 1841. lution he moved to (iarrard County, Kentucky, 

where he lived till his death, December 10, 1851. 

His wife was a Miss (Jraham, w ho was b(U'n in Vir- 

SKETCH 42. oini;^ ij,,j ^\l^^\ ■^^^ Kentucky. Th(> fathei- of the 

MRS. GEO. B. MACFARLANE, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI. aforesaid Fnuices Woods was James NN'oods, who 

^Irs. Macfarlane's maiden name was Alice Fran- was born January 21,1743. In Part 1 of this volume, 

ces O'liear. She was born in Kocheport, Jlissouri, ( i)age 101 ct .\rr/. | a sketch of James Woods is given, 

June 14, 1840. She is a lineal desceiulant of Mich- which need not be repeated heic This James AVoods 

ael Woods, of Blair Park, through his .son, ("olonel was the (ddest son of Colonel John A\'oods by his 

John Woods. Her father was William Tandy wife, Susannah Anderson, and Colomd John was 

O'Kcar, who was born at .Mt. Sterling, Keiitm-ky. the favorite son itf Michael, of Pdair I'ark, by his 

June 20, 1818, moved with his parents to (^"'olumbia, w ife, .Mary Campbell. .Mrs. Macfarlane, the subject 

Misso\iri, in 183."), married Elvira Frances Slavin <d' this sketch, stales that .Tames Woods, the son of 

May .^), 1840, and die<l -May .">0, 188;>. He was a C(»louel John Woods, was cimimissioned CVdonid 



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of a \'ii<j;inia, Rojiiiiu'nt Noveinhcr 12, 177G, and 
tliat liis reiiiniciit was known sncccssively as the 
I'liiiiili. llic Eiulilli. and tlic Twclflli. There was a 
("nioiiel James Wood (his name has no final si who 
conuiianded a Twelfth Virijinia Iieninient in the 
lievolntiouai-y Army, and lie lias lieen mistaken 
now and then for a James \\n(i(ls. The reader is 
referred to pages 102. 14(1 and 147 of This volume, 
where this (inestion is diseussed. The James Wood 
wiio comniaudetl one of the Mrginia regiments 
designated as the Twelfth, A\as a different man from 
James Woods, the son of Colonel John Woods. 
These statements are made merely to guard the 
reader against a very natural and pardonable mis- 
take. That James Woods, .son of Colonel John 
Woods, did command some one of the A''irgiuia reg- 
iments (1776-17821 is tlie belief of many of his 
descendants, and is not questioned by the author 
of this volume. 

The eleventh child (tf Janice WockIs and his wife, 
Mary Garland, was nametl Elizabeth Garland 
Woods, and she marriwl Garland IJeid in Garrard 
County, Kentucky, Novend>er 12, 181(]. In Oc- 
tober, 1836, Mr. and Mrs. Keid move<l to Kandolph 
County, Missouri. Mrs. Reid died in December, 
1848, and Mr. Reid died July. 1800. They had 
eleven chihlren, as follo\\s: 

(a) Mary A. liiiw, \\]n> married Johu J. 
White in Missouri January, 1838, and left two 
children, to wit: Eliza betii, and Barah J. (b) 
Clifton G. Reiu^ who was born iu 1820, and died 
in 1844, iu Ralls County, ilissouri. (c) Caijolixe 
E. Reiu, who was t^^•i(•e nuirried. Her first hus- 
band A\as A\'. L. Bra.shear, a\ hom she married June, 
1842, and who died iu 18.jl, leaving one sou. Wal- 
ter (i. Iler second husband was Edward llalman, 
whom she married at Davenport, Iowa, iu 1853, 
and by whom slie liad six children, as follows: 1, 
Lizzie D., who marrietl G. A\'. Amsbury; 2, Carrie 
B., who marrit^l H. II. Skinner; 3, Edwin F.. who 
died iu childhood; 4, Glenn II.; 5, Edward H., and 
6, Carl A. (d) The fourth child of Garland aud 
Elizabeth was Sar.vh W. Rkiu^ who married Dr. 
Martin Hickman iu 1843, and left two children, as 



follows: 1, Nathaniel G., who die<l iu 1881, un- 
married; and 2, C. B., who married 3Irs. Margaret 
Starr, (e) Tliefil'ili cliiid was.loiiN B. ilicin. who 
married Nancy ilo<ker in 1851, and left seven 
children, as follows: 1, Clifton; 2, Elizabeth; 3, 
Sarah; 4, Jivhn; 5, Lula; 6, Arthur; and 7, Luther. 
( f ) Tlie sixth child was Stsax J. Reid, who mar- 
ried Jauu's Rnrubald in 1852, and left the follow- 
ing children, to wit: 1, George O. ; 2, Ellen J.; 3, 
Lizzie; and 4, Mary, (g) The seventh child was 
Dit. James A. Reid. who married at Rock Island, 
Illinois, iu 1862, and left two children: 1, Clifton 
A. ; and 2, Annie L., who marrietl C. Cameron, (h) 
The eighth child was Mikiam (). Reih. wIu> nuirrietl 
Easom S. Ilickani iu 1851. aud left four children, 
as follows: 1, Lizzie; 2, Warren; 3, Homer; and 4, 
Lee. (jl The ninth child was AVilma.m ;M. Reiu. 
who married B. Jane Spiller in 1868, and left nine 
children, among Avhom were two pairs of twins, as 
follows: 1, Zulah; 2 and 3, Edward and Carrie; 4, 
Charles; 5, Frank; 6, John; 7. (Jeorge; and 8, and 
!». EUie and Nellie, (kl The tenth child was 
Rachel W. Reii>. wlio was twice marritil. Iler 
first husband was Captain Jefferson Taylor, of 
Davenport, Iowa, whom she marrietl in 1855, and 
who died in the army, leaving two sons: 1, John; 
aud 2, Frank. Her second husband was the Rev. 
A\'. Davenport, whom she marrietl in 1868, and by 
whom she had four children, as follows: 1, Min- 
nie; 2, Burr; 3, Sylvester; aud 4, Ida. (1) The 
eleventh and last child of Garland lieid and Eliza- 
beth G. Woods was Nathaniel G., who, in 18'i'4, 
married Nancy Goodall, aud by whom he had three 
children, as follows: 1, Martha; 2, Bessie; and 3, 
Clifton. 

Mrs. Macfarlaue furnishes the following sketch ctf 
her late husband, Avho was an honoretl and distin- 
guished jurist of Missouri : 

Judge George Bennett Jlacfarlane was born iu 
Calloway County, Missouri, near Fulton, January 
21, 1837, aud died iu St. Louis, Missouri, February 
12, 1898, agcil sixty-one years. He was the son of 
George ^lacfarlane, who was born in Stewarton, 
Ayrshire, Scotland, and of Catherine Bennett, .his 



SKETCHES OF i'ATKONS. iiOl 

wilV. Ilis lunther was a iiiitivc of ISnuiic Coiiiilv. Tlu' licfoic-iiiciitioiKMl William 'randy O'Ht'ar 

.Missouri. iiianic^l lOlvirali l'i-aii<cs Slaviu, as ]>n'vi()uslv 

(Ji'di-jic r.cnnctt .Mactaiiaiic was a learned law- ii<)i<'d, and In iliisiunide were horn ten ehildreii, as 

ycr, iiraduateof Westniinsler Colli-e, Fnltun. .Mis- ftdlows: lai Tli.- lirsl was \Vii,l,i.\.\l Ali:n.\nih:u 

souri, an elder in rlie Treshyterian Cimrcli, and liad D'IJkai;. win. ditd in inlaney. (1>) The: second was 

sdVdl seven years as -Indiie of I lie Suin-enie Court Ai.ici-: Fu.vxrKs O'IIk.vk. Hie subject of tills sketch, 

of .\[issouri al tlie time of his death, leaving an who marned Judgic CJeuri-e r>. Macfarlanc, as clse- 

unexpired term «d' five years. Since ISC") his lionie where not(<l. and by him had six (hildren. as fol- 

was .Mexico, .Missouri, lie was a man of sjioi lows: 1, Flvirah, who died in infancy;!', rtcorpo 

less character and iute.nrity. and ureal ai.iliiy, fair- Tandy, wiio also died in iufau<-y; :{, Charles Hoy; 

ness and justness, lie was a "just man," and a 4, (ieorue Locke; ."i, William Lawrence, who died 

jireat lo.ss to his family and to his State. al the a«;e of sixte<'n; and (>. Ciiy. (c) The third 

William Lawrence :Macfarlane, our son. was child (d' William T. O'Kear and Elvirah Frances 

Imu'u in Mexico. :Missouri. June :'.(). IST'.l, and died was Cn.\u!.i:v W.VY.\i.\.\ (fllK.ut. who died when 

ill Jefferson City, .Missouri, hecemher :W. lS!tr>, twenty-nine years old. idi The fourth was LoT"- 

aii'cd sixteen and onedialf years. Our (ddesi son, i:li,.\ o"lii:.\i;. who married Carletoii J. Tannehill, 

Charles Hoy. is a lawyer, liviii'; in St. Louis, Mis- and had six cjiildren, as folh.ws: 1, Elvirah. who 

souri. Our second son. (ieoi;.;c Locke, is a news- married Uoliert, 15. lloiiers; 1', Sarali ; '.'>. Kulh; 4, 

papir man in New York City. Our youn.nest son. ILittie; 5. :Mattie F. ; and ('>. Newtiui. (e) The 

Guy O., is atteudinii the :Missouri State University fifth child was Woods Sl.vvix ()"Ki:.\u. who niar- 

at Columbia, ^lissouri, where we (he and Ii are rii'd Flora Prewitt. and had two chihlren, to wit: 

liviuii' temi>oraiily, while he is attendinii colieiic I.Clyde; and 1'. (Jimu'.^c .Macfarlane. (f) The 

The childreu of William Slaviu by his wife, sixth was Susan Allii-: ()'Ki:au, who dinl Avhen 

Fiances Woods, were eight, as follows: (a) The rwcnty years old. (g) The seventh child was 

first child was Elizai!i:tii Slavix. who married .Mattii: O'Kkak. who marrie<l P. E. Locke, and had 

William :McClure, and had tive children: 1. Fan- two children, as follows: 1. Allie O'Wear; and 2, 

nie; 2. .Vlexa.uder; :>. Samuel; 4, .\hnira ; and ">, Emma Lydia. (hi Tiie eii;hth child was ;Mary 

Clark, (b) The second was Ja:mks Kicic Woons V.vuix.v O'Keak. who married 11. .M. Clark and had 

Slavix. who died in early life. |ci The third was four children, as follows: 1, .Miller; 2. Alice; 3, 

Mauy Jaxi: Si.avix, who married l{obert Nichols, Elva; and 4. Kutli. ijl The ninth was PoisEUT, 

and had three childreu. as follows: 1, Overton; 2, who died in infancy. I k I The tenth and last child 

Isaac; and 3, Mary, idi The fourth was Joiix of William T. O'lJear and Elvirah F. Slavin was 

Addisox Slavix. who married ICmma KutJi Koss. .\I!AXa O'Kioai!. who died in infancy. 
(e) The fifth was P^lviuah Frances Slavix, who 

married William Tandy O'Pear, and had ten chil- SKETCH 43. 

dren, who will be list.Ml i.reseutly. (fl The sixth MRS. J. H. ROGERS, LEXINGTON. KENTUCKY, 

was S.VKAii 3Iau(;.vui:t Slavix. who married Mrs. Kogers's full maiihui naiiK- was Jane Woods 

Thomas Wright, and had eight children. ( g) The Harris, being the daughter (d' the late John Woods 

seventh child was M.vuth.v Rachel Slavix^ and Harris and his wife, Ann Mary McClure. She 

marrieil Sidney Jackman, and had eight children. iiiarrie<l John Jcdmson Kogers. who has been dead 

(III The eighth and last child of William Slavin soiue years. She is a lineal desceudaiitof .Michael 

and Frances AVoods was SiSAX Ovektox Sl.vvin. Woods, of lilair Park, through Colonel ,Tohu 

who married Allen li. O'Kear, aud had three chil- Woods, his fav(U-ite son. The account of Colonel 

dren. John Woods and liis descendants to be found in 



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rart I (i)ay('s !I7-1()5)) ami iiiuih of t\w matter Wlu-u (jnite ycmuf,^ she was couvertetl, aud iu 
liivcii in tlic skctclics of several otlier patrons con- ISIS made a itnldic profession of religion aud was 
tain iiianv items of interest to .Mrs. K(»ji('rs."s fain- icceived into tlif fellowship of the old Bethel Ba]i- 
ily. The most of these need not be presented in this list Clnirch in IJoone Connty. in a slmi't time, how- 
sketch, as the very full in<lex at tiie close of this ever, she took a leller from liiis eiiiircli to enttr 
volume renders it easy to find the name of nearly with others into the formation of tlie lionne 
every person referred lo herein. The said .[(dm Temme Church. This or-^auization was fornufl in 
Woods Harris ( father of Mrs. l!o<j;ersj was the sou her Innise. In it she live<l a faithful and devoted 
of Jud^(> Overton Harris iiy his wife, Mary Kice member for more thau half a oeutary. When .she 
A\'oods; aud said ]daiy Kiee Woo<ls Avas the daugh- died li(!nne I'emme ("Iiuim h lost the last one of tliat 
l<r of James \\'oods and .Maiy (!arland; and said noble little band wlio liad covenanted toi;c1her to 
James was the son of Cidonid J(din Woods and keep house for the l,ord. 

S)tsannah Anderson ; and ('(dontd John was the son In 1S44 she was h fl a widow kj battle throuijh 

of .Micdiael, (d' lUair I'arU, and .Mary ("anipb(dl. loni; years the storms of life without the conuisel 

A brief acc(mnt of Jud.^e Overton Harris, Mrs. and sympathy (d' the companion of her youth aud 

Kogers's graudfatlier, is herewith jiresented. partner n{ her early struggles. 

Overton Harris was born in ^ladison County, Her life was nmrked by evidem-es of deep por- 

Kentu(dcv, November 24, 17S!(; emigrated to Boone sonal jMcty, devotion to the cause id' Christ, aud 

County, ^Missouri, in 1S17, and died there January faithfulness in all the relations of life. 

10, 1S44. First Sheriff of Boiuie Connty, >Iissnuri She manifested a growing scdicitnde to enconr- 

(1S21 I, whicdi ofhce he held till apytointed by the age in Christians devoticni to Clirist and to adnmn- 

(io\-ern(U- C(dlect(H* anil Assesscu', in 1822. His jsh the uncomcrted to seek the Lord, 

securities were ^lichacd and Anderson Woods. It For several years i)revious to her death sho was 

is officially stated that his accounts were kept with greatly alHicted, but amid all her suffei'iugs Jesu.s 

scrupnlons exactness. '^vas the joy of her heart aud Heaveu the burden of 

He served as ]\rajor in tin- lilack Hawk War, lursiuig. 

Third Division, ^Missouri ^lilitia; also as County Duidng her last illness she often .said to her 

Judge of Boone County for a ntnnber of years. IMr. friends, "1 am just resting on the shore."' 

Harris was a man of strong intellect and deeply She was favored with wonderful nmnifestations 

rtdiiii(Uis nature, \ni\isualiy ( hecrful and vivacious, of her personal acceptance in Jesus and for hours 

and enjoyed the contidencc and affectionate re- ]>i-evious to her death' S(cmed In be, as she positively 

gard of all who knew him. affli-nied, mingling wilJi a luist (d' sainted friends 

31ary Lice ^Voods, who was liie lenlli child of who had g(.iie liefore. She died August 31, 187(5, 

James AVoods and :Mary (Jarland, and who liecame at tiie age of eighty, universally honored and lovetl 

the wife of Judge Overlon Harris, was the gi-and- by her ac(|uaintances. 

mother of .Mrs. Logers. She was born in Virginia The c hildri n of Judge Overton Harris and his 
Septend)er 24, 17!>."), and migrated with her ])arents wife, .Mary K'ice Woods, wei-e seven in nnndter: 
to Garrard County, Kentucky, where, on Decendier (ai .loiix AN'oons H.\iti;is. who married .Vnn Mary 
1, 1814, she was united in marriage to Overton .MiJ.urcs (bi J.vjiios H.vuius, who married Sahra 
Harris, with whom, in the autumn (d 1817, she Jackson; (ci :M.vitTii.\. Lyi..\nd ll.viaas. who mar- 
emigrated to Mis.simri, where she spent the re- ried John :Mills .Maui)in;(di WiLLi.VM .VN-DERSON- 
mainih-r of her long and useful life. She was the H.vitttis. who married Elizabeth Eohnett; (e) 
mother of ten (hildren. seven of wliom lived to be S.\i!AH Ei,iz.\r.i:Tii ll.\i;i;is. whit nmrried George 
m-own. Hunt; If) ^I.\i!V l'i;.\x('i:s ILvnuis, who married 





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".['•oot 



HON. JAMES P. WOODS 

ROANOKE, VA. 

(See Sketch No. 63.) 





JUDGE JOHN W.WOODS. 

ROANOKE. VA. 

(See Sketch No. 62.. 




HON. OLIVER T, WALLACE. 

POINT LEAVELL. KY. 

(See Sketch No. 79.) 



HON. J. D. (.OODLOE. 

WHITES STATION, KV. 

(See Sketch No. 4y., 



SKETf'TTES OF TATIJOXS. 



305 



Tlioiiias Kcn-y Iliinis; ;iih1 i h i Ovkutox ^Iichakl 
ITauius. wIio luarricd Aiiiaiida Wood. 

Cliildrcii of Jolni Wnods Ilaiiis and liis wife, 
Ann Mary Mcrinic : 

(al ^NFaktha AFai ri.v 1Iai;i;is, wife of ficnc^ral 
A\'illiani .lacksun IIcMidrick, lawyer. New ^'orlc 
City. Issue: 1, Anne irendriclc, wife of Kohcri 
lini-ns ^^'iIs()n, ]iocl, ai-iisT, I'rankforl, Kcntnciiy. 
Issue: Anne Elizabctli. 2, Soidiic Kenijx'r Ilcn- 
dri<k, wife of Dr. l-^rederic Sniidi rickctt, physi- 
cian, CU'vciand, Ohio; 3, Jane Carlyle Heiidrick; 4, 
Jolin Harris Fleiidrick ; o, Jacciuoline TTendrick. 

(It) Francks Bond Harris, died whor. a rhiid. 

(c) Jane Woods Hauuts. now tlic widow of 
Jolin Johnson Kojicrs ( fanner i. They had tlireo 
children, to wit : 

1, :^rartha Hendrick Rojicrs; 2. Mary Evelyn 
TJocers (died when an infant) ; 3, Virgil Johnson 
I\ojj-ers. 

(d) YiRGiL McClt'Rio Harris, lawyer; married 
Isahel ^IcKinley, St. Lonis, Missonri. No issne. 

fe) John Woons Harris, hanker. ^Married 
Snsan Oldham, of Nortonville, Kan.sas. Issue: 1, 
John Woods Harris, Jr. ; 2, Mary Harris. 

John Wo<xls Harris, second cliild of Jndjje Over- 
ton Han-is, and his wife ^lary Rice Woods, was 
horn Angust, 31, ISlfi, in Madison County, Ken- 
tucky. He went with his parents to Boone County, 
Missouri, and the latter settled on Thrall's Prairie. 
Tliis was the first settlement of any importance 
ever nmde in the county. Prowl iniGC Indians killed 
the only cow of the party, and loii-r oiling' and 
feasts of wild game were features of that time. 

At the age of fourteen he entered the mercantile 
estahlishment of General A. J. AVilliams at Colum- 
bia, ^rissouri. Attaining his majority, he endiarked 
regularly in tlie liusiness of merchandising, which 
lie pursued \\ith great success for tliirly years at 
Colundtia, Paris, and Rocheport, ^Missouri. Twice 
he was Iturned out, and had to hegin anew. 

During this long period he was recognized as one 
of (he leading merchants of Central ]\lissoni'i and 
a, citizen of great public spii-it. 

Mr. Harris was frequently called to positit»ns of 



(rust, the duties of A\hich he discharged with 
l»rom]itiiess and tid(>lity. He was director in the 
old Bank of the Stsite of Missouri, and Presidi'ut of 
l!oche]tort Savings Bank. In ISfiO and 18()4 he 
was a nu'uilier of I he (ieneral Assend)ly of the 
Siale of .MissiMii'i frnni (lie County of Boone. This 
was a ti-ying |)ei'i(i(i, and ^fr. Harris <listinguished 
himself liy ariing the pari of a loyal |)atriol and 
co-operating willi the conservali\e memliers of the 
Legisla(ni-e in holding Missouri true and steady to 
Inr Xatioiuil Const itulional obligations. In iSCi.") 
he was aitjtointed by tli(^ Secretaiw of the Navy as 
one of the Board of Examiners to the Unitinl States 
Xaval Academy at Annapolis, ilaryland. He was 
Commissioner to the Centennial in 1870. 

Foi- a nuud>er of years he served as a member of 
the State Board of Agriculture and of the Board 
of Curators of the State TTniversity. 

He received the Degree of Master of Agriculture 
from the Tiniversity and the Agricultural and ^le- 
chanical College of ]\Iissouri. 

John Woods Harris was in many respects a re- 
markable man. He possessed an energy of charac- 
ter and executive ability that were extraoi-dinary. 
His eminent social qualities gave him a warm wel- 
come at every fireside, and his domestic virtues 
made him the beloved and honored head of an ap- 
preciative family. 

His striking personal ai»i)eai'ance was largely 
inherited from the Woods or nuiternal side of the 
family. His form was erect, his manners courtly, 
and his whole bearing that of a vigorous and cap- 
able leader of men. 

On February 27, lSr)4, Mr. Harris was married 
lo ]\Iiss Ann ^larv ^FcClure, daughter of Doctor 
William ^McClure, from whom he purchased the 
Miagniticent farm to which he moved, and on which 
lie died. It was known as I lie "Model Farm," Jiav- 
iug been awarded llie ]iremium liy the St. Louis 
Agricnltiiral and .'Meclianical Association over all 
other C(un]tetitors as the best ".Model Stock Farm 
of Missouri." It com])rise<l 1,S()() acres. 

The adonuiieiil and improvement of this farm 
was the crowning elfort and seiMuou of Mr. Harris's 
life. 



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Where tift.v rears before the deer had been 
startler! hv the pioneer's i;nn, no\v was a park 
wliere a- nuiiihci- nf tlicse i;ra(i'('nl :iniiii;ils were at 
honic. 

John A\ii()(ls Ilariis die*! y\ny 3, 187<i, and was 
bnried at ('o]nnd)ia, Bot>ne Connty, ^lissonri. 

SKETCH 44. 
MRS. MARY F. HARRIS, FULTON, MISSOURI. 

Mi'H. IMarv Franfe.s TTarris did not have to 
chan.iic lier name in niarryinii ^Ir. 'I'iiunias Herrv 
Harris, for Harris was her maiden name, slie being 
a daufjhter of the hite Judge Overton Harris by his 
wife, Man- IJice Woods. ]\[rs. Harris is a lineal 
dt^scendaut of ilichael Woods, of Blair Park, 
llirough his son. Colonel John Woo<ls, and is a 
near kinswoman of ]\Irs. Kogers, whose sketch 
next in-ecedes this. In Jlrs. IJoger.s's sketch w\\\ 
be found a. great deal of mattei' of equal interest to 
her and ]\Irs. Harris, and which need not be re- 
peated here. 

Mary Frances Harris, sixth child of Judge Over- 
ton Harris and his wife, Mary Txice Woods, was 
born November 10, 1827, eight miles from Tolum- 
bia, Boone County, ^lissouri. She was married to 
Thomas Berry Harris, July 25, 1852, In^ Kev. Noah 
Flood, Baptist minister. Mr. Thomas B. Harris 
was the son of Tyre Harris and his wife, Sarah Gar- 
land, and was born in Madison County, Kentucky. 
November 25, 1815. A\']ien an infant he went with 
his i)areuts to Boone County, [Missouri ( 181(5). 

Tyre Harris was an active si)irit among the hardy 
pioneers. He afterward represented his county 
in the General Assend)ly several sessions. Tlnunas 
Berry Harris was about live feet four inclies in 
height, had dark complexion and brown hair and 
eyes. He belonged to a i>eople of strong charact(>r 
and individuality. He was a promoter of public 
and charitable enterprises, an extensi\e farmer 
and stock dealer and at one time was engage<l in 
merchandising. He owned a large tract of land 
and many slaves. He never sold a slave, all were 
freed by the Emancipation. 

He was Democratic in jxilitics, and loyal to (lie 



Union. Was electx><l, from the Nintli Senatorial 
District of .Missouri, a member of the Constitntiou- 
al ('on\cntiou, held al St. Louis, in 1805. The last 
gi-cal work in wliich Mr. Harris took a ]>rominent 
]parl was the location of the Louisiana and Mis- 
souri Kiver Railroad at Fulton, ^lissouri. Tiu^ 
securing of this railroad was due more largely to 
his efforts and management than to any other citi- 
zen. ^Ir. Harris was a man of vigorous mind; 
thoroughly practical, he possessed the energy and 
aggressiveness that make leaders of men, and was, 
in all he undertook, emphatically a leader. By 
nature he was generous and com])anionable. He 
died of pneumonia, Januai*y 9, 1902. 

Mm. Harris was converted when thirteen years 
of age and was baptized by Bev. "Robert Thomas. 
She was educated at Bonne Femme School, and u\ 
Columbia. She was tall and slender, with fair com- 
]ihxion, blue gray eyes, and brown curly hair. She 
assumed the res])onsibilities of life with womanly 
dignity and courage, and met its battles and trials 
with Christian fortitude. During long years of 
ceaseless^ activity she bestowed a bountiful hospi- 
tality, and governed her household with wisdom 
and firmness. At the bedside of the sick, beside the 
couch of the <lving, wherever duty called her, she 
has not been found wanting. She is a living exam- 
ple of the truth that old age can approach grace- 
fullv. She is now, at the age of seventy-five, beau- 
tiful as in youth. 

Surrounded and idolize<l by her family of sons 
and daughters, loved and revered bv a large circle 
of kindred and fi-iciids, she is thi' jiicture of hapjii- 
m ss and contentment. Such is (lie reward of a 
well spent life. 

Thomas B. Harris and his wife, ^lary Frances, 
had eight children, (a) The first was M.vutiia 
OvERTOX H.VRRis. who resides at Fulton, ^lissouri ; 
(b) The second was S.vllie Tyre H.vrris. who 
married Judge A. :\1. Walthall, of El Paso, Texas, 
by whom she has four children, (o wit: 1, Henry 
\'aughn A\'al(hall. wlio jiractises law at El Paso, 
Texas; 2, William ^laHjiin Walthall, who is dead; 
•^. .Marv :\Iiller Walthall; and 4. Sallie Tom WaKh- 



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307 



all. (CI Tlic tliinl cliild was Srs.w IIakkis, wliu 
I'csidcs at I''iill<iii. MissDiiri. idi Tlic roiirlli was 
\\'ii,iJ.\.M ( 'iii;isr(ii'iii:i; IIai;i;is, wlm is I'l-csidcnl of 
(lie ("allnway I'.aiik, l^'nlioii, .Miss()\n-i. i C I Tlio. 
liftli cliild was .M.\i:v l'j,izAiii;Tii Haukis. w Iki iiiar- 
rioa Dr. J. A. Van Saiit. of .Ml. Sli-rliii^-, Koiitucky, 
liy wlidin slic lias tlivc^' cliildrcn. as follows: 1, 
Tliouias Harris Vnn tSaut; '2, .Tames Albert \'aii 
Saul, -Ir. ; and '■'>. Mary 1' ranees \'an Sant. (fi 
Tile sixth cliild was ( )\ kkton Thomas Hakkis. wlio 
is eni;ai:ed in the wliohsale dry ,;:(mk1s hnsiness in 
St. I.onis, ,Missonri. i^i The seveiiili child was 
Tvki: ("i;.\\viiii;ii IIakkis. who is en;^ai;cd in the 
wholesah' hat Imsiness in St. Lonis. Missouri. ( li i 
The eiulith cliild of Thomas Berry Harris and liis 
wife. -Mary Frances, is ^Miss Isak.kI; Haukis. who 
resides with her mother at Fnlton, .Misseni-i. 

SKETCH 45. 
MRS. SUSAN E. CAMPBELL. ST. LOUIS. MISSOURI. 
^fif!. C'anii)lie]l. whose maiden name was Snsan 
Elizahetli Woods (called Bettie Woods), and who 
man-ied Mr. Giveu Campbell, in 1805, is a dangh- 
ter of the late Koltert Kay Woods, by his wife, 
Snsjin Berry. She is a lineal descendant of Mich- 
ael Woods, of Blair I'ark, tlirongh his son, Andrew- 
Woods. The said Kobert Kay Woods was the son 
of James Woods, .Jr.. and his wife. l'>li/,abeth Kay; 
and said James Woods, Jr., was the son of Janu'S 
^Voods, Sr., and his wife, Xancy Uaybnrn; and said 
James Wuiids, Sr., was the son of .\ndrew ^^'oods 
and his wife. .Martha Boa.uc; and said .\ndi-ew' w;is 

the son of .Michael \V Is, of Blair I'ark, and his 

wife. Mai-y ( 'anqtbell. 

In I'art I (jiaiies 11!l-12(;i will b(^ found a i.rctty 
fnll exhibit of the Andrew Woods branch of the 
Woodses, which fact ]>reclndes I he necessity of 
goiuii into the siune details at this i»oiut. Then the 
little boiiklet ;Li(itten out some years ago by Dr. 

lOdiiiir N\' Is, of Charlottesville, N'iryinia, ;^ives 

yet fuller pai't iculars in i-e^ard to llie same 
branch (d' Woodses. which jMiblication has been 
widely distribnied anions the li\iim representa- 
lives of Andrew Woods. 



.Mr. Kiibeii K'ay Woods, the father of Mi-s. Civen 
Caiiipliill. of St. Louis (the subject of this sketch), 
was bnin in lOlkton. Keiilucky. on the fourth day of 
July, 1S20. He grew to early youth in Nashville, 
Tennessee. He liradnated at collei;c at nineteen 
years of ajic. and was married at the aiic of twenty- 
one to :Miss Susan Bei-ry, dan.nhter of Dr. Daniel 
Berry and Snsjin Farnam, his wife, who lived in 
their home, called I^lmwood, a few miles out 
from Nashville, Tennessee, they havinu removed 
from .Massachusetts, where the.\' were born, to 
Nashville many years before. Dr. I'.erry was for 
many years I'resideiit of the Nashville Female 
Acadi'in,\. Miss Susan IJerry was born in Kussell- 
\ille, Kentucky, in iSi'd. She was small in 
stature, and of a decided brunette type. Immedi- 
ately after the niari'iaiic of Ilobert Kay \Vo(k1s and 
Susan I'eiry. this youni; cou])le left the old boine- 
nesl in Naslnille, and located in St. L(uiis, Mis- 
souri, w liei-e they spent the remaiii<ler of their 
lives. 

;Mr. Bobert Kay ^Voods became the head of a 
lariie wholesale dn' n'oods busiiu'ss, the tirm beinp; 
Woods, Christy & Co. Jlr. James Woods was also 
an owner in this business, and gave his son, Bobert 
Kay \\oods, an interest in the business to start him 
in life, ^^'llen tlu' war occurred between the States 
(1861-5) tlie money jianic occasioned by it brought 
about a failure in the business of the tirm of Wo<xls, 
Chiisty iV; Co. Kobert K. Woixls's bealtli became 
Aery nun-li ini]»airi'd, and he di«l at Euterpri.se, 
I'lorida, in the year 1S74, wliei-e he had gone on ac- 
count (d' his health, lie was buried in the family 
lot at Belfontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. 
.Mr. Bobert Kay Woods was a man of rarely beau- 
tiful nature and tine |M-iucii>les, and h and. some per- 
S(ui. lie was si.x feet and llirce inches in height 
and weighed, when hi' wasab(uit forty years of age, 
215 ]iouuds. He was exlreimdy ])o])nlar in social 
and business circles. At the time of his failure in 
business many of bis friends came forward and of- 
fered him tlionsands of dollars as loans without 
any s<'cinit_\ whatexcr, si» great was Iheii- confi- 
dence in liim, and Jilso iheir sym|i.ithy ;iu<l friend- 
ship. 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



He was always a rpjjnlar attendant at tlie Pres- 
byterian ("Imrfli, bnt never made a public confes- 
si(»u of Ills faitli in Clirist until just before his 
death, when he told his wife that he had .civen him- 
self to Christ, and that it was well with his soul. 
;Mr. Robert Kay Woods and his wife, ^^usau Berry, 
had Ave children — four daujihters and one son. The 
(hui^hters were named !<usan Elizabeth. ^Mai-y 
Pearson, who died in infancy, Annie Louisa, and 
Margaret; and the son, who was tlie youngest, was 
named Rol»ert Kay. Of these children Susan Eliza- 
beth, but always called "Rettie,"' was born at Elm- 
wood, the home of her mother's parents, at Nash- 
ville, Tennessee, on the IGth day (if July, 1842. At 
the ase of twenty-two she marriwl a young lawyer 



Campbell graduated with high honors at the Uni- 
versity of Virginia in the year ISoT. 

The children of Given Campbell and his wifr. 
Bettie Woods, are Given Campbell, Jr., who is a 
physician and scientist, living in St. Louis, lie 
was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 18, 
1800. The second child is Susan Woods, boi-n in 
Paducah, Kentucky, ^March 1, 1872, and James 
Campbell, born in St. Louis, ^Missouri, November 
13, 1882. Of these three children only one has 
childi'en, that is, the second child, Susan, who mar- 
ried Anthony Arnoux, of New York City, on the 
22d of June, 181)2, who has two children, a daugh- 
ter called Cecila Laval, born in St. Louis. ;Mo., July 
9, 1803, and a son namefl Given Canqdicll, born in 



by the name of Given Campbell, a son of Judge New York City, January 13, 189.""). 
James Campl)ell and :Mary Given. Judge Camp- 
bell was a son of Janu's Cami»bell, of Virginia, and 
]kLiry Given, his wife, was a daughter of Dickson 
Given, of Kentucky. Judge Cam])bell, the father 
of Given Campbell, lived in Paducah, Kentucky, 
and was a distinguished member of the bar in that 
State. The marriage of Rettie Woo<ls and Given 
Caini)bell took place at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, at 
the residence of Mrs. Sam Kirknuin, an aunt of 
Miss Bettie Woods. It was during the war, and 
under very romantic circumstances. The date of 
the marriage of Bettie Woods and Given Camp- 
bell is January 20, 18G5, ^Ir. Campbell being at 
that time a Captain in the Confederate Army. 
About four months after the uu\rriage the >\ar 
ended and this young couple returned from Ala- 
bama to St. Louis, which was the home of Mi*s. 
Cami>beirs parents. In the autumn of ISCi.") they 
settled in New Orleans, Louisiana, where they 
lived for eight years, then returning to St. Louis, 
they settled in that city permantMitly. ^Ir. Camp 
bell stood at the head of the bar in Missouri, aud 
many of the most honorable offices in the gift of the 
people of the city of St. Louis were offennl to him 
and declined. He was a man of the highest sense of 
honor and deviation to duty, aud of incorruptible 
principles, a brave gentleman and a Christian. Mr. 



The following additional particulars in regard 
to Andrew Woods and his grandson, James Woods, 
Jr., are kindly furnished by Mrs. Given Campbell, 
and will be of interest to many of the Woodses : 

Andrew Woods, the progenitor of the subject of 
this sketch, was born in Ireland about the year 
1722. He received a fine education, and designed to 
enter the Presbyterian Church as a minister, but 
was ])revented from so doing by ill health. About 
1750 he uuirried Martha Poage, the daughter of 
Robert Poage, of Augusta County, Virginia. His 
first home was in Albemarle County, close to his 
father's place, near the foot of the Blue Ridge, bnt 
in 17fifi he removed to that part of Augusta County 
which afterwards became the county of Botetourt. 
His farm lay on both sides of the high road leading 
to the Holston River, nine miles south of Buchan- 
an. It was sold by his executors to the family of 
Judge Simmons, of Botetourt. The house was fur- 
nished with loop-h<des as a protection against thi» 
Indians, and stood intact until 1833. He took a 
very active part in public affairs, and was one of 
the first magistrates of Botetourt. He was one of 
the Commissioners with William Preston and oth- 
ers. Robert Breckinridge, in 1774, a]>pointed him 
one of the executors of his will. Judge Simmons 
mentions having seen some of his papers (Andrew 
Woods's) which he says were elegantlv written. 



SKETCHES Ul" I'ATJIONS. 



809 



Aiulrew seems to have been the h'}>al adviser and 
sci-ilx' foi- tlie whole neiiililioi-hood. lie died in 
ITNl, and was pi-oliahlv Imiicd a few yards from his 
h()\ise. 11 is wife, Martha Poagc. survived him many 
years, and lived to l)e ninety yeare of ajie. She was 
a Momau of most devont piety and nncommou 
strength of mind and was considered almost a per- 
fect character. 

The home of Mr. James >\'oods, Jr., grandson of 
Andrew \\'ood.s, was iu Nashville, Tennessee. It 
stood on Broad Street, near the corner of \'anxhall 
Street and was a handsome, double, redd)rick buihl- 
ing, with porches iu front of it, ornamented with 
white tinted pilku-s. 

..Mr. James WockIs, Jr., was a tall man, and very 
erect, llis hair was irou gray, ami his face smooth- 
shaveu. lie dressed with extreme neatness. He 
usually carried a gold-headed cane. He had large 
iron works on the Cumberland IJiver, where he 
employed about 1,500 slaves, all of whom he OAvned, 
to work out the iron, which was brought to Nash- 
ville. The firm in Nashville was Woods, Yeatman 
& Co. Mr. James AVoods died very suddenly at 
eighty-two years of age. 

SKETCH 46. 

COL. J. W. CAPERTON, RICHVIOND, KENTUCKY. 

Colonel James ^^^ Caperton, son of Colonel Wil- 
liam H. Caperton and his wife, Eliza Estill, is a 
lineal descendant of Michael Woods, of Blair Park, 
through his eldest son, William AVoods. The said 
AMlliam 11. Caperton was the sou of AVilliam Ca- 
perton, Sr., and his wife, Lucy Woods; and said 
Lucy Woods was the daughter of Captain Archi- 
bald Woods liy his wife, Mourning Shelton; and 
said Archibald Woods was the son of William 
A\'oods and his wife, Susanna Wallace; and said 
^^■illiam Woods was the eld<'st sou (d" Michael 
^\'oods, of Blair Park, and his wife, Mary Camp- 
bell. In Part 1 of this volume (pages 60-67) the 
reader will find many interesting facts concerning 
AVilliam AVoods, son of 3Iichael, of lilair Park, and 
his numerous descendants, which should be read 



in cnnnccl inn with Colonel J. AV. Caperton's 
skcicli. Tiiniugli Kli/.a Estill, wife of Cobniel Wil- 
liam II. CaiicitdU, the siibjcci (.r this sketch is 
directly descended from Captain Janu'S lOstill, one 
of I he most fanntus of all Kentucky pioneers, the 
said Eliza being the daughter of Janu's Estill, Jr., 
and Janus, Jr., lieiiig a sdu nf Captain James 
Estill, the pioneei-. who lost his life in a battle with 
the Indians. 

Mourning Shelton, the wife of Captain Aidiiliald 
AA'oods, was the daughter of AA'illiam Shelton and 
Lucy Harrison, his wife. William Slultou was ihe 
grandson (d' iJichard Shelton, who came from Eng- 
land to America, in 1680 with his brother, Daniel 
Shelton, and was the pi-ogenilor of the Shelton 
family in A'irginia and the South. 

The ancestral home "Shelton Hall" stHl stands 
in England. One of the descendants of Richard 
Shelton was Sarah Shelton, the first wife of Pat- 
rick Henry. 

Daniel Shelton, the brother of J{icliard, settled 
in Connecticut, and from him is descended a long 
line of cultured men and wonu'u, prominent in 
New England and New York to-day. 

Lucy Harris Shelton, the mother of ^Mourning 
Shelton AA'oods, was the daughter of Robert Har- 
ris and Mourning Glenn, of Albemarle County, 
Virginia. 

Ivobert Harris and Mourning Cleuu were the 
parents of seven daughters and four sons and from 
these have descended many useful, talented, 
and prominent people throughcmt the South, 
among whom may be mentioned: AVilliam Har- 
ris Crawford, the distinguished Georgian; Mat- 
thew Jouett, the celebrated portrait painter and 
tu-tist of Kentucky; the Hon. James S. Rollins of 
Missouri; Colonel AA'illiam H. Caperton of Ken- 
tucky ; Hon. AA'illiam C. Goodloeof Madison Ciuiuty, 
Kentucky, Judge of his Jmlicial Distriit Un- a 
great nmny years, au eminent, just, and learned 
judge; he married a daughter of Governor AA'illiam 
Owsley, was a near relative of Colonel William 11. 
Caperton, and has a long line of nuist prominent 
and (excellent descendants. 




COL. JAMES W. CAPERTON. 

RICH-^\OND. K^'. 

(See Sketch No. ib.) 




COL, WM. H. CAPERTON 



(See Sketch No. 46.) 





REV. J. P. WILLIAMSON. 

(See Sketch No. 58.) 



MISS NANCY H. LINDSA\ 
(See Sketch No, 58.) 




RbV. T. S. WILLIAMSON AND HIS WIFE, MARGARET, 
(See Sketch No. 58) 



312 



THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



Williaiii Capertou, Si., and Lucy Wootls, daugli- 
tev of Captain Archibald Woods, were marrie<l in 
]7!J(t, in Madison Conuly, Kentucky. William 
Caperton was the sou of John Capertou of Mon- 
roe County, Virginia, the progenitor of the Caper- 
tou family in America, who came froin a noble 
French ancestry, emigrating first from France to 
^^'ales, and then to America. 

From this John Capertou has descended a line 
of highly talented citizens, some of Avhom have 
l)een distinguished in the counsels of the nation; 
among them may be mentioned: The Hon. Allen 
T. Capeo'tou, a former United States Senator from 
AVest Virginia, and Hugh Capertou, several times 
elected to the Virginia Legislature, and Hon. Ed- 
ward Echols, recently' Lieutenant-Governor of Vir- 
ginia, his mother being Miss Capertou. 

Colonel ^Villiam H. Capertou, sou of ^Villiam 
Capertou and Lucy Woods, his wife, was born in 
Madison County, Kentucky, in March, 1798. At 
the age of sixteen years he volunteered under Gen- 
eral Jackson in the Creek campaign, and was in 
the battles of Horse Shoe and Talladega. 

On the restoration of peace he returned to the 
county of his birth, and studied law under his 
uncle, Archibald Woods, and was admitted to the 
bar in the yeai" 1818. He at once entered into a 
large and lucrative practice; associateil with the 
first lawyers of the State in the different courts of 
Central Kentucky, and in the Court of Apj)eals. 

He was appointed United States District At- 
toi'ney for the District of Kentucky, by President 
Fillmore, and discharged the duties thereof to the 
emiueut satisfaction of the government. 

Among Kentucky's eminent lawyers none were 
more gifted thau Colonel William H. Capertou, 
in intellect and person. He was a born orator, 
and possessed brilliant taleut; his features were 
handsome, and his form graceful ; he was a great 
lawyer and a true and earnest advocate. 

He A\'as a contemjyorarj^ of Heni'y Clay, John J. 
Crittenden, Ben Hardin, the MarsluUls and other 
gifted Kentuckians, with whom he was associated 
iu important cases at the bar. 



Colonel William H. ('aperton was married in 
181!), to Eliza Estill, daughter of Jjuues Estill, by 
-Mary Kodes, his wife, said Mary being tlie daugh- 
ter of Judge Kobert Uodes. 

The childreu of Colonel William 11. Capertou 
and Eliza Estill, his wife, are: (a) Wuuus C.\r- 
ERTOx; (b) M.VKY r. C.vi'iatTox ; and (oJ.vmks \\'. 
C.\^i'KRT0X\, now residing in IJichmond, Kentucky. 

(a) Woods Capertou was a brilliant young nuiu, 
studied law but never practised, and died at an 
early age, unmarried. 

(b) 31ary P. Capertou married Leouida-s 15. Tal- 
bott, a brother of the Hon. Albei-t Gallatin Tal- 
bott, fonuer nuMuber of ( 'ougress from Kentucky ; 
she was a highly cultured lady, amiable and sweet iu 
disposition, and loved and admired by her famil_\ 
and friends; she had one child, AVilliam C. Talbott, 
^^■ho fl'as appointed by the United States Govern- 
ment to the United States Kavy, and was educatetl 
at Annapolis and Newport; after several cruises at 
sea as a uiid-,shipumu he resigned and i-eturned to 
Kentucky, and was afterwards married to Miss 
Annie French, a most estimable and attractive 
Aoung lady, tlie diaughter of Dr. RolxTt French, of 
Madison County, Kentucky. They had one daugh- 
ter, Clj'de, a charming aud beautiful young lady, 
who married Samuel I'heljjs Todd, and thej* have 
a sou, ^\'illiam Talbott Todd, a very promising and 
handsome young boy. 

Colonel James ^A'. Capertou was educated at 
Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, and grail u- 
ated at Transylvania Law School, Lexington, 
Kentucky, studying under Chief Justice llobiuson, 
Thomas A. Marshall, .Varon K. WooUey aud others. 
Soon after graduation he was granted license to 
Ijractise law, and eutered into partnership ^^•ith his 
father, Colouel William H. Capertou. 

Later, he was a law partner of the Hon. Curtis 
F. Burnam of Ikichmoud, Kentuck3-. Colouel 
Capertou ranks auiong tlie tirst lawyers and tinan- 
ciers of Kentucky. He is a man of handsome ap- 
peai'ance, great personal magnetism, and splendid 
intellect. 

He is a foi'cible aud original speaker, and before 



RKETriTES or rATKoXK. 



.■)13 



jurit's in important case's in* lias few, if any, supe- 
riors. His speeclies, full of wit, anecdote and hn- 
iiior, conitiincil wiili lucid ;ni;uuii'iii, ,nc dcli\i ird 
ill a (|ui('l iiiauMci', with lew jicsturcs; and iosinu, 
I iiliiciy, cnnscioiisiu ss id' liis own individualily in 
preseutiuji' the cause of liis (licul, lie liecoines a 
jiowerful and c(Uivincinii sjieaker. 

He makes a model cliairuum (d' niincnlions, his 
decisions heinj; fair, iirompt and positive, and al- 
most universally sustaiuetl. As a tinaucier he is 
quick to grasp a correct view of business mattei's, 
and has for a niiniher of years been president of the 
Iiicluuond National Bank, of Kichmond, Kentucky, 
rie is also known as a man of "inflexible honesty, 
invincible courage and incorruptible patriotism." 
Uis sincere regard for his fellow-niau gives him 
a j)eculiar hold upon his friends and ac(]uaint- 
ances, and a dignity of bearing, combined with 
cordiality, has given liim a great number of warm 
personal friends. 

Colonel Caperton's large law practice and busi- 
ness interests have kept him out of politics, 
though he has been repeatedly ottered prominent 
positions by his party. He was a delegate to the 
Convention at riiiladelpliia, when General Grant 
wjis nominated for the I'residencj' ; at Cincinnati, 
when President Hayes was nominatcHl; at Cliicago, 
when President Gartield received the nomination; 
and at St. Louis, when the Convention nominated 
President McKiuley. 

Colonel Caperton is very fond of outdoor sports, 
and has for years kept a kennel of tine fox hounds, 
in which he takes great interest and pride. He is 
a tine shot on the wing or in the forest. Descended 
from an illustrious ancestry, he is a typical South- 
ern gentleman, true in every particular to his day 
and generation, with reverence for all the sacred 
relations of life. 

In October, 1800, Colonel Caperton was married 
to ;Miss Katherine Cobb Phelps, the daughter of 
Mr. and ^Irs. Thomas Phelps of ^ladisou County, 
Kentucky. Mrs. Caperton (luc Phelps) is 
descendc^l from a line of cultured ancestors, promi- 
nent iu the <'olonial and jiioneer history of the 



country; and is herself a young wonuiu of culture 
and ediication, being a graduate of the Rartholo- 
1111 \\ Knglish and Classical Scho<d of Cincinnati, 
oiiio. Two lovely daughters, Mary James and 
Katherim- IMielps, have lieen born to Colonel and 
M rs. Caperton. 

Cobiiiel Caperton resides at Woodlawu, one of 
the noted i)laces in Madison County, near Kich- 
nioud, a Colonial residence, with a large lande<l 
estate attached. In the library of this stately old 
mansion are many rare volumes of over a century 
ago, published in Glasgow, London and Dublin, 
formerly owned by Archibald Woods, and Colonel 
^^■. H. Caperton, and brought over the Allegheny 
mountains by wagons. On the walls hang jior- 
Uaits of live generatitms back. 

SKETCH 47. 
E. W. FOSTER, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. 

Mr. Edward ^^'est Fostt'r, son of Kobert and 
Julia ^Voods Foster, was born May :J(I, 18G0. On 
the ninth day of January, 1S89, he was married to 
iliss Susan Cockrill, daughter of Penjaiuin F. and. 
Sarah Foster Cockrill. :Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Foster 
have two children, to wit: (a) Elllin C. FusTi:ii; 
and [h) Iiuiii:i!T CuLicii.vN Fostek. ,Mr. Foster 
is the main partner in the well-known printing, 
engraving and blank-book manufacturing firm, of 
Nashville, know n as Foster & ^\'ebb. 

Mr. E. ^^'. Foster is a lineal descendant of 
^Michael A\'oods, of Blair Park, through his sou, An- 
drew. His father. Dr. IJobert Coleman Foster, 
married Julia Hannah ^^'oods on the 23d of De- 
ceud)er, 1851. Said Julia- Hannah, who was born 
December 23, 1830, died June 28, 18!»0, le-aving 
nine children. Julia Hannah Woods was the 
(hiugliter of Kobert Woods, liy his wife, Sarah 
Browne West. Said Sarah B. West, who was born 
October 12, 1792, Mas the daughter of Edward 
West, and left seven children. Said Kobert Woods, 
who wass the son of James Woods, Sr., by his wife, 
Nancy Bayburn, was born December 25, 1786, mar- 
ried Sarah Browne West, Jlay 19, 1818, and died 
January 25, 18-13. Thc^ said James Woods, Sr., 
husband of Nancv IJavimrn, and father of said 



314 



The woods-Mcafee memorial. 



IJohei't Woods, was boru in Virginia in 1751, mar- 
ried ids wife, Nanty, in Montnoiiicrv ConutT, Vir- 
jiiiiia, December 2G, ITKi, and dicil Jannarv :-'T. 
1817, leavinj; ten clnldrcn. Said .Tames ^^■()()ds, 

Sr., was tlie son of Andrew W Is liv his wife, 

.MarMia I'oajte; and Andrew was the son of .Miehael 
Woods, of Blair Park, by ills wife, .Mary Canipbeli. 
Tile aforesaid IJoliert NVoods was a brother of 
James \\'o(m1s, Jr., and tlies*' two brotliers were 
among- the most snccessful an<l lionored linsiness 
men Nasliville lias ever had in all its history. ^lany 
l)artieulars in regard to these brothers and their 
near relatives may be seen in Part I of this vol- 
nme, and also in Sketch 4."), that of .Mrs. Campbell. 

SKETCH 48. 
MRS. J. G. GOODALL, CR02ET, VIRGINIA. 
Mrs. Goodall's maiden name was Julia Grayson 
Ellistm, and her ]>arents were James Monroe Elli- 
son and William Eenton AVoods. The said Miss 
AVilliam Benton Woods, was the daughter of Wil- 
liam Price Woods by his wife, Sarah Ellen Woods; 



Park. ilrs. (Joodall has the distinction, above all 
the other ])ati-ons of this volume, of having been 
born and reared within sight of Blair Park, wiiirh 
was settled by hei- dist inguishe<l ancestor in H.^l, 
and in whose soil his dust has repnsed since 17(>1'. 

Tile above-mentioned Miss Mary Jarman, who 
became the wife of "Beaver Creek Billy Woods the 
SecomI," was the daughter of the Thomas Jarmaii 
who, (ally in the eighteenth century, purchased 
the land on the summit of the pass in the Blue 
liidge immwliately oNcrlooking the (dd Michael 
^Voods plantation. That i)ass had been called, 
for at least three (|iiarters of a century, "Woods's 
(iap;" but as the years pa.sseil, the name of Jar- 
man gradually super.seded that of Woods, and to- 
day it is calb d Jarman's (lap. It is under the very 
shadow of "Woods's Gap"' (now Jarman's) that 
.Mrs. Goodall and many of her ancestors have spent 
their lives — a locality as picturesque as can be 
found in all our country. 

The Susannah Wallace who married William, 
son of Michael WoocLs, was not only William's first 



and the said AA'illiam Price was the son of James cousin, but three of her brothers married three of 

^^'oods, by his wife, Mildred Jones; and said James her husband's sisters — all first cousins. Susannah 

Woods was the son of that AVilliam ^^'oods who was was the daughter of the Peter Wallace, who niar- 

generatly designated as "Beaver Creek Billy the ried Elizabeth \\'o(k1s, :Micliaers sister, which ex- 

vSecond," and whose wife was Mary Jarman; and plains the relationship of the children (d' Peter and 

said William ^Voods (otherwise known as "Beaver Elizabeth to those of ^lichael and Mary. But, as 

Creek Billy the Second") was the son of that other neither the Word (d' God nor the English common 

^^'illiam ^^'oods, who was called (for the sake of law forbade such unions, there was no reason for 

distinguishing him from several other Woodses disapi)roving intermarriages of cousins. When it 

whose Christian names were William) ''Beaver is added that girls were not as abundant as men 



Creek Billy Woods the First,'' and whose wife was 
Sallie ^Vallace; and said "Beaver Creek Billy the 
First" was the son of \\'illiam Woods liy his wife, 
(and first cousin), Susannah Wallace; and said 
>\'illiam Woods (whose wife was Susannah Wal- 
lace) was the eldest son of .Michael \Voods, (d' 
Blair I'ark, by his wife, iMary Campbell. It is 
thus shown that Mrs. Goodall is a lineul descend- 



on tlie frontiers in Colonial days, and es])ecially 
that the ^^'oods and \\''allace girls were, we doubt 
not, uncommonly attractive, we see nothing what- 
ever to object to in the jiractice mentioned. 

William Woods, son of ^licluud, and husband of 
Susannah ^^'allace, has already lieen (rea(e<l of 
in Part I of this volume, and the reader 
is referred to that account. .Mrs. (ioodall states 



ant of that noted pioneer of Piedmont, Virginia, that he did not move from Pennsylvania to \'ir- 

Michael Woods, whose old plantation in western ginia till early in the year 174r>. This would 

Albemarle County, at the base of the Blue Ridge, malce him a citizen of Pennsylvania for eleven 

has been for more than a centurv known as Blair vears after the migration of his father to Virginia. 



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31i 



Tlic iuitluir feels ilcciilcdlv iiifliiio<l Id (lie view 
(•()iisi(l(M*e<l in I'nit I, lunnclv: Tiial William and 
Susainiali cainc to N'ivjiiiiia in 1 T;'.4, alony willi llic 
A\'n(](ls-\\'alhu'e coliHiy. 

AMIliani A\'o(h1s's son William, called "IJeaver 
Creek Hilly the First," fidlowed liis fatlier"< exam- 
])le in the matter of inarrvinii' eonsins. His first wife 
was Sallie \\'allaee, his euusin; his secend wife, 
also, was a emisin, Annie i{ei(l, daniihter (if his 
luule Jdlin Woods, and Susannah .Vndersim. His 
third wife was a widow, whose maiden name, ae- 
cordiug to -Mrs. (Joodall, was Nancy Itichardsou, 
and her deceiiised hnshaud's name, Jones. Dr. 
JCdgar ^^'oods gives her husband's name as IJich- 
ardson (see his History of Albemarle, page 353). 
IJeaver Creek Billy \Voods the Fii*st was in the 
Kevulntionary Arm}'. In 17TG he was commis- 
siuueil ensign, and then, soon after, lieutenant in 
the Virginia line. He was a man of marked in- 
dividuality and force of character. He was born 
in 174r4r, and reachetl the ripe age of ninety-two, 
dying in 183G. "Beaver Creek Billy Woods the 
Second,"" was the only son of Beaver Ci*eek 
First, and married Mary Jarman. He died iu 
early life, but left several young children, the eld- 
est of whoju \\as James Woods, who inherited that 
portion of the original Michael Woods grant called 
"Lowland."' His wife was Mildred Jones, the 
daughter of Captain AVilliam K. Jone.s, a dis- 
linguisiied otticer in the War of 1S12. James 
\Voods, just mentioned, had a. brother nanietl AVil- 
liam the Third, who also inherited i)art of the 
landed estate of "Beaver Creek the First," and who 
married Anne IJichardson Jones, daughter of <'id. 
John J. Jones. This Colonel Jones was a brother of 
the Captain William 11. Joues, before mentioned, 
and was, like him, an ofiticer in the War of ISlii. 
The William Woods, just referred to, who married 
Miss Joues, had a daughter named Sarah Ellen 
AA'oods, and slie became the "wife of AVilliam Price 
Woods, who was her uncle James W^oods's son. 
This couple were tirst cousins on one side and sch-- 
ond ((nisins on the other. Uy such man'iages the 
members of these families naturally grew to l)e vei-y 
clannish. 



William Price AVoods inherited a part of the 
Lowland estate from his father — that ])orfion of it 
known as "Highland." He was a soldier in the 
Civil War (1801-5), being a mcMuber of Company 
K, of the Se<-ond Virginia Cavalry. lie received a 
wound in the tight at High I>ridge, Prince Edwartl 
County, Viiginia. lie dieil August 8, 1900, leav- 
ing but one child, a (huighter, William Benton 
Woods, who l)ecame the wife of James ^L^nrw El- 
lison, tiie son of John Ellison and Martha Browne 
IMeasants. .Mi's. (Joodall (iicc Ellison) man-ied 
.McChesney (Joodall, ami i-esides near Crozet, Vir- 
ginia, almost within sight of Blair Park. 

SKETCH 49. 

HON. J. D. GOODLOE, WHITE'S STATION, 
MADISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY. 

The Hon. John Duncan (J<oo<lloe was bfirn iu 
T'oyle County, Kentucky, Jauutu'y 15, 1812. He 
is a lineal descendant of Michael Woods of Blair 
Park through ilichael's ehh^st son, W^illiam 
\Voods. ilr. Goodloe has been nuirried twice. His 
first wife was Miss Jennie Faulkner AVhite, to 
whom he was married February IS, 1873, and by 
whom he had six children, to wit: (a) ILvuky, 
who was born ^lay 4, 1871, and died December 5, 
1891; (b) ^^'iLLlAM^ who was born l<\'bruary 21, 
187(), and died February 22, 181)1; (c) Jonx DuN- 
f.vN, Jk.. who was born Februarj' 15, 1878; (<1) 
(iKouGE White, who was born March 7, 1880; (e) 
Paul Miller, Avho was born June 26, 1882; and 
If) ;\lAit(iARET F., who was born Decend>er 17, 
1885. The first Mrs. (Joo<llo<^ above named, died 
Xovend)er 20, 188(1. On the twenty-third of Octo- 
ber, 1889, he nmrritHl Miss Nellie (lough, of Lex- 
ington, Kentucky, and by her he has no children. 

The father of J. D. (ioodloe was Harry Hood- 
loe, boi'u OctolH'r 7, 1807, ami married Emily Dun- 
can, Novend)er 27, 1831, and died October 1, 1848, 
leaving seven children, as follows: (a) Eliza- 
liETii, born Sei)tembei* 13, 1832, and died in in- 
fancy; (b) Lucy, born Februarj^ 27, 1831, married 
Judge yi. II. Hardin (afterwards Chief Justice of 
th(^ Kentucky Court of Ai^peals), on the tAventy- 
lirst of Novendter, 1855, and died January 14, 1857, 



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Iwiviuii: one cliild, Avlio survived lier unl}' a short 
tiiiic; ((•) AVii.UAM, horn Ai»ril I'l', 1S:^>7, who is 
uniuairicd :ind practises law in Danville, Ken- 
tucky; (d| JLmma, who Avas honi .lainiar.v 11, ISiO, 
and inarritMi George II. Siininons. .Ianiiar\- 20, 1867, 
Ija' wiioin siie has had two diildren, to Avit: 1, 
Uarry, and 2, Emily; (ej John Dinx.vx^ the sub- 
ject of this sketch; (f) UiiXKV, who was horn No- 
vember !), 181:1:, entere«l the Confederate Army, and 
Avas killed July 1, 1>S()8; and (g) D.vvid_, avIio Avas 
Itorn October 14, 1840, and died November 5, 1855. 
The said Emily Duncan, wife of Harry Goodloe, 
Ava.s the daughter of John Duncan, by his Avife, 
Lucy AVhite, and Avas born October 30, 1811, and 
died May 25, 18GG. Said John Duncan Avas the 
son of Benjamin Duncan, wlio died in iladisou 
County, Kentucky, in NovendxT, 1790. 

The before-mentioned Harry (Joodloe was the 
sou of William Goodloe and his wife, Susannah 
Woods, and said Susannah Avas tiie daughter of 
Archibald Woods, the pioneer, by his Avife, Mourn- 
ing Shelton; and said Archil)al<l was the son of 
William Woods bj' his Avife, Susannah Wallace; 
and said William AA-as the eldest sou of ilichael 
Woods of Blair Park by his Avife, ..Mary Campbell. 
The said AVilliam (ioodloc was born in Granville 
County, North Carolina, October 23, 1769, came 
to Madison County, KentuclcA', in the pioneer 
period, married Susannah A>'oods, February 23, 
1796, and ditnl October 24, 1856. Susannah bore 
to her husband thirteen children, an<l died October* 
2, 1851, in her sCA^enty- fourth year. 

Hon. John Duncan Goodloe is an honored citizen 
of ^ladison County, Kentucky, and in 1893 Avas 
sent to the State Senate by liis constituents. He 
comes (if the best ]>i(ni(i'i- sloclc on both sides. As 
shown in liic rorcgoing cKJiibils, liis paternal grand- 
mother was Susannah >\'oo,is, dangliter of Captain 
Archibald Woods, tlie famous pioneer, Avhose 
career was so intimately associated with the early 
history of Madison County-. Captain Woods 
reached the ripe old age of eighty-eight, dying De- 
cember 13, 1836, at the home of liis son — Archi- 
bald, Jr., — Fort Estill, ^Aladison County, Kentucky. 



He Avas a tiiie s]»ecimen of the old Virginia gentle- 
man, a man of splendid presence, and dauntless 
courage, and one Avhose life, both jiublic and pri- 
\ate, was an exempjificalion of the loftiest ideals 
of manliood and patriot ism. 

SKETCH 50. 
SAMUEL B. ROYSFER, BEARD. KENTUCKY. 

.Mr. Samuel Bryan Koyster is a lineal descend- 
ant of Michael AVoods, of Blair Bark, through 
Michael's sou AN'illiam. He Ava-s born in Shelby 
County, Kentucky, August 22, 1861. He married 
3Iiss Lily Forwood, of Oldham County, Kentucky, 
and b\ her has one child, Samuel Biyan Koyster, 
Jr., who was born at Beard, Kentucky, April 2, 
1898. 

His father Avas William Goodloe Eoy.ster, and 
his mother Avas Mary Bryan, of Fayette County, 
Kentucky. His parents, after residing for a short 
time iu Fayette and Madison Counties, settled in 
Shelby County, Kentucky, where they lived until 
1876. His parents had four children, to Avit: (a) 
Bettie^ who married Malcolm Thompson, of 
Fayette County, Kentucky; (b) L.vveni.v, avIio 
only li\-ed about seven years; (c) Ellen, who died 
in infancy; and (d) Samtel Buyax, the subject 
of this skelch. 

The said William G. Ivoyster AA-as the son of 
Mitchell Ivoyster by his Avife Mourning Shelton 
Goodloe. Said ^Mitchell IJoyster came from Vir-, 
ginia to Madison County, Kentucky. His trade 
Avas that of Avagon-maker. ^Mitchell Boyster and 
his Avife left three children, as folloAvs: (a) Wil- 
liam Goodloe. axIio marricnl Mary Bryan; (b) 
John Woodson, avIio married Anna Fleming, and 
.settled on a. farm near I'ryan's Station, Fayette 
Ccmnty, Kentucky, and reared a family of five 
cliildren, to Avit: 1, Mary; 2, Goodloe; 3, Celeste; 
4, John AVoodson, Jr., and 5, Florence. 

The said Mourning Shelton Goodloe Avas one of 
the thirteen children of AVilliam Goodloe and hi.s 
wife, Susannah Woods; and said Susannah Avas the 
third child of Archibald AVoods and his wife, 
^Mourning Shcltou; and said Archibald (Avho was 





SAMUEL BRYAN ROYSTER 

BEARD, KY. 

LSee Sketch No. 50.] 



MRS LILY FORWOOD ROYSTER. 

BEARD. KY. 

[See Sketch No. 50.] 





SAMUEL B. ROYSTER, Iw. 

UEAHU. KY. 

[See Sketch No. 50.] 



MRS. UITTIE ROISTER THOMPSON 

PAINE'S Dtl'OT. KY. 

I See Sketch No. 50.] 



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SKETCH 51. 
REV. EDGAR WOODS, PH. D., CHARLOTTESVILLE. 



one of the earliest and most distiuiiuislied of llie iimiis meutioiieilliaviuii seen a uniiiher of liisi»ai)ers, 

Keiitncky ])ioiieevs| was the sixtli child of Wil- wliitli were elcijantly written, and Ity which he 

liani AV(K)ds and liis wife, Snsannah Wallace, and seemed to liave acted a.s the lojLial adviser and 

said William was the eldest son of Michael Woods, sci-ivener nf Ihe whole nei<j;hborlKUMl. Tie died in 

of Blair Park, and his wife, Mary Campltell. 17S1, and was doiilitless hnried a few hundred 

yards from his house, hut no memorial remains to 
mai'k the spot. 

VIRGINIA. His wife survived him n«irly forty years. In 
Dr. Edgar Woods is descended from Michael 1791 she joined the family of her son-in law, James 
Woods, of Blair Park, thr(ui.;>h his son, Andrew. Poajie, who at that time removed, hy way of Wheel- 
As some account of Andrew Wowls has been given ing and the Ohio Kiver, to Clark County, Ken- 
in Part I in treating of the children of Michael tucky. She resided in his household, afterwards 
Woods we shall need to add here oidy a few items iu :>rason County, and then in Ripley, Ohio, until 
not heretofore presented : her death, which occurred April 15, 1818, in the 
Andrew Woods was horn about 1722, and almost ninetieth year of her age. She was a wonmn of 
certainly in Ireland, lie received a liberal educa- uncommon strength of mind, and of earnes-t and 
tion, and designed to enter the ministry of the devout piety. ITer letters constantly breathe the 
Presbyterian Church; this pnrjtose, however, he spirit of the unseen world. 

was obliged to relin(iuish 011 account of ill health. The family of Andrew and ^lai"tha was large. A 
About 1750 he marrii^l ^lartha Poage, of Augusta number of theii- children died in infancy or child- 
County. His first home was in Albemarle, near hood, but the following attained maturity, and had 
tlie foot of the Blue Pidge, on a branch of Stock- famili(*s of their own : 

ton's Creek, one of the tributaries of Mechnm's (a) James was Ixn-n in Albemarle, and accom- 
River, dose to Blair Park, his father's homestead, panied the family on their removal to Botetourt. 
He removed in 17GG to that part of Augusta which He located on a farm in ^lontgomery County, on 
afterwards became the County of Botetourt. His the Xortli fork of the Roanoke River. He was there 
farm lay on both sides of the Great Road leading united in marriage to Xancy Rayburn in 177(5. He 
to the Holstein, nine miles south of Buchanan; was a man of devout spirit and unambitious tem- 
aud since it was sold by his executors, has re- per. He was the only one of his father's sons who 
nvained in the family to which Judge Simmons, of continued to reside in that part of the country. 
Botetourt, belongs. The bousc^ indicated the He died suddenly at his farm, January 27, 1817. 
dangers of the time, being furnislied wilh loop- He left five sons and four daughters. His second 
holes as a means of defence against the Indians, son. Joseph, an enterprising young man, removed 
and sto(Kl until 1813, Avhen it gave ]dace to the to western Kentucky in 1802, and thence to Xash- 
present structure of brick. ville in 1812, where he transacted a large and pros- 
He took an active part in public atfairs. He was perous business, and became a wealthy man. In 
one of the first magistrates of Botetourt. As a process of time he was followed thither by all his 
commissioner with Andrew Lewis. William Pres- brothers and .listers. 

ton, and others, he assisted in locating a road from (b) Roreht Woods, the second son of Andrew 

Crow's Ferry, on James River, to the County of and ^lartba. \\as l»orn in Albemarle, and sometime 

Bedford, in 1772. Robert Breckinridge, in 1774, i)revious to his father's death, about 1780, received 

appointed him and AVilliam Prestou, his two broth- the a]i]Kpinlm('iit nf surveyor of Ohio County, 

ers-indaw, executors i)f his will, lie was com- wliicli tlu-ii largely covered the north-western por- 

missioninl sheritl^^ of Botetoui't in 1777. Judge Sim- tion of the State. He settled in Wheeling, and he 



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there married Miss Caldwell, aiMl, after her death. 
Miss EolT. l?y the tirst union he had one smi, and 
li\- tlie second, one son and one danii'tiler. I Ic died 
about 1S:!0. 

(el Anhkiiw W'ooiis. the third son of Andrew 
and Martha, was horn in Alheniarle. TTe went to 
Ohio County with his brother Uoliert, to assist him 
in tlie surveyor's office. In the earlv' ])art of the 
|ircsent ccntiny lie was jiostniaster in Wheeling;, 
lie was also en^ajicd in nu'rchandisinji' and farm- 
inii. He marrie<l Mary, ilauiiliter of .Iidin Mitchell, 
and widow of Major Samuel McCnlloch, wlio was 
killed by the Indians at the month of Short Creek 
in 1782. He died in 1831, leavinij; four sons and 
lliree dauiihters. 

td I Auciiir.ALi), the youni;est son of Andrew and 
Martha Woods, was born in Albemarle, NovendxT 
14, 17(>4. In his seventeenth year he entere<l the 
Revolutionary Army as seriicant in a comjiany of 
^'ir,iiinia ritlemeii, commanded by Captain John 
<'artmill. His (•<wni)any was tirsi attached to the 
j'cjiiment of Colonel Otho H. Williams in Greene's 
army in North Carolina, was transferre<l to 
Wayne's Division under LaFayette, and ijartici- 
pated in the att'air near Jamestown ou July 6, 1781. 
I'rostrated by the malaria of the tide-water region, 
he was sent home with an honorable discharge from 
the hand of General William Ca.mpbell. He visited 
Kentucky after his recovery, and ou his return 
joined his brother in Ohio ('ounty. His strong in- 
clination, was to settle in Kentucky, hut it was 
never carried out. In 1787 he was a mend)er of 
tlie Legislature, and continued to lie at intervals 
tiirough the decade of 171tO. He was a mendjer 
of the Constitiitional Convention of 1788. He was 
early a]i|ioinlcd a magistrate in Ohio County, and 
acted as such until his death, lie was tirst jNIajor, 
then Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourth IJegiment 
of the Tenth Brigade of Virginia Militia. In the 
War of 1811' lie was commandant of the troops 
fnmi N(>rth-western Virginia, that marched for 
Norfolk as far as Cheat Iviver, and -were there met 
with orders to return. He was one of the founders 
of the Xorlh-western Bank of \'iriiiiiia. and for 



many years its president. He dip<l at his country 
seat near \\lMeling, October 2r., IS-tfi, having at- 
lained, wiiliiii a few days, to the age of eiglity-t wo 
years, lie was the I'allicr of tiiirteen chihlren. 

(el Ei,i/..\r.i;rii, iiroliably the eldest daughter, 
nnil one of the eldest children tif .\ndrew and ^lar- 
tha ^^■oods, bc<aiiie tlie wife of David Cloyd, who 
lived in Bockbridge Counly, N'irginia. She lost 
her husband in 178!l. An e.xlant letter, written in 
1700, indicates that she possessed a jtious and sen- 
sible mind. She died in the winter of 17!>f>-7, the 
first of the children to depart this life. She left 
four sons and five daughters. ^Martha, the eldest 
daughter, married Matthew Houston, who lived for 
many years near the Natural Bridge; and Bev. \V. 
W. Houston and Bev. ^I. H. Houston were their 
grandsons, ^largaret, the second daughter, mar- 
ried Bev. ^latthew HoustoTi, cousin of the ^latthew 
jnst mentioned, removed with him to Kentucky, 
and with him also, amidst the religious excitement 
in the early ]>art of the century, joined the Shakers, 
among whom they both died at Lebanon, Ohio, 
about 1830. 

(f) Beuix'O.v Woods was married to Isaac Kelly, 
and with him removed to Ohio Ccniuty about 178(1. 
There they spent their days. Their place in Bote- 
tourt joined that of her father. Their family con- 
sisted of five sons and four daughters. 

(g) ]\Iauy Woods was born February 19, 1700, 
after the removal of the family from Albemarle. 
She was married to her cousin, James Poage, 
ilarcli 19, 1787. In 1791 slu^ i-emoved with her 
husband from his residence in Bath County (o 
Clark County, Kentucky, then to Mason County, 
and finally to Bipley, Ohio, where, being left a 
widow in 1820, she died May 25, 1830. She was 
(he mother of thirteen children. One of her 
daughters, ^largaret, was marriinl to Bev. Thomas 
S. Williamson, and they and another daughter, 
Sarah, who was afterwards marricnt to Bev. Gideon 
Pond, spent their lives in Minnesota as mission- 
ai'ies to the Dakota Indians. 

(h) Martii.v Woods, the youngest of the fani- 
ilv, was born in BotetonrI, and was married to 



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Cai)taiii ITenry Walkor. a citizen of tliat rounty. 
Tliey resided on dais's TrcH'k, o])i)nsite tlie mouth 
of r.arlM'v's Creek. Slie lost her husliand in 1803. 
SIio continued in live mi ('raid's Creek till her fam- 
ily Avas uTowii. wlicii slie made her home with her 
youiii;('st son, Georjje, who resided on John's Creek 
ahout four miles west of Newcastle. There she 
(lied Decemlier 14. I^:t4, and was Imried in the fam- 
ily cemetery on the farm of John Walker, a mile 
or two from her old home down the creek. Her 
family consisted of eiiiht sons and one daughter. 

Kcv. EDGAK WOODS, Ph. 1)., Avas hora De- 
cendier 12, 1827, in Wheelint;-. West Virginia, 
naving- resolved to devote his talents to the work 
of the Gospel ministry, he si>ent ahout twenty- 
seven years of his life in the active lahors of his 
sacred calling-, and ahated his effiu'ts only when 
admonished hy a serious affection of the heart that 
his only hope for prolonging his days lay in re- 
liu(piishiug the duties of the pastoral office. His 
career as pastor was achieved in the following 
charges, to wit: (1) Presbyterian Church of his 
native city. Wheeling, West Virginia, from 185S 
to 18.17; (2) First Presbyterian Church of Colum- 
bus, Ohio, from 1857 to 1802; (?,) Presbyterian 
Church of Charlottesville, Virginia, 1800 to 1877. 
In 1877, Dr. Woods founded a classical school of 
high grade for boys at Charlottesville, Virginia, 
known as Pantops Academy, an institution which 
has a i"e])utation for excellence, such as Itut few 
scliools (d' its class enjoy. To his accomplished son- 
in-law, Profess(U' John IJ. Sampson, is diu' the 
credit of having taken hold of this institution when 
Dr. ^Vood■s lu'alth necessilated his withdrawal 
fi'om its management, ami made il a school of na- 
tional fame. 

Dr. A\'oods's father was Thomas "Woods. An' a 
long time the cashier of the North-western Bank of 
A\'heeling, West Virginia, and his mothei- was ^lary 
IJryson, of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. His 
l>arents had sincn children, as follows: 

(a I Ann Eli/..\. who married James S. Pollie- 
mus, (III S.Mt.vii .M. ; f't Tiiiounoui: ; (d) Auciii- 
UALU; (e) EuGAit_, the subject of this sketch; (fj 



John Hknry ^IcKki:; and tg) Lyih.v B. The said 
Thomas A\'oofls (liusband of Mary Bryson) was 
the son of Colonel Arcliibald Woods by his wife, 
Anne Poage; and said Colonel Archibald was the 
son of Andrew AN'oods by his wife, Martha Poage; 
and said Au<lrew was the sou of Michael AVoods, 
of Blair Park, by his wife, Mary Cami)bell. 

Dr. Woods married 3iiss ^laria Coojter Baker, of 
Martinsburg, Virginia, September 7, 1853, and by 
her he has the fidlowiug children, to wit: (a) Ann 
Eliz.v. who nuirried Professor John K. Sampson; 
(hi S.vMUEL Bakeu, who married Lucretia Der- 
rick Gilmore September 1. 1881; (c) Hknuy Mc- 
Kee, D. D., Avho married Miss Josephine Under- 
wood, October, 1883, and is a missionary to China; 
t<l) Eixjak. Jk.. ^r. D., who married ^[iss Frances 
A. Smith, daughter of Rev. Dudley D. Smith, at 
Shanghai, China, April 1!), 1892, iu which empire 
he I Edgar Woods, ^M. D. ), has labored as a medi- 
cal missionary; (e) Jajies Bakeu, M. D., who mar- 
ried iliss Elizabeth Brown Smith, daughter of the 
Rev. Dr. James 1'. Smith, and, like his brother 
Edgar, is a medical missionary to China; and (f) 
:Maky ( '. 

Mrs. ]\Iaria Cooper Woods, lav Baker, was the 
daughter of jMr. Samuel Baker, an elder of the 
Presbyterian Church, by his wife, Eliza Straw- 
bridge Reed. Eliza S. Reed was the <laughter of 
Samuel Reed, a Iievolutionary soldier and a dis- 
tinguished lawyer, by his wife, Anna Kennetly. 
The said Samuel Baker was the son of James 
Baker, of "Federal Hill," Frederick County, Vir- 
ginia, by his wife, Anne Campbell, w ho was a great 
beauty and an heiress. Said James Baker was the 
son of Samuel Baker, who came fi-om England in 
175(1 as private secretary to Lord Fairfax. His 
wife was Elizabeth Brown. 

Dr. Edgar Woods has placed the winde \Voods 
family under lasting obligations to him by having 
published his History of One Branch of the W(»od- 
ses, a small ]iamphlet; and his History of Albe- 
marle County, Virginia, a neat octavo. Without 
these two publications at hand, the author of this 
volume could not possibly have given a great part 



SKiriTIlES Ol' I'ATKONS. 



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of the most valuable ami i-clialilc data to Ix' found 
lici-ein. Xo descendant of ^lidiael W'ckhIs can 
alTord to l)c wit^liont citlicr of tliesc ](niiliealions. 
The present writer has drawn from tliem freely in 
ilie ]»re])aration of tills work, and he desires, in this 
l>ulilic manner, to record his mralffnl a|)iir('(iation 
of I lie Jahorions researches Dr. IMuar \\'(mw1s lias 
made. The anilior of ihis \ol\iiiie knows from 
iwch'e yeai's" lahor what sucii researches mean. 

SKETCH 52. 
MRS. J. R. SAMPSON, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINLA. 

The full maiden name of ^frs. !Sam})son was Ann 
ICliza ^^'oods. She was the first child of the Kev. 
lOdsjar ^^'o(KLs, Ph. 1)., by his wife, Maria Cooper, 
lire Baker, aud was l)orn in Wheeliuir, Virijinia, 
July 21, ISra. P.eino- a dau-hter of Dr. Edpir 
AN'oods, she is, of course, a. lineal descendant of 
Michael Woods, of Blair Park, thron£>h Michael's 
son, Andrew. In the sketch of her father, which 
immediately precedes her own, lier j;enealo,ii'ical 
lini^s ar(^ set out, and need not lie repeated here. 
She was educated at the ^lary P.aldwin School at 
Staunton, Virginia, and was £>raduated thence witli 
special distinction, taking- the hiiihest deijree of 
that sciujol, an honor which has been won by only 
a very few of the younn' ladies who have gotten 
their training there, and which is ott'ered only by 
a few of the female colleges of the highest grade in 
tlie United States. vShe married Professor Jolin 
1>. Sam]>S(in. ])ro]irietor of Pantojis Aca(h'my, A'ir- 
giiiia, liy whom she has jiad the following children, 
to wit: (a) Edoar Woods, who was born August 
L'l. issi'. ;iud lived but one month; lb) ^rAKiic Dun- 
i.i:y. who was born Jniu' 2S, 18S(i, and lived only 
ihirieen months; (ci Anxk llrssDi.i., who was born 
l>ecember 1'8, 188!l; and (dl .Mi:i!i,i: D." Arracxio, 
who was born April 30, 18'.t:). 

Professor John \l. Samjison was lioru at Hamp- 
den Sidney, \'irginia, June 1.", isr>0. His father 
w.is the late Kew ! >i-. I'i'aiicis S. Sauipsoii, soun^- 
liiiii' I'rufessor of (h-jeiilal Lileral are in rnion 
Theological Seminary, \'irginia, by his wife, (".iro- 
line Dudlev. Thi-ee of Ihe children of Kev. Dr. 



Sampson and his wife, <"aroline, grew to maturity 
and marrie<l, to wit : la) ;M.\uv Haldwix. who 
uuirried John James Kuiiuy, ^1. D., of the Confed- 
erate States Army, in .May, 1S(m; |b| Amck 
.Mkuli:, who mariied Charles Raskerville in July, 
isii."); and ici TiKiuxidx Komckks, who was an 
hi:ii(U-e<l missionary- of the Southern I'resbyterian 
('liurch lo the ivingdom of (ii-eece, and who mar- 
ried Miss IClla Koysler, of Mem|>his. TiMuu'ssee, in 
May, ISTS. 

The said JJev. Dr. I'ran<-es S. Sampson was the 
son of Kichard Sampson, Jr., by his wife, Mary 
lingers; aud said Kichard, Jr., was the son of Kich- 
ard, Sam]>son, Sr., b\- his wife, Aniu' ("urd; and 
said Kichard, Si-., was the sou of Stejdien Samp- 
son, Jr., of Goochland ("ouiuy. X'irginia; and said 
Sl( |»hen, Jr., was the son of Ste])hen Sampson, 
Sr. ; and said Sn plien, Sr., was the sou of I'-rancis 
Samjisou, who pateuted land in ( ioochlami County 
in llL'.j. 

Prof( ssor John K. Samjisoii has owned aud con- 
ducted I'antops Academy, near Charlottesville, 
Virginia, for twenty years, and has proved himself 
to be one of the foremost educators of yotith iu 
the Cuited States. 

SKETCH 53. 
J. A. R. VARNER, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA. 
Mr. Johu A. li. \'arner was born in Lexington, 
Virginia, March 3, 1840. lie was the son of Charles 
\'attiei- ami his wife. Sarah Lapsley Wallace. He 
was married to Miss Mattie Smiley, of Augusta 
County, October 1,"), 1874. lie learned printing 
when yet a boy, and finally became an editorial 
writer of decided ability, lie became interested in 
poliiics, and rendered the i >eniocrat ic ]>arly most 
\aluable services, lie entered ihc ('onfederafe 
Army in .Inne, ISfil, and was in Ihc innnortal 
••Siouewall ISiigade" (I'onrth N'irgiiiia Keginient). 
At the i'.altle of (ieltysliui-g l-Iiily, ISt;3l he was 
made a prismicr, aud I'oi- nearly 1 wo years was con- 
lined in Coi-I Delaware, wliei-eliy his lieallli was 
liopel(ssl\ imiiaired. In ISS.") i'l-esideiit Cle\-elaud 
made him I'. S. Postmaster of Lexington, N'irgiuia, 



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which office he filled till displaced iu 1890 by Presi- 
dent Ilaiiisou's appoiutt^. Iu 1894 he was 
appointed T'uited States luspector of Chinese, with 
his office at Portland, Oregon. In the fall of 1894 
his wife died, and one year later he also passed 
away. He left several brothers and sisters. He 
was descended from Peter Wallace, Sr., through his 
son, Peter, Jr., and from Michael Woods, of Blair 
Park, through his daughter Martini. 

Charles Varner, father of the subject of this 
sketch, was born iu 1797, and died in 18G0. His 
wife, Sarah Lapsley Wallace, was born in 1802, and 
died iu 1852. Said Sarah L. was the daughter of 
Andrew Wallace (1784-1816) by his wife Jane 
Blair (1790-1836) ; and said Andrew Wallace 
(1784-1846) was the son of Col. Samuel Wallace 
(1745-1786) by his wife, Kebekah Anderson (1747- 
1798). Col. Samuel AVallace Avas an officer in the 
Revolutionary Army, and he had four brothers who 
also s<n've{l the Patriot cause against the British, as 
follows: 1, Malcolm, who served under General 
Morgan at Boston, and died in service in 1775; 2, 
James Hugh, who was an ensign in the Third Vir- 
ginia Regiment, and died of smallpox iu Philadel- 
phia in 1776; 3, Adam, who commanded a Rock- 
bridge Company in the Tenth Mi'giuia Regiment, 
and fell at the Waxhaws, May 29, 1780, bravely re- 
sisting Tarleton's Troopers. The sword with which 
he cut down seAeral of the enemy on that bloody 
field was in Mr. Varnei*'s possession in 1895. The 
name "Adam Wallace" is on the buck-horn handle 
in clear letters. 5, the remaining brother, Andrew 
Wallace, was a Captain in the Eighth Virginia and 
fell at Guildford Court House iu 1781. The said 
Colouel Sam Wallace (and the four brothers just 
mentioned j was the son of Peter A\'allace, Jr., and 
his wife, Martha Woods. The said Peter, Jr., was 
the son of Peter Wallace, Sr., and his wife, Eliza- 
beth Woods. Said Martha Woods was the daugh- 
ter of Michael Woods, of Blair Pai'k, b^' his wife, 
Mary Campbell. Michael, of Blair Park, was the 
brother of Elizabeth M'oods, wife of Peter ^^'allace, 
Sr. Hence Peter, Jr., and his wife, Martha Woods, 
were first cousins. 



Mr. Varner was thoroughly versed in all the 
family lore of the Woodses and Wallaces, and took 
great pride in his Scotch-Irish ancestry. He ren- 
dered the author of this volume very great service 
iu the way of information, and did s() with the ut- 
most courtesy and cheerfulness. He was, at the 
dat« of his death, a member of the Prcsltyteriau 
Church, and his remains were interr< d in the Lex- 
ington Cemetery, in the midst of the region his 
worthy progenitors had settled a century and a 
half before. 

The children of Col. Samuel Wallace and his 
wife, Rebekah Anderson, Avere the following: 1, 
Elizabeth, who was born iu 1772, and married 
Charles Grigsby, of Tennessee, in 1790; 2, An- 
drew (first), who was born in 1776, and died very 
young; 3, James, who was born in 1778; 4, Wil- 
liam, Avho was born in 1780, and diiMl in 1808; 5, 
Martha, who was born iu 1782, mai'ried John 
Ruff, and died December 30, 1828; G, Andrew 
(secoud), who was born in 1784, marrietl Jane 
Blair in 1812, and, after her death, Mrs. Mary C. 
(Blair) Poague, and died in 1846; and 7, Ander- 
son, who was born iu 1786, and mai'ried Mary Gal- 
braitli. 

Mr. J. M. Perry, attorney at law, Staunton, Viv- 
ginia, kindly furnishes some valuable information 
in regard to the Wallaces which became available 
to the author after the first chapters of this work 
\\ere iu ijrint, and use of his notes is made herein, 
ilr. Perry's nmternal grandmother Avas Susan 
Rutf Martin, daughter of the Martha Wallace, 
mentioned above, Avho Avas born in 1782, and be- 
came the wife of Jolm Rutf. Mi*. Perry had access 
to some family papers of an auut of his, aud one 
item he furnishes, Avhich the author has not met 
Avith elsewhere, is the statement that Peter ^Val- f 
lace, Sr., on first coming to America, settled on 
. Tybee Island, colony of Georgia, aud that about 
1734 he settled in Albemarle <"ounty, Virginia. 
There are no records in Albemarle, however, to in- 
dicate that Peter Wallace, Sr., ever Avas in that 
county ; and the strong probability is that he died 
in Ireland prior to the date of the migration of 





ROBERT WOODS WALKER, 



(See Sketches s4-5^-^(>.) 



MRS EULALIE V. WALKER. 

LITTIE ROCK. ARKC. 







ELMWOOn. JEFFERSON CO.. ARK 

HOMESTEAD Ol R. W. WALKER. DECEASED. 




MRS. ALFRED D. MASON. 

ME.MPHIS. TENN. 

(See Sketch ^7 ) 



ALFRED D. MASON. JR. 

ME.llPHIS. TENN. 

(See Sketch 57.1 



sKi:rciii;s oi" 1'ati:(»ns. 



(iie Wiillaccs ;iu(l Wdiiilscs to lVMiiis_vlv;uii;i ( 1 7l'4 I . 
I'ctci- AViillacc. -If., llic son of llu' chli'i- I'cfcr, 
inav liavi? hi'cii fonriiiiiKlcd wiili liis lailin- in smnc 
of the statemeuls iiuotcil. rdcr. Si-., w.-u;, ho- 
yoiid rcasoiialilc doiihl, a lliulilaiid Seoicliniaii, 
who was born and rt'aic(l in Scoihmd, and (hen 
niiiiralcd to I'lslci-. Ireland. In llic hilltT ishiiid 
lie i)rohalily ni<'t and niaiiicd IClizaheth, sister ot 
.Michael \^■(HJds, and died lliere prior to 1724, 
lea\ing his wife with a considerable family of boys 
and girls. 

SKETCHES 54, 55, 56 AND 57. 

MR. R. \V. WALKER, MR. J. W. WALKER, MRS. E. V. 

WALKER, MRS. A. D. MASON. 

The family of Walkers uow to be cousidered are 
lineal descendants of 3Iichael Woods, Ol Blair 
I'ark, through Michaers son Andrew. 'Dieir Hue 
may be stated thus: .Vudrew ^\'oods (sou of 
Michael, of Blair I'ark. and his wife Mary Camp- 
bell 1 who marrieil ^lartlia I'oage, had, amoug 
other children, a son nanu-d James Woods, whose 
wife was Naucy Kayburu; said James and Xaucy 
had, amoug other children, a daughter uamed 
Margaret A\'oods, who nuirried Joiiu Moore \\'al- 
ker; and said John Moore Walker and his wife 
Margaret had, auu)ug other childreu, a sou uamed 
Kobert Woods Walker, who married iliss Eulalie 
\'anjiu(^ Taylor. This IJoberl >\'. A\alkci- was boi-n 
near the Natural Bridge, Rockbridge County, \ir- 
ginia, Septeud)er 11, 1.S10. lu 1812 the family 
moved to Caldwt'll County, Kentucky, where lloli- 
ert's father died in 181<>, wiieu he was a cliild of 
six years. Bobert conliu\U'd to reside there till 
about 1820, when he began his business career in 
Nashville, Tennessee. In 181)8 lie moved to Jett'ei-- 
sou County, .\rkansas, and there he c(nitiuued to 
reside till his death, which occurred XoveuduT 20, 
18(;7. On the 27th (d' January, 1842, he was nuir- 
ried to [Miss Eidalie ^'. Taylor. Soon after his 
marriage he m(i\-ed to lOlmwood I'lautation and 
lluic laid tin louudalion of the delightful old 
Southern home which was for so niiuiy years (lu^ 
happy residence hi his family. Here he and his 
wife dispensed a bountiful hospitality with gra- 



cious courtesy which is remembered by not a few 
lo this (lay. (^uiet and gentle in nmnner, Kobert 
W. Walker was a man of deepest fcHjliug and firm- 
est |irinci|)le. \\ hen the War of the Sixties came 
on he could not consistent ly leave his defenceless 
famil_\ lo become a soldier, but be was a loyal 
friend of the South, and his eldest son (Creefl Tay- 
lor 1, when yvi but se\-enleeii, enlisted in tlie Con- 
federate Army, and sei'ved till the close of the war. 
In his lovely home. Elm wood — of which a picture 
will be found in this xolumc — were reared eleven 
childreu, to wit : (a j Ciu:i:i) Tait^ou W.vlker, who 
was born October o, 1843, and married .Mis« Eliza- 
beth Dillwy)! Cox, January 4, 1866; (b) Mae- 
(i.vuET El L.VLiE Walkeu^ who was born Janu- 
ary 23, 184(i, and was nuirried to Benjamin 
Eustace Benton, April lo, 18<i3, and has a 
daughter, Eulalie Walker Benton; (c) JOSEPH 
^^'ouDS A\'alker, who was born August 18, 
1852, and married Miss l>enlah Burton, October 
1(1, 1888; (d) Mauy Agxes Walkek, who was born 
July 25, 1855, and married Orlando Ilalliburton, 
April 29, 1880; (e) Buuert Woods Walker, who 
was born July 20, 18(i0, and married Miss Lynn 
Far well, October 4, 1893; (f) Catherine Eliza- 
UKTU II.; (g) Sarah Eits; (hi Samuel Tait^or^ 
and (ji Ja.mes .Mosuy, all f(uir of whom died in 
childhood; |ki J.\mes Norvell, who was born 
March 10, 18(i(i, and died January 17, 1887; (,lj 
Juiix .MooKK NN'alkku. w ho was Ixuii July 25, 1848, 
married Miss Nora Carroll, December 30, 1885, and 
died August 23, 1893, leaving his wife, and a son 
and daughter she had Imutu' him. 

-Mr. Creed Taylor Walker, above mentioned (who 
live s in Little K'ock, Arkansas), ;.ud his wife Eliza- 
beth Dillwyu, lire Cox, had the following chil- 
dren, to wit : (a I Woiiert DillwYxN Walker^ who 
was born in 18(;!l, married Miss Mary Stuart Greer 
in August, 1897, and died in 1900, leaving two chil- 
dren (.^iary Louise and Bobert D. ) ; (1>I Kn len 
Kay A\'alker. wIh) died in infancy; (c) .Mary El- 
LALi.v Walkiou, who married Mr. Alfred 1). Masou, 
a prominent insurance agent, of .Memphis, Tennes- 
see, by w iiom she has a sou, .Vlfred D. .Mason, Jr.; 



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(d) ('i;i:i:i> Walkeu; aud (o) Ebi/AiiEXH II. Wal- 
KL:it. 

.Mr. Jnsc|.li \\'<i(i(ls Walker, abi>\<- inciitionfd, 
wlio manicd .Miss I'x-iilali i'.iirttiu in 1>^>^N. is a iih.t- 
(■liant at ('onici- Slduc, Arkansas, an<l has si,\ (.liil- 



dated, aud all iiad rcinark'.iltly yjood memories, it 
is safe to assume that the "NVilliaiusous had a very 
clear understand iuir "f the lii-ncalotcy of Andrew 
Woods, sou of old ^Michael. It is nut of the ijues- 
tion to su]>i>ose the Williamsons were iu any doubt 



dreu, as folhiw; 



.Mauv \'iH(;ima W.vlker; as to w ho Andrew's jtarents wwc v.r as to who were 



(1)) Eii.Ai.iA Wai.kku; ki r.Kii.Aii Walki:u; (d) 
KouEUT r.i iM'o.N \\Aia-;i:L!; (e) Cokni-lia Walker; 
and (f) -losioi'ii Wtions \\'alivER, Je. 

Marv A^nes Walker, alK.ve mentioned, who mar- 
ried Orlando 1 lallilmrtc.u, has had the following 
children, to wil: (a I A(;XES HALLIBURTON; (b) 
WALKIOK llAI,l,Il'.ri!T()N; (D Eilallv HaI>LI1!TU- 

ton; (<i) .fuiiN ^1- llALLiutRTOx; (e) :Mary ITalli- 

BfltTUN; Ifl OltLANlKI 11 AI.LI Df UTON ", aud (g) 

:Mai£(;aukt ]1ai,lii!i;kt()X. 



his l)rotiiers and sisters. The author hidieves he 
has eoneliisi\( ly shown thai Andrew AN'oods 
was one of I lie sons of .Mirhael, ot lUair 
I'ark, and a hrotiier to .Michael Woods, dr., who 
li\('d on .lanus Kiver, only ahonl ronrteen miles 
north-east of Andrew's home; and also a brother to 
Archibald \\'oods, ^\ hose farm was only about 
twenty miles south-west of his own; hut l'rofess(tr 
Williamson's sketch of his i)arenls throws some 
additional li^ht on this (|Ueslion. His mother, as 



.Mr. Uoberl V\'oods Walker, above mentioned, just stated, was a -ill in her tifteenth year when 
who married :^liss Lynn S. Farweil in IS'.i:?, resides Andicw Woods's widow died at, or close to, his 
In IJltle Kock, Arkans;)s, where be is the principal 



mendier of the firm of K. W. Walker & Co., dealers 
in ice, coal and wood. Ilis wife died in 1894. 

In I'art I of this volume will be I'ouud an account 
of the Andrew Woods branch of Woodses, the one gramlmother were perfectly familiar with the 



mother's home, .Moreo\-er, l'r(dessor William- 
son's grandimUher was a A\'oman fifty-three years 
old when ilartha Wivods died, and she lived twelve 
Years thereafter, lie shows that his m(>ther and 



to which the A>'alkers now under consideration be- 
louii', and to that account the reader is referred for 
many details o( special interest to the srrbjects of 
Sketches 54-.")7. 



SKETCH 58. 
A. W. WILIJAMSON, ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS. 

(For illustrations see pajie 311. 1 

Professtu- Andrew Woods Williamson, who is a m()tlier and grandmother and other relatives say 



family traditiiuis as they had been understood by 
the older AVoodses in Botetourt County, N'irgiuia, 
while Andrew ^^'oods was yet alive, and (d'teu told 
their children altiuit the old folks aud their man- 
ner of uianagiug the children, etc. And the dis- 
tinct iiniu-ession Professor AVilliauison and all the 
rest of the familv derived, fiiini all ihev heard his 



member of the faculty of Augustana College, Rock 
Island, Illinois, was the son of Uev. Thomas Smith 
Williamson, .M. 1>., by his wife .Margaret I'oage. 
lie was born January 31, ls:',S. He is a lineal de- 
scendant of Michael Woods, of Blair Bark, through 
.Michatd's stni Andrew; aud as Martha, the widow 



was that .Vndrew Woods, .Michael Woods, Jr., .Ar- 
chibald Woods, of Catawba Creek, and .Magdalen 
Woods were all children of tme father — ilichael, 
of Blair Bark. Xo one in the whole family ever 
seems to have held any other view of this matter. 
To assert that such a (dear and persistent family 



of said Audiew Woods, lived to be ninety years tradition could be a myth, and that, loo, in the 

old, dying iu Bipley, Ohio, in April, ISIS, ami Bro- absence of all opposing evidence, wtmid be ex- 

fc^ssor >\'illiamson's own mother was ctuitemporary tremely unreasonable, not to say absunl. 

with said .Martha Wtiods for ftairtten and a half .Vndrew Woods and Martha, his wife, had, as 

years, and his mother's mother was contemporary above stated, a daughter named .Mary >\'oods (Au- 

with said .Martha Woods for more than tAventy-six drew's mother bore the same name), who was born 

years, and these ladies were all intimately asso- in Botetourt County, Virginia, February 19, 1765. 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. 



She married James Poage Marcli 1!), 1787. Her 
ludfliev's niiiideii name was Poage as was that i>l' the 
mail she nianicd. Ahuy Poage («<■(• Woods I died at 
Uiph'v, Ohio, April 1, 1830. Tiiis lady was Pro- 
fessor Williamsou's graudmotlier, who was con- 
temporary to Martha Woods (Andrew's wife) for 
more tlian fifty years. Tlien the said James Poage 
and liis wife, ilary, had, among otiier ciiiklren, a 
dangliter named [Margaret, who was boru iu ilason 
Connty, Kentucl^y, September 10, 1803, and she 
married the Kev. Thomas S. Williamson (sou of 
Kev. William Williamson, of Adams Connty, Ohio) 
on the KItii id" April, 1827, and dicil at St. Peter, 
Minnesota, Jnly 21, 1872. This .Margaret William- 
son, /((■(' Poage, was the mother of Professor Wil- 
liamson, and she was contemporary to the said 
Martha Woods (widow of Andi'cw \\'oods) for the 
first fourteen and a half years of iun* life (from 
September 10, 1803, till April 10, 18181. 

The said Ivev. Thomas Smith \Villiamsou, M. D., 
and Margaret, his wife, had ten ciiildreu. He was 
horn in Union District, South Carolina, March 6, 
1800, married Margaret Poage, April 10, 1827, 
and died at St. Peter, Minnesota, June 21, 1879. 
This couple were devoted missiouaries to the Da- 
Icota Indians from 183.5, till their work was cut 
short by death. 

The following is a list of their teu children : (a) 
\ViLLiAM Blair William.son, who was born May 
10, 1828, at Ripley, Ohio, and dietl at the same 
place March 27, 1830; (b) Mary Poage AVilliam- 
SON^ who was boru April 3, 1830, at Ripley, Ohio, 
and died there June 12, 1833 ; (c) James GillilAxND 
WiLUAJisox, who was boru Jauuan- 25, 1832, at 
Ripley, Ohio, and died there one year later; (d) 
Elizauetii 1V)age A>'illiamson, wild was born at 
Walnut Hills. Ohio, October 30, 1833, married An- 
drew Hunter, April 10, 1858, and died at St. Peter, 
Minnesota, ^larch 11, 1863; (e) Rev. John Poage 
AViLLiAMSox, who was boru October 27, 1885, grad- 
uated from Marietta College iu 1857, and friun 
Lane Theological Seminary iu 18(56, married Sarah 
A. Vanuice, April 12, 1866, and has been a mission- 
ary to the Dakota Indians since 1860, making his 



liome at (Jreenwoo<l, South Dakota; (f) Andrew 
Woods Wii.mamsox (the subject of this sketch), 
wild was liorn January 31, 1838, graduati^l fi'om 
Marietta: Colh'ge in 1S.")7. and from Lan(» Tiieo- 
logical Seminary iu 1866, and is unmari'itxl, and is 
now a iii'ofcssor in Augiistana College, Rock Island. 
Illinois; (g) Nancy Jane Wh.uamson, wiit> was 
born at Lac(iui Park, [Minnesota, July 28, 1840, 
never married, and gave her life to missionary work 
anioug the Dakota Indians, dying at Greenwood, 
South Dakota, November 27, 1877; (h) Smith 
Ktiujess Williamson, who was born at Lac(iui 
Park, Minnesota, September 21, 1842, and was ac- 
cidentally killed at Yellow [Medicine, .Alinnesota, 
[March 11, 185(;; ( j ) Martha Williamson, who was 
l»orn October 5, 1844, at Laccpii Park, Minnesota, 
and married William W. Stout, of Gresham, Ore- 
gon, September 3, 1861; and (k) Henry Martin 
AViLLiAMSON^ who was born March 1, 1851, at South 
St. Paul, Minnesota, graduated from the University 
of Minnesota, chose the profession of editor, mar- 
ried Helen M. Ely, of Portland, Oregon, and has 
two children : Sumner and William. 

The above-mentioned James Poage, who married 
Mary Woods (daughter of Andrew Woods and 
Martha), was born near Staunton, Virginia, March 
17, 1760, and married Mary, March 19, 1787. He 
was a prominent laud surveyor, and died at Rip- 
ley, Ohio, April 19, 1820. To James Poage and his 
wife Mary, nee Woods, were boru thirteen childreu, 
as follows: (a) Martha Poage, born February 17, 
1788, married George Poage, and died about 1856 ; 
(b) John Calvin Poage^ born April 19, 1790, mar- 
ried JMary Hopkins, and died August 14, 1838; (c) 
Rev. Andrew Woods Poage^ born December 25, 
1791, married Jane Gay in 1819, and died April 19, 
1840, leaving six children: 1, Naucy McKee; 2, 
Jennie; 3, John Gay, M. D.; 4, Andrew; 5, Mary 
Jane; and 6, Margaret Eliza; (d) Mary Poage^ 
who was born March 25, 1793, in Kentucky, and 
died June 2, 1822, having never marric^l; (e) 
James Po.vge^ Jr._, who was born in Kentucky, 
and died December 20, 1820, having never 
married; (f) Robert Poage, bom in Ken- 



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tuckv, Fel)ruary 4, 1797, iiiaiTicd Siinili Kiiker, married roily .AIcKcc in ISd."). and. in ls:{(;, moved 

daughter of fJoveruor Kirker, of Oliio. and dietl witli liis snn-iu-law, Holicrt A. .M(K('<'. to Clark 

February 1. 1874, leaving issue; (gl FLiz.vitirni Counly. Missonii. Said Julin Lapslcy was the sou 

I'OACK, horn in Kentucky, Ajnil W, 17!tS, married of .losejih J^apsley hy his wife, Sarah, iiec NVoods; 

Isaac Shepherd, and died July 30, lS;il*; (h) Ax.NE and said Sarah was t\w daughter of Michael 

I'oAOK. boin in Kentucky. .May o, 1800, iiiarrie;! AN' Is, of lilair I'ark, by his wife .Mary Campbell. 

Ale.vander Moouey, anil died at liUssellviUc. Ohio. Miss :\[argaret McKoe was married to Judge 

about 1872; ( j ) r{i:ni:c('.v ro.vcii:, lM>rn in .Mason J«'hn McKee Wood iu ISSti, by whom she has had 

Couuty, Kentucky, lJecend)er 17, 1801, married three children, as follows: (a) CouitiiU.v ; (b) 

John Knox, and died April r>, 1870; (k ) M.utG.vuKT Lorisi:; and (c) Eleanou. 

PoAGK, born in JIasou County, Kentucky, Septeni- Judge John :McKee AVood was the son of Kichard 
ber 10, 1808, married IJev. Thomas S. AVilliamsou Julian \\ood by his wife Margaret. ii<<- .McKee. He 
and became tlie mother of the subject of this sketch, was born in Franklin County, Kentucky, and came 
and <iieil at St. Peter, .Minnesota, July 21, 1872; with his paicnts to Clark County, .Missotiri, iu 
(J) Sauah I'oAGi:. born at Kipley. Ohio, -March 4, childliood. One of his great-grandparents was 
1805, uuirried-lJev. (Jideon II. Pond in 1837, was a Anthony Crockett, a Lieutenant in the Virginia 
missionary (o the Dakolas, from is:',."> lo 18.")?,. and troops in the Kevolutionary War. One of his great- 
died in 18.")4; (m) Thomas IViack. boni at Kijiley, great-grandfathers was Dr. John Julian, who was 
Ohio, June 1, 18tKS, and died, unmarried, at Pipley a surgeon with the Virginia troops during theKevo- 



.\ngust, 1831; and (n ) Kev. Oeoiuji-: Toage. born at 
Kipley, Ohio, June 18, 1809, nmrried Jane IJiggs, 
and died at Norfolk, Nebraska, Janujiry (i, 1890, 
h avinii five children. 



lution. Judge Wood has held the offices of Attor- 
ney-General and Circuit Judge and other import- 
ant positions, and is now engaged iu the practice 
of law in St. ]>ouis, Missouri. 



SKETCH 59. 
MRS. J. M. WOOD, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. 
The maiden name of .Mrs. Wood was .Margaret 
McKee, and she was born in Clark Coiinly, .Mis- 
.souri, in 1804; she was the ehh'st child of Dr. 
iiobert Samuel :McKee, by his wife, L.juise, iiec 
Cleaver. She is a lineal descendant of Michael 
Woods, of Blair I'ark, through liis daugliter Sarah. 
Dr. Ivobert Samuel McKee and his wife, Louise, 
had six children as follows: (a I Maiujauet. the 
subject of this sketch; (bl 31ay. who nuirried a 
.Mr. Fore; ici 1Joiu:i:t; idi Thomas; |ei -Ioskth ; 
and (f) Samii;!.. The said Kobert Samuel McKee 
was llie son of IJoliert .\. .McKee and his wift', 
.Vmanda, ini- Lapsley; and said .Vmanda was the 
daughter of .lohn .\. La]>sli y by his wife. I'olly, )i('C 
.McKee. John A. Lapsley was the son of Jolin 
Lapsley, by his wife, .Mary, mi- .Vrmstrong, and 
was borji iu Kockbridge Coinify, ^'irginia, in 1783, 
moved io Woodford Countv, Kentuckv, in 179:!, 



SKETCH 6o. 

COL. C A. R. WOODS, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. 

Col. CharL's .\. II. Woods is a. lineal descend- 
ant of Michael Woods, of Dlair I'ark, through his 
eldest son, William. There is jirobably no UKMnber 
of the AA'oods clan who has taken a more enthusi- 
astic interest in the history of the family or who 
lias labored more assiduously to make a complete 
record of all its scattered branches than has he. 
In the prosecution of liis researches in America and 
( Treat Dritain, Colonel AVoods has been led to ado])t 
views in regard to \\'illiam A\'oods, eldest son of 
.Michael, of ISIair I'ark, and his cjiildren, which 
vary in some important details fi-om tluise accejited 
by other investigators in the same tield. ' lie has 
also gathered some interesting items not )iresente<l 
in tlie brief account of \Villiam AN'oods herein- 
befiu'e given. It has, therefore, been deemed ad- 
visable to let Colonel Woods speak for himself in 
this jdace concerning tliese matters, as follows: 



SKiyrcill'.S (»l" I'ATKoNS. 



■ '>-Ii> 



WlLMAM. rldcsl Sdii (if .M ic li;nl W IsmikI .\l;n\ 

("iiiuphfll, \\;is i>r(plt;ilil,v Imhii ;iI I >UMsli;nii;liii 
("iisllc. ("(imily .Mcalli. Irchiinl. in ITiH. Alin- n- 
et'i\'iiiii .■! lil»'i-;il cihical inn, lie I'liici-cil ilic ;iriny 
as an ciisigu iu an Irisli regiiiiciil. W'iu'ii llic^ 
Woodsi's (if County .Meath detcrinincd lo clianjic 
their residence and become Colonials, he came \\ ith 
iiis father and hrothers to the Tennsylvania col- 
ony, and settled ui)on j;rants of land olitained near 
J.ancaster. ilere he resided until the W'oodses, 
with their kinsmen, the Wallaces, emijirated to 
(iot)chlaud, no\v Albenuule County, in the Domin- 
ion of \'ii\iiinia. \\'hile a youui; man lie married 
Susannah Wallace of the old Scotch fauiily, famous 
in the histury and traditions of Scotland, a family 
destined to play a very important part in Auu-rican 
lust(U-y. one \\hose military achievements have 
scarcely rivaled its civil distinctions. Of this union 
a larjie family was born. Five of the sons, Adam, 
A\illiani, Archibald, John and .Michael, were Kevo- 
lutionary soldiers; and two, Andrew and Peter, 
A\ere Ba^^tist preachers. One of whom, the latter, 
was a ]iioneer preacher — in fact, the earliest of his 
denomination — iu three States; Kentucky, Tennes- 
see and .Missouri. His daughter, Sallie, married 
one of the wealthiest and most tlistinyuished sol- 
dier-planters in Virginia, Colonel Nicholas Shirky, 
whose home on the James was long known as (me of 
the handsomest and most hospitable in all the Tide- 
water region. Colonel Thonuis Dabney Woods in- 
formed the writer tliat eighty years ago, his aunt 
Sallie and his uncle 2vicholas Shirky were known, 
and often spoken of, as representatives of the high- 
est types of the Colonial period of Mrginia's gen- 
tility. Subseijuent to the French and Indian wars 
William Woods moved to Fincastle ('ouuty; and it 
was while living there (ITTo) that he disposed of 
his interest in the original home of his father — 
^lichael Woods. The original honiestead had been 
]ucvi(uisly conveyed lo liim by his fatlier. We find 
that (;n the l.")th of Sei»tember, 1773, he disposed 
of this estate, received from his father, togetlu-r 
with some 1,300 acres which he had purchased on 
the 10th of June, 1737. He was at I hat time a resi- 



dent o\' Fincastle County. < »u the same day the 
records show thai he gave lo his cldesi sou. .\dam 
W (Hills, l".t4 acres (d' the (U-iginal graul, and ai the 
s.ime lime he also conveyed a trad of land lying ad- 
jacent to it, to his son, Archibald. A part of this 
conveyance of \\illiani Woods and Susannah Wal- 
lace, his wife, to their son Adam is worlhy of pres- 
ervation and we copy it as it was written: "2!)4 
acres called '.Mountain I'lains" is hereby conveyed 
to .Vdam Woods by his father, ^\■illiam Woods, the 
same having been conveyed to the said William 
by his father, .Michael." .Vnd, continuing, the 
deed reads as follows: "Uy this said conveyance 
right is reserved to enter the premises and grave- 
yard in which are buried some of the relatives of 
William Woods and Adam Woods, his sou. .Vud 
it is further provided by the grantor tlnit the said 
graveyard .shall not be entered to dig, cultivate, 
build or occupy; and it is further provided that the 
said grantor and his heirs shall have the right of 
ingress and egress forever," This deed of convey- 
ance is witnessed by Thomas Jefferson, of 
Monticello, third President of the United 
States, Randolph Jefferson, his brother, and 
Lieutenant-Colonel John Woods, and is re- 
corded in Deed 15ook, ^'undier G, of Albemarle 
County. William AVo(jds was a uuin (^f consider- 
able wealth, and ow ned a great deal of land 
amounting to many lliousand acres which hail 
been granted to him in \ariiius pairs (;f the l)(miin- 
ion. The reciu-ds also show I hat he was one of the 
largest slaveholders in his jiarticnlar section of 
Mrginia. P>iit he was more of a soldier than a 
planter. He had little if any ambition for civil 
preferment ; and, from ceilain old papers and let- 
ters, the inference is plain that though he owned 
manv thousands ni' acres »t fertile laud, and had 
many slaves, he was not a praclical and successful 
auriculluralis), as were his lirothers, John and 
.\rchiliald. He lived to lie a very (dd man and to 
see his children occupy places of ])rominence iu 
the State. Several of them at the close of the Kevo- 
lutionary >\ar moved to Kentmky and they iu 
turn became the iirogeiiilors of many of the distiu- 



330 



Till': WOODS-McAr^EK MEMORIAL. 



Suislu'd faiiiilk's of tlic "lilnc (ii-ass Slalc'" linni 
to enjoy all the advantatics of wealth and social 
station lie was a ]iioiid, iiidicnflint; man; i)ossessiii|? 
iiut little, if any. of ijiat s])iril of ^ooil-fcllowslii]! 
orjcstini;, iiiirllifnl nalnrc-, wliicli (•liai-arici-izcd his 
postiiity and made I hem lather I'ciMarkable for 
their (•omi)anional)len( ss and amiahle, siM'ial (|nali- 
ti(s. His wife was sister to iiis sister lianiiair» 
husband, William U'allaee, projicnitor of a rare, 
whieh for a century and a (unirter has adorned the 
lirijihtest pasits »( our nation's history. She, like 
her husband ( NMIliam Wallacel, was a staunch 
J'resbyterian, and reared lier children in the prac- 
tice of that faith. 

ADA.M WOODS, eldest son of William AVoods 
and Susannah >\'allace, was born in Albemarle 
('(umty, \'ir,i;inia, and was cdncaled by a I'resby- 
terian nunister. On the 4lli cd' June, 17;57. Ins 
father obtained from Sir \\illiam (iooch a grant 
of twelve thousand, seven hundred acres of land, 
and when he became of age, Septendter, 17G3, his 
father gave him one half of this estate. He served 
under General Andierst during the campaign in 
New York, which occnrretl at the very close of tbt? 
French and Indian war. In early manhood he 
married Anna Ivavanaugh, a descendant of one of 
the oldest fanulies of Ireland, a kinswoman of the 
famous r>ishop Kavanangh, of Kentucky. His 
br(dher, the IJeverend I'eter Woods, married .Tael 
Kavanangh, sister to his wife. I'rior to the IJevo- 
lutionary War he and several of his brothers and 
consiiis, the Wallaces and McDowells, took parr iu 
what is known as "Lord Dunmore's IJebcdIion in 
1775." That is, they, with many other \'irginians, 
brought the royal (iovernor to terms, when he 
endeavored to encroach upon their liberties and 
confiscated powder and other munitions of war that 
the Virginians were coilecting. Of ,\.dam AN'oods 
his grandson, Sidney >\'oods, has this to say, in a 
letter under date of February 25, 1895 : "It was iu 
the month of February, ISiili, that my grandfather, 
Adam A\oods, canu' to Misso\iri to visit father and 
my uudes, William, Peter and Archibald. I can 
recall the day and event verv well, though I was 



oidy a small boy. One of the negi-oes saw him com- 
ing toward the house and cried out, 'Yonder is 
.Marse Adam." and ran to meet him. Father sent 
for my uncles and aunts, and the (dd man was joy- 
ously welcome<l. He was a stout, compact, firm 
built man of medium height, clean lindie<l aud 
w('ll-ai>]ieai-ing. Erect in his bearing, and remark- 
ably active foi- a man of his ad\ance(l age. In iier- 
sonal ap])earance he resend)led his sons, my father 
and uncles, and most of our race, being of a florid 
complexion and having hair that was once brown. 
Iiis manner was pleasing and agreeable to a re- 
markable d(^ree. He was full of wit and humor 
and his anecdotes made him the (hdiglit of his army 
of grandchihli-en. liecoming ill while with us, he 
grew raitidl.\ worse, and died in a few days." S]»eak- 
ing of the ndlitary services of his grandfather, he 
has this to say: "My grandfather, Adaiu Woo<ls, 
like his brothers ^lichael. Archibald. John and 
('(don(d >\'illiam A>'oods, better known as 'Beaver 
Creek A\'illiam A\'oods,' was a soldier and oflicei- in 
the Intercolonial V\in', aud in the War of Independ- 
ence. His sword was given to his oldest sou Wil- 
liam, who gave it to his oldest sou David, your 
grandfather, who in turn gave it to his ytuingest 
son ^laupiu, your uncle, who I am informed, gave 
it to the Masonic Lodge, of which he was Master.'' 
Anna Kavanangh, wife of Adam AVoods, is buried, 
it is said, in mie of the old family burA'ing-grounds 
near Itichmond, Kentucky, the original honn^- 
stead in this Slate (Kentucky) having beeu 
gi'anted to him on Decend)ev 18, 1781, and sur- 
veyed Xovembei- ll', 17S7. They reared a family of 
ten children. I'irst, ^VII.I.IAM ( the writer's great- 
grandfather) who married Susan Ix Clark; second, 
I'.VTiuci';, who married, tirst, Kachael Cooper, 
daughter (d' Ca])taiu Coo])er; and, sec<Hid, Fraiuds 
Dulane.\'; third, Aiicniu.vi.i). who nmrried his 
cousin, Mary Wallace, of the old Virginia family; 
fourth .Mu'H.vioL, who never married, but who 
s(n-ved with distiuction in Colonel Gabriel Slaugh- 
ter's regiment of mounted Kentucky Volunteers in 
the ^Yiw of 1812; fifth, Petek. who moved to Clay 
County, soon after conung to Mi.ssonri, in 1815, and 




i.WID WOODS. JR. 



DAVID WOODS. SR. 





COL. CHAS. A. R. WOODS, 

OF MISSOURI. 



(See Sketch No. 60. 1 



HARRY E. WOODS 
OF MISSOURI. 




DAVID WOODS. 
(See Sketch No. 6g.i 





THOMAS J. WOODS. M. 

BATESVILLE, ARK. 

(See Sketch No. ?!,) 



DAVID S. WOODS (DECEASEp). 

LATE OF BARSTOW, TEXAS. 

(See Sketch No. 70.) 



SlvET( IIIOS ol' I'ATKONS. 



tliere reared a large faniilv; sixili. .loiix. wiio went 
to CaliConiia, af the close (if Hie .Mixicaii \Var; 
seventh, IIanxah. who iiiarrie-.l ('oliuicl Itailie .1. 
rollins; eighth, Axxa, who married a geiitieiiiaii hy 
(lie name of Browne, in Clarlc or iladison County. 
Keutuel^y; ninlli. St'sax. wlio married ("(iluiiej .Mul- 
lius, who iiioNcd lo < 'alit'ni'uia ; and ienlh. Sai.lii;. 
wlio married .Fudge Austin W'ahien. r.i;rn in \'ir- 
ginia. Adam Woods resichMJ in the counts of liis 
hirtli until tiie IJevolntionaiy War; alter wliicii. 
joining the great tide of emigration ilien m:i\ing to- 
ward tlie Kentuelcy country, lie followed liie for- 
tunes of his hrothers and their kinsmen, tlie W'al- 
hiees, ^IcI)(iW(dls. (ioodloes, ^lillers and .Maupins. 

JUDGE WILLIAM WOODS. 

ICldest son of Adam AVoods and Anna Ka\a- 
naugli. was liorn in N'irginia Marcli 4, 1772. and 
died in Howard County, Missouri, .March 10, 1S4(>, 
aged seventy-four years and six days. In 17!)8 he 
married Miss Susan 15. Ciarl<. cousin to Major-* ien- 
eral John B. Claris, for t wenty-eiglu years a rejire- 
sentative iu both liouses (d' Congress. Miss Clark 
was also a cousin to tin' famous General George 
Rogers Clark, the brave but eccentric hero of 
Vinceunes. A\'illiam NN'oods was educated for tlie 
bar and liractiseil his profession until the breaking 
out of the War of ISlL*. lint he volunteered and 
was given a commission in one of the regiments 
that joined the army of .Maj.-<ien. AVilliam Henry 
Harrison. He was mn'stei-ed into the volunteer 
army at Ne\\|K;rl, Kcntm-ky, Aiignsl ;U. 1S]:>, as 
cajdain iu ('ulonel .Mii-iiael 'rauTs Kegiment. the 
Third .Mininted \'i)]nnte( rs ; Xo\-cmlier 10. 1S14, he 
was trausl'( rr( (1 to the regiment of Lienlenant-( "(do- 
n(d Gabri( J Slangliter. and ciniiniauded ( temjio- 
larilyl tlie regiment dining the camiiaigii and bat- 
tl(! of iS'ew Orleans, lb was mnstend out of (he 
service ^May 10, ISl.")." In the interim between the 
Canadian camiiaign and the camiiaign at New 
Orleans he ser\-ed with the 'rennes.^ee troops in 
their ranipiiigu against the ('reek liidi;:ns. and it 
was wliile in this service that lie tirst saw (ieiieral 
Andrew .Fackson. In -Fiine. isl."), he, with other 
mriiiliers (d' his family, emigrated to .Missouri, Inn- 



ing received an appointment, through the Presi- 
dent, to a position in tlie Territorial Judiciary of 
-Missouri. He located near Fayette, where he con- 
tinued to reside until his death .March 10, 1840. To 
• Fudge Woods and Susan Clark were born six sons; 
havid. Xicludas. IJariiabas, William. Kichard and. 
Kohert, and one daughter, Leantha. 

i».\vii) WOODS. sKXior;. 

Eldest son (d' Judge \\illiaiii Wodds and Susan 
1?. Clark was born near lvi(dimond, Kentucky, Sep- 
tember 0, ISOO, and died near I-^iyette, ^lissouri, 
•Inly 6. 18S2. He was educated ju-ivateiy and in the 
school at Kichmoud until the summer of 181."), when 
he came with his father to .Missoui-i. .\s a boy he 
had accomi)anied his father to New Orleans in 
1815, and in that great battle in which the flower of 
the English .\rmy had fallen bef(n*e the unerring 
aim and dauntless courage of the Kentucky and 
Tennessee riflemen, had received his initial experi- 
( nee as a volunteer siddier. Fresji from sudi 
scenes, the boy was lironght liy his father to the 
Missouri Territoi'y, many parts of which had not 
lieen entered by white men, save when an occa- 
sional hunter or trapper had been lured in ]nirsuit 
of game. Early in 1820 he was commissioned l)y 
< rovernor Alexander ^McNair to take a company of 
volunteers and expel certain troublesome Indians 
of the western part of the State. At the age of 
twenty-two he was elected to the State Legislature. 
In 182.'> he marricMl Margaret 3fan])in, of .Madison 
County, Keudicky, daughter of Cornelius .Maujiin, 
wlii> liad, with AVilliam and .\dani and .Vr(diie 
\\'nods, and t heir kinsmen, the Wallaces and JFc- 
r»owclls, been a nienilier of the .Mbemarle Company 
which in 1774-177."'> compelled l>ori! Dunmore to 
accede to the wisln s of the \' irgiiiia lis. She was 
the grand-daugliler td' Daniel .\hiupiii of Williams- 
burg. ^Margaret .Maupiii was ;i sister (d' Cohuud 
Kobert and \\'.isli .Manpiii. of .Madison (Nuudy, 
Kentucky, who as soldii rs in the War ni' ISli' and 
as iiieiiiliers cf the Legislatni-e i.f Keiiiiieky had a 
well-known local reputation, .\fter the beginiiing 
of the Klack Hawk War in I8:>L' he was an otiticer 
in the Slate militia. In 18;'.7 he served in Florida 



334 THE WOUDSMcAFEE MEMOKIAL. 

in the caiiipaijin whicli i-esultcd in the dcfoat and amount of family records that conhl he aoeumu- 
expulsiou of the Seminolc' ln<lians, wliich tlie jiov- lafed. Tlionjih tlie writer Avas then only a hoy he 
ernment for twenry years had Ueeu (Muleav()riii<r to iiriie.l him lo ;;atlier the fraj^meuts of family his 
accomplish, imt wliich the r»«inlar army iiad failed tnry and endioily ihem in concrete form, lie told 
to do. Later he served with (Jenci-al ("lark in the jiim where. an<l how, man.\ if these records cnuld 
^lissonri ^[ilitia at the halllc of I'nv \\ csl in wliich he ohlaiiud, a.ssnrin^ him that some day the family 
(Vdonel Ilinkle, the .Moriiidii Icadci- and his troops would he jrratefiil for their acciimnlation ami 
were caiitnred. ami haiiisliid fidiii ilic State. With incservation. (iuidiil liy iliis inslriicl ion ami sns 
the annexation of Texas, ext'iitiiaily came the .Mexi- tained hy the thoujiht nf his approval. the wrilerhas 
can War of 1810-47. He entered the service and searched thronirh the lihraries ut Eurojie and 
was with Cciieral 'i'aylor. his old commamlei' in Aim i ica, has iiunied out llie secrets of the Herald's 
tlu^ Texas campaijiii, wliich resulltd in the Ijattles ("oIleLicof liclaml and Eiiiiland. the .Vdjutant-Uen- 
of I'alo Alto. Kasaca de la Palma, .Moiilerey and ciaFs cRice of (ircal r.ritain and iicl.iml, has j;one 
Jiiiena \'ista; for his services in this campaign he throui^h ({overnmeiit and State offices, has searched 
was hrex'etted a Lieutenant-Colonel. .Vfter the close for the iccords and jicnealoiiies (d" families, and, in 
of th( .M( xicaii Will- he reniaiiieil in (he rejiiilar short, has sj)ar(«l neither lime nor expense, not in- 
ariny in the ipiartermaster's department until 1850, c(uii])a(ihle with liis limited means and his more 
when he returned to his farm, where he continued limitc^d opportunities. It is new two und twenty 
to reside until the ojieniiii; of the Civil War. Like years since he spoke, nrjiinu the writer to iiathe:' 
his fathers he was loyal to the history and tradi- and jmhlisli the records of the old family. It has 
tion of the old South. an<l lielieved that it was one 1m en twenty-one years since the spirit of David 
of the iidierent rights of a State to withdraw from Woods, Sr.. was garherid to his fathers and the 
the Federal compact whenever it lielieved it was to writer has learned to aiipreciate the nuvtive that 
its interest to do so. He was too (dd to enter the impelled his grand father. The writer has the rec- 
service of the Confederacy and take part in the ord of his family for twenty generations and the 
movements of the armies in the tield, hut all his names of nearly three thousand men and women 
synii)athy and whatever iiiHuence he possesseil was who are descended from -hdin \\'oods, and his sous, 
given to the South. To the South he cheerfully And all this lahor has been given, this information 
gave all — sous, land and fortune; and when the Hag gathere<l, as a direct resnlt of his reqnes-t. David 
of the Confederacy was furled he, like many Wends was a tall, haiidsc.ine, graceful man, stand- 
another gentleman of the old South, li(dieved that ing a little mure than six fi et in his stockings, and 
the light of (hivalry had gone (lilt. The last fifteen weighed about I'l'tJ [louuds. His com]ilexion was 
years of his life were spent on his farm, from ruddy, his eyes large, dark brown and expressive, 
which he rarely emerged exce])t to take .simie part His hair was of a nut-brown color, his nose was 
in fraternal, ediicatiimal or ndigious w(irk in which large, strong; his (diin was broad and firm; slow- 
he was deeply interested. In May, 1882, only a and deliberate in all Jiis actions, he was a man of 
few weeks before his death he visited his sou David, strong convictions, faithful in his attachments, 
the writers father; one evening he calhd the writer dangerous in his anger, and possessing an iron will, 
out on the veranda and told him the story of his dauntless courage and nnswervibg honesty. To him 
ancestors; the rank and title of their ancestors in w( re born ten children, only five of wlniui mari-ied. 
Ireland and England, and the part they had played They were: First, S.v.mika, bcin .Vjiril .">, IS-O, died 
in the liistory of the States in which they had lived; Juiii', IIMH, married James \'eal; secijnd, Axgk- 
telliug him that they had always been an honest, i.ina. born April 13, 1828, and mai-ried Aaron Dy- 
simple, country people. He spoke of the vast sart ; third. ()vi;iiton. born January 7, 1830, and 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. :j:Jo 

(lied :May 18, 1887; foui-tli, O.win. huni .May L'l. an aiilt lit secessionist and cast liis foil iiiic wifli the 
18;}2, died Septemliei- .">, I'.tOO, married Mattie A. Cniifcderacy. dniii;;: wliai lie cuu Id fur i lie success of 
Kobinson of Bourliou ('(niiiiy, Kentucky, November ibc SonilH'in cause. In isci Ii<' was ca]»tui'ed and 
4. 1803; tiftli. ("onxKi.irs .Maii-in Wixms. born .May sentenced in he ( x( cnled, when (iie fact tiiat 1m' was 
4,1834. ;i .Miistei- .Mason becoming known to (ieneral Mor- 
DAVIl) WOODS, JUNIOR. j-nii of Iowa. coniniaiKlin- the Ini-ach-. execution 
Becond and obb-st surviviuji' son of David Woods, was stayeii. and lie was linally jiaroied. At that time 
Sr., aad Margaret .Maupin, was Imrii in Boone he was sulferinii froni woiinds tliat were never 
County, Missoui'i, ^lay l'l, 1832. He Avas educated entirely healc.l and \iltiiiiately resulted in Ids being 
in the schools of his county and contiiiue<l to re- compelled to use l)iiili cruicli and cane the re- 
main at home and manajie the estate until he bad mainder of bis life. .\i the close of the war and 
attained his majority. In the alisence of his father during the Reconstruct ion luriod in .Missouri he 
he had control of the plantation and the neirroes. resolutely refused to take the ■•test oath"; and as .a 
He thus acquired a practical skill in a;;ri<ultural sequeuce was virtually disfraiic]iis(-d until the itcn- 
affairs, and many years after, and in another eral election of 187(!. November 4, 18(i3. he was 
county, earned for himself the reputation of the married to ^iartba, the daughter of .lohn 11. and 
"best farmer in the county." Rut he was destiued Nannie IJobinscm, of iJourbon ("ounty, Kentuckv. 
to spend the best and greatest part of his life in Vty this mairiajic he again united his family with 
enterprises more active, and amid scenes more e.\- the well known Kentucky family. The only brother 
citing tlian those connected with the pastoral life, ef .Martha Woods was a noted ('oniV.lerate surjieon, 
In early manhood he united witli the Yellow Creek while three of her first cousins, two of them her 
Baptist Church and contiuued to be a mendier of double tirst ((uisins, leared in her lailiei-"s house, 
this congregation until the close of the war. In entered the Union servic<'. Subsequent to the Civil 
1853-54 he crosst^d the plains in command of a War Davi<MVoods engaged in many business entei-- 
large i)arty of gold-hunti'i-s. There were nearh' a ])rises. Left at the (dose of the war witlnuit a dol- 
hundred young men in the party, many of whom lar, deprived of his citizenship, wounded and crip- 
afterward became prominent in the civil and inili- jded for the rest of his lif(^ he took up the battle 
tary histoi"y of the Commonwealth. In 1855 he with adversity with the .same courage and enthusi- 
eutered the government sen-ice, and while in it asm that had mai-ked biseveiy action. Though the 
crossed and recrossed the plains several tinu^s social an'.] labor conditions had changx'd since 
going to, and coming fnmi, F(n*ts Laramie and Ben- he had superintended his father's plantation, he 
ton. In 1858-59 he was ordert^d to Texas across the soon ac(piired considerable pro])erty, and in a few- 
Indian Territory by the way of old Fcn-ts Smith and years became locally known as ••the best farmer in 
Arbuckle. He remainetl in the goverunu-nt service the county." In June, 1880, he moved to Norborue, 
uutil the spring of 1800, when he resigned and ^lissouri, and was ever at the fi-mit (d" everv endea- 
starteil home. On the ll'th of .March, ]8(il, he wag vor to lu-omote any enterprise ibai was intended to 
arrested at Laclede by a lieutenant of the Unit(>d advance the best interest of the community. .Vs a 
States army, on the charge of treason. .\t the rime juiblic official in many positions he Avas capable, 
of his arrest he Avas C(mA-aleseing fnim an attack of energetic, icsourcefnl and entei]>rising. (^uick- 
tyi)hoid fcA-er and t-ame near dying Avhile being con- ti ni])eicd. imi.ulsive, a dangerous man in bis Avrath, 
A-eyed to the Federal lu-i sou in illin(ds. Through no man was ever more generous, forgiving and 
the intercession of (Jovernor Woods, of Illinois, he kind-hearied. To David Woods and :Martha Rob- 
was released from in-ison and returned to .Missouri, inson were iioin thice sons, ("oi,. ('ir.\KLi:s -\. R. ; 
arriving just aftei- the bat tie of Lexington. lie was II.VKRV E., and Lkon K. W()(jiis.all of whom sun-ive 



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liiui as does also his widow. He died September 5, 
1900. 

CHARLES A. R. WOODS. 
Eldest son of David Woods and .Martlia Robin- 
son, was l)Oi'u near Brnnswick. Cliai-iton County, 
Jlissdiiri, Ain-il 17. 1S(1.">. In ISTO liis fatlicr moved 
to another estate in an adjaeeni county. At a 
very early asje he evinced a natural ai)titude f<ir 
niilitai-y affairs, and his elementary educatidu was 
(••inducted alonsi' lines that woukl best fit him for 
I liat kind of a life. His life in lli-ili School and 
('(dlege prepared him for a i>lac(^ in the Cadet 
Coi-ps in the Universiiy. w liere, under the sjjjervis- 
iou of a United States army officer, he received spe- 
cial attention. In June, 18S8, he was a competitor 
for the cadetship to A\'est I'oint, but for the first, 
and only time, in ^[issouri's Jiistury a lU'jiro was 
entered for the apjinintment. Voung Woods and 
several other younii men of Southern lineage re- 
monstrated witli tlie Congressman who was having 
tlie examinathin held. The Congressman was obdu- 
rate, so the eight young remonstrators withdrew 
from the examination. Through the kindness of a 
kinsman of his fatln-r young Woods received an 
appointment to West Toint from another district. 
From that time until the beginning of the Spanish- 
American War he was intimately associated with 
military affairs. Particularly is this true of his 
relation to the National Guards, in which he held 
comniissious of every grade from captain to colo- 
nel. At the beginning of hostilities with Spain he 
received a commission as Colonel of Volunteer 
Infantry. And upon the i-eorganization of the reg- 
ular army, he, through tlie intercession of the offi- 
cers of the Republican State Central Committee, 
and the most prominent Federal office holders in 
Missouri, was nominated for a commission in the 
regular ai-my, but was unable, owing to physical 
disabilities, to pass the required physical examina- 
tion. During these years he had also served on the 
military staff' of the Governoi-s of two S(Uitliern 
States. In the latter eighties he was admitted to 
the Bar. Colonel Woods, like all the members of 
his immediate familv and his ancestors for the past 



four generatitms, is a Baptist, and an uncompro- 
mising Calvinist. He is a member of all I he older 
and more prominent benevolent orders, and of sev- 
eral beneficiary organizations, in each of which he 
has "I'assed tlie chairs, "" wliile in iwo of iliem lie 
has served as a representative an<l officer in tlie 
Sn])reme and Sovereign Grand Lodge. Few men 
are better known in ilissouri's fraternal world. 
-Vs an editor of a country newspa]>er. an<l a member 
of the executive family of two State administra- 
tions, he has evi-i- advocated, as the only correct 
theory' of governnieni, the supremacy of those prin- 
ciples enunciated by the fathers of Democracy. On 
the lUh of -May, ISSd, he married :Miss Dora Lee 
Snoddy, daughter of John T. Snoddy and his wife. 
Sallie Hudson. She was graduated from tlii' ("ar- 
rollton High School in the class of '84. Her mother 
(nee Hudson I \\as descended from two prominent 
South Carolina families, hei* grandmother being a 
sister to General AVade Hampton. Senior, who dis- 
tinguished himself in our second war with Eng- 
land. To Colonel and Airs. Wootls were born two 
children, Gladys Aubrey. July 10, 1887; and Archi- 
bald Douglas. June 7, 1800. After the death of his 
first wife (March '21. I!t02 i Colonel Woods niarrie<l 
^liss ^lartha W. Clark, of Covington, Kentucky. 
only daughter of James :\r. Clark and Martha W. 
Pugh. She was born and reared at Covington, as 
was also her father and mother, her grandfathers 
Clark and Pugh each having come to Covington 
when they were boys. She, being one of the honor 
graduates in the class of 18;)7. won a fellowsliif) in 
the I'niversity. I'<ir nearly three quarters of a 
c(Mitiiry the Puglis have been identified with the 
p(ditical and coniiiiercial histoi-y of Covington. 
:\[rs. ^Voods's iiiollier having died about the time 
she was born, she was reareil liy hei- grandfather. 
J<:lin ]>ariy i'ugli, at the (dd laniily home. 

HARRY !•:. AVOODS. 

S(coml son of n.ivid Woods and .Maltha Bobin- 
sou, was born at Brunswick. Missouri, July 20, 
18(i(). He received his education in the High Schools 
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his majority he cniiiisicd in brcediiiii and raisintj 
trottini;- and paciiis' hoi'si's. As profi'ssional Jiidiie 
of horses lie luis a national n-jmration. In manj' 
respects in' is a typieal descendant of tlie famous 
Irisli ''Squires"; for no one admires a sjood horse 
oi- iiciund niiire tlian lie. November 23, 1903. he 
married Miss :\Iary Ellen Crumpaeker, of Nor- 
hnrne. ^lissouri, dauiiliter of the late IMchard 
Crumpaeker and his wife. 3Iiss Mildred LeftAvieh. 
of Bedford County, Virginia. He and his wife 
reside at Norbome. 

LEON E. WOODS. 
Third and youngest son of David Woods and 
Martha Kobinsou, was born near Richmond, Ray 
County, Missouri, Decendjer 20, 1872. He was edu- 
cated in the High School and subsequently read 
law for one year, after which he eutered mercantile 
l>usiness. He is a Woods of the old style — jolly, 
rollicking, fun-loviug, full of wit and humor. 

SKETCH 6i. 
J. B. WOODS, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. 
Captain James Brisou Woods is the son of the 
late Andrew AA'oods, of AVheeliug, West Virginia, 
and his wife, Rebecca, iice Brisou^ and was born in 
Belmont County, Ohio, September 12, 1821. He is 
a lineal descendant of Michael Woods, of Blair 
Park, through his son, Andrew, whose wife was 
^fartha Poage. Said Andrew an<l [Martha had, 
among other children, a son, Andrew, Jr., who mar- 
ried Mrs. Mary ilcCulloch (widow of a IMajor Mc- 
Culloch) lire Mitchell. And said Andrew, Jr.. 
and his wife ilary had, among other children, a 
son, Andrew (No. 3"), whose wife was Rebecca 
Huydekofer Brison. This pair had eight children, 
as follows: (a ) James Brisox Woous, the subject 
of this sketch; (b) Oliver Bkisox Woods, who mar- 
ried Anna M. Anderson. Said Oliver and Anna 
had two children, as follows: 1, James Brison 
>\'oods; and 2, Rosa Anderson Woods, (c) The 
thii'd child of said Andrew, No. 3, and Rebecca, was 
LiTHEK Todd Woods, who married, first, Mary 
Ellen Neel, and, second, Mary Hopkins. He left a 
son, 1, Samuel Neel Woods, who married Rebecca 



\\'oods, and a son, 2, Rev. John Young Woods, (d) 
The fourth child of Andrew, \o.3,and Rebecca, was 
John M. Wooiks;. (ei The lifih cliild was AucHi- 
i!.\LD Woods; (f) the s.xili was .\.ndui;\v Aleked 
Woods; (g) the seventh was the K'ev. Hexuy 
^^■ooDS. D. 1).; and i li ) the eighili was the Kev. 
Fk.wcis M. \\'o()DS. 1). 1). The fourth child (John 
^1. ^\(ll!dsl, niariied, tiist, Martha Hale; and sec- 
ond, Rosa , and left six children, as 

f(dIows: ], John Woods; 2, Oliver Woods; 3, Mary 
Ellen Woods, who married E. T. Cook; 4, Estelle 
Woods; 5, Clara Wooos; and 0, Alice AVoods. 

The fifth child of Amli-eA\- Woods, No. 3. and 
Rebecca (Archibald AAdods i married }^\i\v\ Mat- 
thews, and by her had ti\(' children, as follows: 1, 
Isabella Woods, who married Benjamin F. Ed- 
wards, and died in 18!»7; 2, ilatthews Woods, who 
married Sue Miller; 3, Lucy Woods; 4, Flora 
AA'(K)ds; and 5, Rebecca Woods. 

The sixth child of Andrew, Xo. 3. and Rebecca 
(Andrew Alfred AVoods) married Jeaunie Railey, 
and had four children, as follows: 1, Alfred 
Woods; 2, Elizabeth Helm Woods; 3, Henry 
AA'oods, and 4, James Brison AA'oods. 

The Rev. Henry AVoods, I>. D., who wan the sev- 
enth child of Andrew, Xo. 3, and Rebecca, married 
^lary Ewing, and had four children, to wit: 1, Mar- 
garet Woods, who married Rev. Wm. B. Hamilton; 
2, ^lary Xeel A\'oods; 3, John Ewing Woods, who 
married .Mary Reed; and 4, Francis Henry Woods. 
Rev. Francis Marian AVoods, D. D., who was the 
eighth and last child of Andrew Xo. 3, and Rebecca, 
has been for many years the successful and honored 
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Martins- 
burg, AVest Virginia. He married Julia H. Junkin, 
and has had six children, as follows: 1, the Rev. 
David J. ^^'oods, now pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church at Blacksburg, Va. ; 2, John Mitchell 
Woods, who married Eleanor W. Tabb; 3, Janet 
McCleeiw, who died in 1891; 4, Andrew Henry 
^^'oods, il. D., a medical missionary of the Presby- 
terian Church at Canton, China, and who married 
Fanny S. Sinclair; 5, Mary E. AVoods; and 6, Re- 
becca F. A\'oods. 



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Captain James Brisoii A\'()(m1s, tlic subject of tliis 
sketch, and the first of the eijiht children of Andrew 
Woods, No. 3, and his wifeKeheccaHuydekofer, iicc 
Brison, has been a citizen of New Orleans since 
ISCO. Prior to that date he lived iiiauy years in St. 
Louis. No man prominent in affairs has been 
freer from any suspicion of conduct not in accord 
with the infallible standard of truth than he. His 
long business career has been nuirked by sterling 
has been uuirried three times. His first wife was 
integrity, sound judgment and tireless energy. He 
Sarah Good, daughter of John A. Good and Mary 
Chapline, by whom he had three children, to- wit: 
1, John G. Woods; 2, Rebecca, and 3, Mary, who 
are dead. His second wife was Lizzie A. Brevard, 
daughter of Albert Brevard and Juliet Gayle, by 
whom he had three children, to-wit : 1, Mary 
Woods; 2, Alice Woods; and 3, James Brison 
Woods, Jr., who is dead. His third wife was 
Leonora Matthews, daughter of John Matthews, 
Jr., and Mary Levering, by whom he has had five 
children, to wit : 1, Frederick Woods, deceased ; 2, 
William Gayle Woods, deceased; 3, Leomna 
Woods ; i, Rebecca Woods ; and 5, Edgar Woods. 

SKETCHES 62 AND 63. 
J. P. WOODS AND J.W.WOODS, ROANOKE, VIRGINIA. 

(For illustrations see page 304.) 

Judge John William Woods and the Hon. James 
Pleasants Woods, who are full brothers, and resi- 
dents of Roanoke City, Virginia, are the sons of 
William Woods by his second wife, Sarah Jane 
Edington. They are believed to be lineal descend- 
ants of Michael Woods, of Blair Park, through his 
son, Archibald, whose wife's Christian name was 
Isabella ; but certain ancient documents of un- 
doubted authenticity and genuineness, now in the 
hands of the author of this volume, present some 
facts which are, to say the least, difficult to recon- 
cile with the current beliefs of the Roanoke 
Woodses in regard to some of their Woods ances- 
tors. The perplexity created by these documents 
will be discussed at the close of these two sketches. 

JOHN WILLIAM WOODS. 
John William Woods was born in Roanoke 
County, Virginia, July 27, 1858, and was a son of 



William and Sarali Jane (Edington) Woods. He 
attended the usual ]>ublic antl private schools of 
the couuti'y until January, 1874, when he entered 
Roanoke College, Salem, A'irginia, and was there 
several sessions. His father's deatli (iccurring in 
1882, he remained on the farm (the old original 
Woods homestead, Indian Camp) with his widowed 
mother, three brothers, and two sisters, until 188G, 
when he left home to take his law course at the 
University of Virginia under Prof. John B. Minor. 
A\'hile at the University he was cho.sen editor-in- 
chief of the "University Magazine," which is looked 
upon as quite an honor at the institution. 

On leaving the University, in June, 1887, he 
located at Roanoke, Virginia. 

In August, 1887, he formed a co-partnership with 
C. B. Moomaw (now city solicitor). In September, 
1889, he was nominated by the Democratic party as 
its candidate to represent Roanoke City and 
County, and Craig County, in the House of Dele- 
gates, and was elected by an unprecedented major- 
ity. At the end of his term, however, he declined to 
again become a candidate, saying he preferred to 
take the advice of an olil friend — that it was "a 
good thing for a young man to go to the Legislature 
once." 

In June, 1893, Hon. Wm. Gordon Robertson 
resigned as Judge of the Hustings Court for 
Roanoke City, and John W. Woods was appointed 
by the Governor. Twice since this appointment the 
Legislature has elected Judge Woods to succeed 
himself. Judge Woods is also prominently con- 
uectetl in business circles, being President of the 
Roanoke Banking and Investment Co., and of the 
Farmers' Supply Co. ; and, up to the time of his ele- 
vation to the bench, was on the directory of the 
National Exchange Bank of Roanoke. He is a busy 
man, but is always ready to give both time and 
means to the advancement of Christianity. AVhile 
a member of the Methodist E. Church, South, it may 
be said of him that he is broad enough to lend a 
helping hand to any enterprise which makes for the 
furtherance of the blaster's Kingdom. He is at 
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339 



clmrrli, and was sent as a dolojiatc to the last Gen- 
eral Conference lield in Baltimore, May, 185)8. 

JAMES PLEASANTS WOODS. 

James IMcasants AN'oods was horn at "Indian 
Camp," IJoanoke Cniinty. Virjiinia. Fclirnary 1. 
18G8. Gradnated wiOi first distinction from 
Koanolie College, 1S02, and was that year elected to 
rcju-esent liis collciie iii the State oratorical con- 
test. Took his law course the following year at tlie 
I'niversity of Yirtiinia, and was admitted to the 
bar in 1893. Two years thereafter he was elected 
to the Common Council of the City of Koanoke, and 
was re-elected in 1897. The same year the State 
Democratic Convention elected him a member of 
the State Central Committee. 

Was elected Mayor of Roanoke in 1898, which 
position he still holds, with what satisfaction to his 
constituents may he judged from the followinji- edi- 
torial clipped from the Roanoke World of April 
12,1900: 

"X MODEL jNIAYOR. 

"JMayor Woods will retire from office at the end of 
his term with one of the best records made by any 
who have held this office. Never presuming on his 
prerogatives, but always ready to do his duty with- 
out fear, favor or affection, it was natural that his 
acts should sometimes be counter to the wishes of 
others, but the results for which he contended and 
the measures which he advocated always in the end 
vindicated his judgment and demonstrated his 
patriotism. Without constantly asserting himself 
and forcing his personality on the public, he has 
pursued the even tenor of his way with an eye sin- 
gle to the promotion of the public good and to the 
welfare of the municipality. 

"Whatever the occasion, he has sliown iiimself 
fully able to represent the city with credit and fidel- 
ity. In other words, he has made a model mayor, 
and Roanoke may well be congratulated if his suc- 
cessors fill the office with the same zeal and ability. 
He will retire from the position with the jilaudits of 
his fellow-citizens, wlio will be ready to say, •^^'ell 
done, good and faitliful servant,' and who ouglit to 
lie ready to reward and honor him for the zeal 
which he has manifested in looking after the affairs 
of the city and the ability he has shown in the man- 
agement of all the duties appertaining to his office." 



Since tiie author prepared the matter to be found 
on pages 10(*)-119 of this volume his attention has 
been called to some puzzling (|uestions touching 
Archibald, the son of Jlichael Wocxls, of Blair 
Park, wliich will now l>e ccmsidered. Was the 
.Vrcliibald ^^'()(Mls, whom old Micliael nientioned as 
his son and executor in his will, in 1761, the same 
Archibald A\'oods who lived on Catawba Creek, in 
what is now Roanoke County, Virginia, from 1771 
to 1783? This is the point now at issue. Judge 
Jolin W. AVoods, of Roanoke, Virginia, does not feel 
as certain in regard to this question as once he did, 
owing to the fact that in one of the ancient Woods 
papers (dated July, 17()8|, now in the author's 
possession, it appears that a man named John 
Woods, then perhaps twenty to twenty-five years 
old, who was almost certainly a son of old Michael 
Woods's son Archibald, collected the legacy coming 
to liim from the estate of said Michael, his grand- 
father. This John Woods could hardly have been 
born later than the year 1748. If he was born at 
any time prior to 17(18, he could not have been the 
John who was a son of Archibald of Catawba 
Creek, for that John Woods died in 1811, and, 
according to tlie inscrijition on his tondj-stone, was 
born in 17G8. This John Woods of Catawba Creek 
was the son of Archibald, of Catawba, and the 
grandfather of the two gentlemen whovSe sketches 
(G2 and ()3 ) have just been given. He must have 
been born at least twenty years later than the other 
John Woods just mentioned; and this, if true, 
would preclude the possibility of both John 
Woodses being the son of the same father, unless 
their father had two sons born many years apart, 
both of whom were named John. 

That Archibald, the son of Michael, of Blair 
Park, was the same man as the Archibald who lived 
on Catawba Creek, and there died in 1783, the 
author of this volume feels constrained to believe. 
There are so many established facts which go to 
prove this to be tiiie that he sees no escape from 
the conclusion he has reached. These facts are the 
following: First, beyond dispute old Michael 
Woods, in his will of 17G1, expressly mentions a son 



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THE WOODS McAFEE MEMOKIAL. 



of his named Archibald; leaves him ten p>mnds; 
beqneaths to Archibald's son, Michael, a great-coat; 
orders Archibald and another son to sell a certain 
tract of laud and divide the proceeds thereof among 
the children of Archibald and John Woods, and 
William and Hannah Wallace; and constitutes 



liam, sold out their interests in Albemarle and set- 
tled down in what was then Botetourt County. 
^Michael, Jr., settled on the James Kiver, five 
miles below- Buchanan ; Andrew settled about four- 
teen miles south-west of Michael, Jr., and Archi- 
bald settled about twentv miles south-west of An- 



Archibald one of his executors. (t>ee copy of old drew. William's e.xact location is not known, but it 
Michael's will.) Second, this Archibald, son of was in the lower end of Botetourt, which after- 
Michael, was, in 17G1, a man of family, and had one wards became Fincastle County. All of these 
son named ilichael, who was then old enough to Woods brothers, sons of old Michael, moved down 
warrant his grandfather (old Micliael) in leaving into the same region of counti-y. Their father was 
to him his great-coat. When we reflect that at that now dead, and his estate Avound up, and they 
date (1701) old Michael had several grandsons migrated to a region where settlements were 
who were grown men, we may assume that the sparser and lauds cheaper than in Albemarle. It 
grandson to whom he left his great-coat was no w^as precisely such a concerted move as one Avould 



mere child — he must have been at least sixteen to 
twenty years of age. And this would mean that 
Archibald was a married man as early as 1742, or 
thereabouts. (By some unaccountable oversight 
we failed to include this sou Michael iu the list of 
Archibald's children, hereinbefiu'e given.) Third. 
Old Michael's son Archibald was yet alive 
in 1767, for he joined his brother John, his co- 
executor, in conveying to one James Maury the 
tract of land his father had instructed his execu- 
tors, in his will, to sell for tlie benefit of his grand- 
children. Fourth. In the year 1771 a man by the 
name of Archibald Woods, then a citizen of Albe- 
nmrle County, Virginia, purchased the Indian 
Cam]) farm on the Catawba from the McAfees, on 
which he resided till his death in 1783. That the 
Archibald Woods who made this i^urchase in 1771 
was the son of old Michael, of Blair Park, is so in- 
herently probable that nothing but positive evi- 
dence to the contrary will avail to render it at all 



expect of enteri)risiug men who were the sons of 
one father. Fifth. Archibald AVoods, son of old 
Michael, had a wife whose Christian name was Isa- 
bella. Sixth. Ill the summer of 1768 we find a 
grandson of old ^lichael by the name of John 
Woods, who was then a citizen of South Carolina, 
visiting Albemarle to secure the legacies due him- 
self and five other grandchildren from the estate of 
old Michael. Two of the.se six grandchildren of 
old ^Michael were William AVoods, and Isabella 
AA'oods, who were children of Michael's sou, Archi- 
bald. This is gatliered from original documents of 
the most unimpeachable character, copies or fac- 
similes of which will be found iu one of the Appen- 
dices of this volume. AVilliam and Isabella and 
John were then citizeus of South Caroliua, as 
expressly stated iu said documents. John had due 
authority, also, to collect the legacies of three mar- 
ried women — a Mrs. Brazeal, a Mrs. Cowan, and a 
Mrs. Trimble — and did collect them. These three 



unlikely. No other man named Archibald Woods married women were, as stated iu said documents, 

Avho was of mature age as early as 1771, and w^ho 

could possibly have fit into the facts of the case, 

seems to have lived in Albemarle. It was about 

1767 that Archibald (son of Michael) sold out his 

farm in Albemarle, though he did not effect his pur- 



graud-daughters of old Michael. That Jolm and 
these three married women were children of Archi- 
bald, of Albemarle, seems almost certain. There 
was no other son of old ^lichael who could have 
been the father of this John Woods. Old Michael 



chase iu Botetourt (now Koanoke County) till seems never to have had but three grandsons named 
1771. It was just about this time that three of his John, namely: this one now under consideration; 
brothers, namely: Michael, Jr., Andrew, and Wil- .John, the son of William Woods; and John the son 



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^41 



of Colonel John Woods. William's son John went 
to Kentncky, and Colonel John's son John died 
wliih' yet a boy. We are shut up to tlie eonelnsion 
that the John Woods, who came from Carolina in 
July, 17GS, to collect legacies, was Archibald's child, 
as we cerfniiily know "^^'illiam and Isabella were. 

AA'hen we put all of these facts together we are 
compelled, in the absence of all opposing evidence, 
Id (•(iiiclndc thai old Michael's son Archibald was 
llic man who settled on Catawba Creek in 1771 and 
there died in 1783. Objections to this conclusion 
have been raised, and these will now be considered. 
One is, that in the old receipt-book of old JNIichael's 
executors, now in the author's possession, no re- 
ceipt from Archibald Woods for his separate legacy 
from his father is found; and that, inasmuch as the 
estate was wound up by the year 1770, we must 
infer that Michael's son Archibald had died before 
that date. But the answer to this is that it is evi- 
dent the extant receipt book of old .Michael's 
executors contains but a part of the original re 
ceipts. Sarah Lapsley, one of old .Michael's chil- 
dren to whom he bequeathed ten pounds in his will, 
and several other children of old ^lichael, are not 
referred to in any of the receipts now extnnt. .Many 
of the receipts have evidently been lost. Another 
objection is that the fact that legacies were paid by 
Uie executors of old Michael to the children of his 
sou Archibald indicates that Archibald himself 
was then dead. This, however, is not valid because 
ih(.' will of old Michael provided that the proceeds 
of the land Archibald and John were to sell were 
to be given to the grandchildren, and such of Lhem 
as were of age could take their portions direct with- 
out their father Archibald being a party to the 
transaction. The third and most formidable objec- 
tion is that the John Woods who came to Albe- 
marle in July, 17GS, to collect the legacies, and who 
was then not less than twenty years old, could not 
possibly be the sou of the same Archibald who lived 
on Catawba Creek (1771-1783) because the inscrip- 
tion on the tomb-stone of John Woods, son of 
Catawba Archibald, shows that he was born in 1708, 
and died in 1811, aged seventy-three years. But 



could not Archibald's first son, John, who was in 
Albemarle in 1708, have died that same year, and 
might not his parents have had born to them, that 
same fall, a baby boy whom they named .John? This 
very thing occurs often. And it is a remarkable 
coincident fact that this very sanu* John Woods, 
who died on Catawba in 1783, did this thing him- 
self. As Judge John A\'. >Voods, of Koanoke, Vir- 
ginia, informs the writer, John Woods (born 170S 
and died 1841 ) had two sons, born years apart, 
whom he named .Tohn, the first of the two dying 
early, and the second one being born not long after 
the death of the other. May not this be the solution 
of the prol)l(Mu? Is it not perfectly reasonable to 
believe that .Tohn Woods, of Catawba, was a 
younger brother of .John Woods, of South Carolina, 
and that his father, Archibald Woods, set for him 
an example in the matter of giving one of his boys 
the name John; and then, that son dying, giving it 
to another one of his children? In other words, 
.John AA'oods, of Catawba, took his cue from his own 
father, Archibald, in not only giving two of his 
sons, in order, one and th(> same name, but by choos- 
ing for this pui*pose the identical name John. Thus, 
the true story, we doubt not, is, that Archibald 
^^'oods, somewhere about 1743-1748, named one of 
his cliililren John; and this son, when about grown, 
migrated, with his brother AVilliam, his sister Isa- 
bella, and the other three sisters mentioned, to 
South Carolina; in July, 1708, this son John comes 
back to the old home in Albemarle to collect what 
is coming to him and his brother and four sisters 
from the proceeds of the 08U acres of laud which 
his grandfather bad ordered, by will, to be sold for 
the benefit of his grandchildren, and which had 
actually l)ceu sold the year before, as we certainly 
know. That very year, most probably, John dies. 
The name he had borne \\as that of his distin- 
guished uncle. Colonel -Jolni Woods, his father's 
brother — a name Archibald desired to honor — and 
when the untimely taking off of the first John re- 
moved that name from the family register, Archi- 
bald, having a lit tie son born to him about the close 
of that year ( 1708), bestowed it ou this child. This 



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last John Woods, son of Archibald, was a child of 
three years when, in 1771, bis parents moved down 
on to the Catawba, and there he spent his days, 
dying there in 1S41, at the age of seventy-three. Of 
course, we admit that this explanation is largely 
built upon circumstantial evidence which can not 
be considered absolute!}' convincing. But our con- 
tention is that it fits, with wonderful exactness, the 
known conditions of the problem ; it does not con- 
tradict a single ascertained fact or do an}' violence 
to any known circumstances of the case ; and, most 
convincing of all, it is the only possible explanation 
which gives proper consistency to the long chain of 
established facts in the life and career of Archibald, 
the son of Michael "Woods, of Blair Tark. We 
therefore believe we can say, with reasonable cer- 
tainty, that Judge John W. Woods and his brother, 
James P., now residing in Roanoke, Virginia, are 
lineal descendants of old [Michael through his son 
Archibald. K. M. W. 

SKETCH 64. 
HON. R. E. WOODS, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. 

Robert Emmet Wootls, son of Thomas James La- 
G-rande Woods and his wife, Chai'ity Elizabeth, nee 
Heuninger, is a lineal descendant of Michael 
Woods, of Blair Park, through his .son, Archibald, 
Sr., and his grandson, Archibald, Jr. 

Archibald Woods, Jr., grandfather of Robert 
Emmet Woods, was born in Albemarle County, 
Virginia, April, 1771, but was reared in what is 
now Roanoke County, Virginia. His father, Archi- 
bald Woods, Sr., died in 1783. In company with 
his brother, Andrew, be came to Kentucky about 
1805, from Sevier County, Tennessee, whither he 
had emigrated from Virginia .some time pre- 
viously. It was there he married Mary Mc- 
Beath. The two brothers first came to what 
is now Mercer County, Kentucky, and An- 
drew remained there; but Archibald, after re- 
maining one year, moved to Wayne County, Ken- 
tucky. He resided there until 1853, when he moved 
to Grayson County, Kentucky, where he died in 
1855. He was a man much esteemed in his com- 
munitv. He was a Justice of the Peace, and held 



court in those early days at his home. He and his 
wife were old-school Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, 
but he opened his home to the early Methodist Cir- 
cuit Riders, and it was not only their home, but a 
regular "preaching-place." He was a soldier in the 
AVar of 1812. and was at the Battle of the River 
Raisin. 

Archibald Woods, Jr., and his wife ^lary, iic 
^IcBeath, had three sons: (a) Andrkw; (b) Au- 
(HiB.VLD. Thiud; and (c) Thom.vs J. L. ; and four 
daughters: (d) Sar.vh_, (who married Robert Ken- 
nedy) ; (e) Athelia (who married William R. Caf- 
fee) ; (f) Mary (who married AVilliam Ilennin- 
ger) ; and (g) Margaret (twice married; first, to 
Lemuel Lockett; and, afterwards, to Michael Huf- 
faker). 

Andrew married Eliza Whitten, and Archibald, 
Third, married Elizabeth Honk. Both moveil to 
Missouri. 

Thomas James LaGrande Woods, son of Archi- 
bald, Jr., and Mary, was born in Wayne County, 
Kentucky, December 27, 1811, and was married to 
Charity Elizabeth Heuninger, January 1, 1815. Of 
this union there were bo?n six children, two of 
whom (aj and (b) died in early infancy, and one, 

(c) Elizabeth Ann (Richey), in August, 1902, at 
the age of fifty-one years. Those now living are: 

(d) Mary C, (now Mi-s. D. R. AVitt ) ; (e) Jennie 
M., (now Mrs. J. H. Sullivan) ; and (f) Robert 
EjniET, the .subject of this sketch. 

Thomas J. L. AA'oods removed to Breckinridge 
County in 1853. and there died April 9, 188G. He 
was a man of sterling worth, intense convictions, 
and unwavering integrity. 

Henry Heuninger, maternal grandfather of Rob- 
bert Emmet AA'oods, a son of Conrad Heuninger, a 
Revolutionary soldier, who served under AA'ashing- 
ton, was born in Washington County, Virginia, in 
1 778, and came to Kentucky in 1810. He located at 
Mill Springs, Wayne County, Kentucky, where he 
continued to reside until his death in 1870. He 
had two brothers, Jacol) and John, the latter of 
whom was a pioneer MethodistCircuitRider, sjiend- 
iu!i- most of his life in Tennessee. He married 



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■di3 



Elizabetli (irt'rtver, and to them were boru six sous: 
(a I CoxuAu; (b) Joiix; (c) William; (d) Henuy 
ILvuitisox; (0) Samikl; and (f) Christopher 
(i. ; and fcnir daujiliters: (j;i Jane (Ilincs) ; (h) 
]\Iary (Donnlu'Hy) ; (j) Katherine (died nnniar- 
ricd I ; and iki Charity Elizai'.iotii l^^■(>(lds|. of 
these only two, Christopher (J. and Cliarity E. 
(Woods), are now (1904) livini;'. Jlenry Heu- 
ninijer was a plain, nnassuniinj; man, industrious 
and fruj^al ; and he accjuired more tlian a eompeteut 
livelihood. Xo man stood higher for intei;rity and 
uprightness. He was a devout Methodist, and 
reared his family in that faith. He was a lover of 
education, and instilled the same sentiment into 
his children, thouiih the opportunities for its acqui- 
sition were nuist meagre. 

Kohert Emmet Woods, the subject of this sketch, 
was boru in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, Feb- 
ruary IS, 1861. His early educational advantages 
were far from the best ; but, such as he had, he 
uuide fairly good use of. He began teaching at the 
early age of seventeen, but did not pursue this con- 
tinuously, except from 1882 to 1890. 

During all these years he was anxious to tit him- 
self for the bar, but the illness of a father extending 
over years before his death, the needs of an invalid 
mother and sister, and other hindering circum- 
stances over which he had no control, prevented 
him from doing so. However, he had previously 
studied some privately, when in 1890 he accepted a 
position in the War Department at Washington, D. 
C. He there entered the Law Department of the 
Cohuubian University, pursuing his legal studies in 
addition to his regular duties, and graduating with 
the highest honors in 1892. He took a post-gradu- 
ate course in 1893, again winning the highest hon- 
ors, and receiving the Honorary Degree of LL. M. 

He located in Louisville in 1893, and was Assist- 
ant County Attorney by appointment for three 
years from 1895 to 1S9S. In 189G he was happily 
married to Miss Jennie (^'lyde Harrison, of Marion 
County, Kentucky. There have been born as the 
result of this union two children: (a) Robert 



Emmet, Jr.; and (b) Elizaketh Lisle. Robert 
Emmet, Jr., died June 19, 1904. 

Mr. ANoods enjoys the confidence of the commu- 
nity in which he resides, both as a nmn and as a 
lawyer. He is a modest, unobtrusive, home-loving 
man, quiet and rather undemonstrative in manner ; 
but a man of great earnestness, intense convictions, 
and uncompromising integrity. 

He is a mendier of the JIasonic Order, which has 
honored him, and in which he takes a deep interest. 
He is a Republican in ])olitics, but is always out- 
.spoken against evil and ready to lend his aid to any 
wise reform, irrespective of party affiliation. Like 
his maternal ancestors, he is, in religious belief, a 
Methodist; and, along with all his family, is an 
active mend )er of tliat Churcli. I'xirli in politics and 
religion he is tolerant. 

His wife is a daughter of the late Charles B. 
Harrison and Eliza (Lisle) Harrison, of Lebanon, 
Marion County, Kentucky. She is the third of a 
famih- of .six children, the others being: (a) Mrs. 
Elizabeth McChord; (b) Miss Annie Harrison ; 
and (c) Mr. Waller Harrison^ of Lebanon, Ken- 
tucky; (d) Charles B. Harrison^ New Orleans, 
Louisiana^ and (e) Rev. William B. Harrison^ a 
Presbyterian missionary in Korea. 

[Note — Our information in regard to Archibald 
Woods, Sr., son of Michael Woods, of Blair Park, 
and his children, is rather meagre; and the ac- 
counts derived from various sources are in some re- 
spects, contradictory, and even irreconcilable. The 
reader is referred to pages 110-123 of this volume, 
and also to Sketches 62 and 63, which immediately 
l>recede this one. — N. M. W.] 

SKETCH 65. 
R. J. WOODS, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. 
Robert; James ^Voods, sou of Andrew Chevalier 
Woods (No. 1), an<l Elizabetli Edith Cobb, ucc 
Devall, was boru JIarch 29, 1872. He is a lineal 
descendant of :Michael Woods, of Blair Park, 
through his sou Andrew, whose wife was Martha 
Poage. The said Andrew Woods and Martha had, 
among other children, a son named James Woods, 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



whose wife was Xancv Kaylturn; and said James 
and Nancy liad, anionc, other cliihlren, a son named 
Andrew Woods (Xo. 3), who was born in 1777, and 
died in 1832, and who married Lise Chauvin; and 
said Andrew Woods (No. 3) and his wife Lise had, 
among- other children, a son naii'ed Andrew Cheva- 



in Virginia, and his mother was Miss Sabina Lewis 
Stuart Creigh. On both sides of his family he is 
descended from Scotch-Irish ancestry. His firsi 
American progenitor, Michael Woods, received ;i 
patent to a large tract of land from (ieorge II in 
1737, in the western part of Albemarle County. 



lier Woods (No. 1), who mari-ied Elizabeth Edith which was then (Joochland County, Virginia. Wil- 

Cobb, nee Devall. The said Andrew Chevalier Mam Woods, the grcat-griiiulfather of Micajah 

Woods (No. 1) and his wife Elizabeth had three NNOn.ls. was a member of the Legislature of Vir- 

children, as folloAvs: (a) Andrew Chevalier giniii in ITliS and 1700, and his son, Micajah, was 

Woods, (No. 2), who was born December (i, ISIUi, a niendier of the Albemarle County Court fi'om 

and lives in Indianapolis, Indiana; (b) Kodert isi5 to 1837, and was High Sheriff of the County, 

James Woods, the subject of this sketch; and (c) (j- officio, at the time of his death. Through his 

Bessie Devall Woods^ who was born February 22, mother he is descended from Colonel David Stuart, 

18(il, and resides in Baton IJonge, Louisiana. The Coiinty Lieutenant of Augusta County, from 1755 

said Andrew Clievalier Woods, No. 2, nuirried Leila ou for several years. Mi-. AVoods is counectcHl with 

Abi Leonard February 7, 1801, and by her has two the Lewises, Stuarts, I'restons, Creiglis, Kodeses 

children, to wit: (a) Andrew Chevalier Woods^ and other well-known Virginia families. 

No. 3, who was born August 2, 1801; and (b) Mak- Ills early etlucation was obtained at the Lewis- 

GARET BoBERTs WooDS^ who was born November 3, burg Academy, the Military School of Chai'lottes- 

1801. The said Bessie Devall Woods married Wil- ville, taught by Colonel John Bowie Strange, and 

Ham II. Keynaud, April 21, 1885, and l)y him has at the Bloomtield Academy. In 1801 he entered the 

the following children: (a) Andrew Woods Key- Cuiversity of N'irginia, and like many of the other 

NAUD, who was born February 2, 1886; (b) Claude young men of the South, was soon a member of the 

Favrox Reyn.yud^ who was born March 31, 1888; Confederate Army. He tirst served when barely 

and (c) Augustine E. Beynaud^ Avho was born seventeen years of age as volunteer aide on the 



Febrvai-y 10, 1890. 

Mr. liobert James \\'oods has for many years 
been engaged in the railway service. In 1802 he 
went to Cincinnati and was there five years with 
the C, C, C. & St. L. B. B. Co., when he was 
transferred to St. Louis. In 1808 he left the road 
just mentioned to enter the service of the Wabash 



siatt' of Ueueral John B. Floyd, in the West Mr- 
giuia campaign of 18G1; then in 1802 as a private 
iu the Albemarle Light Horse Company; in the 
Second Mrginia Cavalry; afterwards First Lieu- 
tenant iu the \'irginia State line; and in May, 1803, 
he was elected and commissioned First Lieutenant 
iu Jackson's Battery of Horse Artillery, Armj- of 



Bailroad Co., with which company he is still at Northern Virginia, in which capacity he served ) 
work. until the close of the wtu-. Among the battles iu . 
SKETCH 66. which he participated were Caruifa.x; Ferry, Port i 
HON. MICAJAH WOODS, CHARLOTTESVILLE, Itepublic, Second Cold Harbor, New Market, Sec- 
VIRGINIA. yiij Manassas, Sharpsbur"-, AViuchester, Fisher's 
Hon. Micajah Woods, who is one of the best Hill and Gettysbui'g. At the close of the war he re- 
known mendjers of the legal profession in Virginia, returned to the University, Avhere he studied iu the 
is a native of Albemarle County, Virginia, and was Academic department for one year, and then studied 
born at '"Holkham," on the 17th of May, 1814. His law, being graduated therefrom in 1808 with the de- 
father, Dr. John Iiodes Woods, was for many years gree of Bachelor of Law. He immediately began the 
considered the leading authority upon stock-raising practice of his profession in Charlottesville, Vir- 




MISS MAUD COLEMAN WOODS. 

BORN 23d AUGUST, 1877— DIED 24th AUGUST, 1901. 



(SEE SKETCH No. 66.) 



Died, at Clazemont, the childhood home of her mother, on 
August 24th, after a short illness. Miss Maud Coleman Woods, 
the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Captain and Mrs. 
Micajah Woods, of Charlottesville. The writer, who has 
counted both the father and mother among his lite-long 
friends and knew the lovely daughter from her earliest child- 
hood, is only one of many who will sorrow with her family 
in their great bereavement. In the long list of her beautiful 
daughters the State of Virginia never had one who by every 
gentle grace filled more fully the measure of that sweet 
womanhood, which we who are of the soil love to think the 
distinctive stamp of her endowment. Blessed as this young 
daughter was with the refined beauty that belonged to her 
by Inheritance, she was to those who had the happiness to 
know her yet more distinguished by the sweetness and purity 
of her character, the loveliness of her nature, and the charm 
of her manner. No adulation changed her; no trace of self- 
consciousness marred her exquisite simplicity. She was as 
beautiful and as natural as a flower. When she was buddir.g 
from girlhood into gracious womanhood she was selected by 
the officers of the United Confederate Veterans at the grand 
reunion held in Atlanta to stand as sponsor for the Depart- 
ment of the Army of Northern Virginia. It caused much 
embarrassment to one of her shy and retiring nature. Tlie 
very modesty with which she shrank from publicity was the 
crowning grace that captivated all who met her. 



Her portrait was again, without her knowledge, selected 
by the committee of distinguished men, who had the matter 
in charge, to typify North American beauty at the Pan-Ameri- 
can Exposition: but with innate modesty she begged to be left 
alone. It was not in public, but in private, that she aspired 
to shine, and there she shone. In the circle of her home, 
surrounded by those who loved her, she shone with the 
radiance which beams only from a pure and gentle breast. 
One could not see her there and not think of a lovely rose 
making all of the house sweet with its fragrance. One can 
not recall her and not grieve in thinking 

"How small a part of time they share. 
That are so wondrous sweet and fair." 

To her graces was early added the crowning beauty of 
simple and unaffected Christian piety, which had descended 
to her with her blood from generations of saintly women, 
and many of her young friends testified to the influence she 
had upon their lives. 

At Clazemont, in Hanover, one of the old seats of bound- 
less Virginia hospitality, where her mother before had played 
as a child, surrounded by those who knew and loved her best, 
she. on the day following her twenty-fourth birthday, sighed 
her gentle life away and passed without a pang into the 
blessed, white-robed company of the redeemed. 

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347 



^inia, ami in 1870 was elected Comniou wealth's 
.attorney f(ti' that county, which jxisition lie has 
tilled for thii-ty-tlirce yi:ii-s willmul haviiii;' liad 
oi>i)<>8iIi(in fi)V tiic noiniualion since 1S7;5; and at 
tile Xovendier, 1!K).'{, election he was chosen for said 
office for aiidtlicr term of fnui' years, coiiiiiu'iK-iii!:; 
first of January, 11)04. In 1872 lie was made a 
member of the Board of Visitoi's of the University 
of Virginia, a po.sitiou wliich he held for four years, 
liavinji' been at the time of his apjiointment tlie 
youngest member of tliat Hoard ever selected. In 
politics he is a Democrat, lie has been Chairman 
of tile Democratic party of Albemarle County for 
several years and representing as Elector the Sev- 
cntli Congressional District of Virginia, was a 
member of the Presidential Electoral Board in 
1S8S. which cast the vote of Virginia for t'leveland 
for President. He was permanent i-hairmau of the 
Virginia Democratic State Convention which met 
in Staunton in 1896 to elect delegates to the Na- 
tional Convention. In two Democratic Congres- 
sional Conventions of the Seventh District he has 
received the almost unanimous vote for Congress 
of all of the Eastern counties in the Seventh Dis- 
trict, and each time failed of nomination by onlj' a 
few votes. In 1881 he was elected Captain of the 
Monticello Guards at Cliarlottesville, and com- 
manded that famous old Company at the Yorktown 
Celebration in October, 1881. In 1893 he was 
made Brigadier-General of the Second Brigade of 
Virginia Confederate Veterans, which position he 
held until 1901, when he declined re-election. 

While at the University he was a member of the 
Delta Psi Fraternity. He is a Mason, and a mem- 
ber of the Mystic Shrine, and of "The History Com- 
mittee of the Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans 
of Virginia.'' Many of the leading newspapers of 
the State liave prominently mentioned him as a 
suitable candidate for Governor of the State, but he 
has never allowed his name to be urged for the 
place. 

On the 9th of June, 1874, he married Miss Ma- 
tilda Minor Morris, daughter of the late Edward 
AN'atts Morris, Esq., of Hanover County, Virginia, 



and has had five ciiildren: (a) Enw.vuD MouKis; (b) 
Salme Stiaut; (c) Ma id Com:man, who died in 
19(U ; 1.1) .MAitv \\'ATTs; and (e) Lettie I'acjb 

\\'o(ll)S. 

:MArD COLE.M.W WOODS. 

This beaulirni young girl, daiigliler cf lldii. .Mic:i- 
jali Woods and of bis wife, /(<< .Matilda .Minor Mor- 
ris, was born on tlie 28d <if .\iigiisl, 1S77. ami died of 
typhoid fever on llie lillli of .\iigusl. 19(11. On tlie 
preceding page is appeinled liie lrii)Ule paid to her 
memory by Dr. Thomas Nelson I'age, two of wiiose 
brothers married sisters of Mrs. Micajah >\'oods. 

Du. John Bodes AVoods, who was the father of 
the subject of this sketch, was bom in Albemarle 
County, on the 15th day of January, 1815, and died 
at "llolkham'' in said County on the 9tli day of 
July, 1885. In 183G he graduated in the School of 
Medicine at the University of Virginia, and settled 
at Helena, Arkansas. Owing to the death of his 
father, Micajah "Woods, in 1837, he returned to \'ir- 
ginia and took charge of tlie large estate devised 
to hiin. From that time on he devoted himself to 
scientific agriculture, and his estate of nearly 2,000 
acres became famed as one of the most jiroductive 
and valuable in Virginia. He imported horses, cat- 
tle and shet^) from England; and jierhaps no man 
in Virginia was considered a higher authority upon 
the subject of stock than Dr. Woods. He was an 
enthusiastic Henry Clay Wliig, and visited Mr. 
Clay more than once in Kentucky. He opposed the 
Secession movement in Virginia most earnestly, 
but when the State did secede, in ISGl, he followed 
her fortunes, and permitted his oldest son, Micajah, 
to leave school and volunteer in the Confederate 
Army when he A\as only seventeen yeai'S of age. 
Owing to his jjublic spirit and wide reputation as 
an agriculturalist and a stock-breeder, lie was per- 
haps better known iu \irginia than any private 
gentleman who \\as not a politician. Dr. Woods 
never practised medicine in A'irginia, nor did he 
ever hold any ]>ublic otlice, though iu 1805 he was 
a candidate for Congress; but on finding that he 
would have to take the "Iron Clad'' oath, if elected, 
in order to qualify, he retired from the contest. He 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



K.orved from 1857 to 1SG8 as Director of The Vir- SKETCH 67. 

giuia Central Railroad (now the f'hesapeake & DAVID WOODS, MARION, KENTUCKY. 

Ohio), aud he was a member of the Board of Vis- David A\'or)ds ( Xo. 3) is descemled from Michai 1 

itors of the Uuiversitj of Virginia from 18G5 to of Rlair I'ark through his sou ^licliael, Jr.. 

1872. In 1843 he married ir^abina Lewis Stuart whoso wife was Anne; and from Michael, Jr., ami 

Creigli. by wliom he had eleven children: Anne through their son William, whose wife w,i< 

(1) Mka.t.vii Woods, born 17th May, 1844. Joanna Shepherd; aud from William and Joaniia 

(2) AViLLiAM SHEPHKUn WooDS, bom 3d June, through their sou David W Is (No. 1), whose 

1§47_ wife Avas Sallie Xeal; aud from David (No. 1) 

(3) Thomas Cueigh AVoods. born 12th Septem- and Sallie through their sou Henry "W. Woods, 
bei', 1850; died 13th August, 1803. whose wife was Nellie Ann Hodge; and from 

(4) Sallie Rodes Woods, born 3d of April, Henry W. and Nellie Aun, who were his parents. 
1853; died 14th of August, 18(t3. David Woods (No. 1), son of William Woods 

(5) JOHX Rodes Woods, born 23d February, I "Baptist Billy," as his friends familiarly called 



1855 (merchant in Albemarle ("ounty"). 

(0) Jaxe Creigu Woods, born t»th ^larch, 1857; 
died 6th of June, 1858. 



him to distinguish him from a number of his near 
kinsmen of the same name ), and his wife Sallie had 
six children, as follows: (a) Tavneu; (b) Hexky 



(7) Jane Lynn Woods, born 4th of February, AV. ; (ci David (No. 2); (d) Joiix N. ; (e) Kitty, 
1859; died 30th of July, 1859. who married Richard Miles, aud (f) ^Iauiah, who 

(8) Robert Haruis Woods, born 11th November, married Peyton Craig. All six of the children just 
ISGO; educated at Annapolis, and uow Paymaster named are dead. 

in the U. S. Navy. Henry W. Woods, son of David (No. li, was 

(9) Margaret Lynn Woods born 17tli July, bom ^March 30, 1811, married Nellie Ann Hodge 
18G3, who married Warner Wood, of "Fanning- ( a daughter of Robert Hodge and Nellie, ncc 
ton," on the 5th of January-, 1887, and has five Armisteail) and died July 11, 1880, leaving four 
children. sons, to-wit : (aj Robert H., who is a farmer, and 

(10) Lynn Creigh Woods, born 27th of June, lives at the old Woods Homestead in Livingston 
18G5; real estate and insurance agent, Charbittes- County, Ky. ; |b) David (No. 3), the subject of 
vilie, Virginia. this sketch; ( c ( Joseph E., who was a physician, 

(11) Charles Lewis AVoods, born 2d of Decern- lived in Arkansas, and died in February, 1895, 
ber, 18G9, lawyer and editor, Rolla, Mis.souri. leaving a widow aud three children; (d) Preston 

Hon. Micajah Woods, as will appear above, is a II., who is a merchant, and resides at Marion, 

lineal desLcndaut of Michael Wo'mIs, of Blair Park, Kentucky, and (e) Frank, who is a druggist, aud 

as follows: Said Michael had a son, Michael, Jr., lives at Kiittawa, Kentucky. 

whose wife was Anne. Said Michael, Jr., and Anne David Woods, whom we have, for convenience, 

had a son William, whose wife was Joanna Shep- designated as David No. 3, was born May 20, 1839, 

herd. Said William Woods and Joanna had a son and married Havana E. Perkins, by whom he has 

named Micajah, whose second wife was Sarah H. bad six cliildren, as follows: (aj David Everett 

Davenport, ncc Ivodes. Said Micajah AVoods and A\uui:s, who was born at Marion, Kentucky, July 

Sarah II. had a son. Dr. John Rodes A\'oods. Said 7, 18G9, and married Miss Mattie Kevil on the 2(;th 

Dr. John Rodes Woods married Sal)ina L. S. of December, 1895, and who is a rising and popular 

Creigh, and his first child was the distinguished official of the Illinois Central Railway; (b) H. K. 

lawyer who is the subject of this sketch, aud one of AVoods; (c) Lena AA'oods; (d) Ina AVoods; (e) 

Virginia's most prominent public men. Kitty AVoods; and (f) Sallie AA'oods. ^Ir. AA'oods 



SKETCUES OF PATIJONS. 



o4U 



lias heeu the clerk of the Critteiuleu Countj' Court 
since August 12, 187S. His wife Avas a dauiujliter 
of Kev. (ieorj^e K. IN'rkius liv his wife Elizalx'tli 
U., iicc Cray. ;Mr.s. AVoods was horn at Decatur, 
Alabama. Auunst 1(5, lS-10. Slic is descended, like 
her husband, from ilichael Woods, Jr., and liis 
wife Anne, but throujili ^MicJiacl's dauuldcr, Mar- 
garet, wJio niairied David (ira.v. Said Martiarct 
Woods was the youngest of her father's cliildrcii. 
She became the Avife of David Gray somewliere 
about the rear 1780, and liv liim had a son William, 



Isaac Shelby. Mr. Shelby was born in Fayette 
County, Kentucky, July I'C, 1S83. [Nfrs. Shelby is 
descended from .Michael ^^'oods of ]>lair Park 
through his son William \Voods, whose wife was 
Susannah Wallace, and from said William and 
Susannah llii-oiigh their son Archibald Woods, 
whose wife was Moui'uing Harris Shelton; and 
from said .Vrcliiliald and ^lourning through their 
daughter Susannah Woods, whose husband was 
William Ooodloe; and from said Susannah and 
William through (heir daughter Lucv Ann Good- 



who, in 1812, married a Miss Kittie I'ird AVinn, loe, whose husband was David 1'. Hart (son of the 

and lived in Glasgow, and also Greensburg, Ken- noted Captain Nathaniel Hart, of the Transyl- 

tucky. Tlie fifth child of this (Doctor) William vania Com])anyl. Said David I', and his wife 

tJray, by his wife Kittie li., was Elizabeth Gather- Lucy Ann were the parents of the subject of this 

ine Ophelia, who was born February 23, 1823, aud sketch, 

married the Kev. George K. Perkins, a Presby- Edmund Pendleton Shelby and his wife Susan 



terian minister, \\ho was the father of Havaua E. 
Perkins, now Mrs. David Woods, of Marion, Ken- 
tucky. 

3Ir. John N. AA'oods, above mentioned as one of 



(joodloe, IICC Hart, had eleven children, as follows: 
(a) Thomas II.vkt Shelby, who is a farmer; (b) 
AVuJ-iAM KiXKEAD Shelby, wlio was graduated 
from I'rinceton University with honors in 1883, 



the children of David AVoods (No. 1) and his studied law at the Fniversity of Virginia, ])ractised 

wife Sallie, was an uncle of the subject of this law for a time, then became a teacher, was princi- 

sketch, aud was born at Salem, Kentucky, June ]ial of the Johnson High School, Lexingtim, and 

15, 1815. His father (David No. 1) had moved to di<'d in Lexington, Kentucky, September 20, 1900; 

Livingston County in 1813, with his parents, and (c) Lucy Goodloe Shelby, who is a graduate of 

died at Marion, Kentucky, iu 1825. John N. Sayre Institute, Lexingtou, and now teacher of 

Woods was one of the most prominent and sulj- Latin in Johnson High School, Lexington; (d) 

stantial citizens of ilarion where, through a long Vily de la Fontaixe Shelby, who was married to 

life, he A\as known and honored as a man of the George Sea Shankliu, October 19, 1880, by whom 

noblest character. He made several moves and she has three S(ms; 1, Shelby, 2, George Sea, and 3, 

business changes during his life, but :Marion was Arthur; (e) Edmund Pendleton Shelby, who was 

the town with whose history his own was mainly graduated from Kentucky LTniversity, studied 

connected. Iu 1871 he was sent to the State Leg- medicine at the University of Virginia, was gradu- 



islature by his couuty. Iu 1848 he was married 
to Mrs. Mary A. Marble, of Madison, Indiana. His 
death occurred Decendjer 27, 189(3. 

SKETCH 68. 
MRS. S. H. SHELBY, LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY. 

Mrs. Susan Goodloe Shelby, iicc Hart, was born 
in Madison County, Kentucky, March 15, 1839, 
and (m the 4tli of DeccMuber, 1858, was married to 
Edmund Pendleton Shelby, a grandsou of Governor 



ated from the Ihiiversity of New York, and is now 
a mend)er of the faculty of Cornell iledical Col- 
lege; (f) David Hart Shelby, who Avas educated 
at Kentucky University, and is now engaged iu the 
hunber business in the AVest; (g) Isaac Pratheu 
Shelby, who was gi-adnated frcun the Kentucky 
State C(dlege, on the 5th of January, 1900, 
mai'ried Augusta Pauline Taggart, and is now City 
Engineer of I'ine Bluff, Arkansas; (h) EvAN 
Shelby, who was graduated from Kentuckv Uni- 



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vci'slty, aud the Ni*\v York Law ^<(•llo(>l, aiid is now 
a ineial)W of the hiw tirni of Taylor & Shelhy, New 
York City; (j I Svsan IIaut Siielp.y. who dird in 
April, 1870, when only tdeven nionllis (»ld ; (k) 
Maky Buijaick SiiKi.r.v. who was livaduated from 
Sayre Institute, Avas a student at AVellesley College, 
married Samuel M. \Vilson, and (1) AliTUUR 
SiiKi.r.Y, who died July 1*3, 18!»S, in Lexington, 
aged seventeen years. 

SKETCH 69. 
HON. J. D. WOODS, HICKORY V.ALLEY, TENNESSEE. 

(For illustration see page 3}2.) 

John David Woods, of lliekory A'alley, Tennes- 
see, was born August I'D, 1847, and was the only 
son of Samuel M. Woods by his wife Xareissa, nee 
Robinson. He is descended fnim William Woods, 
of North Carolina, through his son John Woods, 
whose wife was Ann Loney ^Mebane; and from said 
John and Ann Louey through their son Samuel 
Woods, whose wife was Jennie Allison; and from 
said Samuel and Jennie through their son David 
Woods, whose Avife was Mary Robinson; and from 
said David and MarA- through their sou Samuel M. 
Woods, above mentioned, Avho nmrried Narcissa 
Rol)inson, and Avas the father of the subject of this 
sketch. The said William Woods, of North Caro- 
lina, as shown in Part I of this Aolume (pages 132- 
131)) Avas a brother of Michael Woods of Blair 
Park, and of the Elizabeth Woods Avho married 
Peter Wallace, Sr., and became one of the ancestors 
of all the Wallaces mentioned in this AAork. What 
has already been related in Part I of AA'illiam and 
his children and grandchildren need not be re- 
peated here, except so far as may l)e necessary to 
a lucid account of his remoter descendants noAV 
living. Six of his lineal descendants are among 
the original patrons of this Avork, as will appear 
from Sketches No. 69-74, inclusiA'e. 

;\Ir. AYoods, the subject of this sketch, Avas mar- 
ried to iliss Annie E. McLarty August 3, 1879, by 
whom he has had two children, to-wit : (a) David 
WooiKS. Avho Avas born July 14, 1880; and (b) 
Elizabeth Woods, Avho Avas born ^March 7, 1883. 
Mr. Woods has represented his county in the Ten- 



nessee Legislature, aud is honored as one of the 
most im]tortant and reliable citizens of his com- 
munity, lie is a iiicnilicr and an officer of the Pres- 
liyteriau ( "hunli. 1 le resides at the old Woods home- 
stead, first owned by his grandfather, David Woods, 
and Avhich Avas settled about 1824. There are but 
fcAv plantatituis in Ilardeiimn County which were 
settled as early as was his. ^Mi-. Woods was the only 
child of his i>areuts (Samuel M. AVoods and Nar- 
cissa, )ice Robinson). 

Samuel Mebane Woods, just mentioned, Avho 
Avas the oldest of the four children of David Woods 
and Mary, ;((c Robinson, Avas born February 16, 
1822. He Avas married to Miss Naixissa Robinson, 
January 14, 1844, and died May 5, 1849. Nar- 
cissa Roliinson, Avhom he married, Avas a daughter 
of William B. Robinson, and Elizabeth, ncc Boy- 
kin. William B. Itobinson Avas a son of James 
Robinson and brother to the Mary Robinson AAho 
married David AVoods. Hence, Samuel M. Woods's \\ 
Avife (Narcissa) Avas his first cousin. The before- , 
mentioned Elizabeth Boykin Avas a daughter of 
Dr. Elisha Boykin, Avho was the son of a native 
French Protestant who settled near Petersburg, 
A'irginia. Narcissa Robinson Avas born March 28, 
1824, aud died November 3, 1890, and Avas buried 
in the Roliiuson cemetery, in Tipton County, Ten- 
nessee. 

John R. AA'oods, the second child of David and 
^lary, died in early manhood, and unnuirried. 
;Mary Woods, the third child, married Walter M. 
Cheuault, by Avhom she had one child, namely, 
Mary A. Cheuault, Avho married Mr. T. A. Mc- 
Larty, of Grand Junction, Tennessee. Mr. and 
Mrs. ^McLarty have tAVO children, to-Avit : (a) Wil- 
lie McLauty,- (b) LiLLiE ^IcLauty, Avho married 
Thurston D. Prcnvitt. 

^largaret Woods, the fourth and last child of 
David aud IMary, married .Joseph S. McAnnlty, by 
wlumi she had two children, as follows: (a) Daa"ID 
W. ^IcAxuLTY, who nmrried ilartha R. Moorman; 
and ( b I Ror.EUT A. ilcAxuLTY. Avho nmrried, first, 
Sallie Cargile; and, second, Mary Spinks. 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. 



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SKETCH 70. 

DAVID S. WOODS, DECEASED, LATE OF 

BARSTOVV, TEXAS. 

(For illustration see page i}2.) 

Mr. David Siduey Woods, wliosf dciitli occurred 
since tlie preparation of tliis work was liciinn, and 
of wliicli lie was one of the tii'st patrons, was a 
descendant of AVilliani A\'oods, of Ireland, tlironj^h 
his son John A\'oo(ls, whose wife was Ann L. ^le- 
haue; and from said John and Auu L. through 
their sou Samuel "NA'oods, whose wife was a lady 
of his own name, lOlizaheth ^\■oo(ls; and from said 
Samuel and Elizabeth through their son Samuel 
Kay Woods, whose wife was Zilpha E. McKuiue. 
The said Samuel Ray Woods ami his wife Zilpha 
were the parents of David S. AN'oods. 

Mr. Woods was boru uear Ilillsboro, Orange 
County, North Carolina, December 28, 1844, and 
Avith his parents came to Marion, Alabama, in 
1848. 

He enlisted as a private iu Company K, Eleventh 
Alabama Infantry, iu June, 1801, and served iu 
that regiment iu the tirst campaign of the Army 
of Xortheru Virginia. Having fallen a victim to 
pueumouia, and being a mere j'outli, he was dis- 
charged. Soou after reachiug home he re-eulisted 
iu Company E, Forty-first Alabama lufautry, and 
served as first sergeant of his company iu the 
Army of the Cumberlaud under General Bragg 
from his retreat from Kentucky iu 1862 to the 
battle of Chickamauga. He was promoted to sec- 
ond lieutenant iu the army of the Gulf, and served 
iu that departnumt up to the fall of Fort Gains 
and Mobile Bay, when, on the 8th of August, 1804, 
he surrendered, with his company, which he had 
commanded during the engagement about the Bay 
and Dauphin Island, and for about five months 
was iu prisou at New Orleans and Ship Island. 
He was exchanged iu time to particii)ate iu the 
closing scenes of the great war iu aud about ■Mobile, 
Alaliama. After the storm of battle had cleared 
away he secured a position as salesman in a mer- 
cantile establishment, kejit books, and for several 
years was a tra^cdliug salesman iu the wholesale 
line. In 1872 he moved to Texas, aud entered the 



field of civil aud hydraulic engineering, aud as- 
sisted in the consti-nct ion of many of the large rail- 
way systems aud irrigation canals in Texas aud 
Mexico. :Mr. Woods was ncvei' married. A fuller 
account of his family will be found on the ]>ages 
devoted to William W Is, I'art [, Cliai)ter IV. 

Said Samuel Ray \V Is aud liis wife Zilpha 

left the following six children, lo-wit : la) 
\\'1I,1JA.M Samiki, Wdohs. wlio was boru December 
1, 1831; (III M.\uv Ei,i/,Ar.i;Tii Woous, who was 
born December 10, 18:{;?; (c) SiSAX McKuiNK, 
who was born ^larch 20, 1830; (d) John Raifoud 
Woods, who was born October 13, 1838; (e) Bar- 
r.AKA Ann Woous, who was born September 18, 
1841; and (fi David Sidney Woods (the subject 
of this sketch), who was born, as above stated, De- 
cember 28, 1844. 

Samuel Ray Woods moved with his family from 
Orange County, North Caroliiui, to ^fariou, Ala- 
bama, in 1848. Here his wife (Zilpha Elizalieth) 
died April 13, 1877. He survived her a little more 
than thirteen years, dying July 30, 181)0. The be- 
fore-mentioned John Raiford Woods, who resides 
at New Berne, Alabama, married ;MisS Annie Jane 
Paul, by whom he has had three children, to-wit : 

(a) GEOucao Sidney, who was boru March 1, 1877; 

(b) Mauy Alice, who was boru July 13, 1879; and 

(c) Elizabeth McKuine, who was boru April 20, 
1882. Susan ^IcKuiue and Barbara Auu have 
never married, and reside at Marion, Alabama. 

SKETCHES 71, 72 AND 73. 

J. H. WOODS, MELBOURNE, ARK.: T. J. WOODS, BATES- 

VILLE, ARK.; S. W. WOODS, YELLVILLE, ARK. 

(For illustration see page 332.) 

These three individuals are sous of the late Wil- 
liam Mitchell Woods aud his wife Elizabeth E., 
ncc Brown; and said William ^Mitchell Woods was 
a son of Thoums Woods and his wife Susannah, 
lice Baldridge; and said Thomas Woods was a son 
of John Woods and liis wife Ann Louey, ncc Me- 
bane; and said John Woods was a son <d' the 
William ^^■oods who was a brother of ^lichael 
Woods (tf Blair Park, Virginia, and came fr(nn 
Ireland to America iu 1724 aud settled in what is 



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now Omns>e County, North Carolina. For fuller 
details in regard to the Thomas Woods just nien- 
lioMcd. tile reader is referred to Clurpter IV of 
Part I of this volume. 

William ilitchell Woods, altovc meiitioufd, was 
born :May 10, 1820, and Deeendier 1(5, 1817, he was 
married to [Miss Elizabeth E. Brown, of Fulton 
County, Kentucky, daughter of Archibald and 
Sarah (Cultcm) Brown. lie made his home first 
in Obion County, Tennessee, but in 1S.~>.") he sold 
out and moved to Izard County, Arkansas. Tie 
died Septeml)er 19, ISOfi, and his wife died ^larch 
15, ISitJ). He Avas a member of the Christian 
Cliurcli, and liis wife was a Cumberland Pre^fby- 
terian. William [Mitclicll ^^■oods and his Avife 
Elizabeth had eijiht cliildren, as f()lb)ws: (a) John 
H.MtVEY Woods, who was born March 27, 1S19, 
nmrried Miss Mary Ella Powell, a daughter of 
Judge Iv. H. Powell, of [Melbourne, Arkansas, on 
the 15th of :May, 1879, and by her has had the 
following children, to-wit : 1, Irene Woods, born 
May 31, 1880; 2, Henry Mitchell, born August 11, 
1881, and died April 15, 1883; 3, :Mary Elizabeth 
(Bessie) born September 27, 1883, and died August 
28, 1887; 4, Effie Jane, b.u-n :\Iarcl) 7, 1885; 5, John 
Powell, born Decend)er 25, 1885; ('>, I!ol)ert Thomas, 
born July 9, 1888, and died August 11, 1888; 7, 
William, born October 18, 1889; and 8, Susannah. 
boru November 9, 1893. Irene, Bessie, and Effie all 
confessetl Christ and united with tlie Christian 
Church early in life. 3Ii'. John Harvey Woods was 
admitted to tiu* bar in June, 1877, and is a suc- 
cessful lawyer. 

(b) Thomas J.vmes Woods, M. D., second child 
of William il. and Elizabeth E. Woods, was boru 
August 18, 1850. He studied medicine, and was 
graduated with honor from the ^ledical College of 
Louisville, Kentucky, in 187(!. Dr. Woods jn-ac- 
tised his profession at LaCross, Arkansas, until 
1890, when he moved to Batesville, in the sumo 
State. At the time he was growing up tlie best 
educational advantages did not abound in Izard 
County, Arkansas, his lioyhood home, but he was 
ambitious and worked hard, and ac(iuired a liberal 



education. Decend)cr 27, 1876, he was married to 
^liss IMary F. Kinnard, of LaCrosse. Di*. Woods 
lias given a very large share of his time and atten 
tion to surgical practice, and has achieved large 
success tlierein, and lie is considered the leading 
]ihysician and surgeon of his part of Arkansas. 
His wife was the daughter of William C. Kinnard. 
and was born August 4, 1853. He and his wife are 
memliers of tlie Christian Church. Tliey have eight 
children, as fidlows: 1, ^lary Ethel, born October 
7. 1S77. who is a highly educated yimng lady; 2. 
William Kinnard, born August 8, 1879, and died 
November, 1880; 3, I. (Jaillard, born October 25, 
1881, and died in 1882; 4, Lillian E., born April 15. 
1883; 5, Edwin Onin, born January 22, 1885; 0, 
Shelby Watkins, born February 5, 1887; 7, Fred- 
erick Dains, liorn June 5, 1889, and 8, John 
^lichael, boi'u Septemlier 3, 1891. 

(c) Wn.LiAM AucHUiALi) WooDS was the third 
child of William and Elizabeth, and was born 
April 12, 1852, and died December 0, 1852. 

(d I Johnson Ph:uci; Woods, who was the fourth 
child of AVilliani and Elizabeth, was born October 
12, 1853. He graduated in medicine at Louisville, 
Kentucky, in 1878, and that same year married 
Miss Hattie Powell. He has practisc^I his profes- 
sion ever since his graduation at Salem, Arkansas, 
and is considered one of the finest jihysicians in 
his section. His wife died after having borne to 
him seven children, to-wit : 1, Robert ; 2, Arch ; 3, 
(irover; 4, Allen; 5, Winnie; G, Tressie; and 7, 
Otho. He is a member of the Christian Church, 
as was his wife. 

(e) Sakau Annabel Woods, the fifth child of 
^^'illianI and Elizabeth, was boru October IG, 1855. 
She married ^Ir. Ilanip AViseman, of Izard Couuty, 
Arkansas. She was an invalid most of her life, but 
liore her sufferings a\ itli ('hristian patience. She 
was a Cumberland Presbyterian. She died April 
IG, 1899, leaving no children. 

(f) Stephen AVashincton Woods, the sixth 
child, was born December 9, 1857. He attended 
the Law School at Louisville, Kentucky, graduat- 
ing from thence in 1882. Up to 1890 he practised 




GROVER CLEVELAND GOODWIN, 

ST. JOHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND. 

[See Sketch No. 74.) 





MR. JAMES D. GOODWIN. 
ST. JOHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND. 

[See Sketch No. 74.) 



MRS. JAMES D. GOODWIN, 

ST. JOHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND. 

[See Sketch No. 74.] 



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law at ^Melbourne, since which date he has fol- 
lowed his profession at Yellville, Arkansas. He 
has been reuiarkably siiccessfnl as a lawrev. and 
has also made wise investments in varions mining 
and mannfactnrinfr enterprises, lie operates at 
Yellville tli(> largest and best roller mill in North 
Arkansas. January 1, 1885, he was married to 
Miss Lillie Brown, daughter of David and Sarah 
J. Brown. He is a meml)er of the Christian Church 
whilst his wife is a member of the Simthern Meth- 
odist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Woods have one 
child, Gertrude, born Septend)er 30, 1886. 

(g) Benjamin Fuanki.in ^^()Ol>s. the seventh 
child, was born February 21, 18(i7. and died in 
October, 1870. 

(h) Owen Shelby Woods, the eightli child, was 
born February 27, 1870. On the 21th of December, 
1891, he was married to :Miss Cornelia J. Faust, of 
Izard County, Arkansas, by Avhoni he has had three 
children, to wit: 1, Lillie Anabel, born November 
30, 1892; 2, William Thomas, born October IG, 
1891; and 3, Bernice, born December 2G, 1898. 

SKETCH 74. 
MRS. J. D. GOODWIN, ST. JOHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND. 
Mrs. Vi(da Smith Goodwin, iiee Woods, the wife 
of James Dennis Goodwin, was the daughter of 
Joseph Hammel Woods by his wife Bebecca Willi- 
ams, ncc Monk, and was born in Orange County, 
North Carolina, Novemlier 1, 1867. She is de- 
scended from the William Woods who was a 
brother to ilichael Woods of Blair Park, Virginia, 
and settled in what is now Orange County, North 
Carolina, about 1730-1710, through his sou John, 
whose wife was Ann Louey Mebaue; and from said 
John and Ann I^ouey through their son Samuel 
whose wife was Elizabeth Woods; and from said 
Samuel and Elizabeth through their sou Hugh 
Woods, whose wife was Elvira Jane Ray. The said 
Hugh and Elvira Jane were the parents of Joseph 
Hammel Woods, who was the father of IMrs. Good- 
win. 

Miss Viola Smith Woods was married to Mr. 
James Dennis Goodwin, son of Wesley Goodwin 



and :Martha Jane, ncc Williams, on the 12th of 
Februain-, 1881, by whom she has had two children, 
to-wit: (a) Guover Cleveland GoonwiN, born May 
19, 1885; and (b) Bkower G. Goouwln. born No- 
vember 9, 1887, and died Novendier 9, 1888. 

Joseph Hammel Woods, :Mrs. Goodwin's father, 
was born November 7, 1833. He was a Confeder- 
ate soldier, and was severely wouiuled October 14, 
1863. His home is in Durham, North Carolina. 

Hugh Woods, the paternal grandfather of Mrs. 
Goodwin, and the fourth son of Samuel Woods 
(the pr-^t child by Samuers second wife, Elizabeth) 
who married Elvira Jane Ray on the 26th of Janu- 
ary, 1826, had a family of six children, as follows: 
(a) Samuel Robert Faucett Woods, born Feb- 
ruary 16, 1828, was a successful physician, and 
died May 31, 1855; (b) Margaret Jane Woods^ 
born July 29, 1830, taught school, never married, 
aud died September 26, 1857; (c) Joseph Ham- 
mel already considered; (d) EnzAr.ETH Ann 
V\'ooDs, born August 19, 1837, married Samuel M. 
AMlkinsou November, 1882, had no children, and 
now lives at Durham, North Carolina; (e) Hugh 
Phillips, generally known as Tyler, born Januai-y 
15, 1840, purposed entering the Presbyterian min- 
isti"}', but the Civil War interf erred with his plans; 
entered the infantry service of the Confederate 
Army, and was killed in battle October 14, 1863, 
near ilanassas, ^'irginia; (f) Mary Ellen Woods, 
born July 22, 1842, and died unmarried, September 
22, 1882. All of these children of Hugh Woods, 
but one, were consistent members of the Presby- 
terian Clnircli, and that one (Samuel) confessed 
Christ on his death-bed. 

Hugh Woods was an elder in the Presl)yterian 
Church, aud died February 28, 1880. His wife, 
Elvira Jane, was also a devoted member of the 
same church, nii<l died October 11, 1870. Joseph 
Hammel Woods, son of Hugh and Elvira Jane, was 
married to Rebecca Williams Monk March 31, 
1864. She was born March 6, 1841. They lived in 
Orange County, North Carolina, till 1881, when 
they moved to Durham, North Carolina, their pres- 
ent home. To this couple eight children were 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. 



355 



horn, to wit: (a) Maggie Lee Woods, born Decem- 
ber 25, 1864, married 'NYilliaiii Thomas Speed, of 
Durham, Xortli Carolina, l.y wlinm slic has tive 
chihlren now living: 1, Julian JIaurice; 2, Annie 
Pauline; 3, Irene Williams; 4, IMamie Lee; and 5, 
Willie Woods; (h) Audie Piiimji'S Woods, horn 
June 1, ISGO, married (when sixteen) to TJufus S. 
Garner, of Durham, died April 7, 1887, leavin<» 
one son, Almond Lee, horn July 14, 1S83; (c) 
Viola Smith Woods, the suhjcct of Ihis sketch; 
(d) and (e) — twins — Samuel Lakki.x and Wil- 
liam Hugh Woods, horn Mav 26, 1869, the latter 
of Avlioni only lived to he twenty years old, dying 
a triumphant Christian death, and the other twin, 
Samuel Larkin, was married to Mollie Alice War- 
ren, of Durham, Fehruary 6, 1805, in which town 
they now reside, he being superintendent of the 
Morris & Son Manufacturing Co.; (f) Elvira 
Jaxe Walkek AVoods (called "Jennie") was born 
April 8, 1872, lives with her parents in Durham, 
and is a lovely Christian, (gi Hattie Cain 
AA'ooDS, born April 3, 1880, and who lives in Dur- 
ham with her parents. (li) JoSEi'H Darnell 
AVooDS, the eighth ami last child of Joseph Hammel 
A\'oods and his A\ife IJebecca, was born in Durham 
May 26, 188(), and died June 6, 1888. 

Mrs. Cioodwin (»cc AA'oods) removed to Durham, 
North Carolina, with her parents in 1881. At 
fourteen years of age she joined the Presbyterian 
Church, under the ministry of IJev. II. T. Darnell. 
She was married to ilr. .J. D. Coodwin in 1884, as 
before stated, he being then superintendent of the 
Smoking Tobacco Department of Blackwell's 
Durham Tobacco Company. Mv. Goodwin being a 
Methodist, she joined his church. Mr. Goodwin in- 
vented several machines used in tobacco manu- 
facturing, and in order to have them built he con- 
nected himself Avith the Cardwell Machine Com- 
pany, of Richmond, Virginia, and moved to that 
city in 1891. Mr. Goodwin has for several years 
lived at St. Johns, Newfoundland, where he is man- 
ager of the Imperial Tobacco CompauA'. He and 
his wife are active memliers of the Methodist 
Church. 



SKETCH 75. 

GEN. LEW WALLACE, CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA. 

Lewis A\'allace — Major General Lew Wallace — 
was born at P>i'ookville, Indiana, April 10, 1827. 
His father was Davi<l Wallace, and his mother was 
.Miss Esther I'^rench Test. His father was Gov- 
ernor of Indiana in 1837-1839, and soon after be- 
came a member of the I'nited States Congress, 
where, in ]S40, he cast the deciding A'Ote by which 
tiiat body appropriated .|30,000 to aid Professor 
Morse in perfecting the electric telegraph. David's 
l)arents were Andrew Wallace and Eleanor Jones. 
This iliss Jones is believed by General Lew Wal- 
lace to have been a native of Virginia. She was a 
niece of the immortal American naval officer, John 
Paul (Jones), and as a young girl was a great 
favorite with General Washington, and became a 
brilliant woman. Andrew and his Avife were both 
born in 1778, and their marriage occurred in 1798. 
AudreAV was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and 
there he made his home for a part of his life. Here 
he was engaged in mercantile business. His father 
OAvned large landed interests in that region. While 
yet a comparatively young man he migrated Avith 
his little family to Ohio, settling first at Troy, and 
later on at Cincinnati. In some of the campaigns 
against the Indians during the War of 1812 An- 
drcAv ^^'allace Avas in service as quartermaster. 
At Cinc-innati he engaged extensively in mercantile 
pursuits; but being an intellectual man, and a 
great loA'er of books, he established and edited a 
neAvspaper, called The Liberty Hall Gazette, which 
later became the Vommcrcial-Gazette. From Cin- 
cinnati AudreAV Wallace moved to Brookville, 
Indiana, and there he Avas residing and keeping a 
tavern in 1812, from AAdiich point he furnished cat- 
tle for the army of General William H. HaiTisou. 
It Avas at P.rookville, as already stated, that Gen- 
eral LcAV AVallace Avas born in 1827. He married 
.Miss Susan Arnold Elston, daughter of Isaac C. 
Elstou and ^laria Aken, May 6, 1852. By her he 
had a son, Henry Lane Wallace, AA'ho married Miss 
.Mai'garet Noble, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. 



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NVallace liave a little son who is named for his dis- :^^a^naret ( AVoodsi Wallace died as early as 175(>, 

tinguished i)aternal grandfather — Lew Wallace, her linsl)and was about forty-four years old at the 

Junior. date of her decease, and her sons .Midiacl and 

When we come to deal with the paternal ancestry f>amuel were ab(mt twenty-two and twenty years 
of General Wallace, remoter than the Andrew Wal- old, respectively, (g) It is very probable that 
lace above considered, we encounter difficulty in Andrew ^Vallac(^ the fatlier of ^Michael and Sam- 
reaching conclusions which are not open to some uel, and six otlier cliiidren, l)y his wife Margaret, 
question. From all tlie information which the an- remarried not many years after Margaret's death, 
thor has been able to gather from the General's own (li ) It is known that, of the eight children .Mar- 
family, and from the A'irginia records of the AYal- garet bore to Andrew, all but one (a daughter) 
laces Avho settled in that colony about 1734-1740, moved away from Alliemarle County, though their 
it is his opinion that General Lew AVallace is most father Andrew remained there to the end of his 
probably descended from Peter 'Wallace, Sr., whose life, dying there in 1785. This circumstance is, 
wife was Elizabeth Woods, a sister of Michael to say the least, (]uite unusual; and it would have 
Woods of Blair Park; and tliat this descent was had a very rational explanation in the fact that 
through Andrew, the son of said Peter Wallace, Andrew iiad bi'ought into his home a step-mother 
Sr., and through Margaret Woods, daughter of for a family of children nearly all of Avhom had 
Michael of Blair Park, who was Andrew's wife, reached sutticient maturity of years to be likely to 
This question has already been discussul in Part resent tlieir father's sec(uid marriage, except he 
I of this volume. Chapter II, to which the reader had been remarkably wise in his choice, (j) The 
is referred. The reasons which seem to warrant Wallaces had lived ten or fifteen years in Penusyl- 
the conclusion reached will now be briefly re- vania ( 1724-1 7H9) before migrating to Virginia, 
capitulated : in a region not a day's journey to the eastward of 

(a) The paternal grandfather of General Lew Carlisle, where we know General Wallace's 
Wallace was, beyond all question, named Andrew grandfather ( Andrew) was ln)rn in 1778. The 
AVallace, a man of Scotch parentage, who was born French and Indian AA'ars closed about 17G3; and if 
at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1778. (b) The Peter Michael and Samuel Wallace emigrated from Vir- 
Wallace, Sr., who married Elizabeth Woods, was r. ginia any time subse(juent to that date, and prior 
Scotclnnan, and had a son named Andrew Wallace, to 1780, the probabilities are immensely in favor 
who was born somewhere about the year 1712. of the supposition that they went to Pennsylvania. 
(c) This Andrew Wallace migrated with his mother Kentucky and the West were not yet opened up ;and 
and uncle to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the Wallaces had once lived in Pennsylvania, (k) 
about the year 1724, married his first cousin, If Michael and Samuel AVallace did migrate to the 
:Margaret AA'oods (a daughter of :Michael AA'oods neighborhood of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, about 
of Blair Park), and reared a considerable family 17G4-1770, they were niatui*e young men, and prob- 
of sons and daughters in Albemarle County, A^ir- ably heads of families; and if they had suns 
ginia. (d) This Andrew Wallace had a son Ixn-n to llicm it would have been extremely 
Michael and a son Samuel, who were born about natural for tliem to luive named one of them 
1734 and 173tl, respectively, (e) Margaret, the Andrew, in honor of their own father. (1) As 
wife of Andrew AA'allace, and mother of Michael we know that the Andrew AVallace who mar- 
aud Samuel, was dead by the year 17G1, as appears ried Eleanor Jones, was born in 1778, and 
from her father's will, made that year. The ex- we have excellent reasons for believing that 
act date of her death is not known— she may have Michael and Samuel ( the sons of Andrew and 
been dead five years by 17C>1, or longer. {{) If Margaret, of Albemarle) were in that year about 




MAJOR-GENERAL LEW WALLACE, U. S. A. 

CRAWI-ORDSVILLE, IND. 

(See Sketcli No. 75] 




THE FAMOUS "BEN HUR BEECH.' 

WITH GENERAL WALLACE SITTING UNDER IT 

COMPOSING HIS MASTERPIECE. 

CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND. 

[See Sketch No. 75.I 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. 



359 



fdi-tv-fniir and forty-two years old, respectively, 
and know that Andrew Wallace, of Carlisle, was 
the yonnii-est cliild of his fallier, the known facts 
of llie case tit most exacdy into tlie snpiiosilion 
llial said Andrew of ( "arlish" was llie son of eitlier 
^Ii<liael or Sanmel, who came from All)emarle. 
I in ) I'inallv, as (ieneral Wallace informs the 
writer, wlien Andrew of Carlisle came to seek a 
wife, aliout the year 17!»8, he seems to have gone to 
^'irJiinia lo find her, which wonld liave been not at 
all surprising;- if Andrew had a great company of 
uncles and aunts and other blooddcin in Augusta 
and Albemarle, whom he had doubtless visited 
more tlian once, and witli wliom lie and his fatlier 
had kepi in chise touch. 

Tile writer is aware that (he foregoing array of 
facts and inferences does not, liy any means, con- 
stitute a (h'monstration ; but it certainly does fur- 
nish a reasonalih- basis for a very strong presump- 
tion in favor of the opinion that General Wallace, 
of Indiana, is a lineal descendant of both Peter 
Wallace, Sr., and Jlichael Woods of Blair Park; 
and until some one can offer some substantial evi- 
dence by way of rebuttal we are justified in accept- 
ing this vi(>w as correct. 

(Jeneral Wallace, like umuj' another man of real 
genius, did not follow the conventional lines 
marked out for the education of youth. He seems 
to have had but little fancy for the usual routine 
of tlie schools; and, after attending college for a 
time, he brolce away from the set cui-riculum and 
followt'd his own ]ilans for training and enriching 
his mind. He studied law, and for many years 
practised it successfully; l)ut tlu^t was evidently 
not the real choice of his heart. He was by nature 
an artist and a soldier — a very rare condiination. 
These two brandies he seems always to have fol- 
lowed with eagerness and success. He Avas a gal- 
lant and efficient s(ddiei- in the war with IMexico, 
and saw there just enougli ser\ice to fit liim for 
the imiiortant [lart he was to pla\' in our great 
Civil War as one of I lie most cajiable of the {''ederal 
commanders. 'When the ('ivil A\'ai- closed he re- 
turned to tlie [iractice of law, which lie had for a 



time abandoned to serve in the army. Later on 
he was sent to Turkey as the Ambassador of the 
Tnited Slates, and tliei-e li(> served his country 
most alily whilst securing from tlie Sultan con- 
cessions wliich no one else had been able to obtain. 
J?ut it is not as a lawyei-, nor as a faithful civil 
administrator in New .Me.vico, nor as a soldier 
in Old .Mexico or our late war, nor yet as a states- 
man and diplomat, that he will be chiefly known; 
but as the man of letter.s — the autiior of ''The Fair 
(!od," "I'eii II ur," "The I'lince of India." These 
creations of his genius will live long after lie has 
passed from the earth. The author of this volume 
i-ealizes that he has neither the gifts nor the per- 
sonal ac<|uaintance with (ieneral Wallace to 
render it ]iroper for him to atteiii|)l a just an<l 
adeipiate portrayal of his character; that will be 
aiiijdy done in other ]>ublica(ions by more <om- 
petent hands; but lie has deemed it not out of 
place to set down these few facts concerning him 
who, by common consent, will doubtless be ac- 
corded the place of highest distinction in litera- 
ture of any mendier of the clans mentioned herein. 
(Note.— Since the above was penned CJen. Wal- 
lace has passed to his eternal reward, Feb. l.j, lOOo. 
— Editor. ) 

SKETCHES 76, J7 AND 78. 

JUDGE WM. CYRUS WALLACE (Deceased), THOMAS 

BATES WALLACE (Deceased), THOMAS 

JOSIAH WALLACE (Deceased). 

The three persons whose sketches are herein 
combined into one narrative (all of whcmi are 
dead) were closely related to each other, and are 
lineal descendants of Peter Wallace, Sr., and his 
wife Elizabeth, iwc Woods, tlirough their son 
AMlliam A^'allace, Sr., and of :\[ichael Woods of 
Plair I'ark and his wife ^lary, nee Cauipliell, 
through their daughter Hannah, who became the 
w ife of said ^Villiam Wallace. 

In (Miapter Second of Part I of this work will 
be found a brief account of the Wallaces which 
need not be repeated here. Said William Wallace, 
Sr., and Hannah had, as is then' shown, seven 
children, the youngest of whom was Josiah Wal- 
lace, Sr., \\ho married a Susan Wallace. Whether 



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Susan was a cousin of Josiali, Sr., the writer does The said Judge \Yilliaui Cyrus Wallace and his 
not know; but it is certain the Wallaces and wife Elizabeth, nee Walker, who were married 
AVoodses often married first cousins. On this ac- Deceml)er 12, 1853, had three childreu, to wit : 
count the author has thought it possible that (a) WiLLiAir Cyrus W.\Lr;.vcE. Ju.. (h) Lee Ew- 
Susan may have been a daughter of one of the lyc, W.\Lr,.\ci:; and (c) ;M.\ky Bei.t.e W.vrxAfE. 
uncles of Josiah, Sr. We know Josiah, Sr., had who on the 28th day of Xovember, 1805. was mar- 
two uncles, namely, Andrew and Peter, Jr., Avho ried to Air. Arthur Edw ard Coates, sou of the Rev. 
Iiiul daughters named Susan, or Susannah. Arthur Coates. of Newtown House, County Aleath, 

The said Josiah AVallace, Sr. (born 174!)), and Ireland, and of Clifton, England, 

his wife Susan had seven children, to wit: (a) The .said Thomas Bates Wallace (born 1813), 

WiLi.i.vM Wall.vce (3d), who never marritd; whose wife was Lucy Briscoe Gaines (born 1825), 

(b) AI.VRGARET Wallace, who married D. Guthrie ; has had three children, as follows; (a) Xettie 

(c) John W.vllace, Jr., who married Elizabeth Briscoe Wallace, who seems to have been the 
AA'alker; (d) Haxnaii Wallace, avIio married Ab- very capable chrcmider of the family, and to whom 
ner O. Kelley; (e) Sallie Wallace, who married the author of this volume is indebted for much 
a Air. Eves; (f) Andrew Wallace, avIio married valuable information in regard to the Wallaces; 
Ann Glasgow; and (g) JosLVH Wall.vce, Jr., who (),) Thomas Bates Wall.vce (II) (born 1858), 
married Elizabeth Glasgow. who married Elizabeth Shelby Darnall (born 

The said John Wallace, Jr. (bom 1785), whose 1870), by whom he has one child, Hugh Campbell 

wife was Elizabeth Walker (born 1783), had eight Wallace (II); (c) Hugh C.\mpbell Wall.vce 

children, as follows: (a) Bex.jamix F. W.vllace, (I), ^yho was born in 18fi3, married Alildred 

who married Delia Smith; (b) Thomas Bates Fuller (born 1800). by whom he has children, 

ATallace, the subject of Sketch 77, who married Alildred Fuller, Thomas Bates (III) and Alelville 

Lucy Briscoe Gaines, and a portrait of wlioui is to Weston Fuller. Mr. Hugh Campbell AVallace 

be seen on the foregoing page; (c) Jonx Walker (I) ^vas recently elected to the responsible posi- 

AVallace, who married Elizabeth Drake; (d) tion of president of the Washington aud Alaska 

Cellv Ann AVallace. who married John James; Steamship Company. 

(e) AlARLV H. Wallace, who married Thomas The said Thomas Josiah Wallace (subject of 

R. James; (f) Erasmus D. AA'allace. who married Sketch 78, and born 1837), who married AIis> 

Celia Wear; (g) Willlv:m Cyrus Wallace, the Alartha Shauuon Cockrell (bom 1840), has had 

subject of Sketch 76, who married Alary Ewing, s^ix children, as follows: (a) John Chilton Wal- 

and whose portrait will be seen on next page; aud lace; (b) Edgar Tiio:^i.vs A^'allace; (c) Arthur 

(h) Andrev^- C. Wallace, who is unmarried. Andrew Wallace, who married Nannie Lincoln; 



The said Josiah AA'allace, Jr. (born 1702), whose 
wife was Elizabeth Glasgow (born 1707), had 
eight children, as follows: (a) Rose Ann Wal- 
lace, who married J. McNair; (b) John G. Wal- 
lace; (c) William A. Wallace, who married 
Jane Switzler; (d) AIary M. Wall.vce; (e) An- 
drew F. Wallace; (f) Newton Wall.vce; (g) 
Elizabeth W. Wallace, and (h) Thomas Jo- 
siah Wallace, subject of Sketch 78, who married 



(d) AIautiia A'iu(;ixia Wallace; (e) Thomas 
Josiah AA'all.vce (II), and (f) Wildur B. Wal- 
lace, Avho Avas born Augu.st 26, 1881. 

The before-mentioned William A. Wallace 
(born 1823 and died 1879), who was an older 
brother of Thomas J. AA'allace, and married Jane 
Switzler, had five children, as follows: (a) Hexky 
N. Wallace, who A\as born October 13, 1856, and 



Alartha Shannon Cockrell, and whose portrait and '"avried Carrie A. Alerrill; (b) AIary S. Wallace, 
a view of whose late home (EUerslie) at Bunce- ^vho Avas born Alarch 18, 1856, and died December 
ton, Alo., appear on the foregoing sheet. 28, 1861; (c) Lewis T. Wallace, who was born 




ELLERSLIE 1 AR,\\. 

COUNTRY HOME OF THE LATE THOM, 
NEAR BUNCETON, AlO. 

(See Sketch No. 78.] 



J. WALLACE. 




JL'DlJE \V. C. WALLACE, 



SKETCHES OF PATKONS. 3H3 

April 8, 1SG2; (d) William F. Wallace, who was Wliile in that State, he twice received llie nomi- 

Ixirii .Tune 25, 1SG4, and (e) Ciiaules L. Wallace, nation of the ]:)eniocratic ])ai'ty for Judge of the 

who was Itoni Odolx-r 2, ISCiC), and married Edna Siii)renie Court — in the years ]S(;4 and 18r>(5. lie 

Jolnison. lijid received a liice favor at the liands of that party 

Judge AVilliauu Cyrus ^Valla(•e, son of John Wal- in California in ISdl. He returned to Napa 

hice and Elizahedi AValkcr, was horn Uie 13lli «>f County in ISC.T. hi ISC.O lie was ii<)iiiiii;i(cd hy 

November, 1S23, near Lexington, Mo. He was (lie Democratic ])arly, aud ch'clcd lo I lie position 

licensed to i>ractice in all the cmirt.s of the State of District Judge of llic Seventh .ludiciai District, 

when twenty-live years old. He continued the at that time emlinicing llie counties of .Marin, 

](ract ice of his profession until the spring of 1849, Sonoma, .Mem!o<ino, Liike, Xai)a ami Sohmo. He 

when he joined the army of pioneers whose hopes was re-elected to the same i)osilioii in 18"."). The 

were centered upon the gold fields of California. adoi)tion of the new Constit ul ion in 187!t, by 

He arrived at Sacramento early in August of the which the judicial system of California was 

same year. In seeking a new home he was not changed, cut short liis term as District Judge, but 

seeking simply adventure, nor was lie carried away he Avas immediately put forward by all parties 

l)y the umrvelous accounts of the gold discoveries, (there being four in the field) and elected with- 

but i-elying upon the practice of his profession, out opposition to the ])osition of Superior Judge. 

He took with him across the plains his law library. At the expiration of his term he was offered the 

and in a short lime was engaged in an active prac- nomination a second time, but declined, claimiu"' 

tice at Sacramento. At the first election under that on account of ilFhealth he could not do his 

the Constitution — the spring of 18."')0 — he was people justice. In 188(J he was obliged to leave 

elected District Attorney of Sacramento County. Napa, and sought relief from asthma by goino- to 

At a sul)sequent time, he was nominated by the Aul)urn, California, where he fornu'd a partnership 

AA'hig Convention of that county for the oflfice of with J. E. I'rewett, the [n-esent Superior Judge of 

Public .Vdministrator, and was elected by a ma- Placer County. Judge \\'allace died at Auburn, 

jority of over tive hundred, though the rest of the Calif(»rnia, h'eliruary 4, 1895, after a long and 

ticket was defeated. The office at that time was ]iainful illness. His remains were taken to Napa, 

a very important one, and its duties very labori- his old home, and placed by the side of his be- 

ous on account of the many disputes arising from loved wife, who had died ^lav 5, 1882. His familv 

the Spanish titles and land grants. The follow- consisted of three children, all of whom survived 

ing year he was elected City Attorney of Sacra- iiim: William Cyrus Wallace, the eldest, was 

mento. In the autumn of 1853, Judge ^Vallace born at Najta, January 10, 18(19. lie received his 

returned to his old home at Lexington, and the fol- early education at the place of his birth, aud at 

lowing December married Mary Barrou Ewing, the age of seventeen entered the State University 

of Todd County, Kentucky. Mary Ewing was the of California. He commenced the study of law in 

daughter of Thompson INh-Cready Ewing, and his father's oltice, at the age of twenty-one, aud 

grand-daughter of the Rev. l-'inis Ewing, and great- iit the end of two years jjassed a brilliant exami- 

grand-daughter of General "\^'illianl Lee Davidson, nation before the Supreme Court of California, 

of Kevolutionary fame. (Jut of thii-ty-two applicants for admission he 

Judge AVallace c(mtiuued to reside in Sacra- yiassed the highest examination. He is now prair- 

mento until 1859, when, on account of sickness in tisiug his profession al .Madera, Califoniia. 

his family, he nu)ved to Napa County, where he Lee Ewing Wallace was born at Napa April G, 

remained until the winter of 18G3, when he moved 18G4. He received his education at "Oak 

to the State of Nevada, engaging in mining en- Mouud," the leading military academy of the 

terprises and practising law at Virginia City. State. After graduating he also decided to make 



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THE WOODS ]M(A FEE MEMORIAL. 



the law bis profession, and entered his fatlier's 
office as a student. At the end of three years he 
passed a most creditable examination before the 
Supreme Court of California, and was immedi- 
ately taken into liis father's office as a i)artuer. 
He is still praclisinj;- bis profession at Auburn. 

Mary Belle Wallace was born at Napa and No- 
vember I'S, 1895, was married at Sacramento to 
Arthur Edward Coates, Esq., of Clifton, Eniilaml, 
and Newtown House, County ;Meath, Ireland. 

TJiere are few men who liave been nuire thor- 
oughly tried than Judye Wallace, and who at all 
times commanded t1)e liigh confidence and esteem 
of the peoi)le. In private life he was benevolent, 
social, pure and true, and in official life efficient, 
honest, faithful and firm. 

The first of the Wallaces to leave Yirijinia was 
Josiah, son of William Wallace and Hannah 
Woods. He married Susan Wallace, of Charlottes- 
ville, not related to him, but of Scotch descent. 
TJK'ir seven children were born in Albemarle 
County, l)ut in 1790 the spirit of adventure and 
the fame of the fertile soil and resources of Ken- 
tucky induced him to leave his delij;htful sur- 
roundings and ]ut)ve witli his family to ^Madison 
County, of that State. He was a man of sound 
judgment and experience, iind they were called 
into service in Ids new home, where he took an 
active i)art in the fornmtion of the city govern- 
ment of Ivichuiond. Hut after living nineteen 
years in Kentuiky, be bulged for a breath of the 
still newer A\Cst, and moved in 1809 to ^Missouri 
territory, near St. Louis, where he died in 1811. He 
took witli him all of his family except his second 
son, John. Tlie latter married Elizabetli Walker, 
of liichmond, a descendant of the famous Hugue- 
not refugees from France, Bartholomew Dupuy 
and the Countess Susanna La Villan. He is said 
to have been a man of perfect proportions, phys- 
ically, and of fine intellectual powers. He re- 
mained in Kentucky until 1819, when lie moved 
to Lafayette County, near Lexington, ^Missouri. 
The richness of the soil of Lafayette County in- 
duced John AVallace to buy a large tract of land 
near Lexington, which, witii bis great number of 



negroes to \\()rk it, he cultivated into a very profit- 
able farm. But as his sons grew up and were 
educated, tlicy inclined to more intellectual ]mr- 
suits, most of them selecting the professions as 
their life \\(U'k. 

Tn()M.\s B.VTKs W.VLL.vci!: was born March 31, 
181l>. He was only six years old when he came 
witli his father to Missouri. In these early times 
the schools were not of the best, but willi the aid 
of a tutor and close application to study he re- 
ceived an excellent education, and liecame a man 
of more than usual attainments. Hi- studied 
law, but never practised, preferiing a business 
career instead. Endowed with a fine mind and 
wonderful memory, lie was considered for many 
years the best histiu-ian in the State. He was a 
man of liigli ])rinciples and strong convictions, 
and, though a large slaveholder when the Civil 
War broke out, he felt like Lincoln, that the 
Union must be maintained at any cost. During 
the war he held a high official ].ositi(ui under the 
go^■ernment. Vvw men after passing the three- 
score and ten years retain their faculties, both 
mental and physical, to such an extent. An earn- 
est Christian gentlenuin, he was a most devote<l 
member of the (^imberland Presliyterian Church. 
He was married twice — the first time to Rose Ann 
Elliott, of Howard County, Missouri, who lived 
but a few years. The second marriage was to Mrs. 
Lucy Briscoe Gaines, of Georgetown, Kentucky. 
He died July 3, 1887. 

Liu-y Briscoe Wallace was born November 2."), 
1825, near ( leorgetown, Kentucky, in one of thos? 
grand old country homes for which the "bluegrass 
region" is noted. She was the youngest child of 
James M. and JMary Bruner Briscoe and was edu- 
cated at St. Catherine's Nunnery, Lexington, Ken- 
tucky, but was a life-long nuunber of the Christian 
Church. She was married while quite young to 
Frank Pendleton Gaines, who lived only a few 
years, and at the age of twenty-one she was left 
a widow with one son, Briscoe Gaines, who now 
lives at St. Joseph, Missouri. In 1854 she was 
married to Thomas Bates Wallace, with whom she 
enjoyed a long and happy life in Lexington, Mis- 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. 



3ti5 



souri. In 1888, a vciU' after his death, she de- 
ciih-d to ;;i\"e iiji liei- cherished Imtiie lliere and iro to 
TacDnia, W'ashiniitnn, to ^ralilV liei- cliildren and 
to lie wilii (hem. in tlie delii>li( ful cliniale of tlio 
Paeitie coast slie hecanH^ stron^c i-, and in iiial<inii' 
a Inline for lier sons, from wliom slie liad been se]ia- 
ratetl for several years, she found new joys. She 
had what, above all, her mother's heart most en- 
joyed, the lo\'e and admiration of her children. 
After a short illness of only one week she gently 
fell asleep January :31, 181)7. 

Thonnvs Bates AX'allace, the seeoiul, is a worthy 
representative of the name and was horn Novem- 
hei' 25, 1858. He was educated in ivcxiniiton and 
studied civil engineering. He followed this as a 
]irofession from 1879 to 1882, and during that 
time had cliarge of one of the government surveys 
of the .Missouri and Mississippi rivers. The neces- 
sarily wandering life of a civil engineer led him 
to abandon the pi-ofession. He then went to Ta- 
coma, Washington, and invested in real estate, and 
later engaged in the hanking business. Subse- 
(juently, in 1889, the Fidelity Trust Company was 
organized with a capital of |500,0U0 and he be- 
came its president, ^\•hich ijosition he still tills. 
He was married April 28, 189(i, to Elizabeth 
Shelby Darnall, of Lexington, Kentucky. 

Hugh ('ampbell Wallace was born I'ebruary 10, 
18G3. He was educated in Lexington, and being 
of an exceedingly enterprising nature he left home 
before he was of age to try his fortune in the 
West. >\'hen only tweuty-two he was appointed 
by President Cleveland KeceiA'er of Public Moneys 
at Salt ]>ake ('ity — the youngest man ever ap- 
pointed to such an ottice in the United States. In 
1888 he resigned that ollice to go to Tacoma. There 
he engaged in Imsiness pursuits and was most 
successful, in 1892 he was elected a member of 
the National Democratic Committee for the State 
of AVashingt(m and took a conspicuous part in 
the presidential campaign of tlmt year. He is the 
leader of the Democratic party in his Stale, and in 
1894 he was the nominee of his party for United 
States Senator. He was married in Washington, 



D. C, January ."'), 1S91. to :\rildrcd Fuller, daugh- 
ter of the Chief Justice of the United States. 

TiKiMAs .losiAii W'ai.i.aci;, youngest son of 
Josiah Wallace, Jr., and Elizabeth (Jlasgow, was 
born in I'(>ttis County, ^lissouri, in L'^))7. He was 
educated at Chaiiel Hill College, and his life has 
been spent in bringing to perfection his great stock 
farm, c(mii)rising aliout two thousand acres under 
one fence, near P.uiiceton, .Missouri. This beauti- 
ful country home fittingly liears the name of 
"Ellerslie," for the great ancestral castle in Scot- 
land. The ow nei" has ]ii-os])ered from his youth 
up, ami with bis pi-os]ierily has grown the esteem 
of his fellow-men. Honorable, kind, generous, 
trharitable, he is beloved as neighbor, friend and 
citizen. He was married February IS, 18G3, to 
^lartha Shannon Cockrell, of Cooper County. 

Edgar Thomas, the eldest living son, was born 
January 28, 1807, and was educated at the Kemper 
solitary College at Boonville, Missouri, where he 
graduated. He also attended the Missouri State 
LTniversity for a time. In 1889 he went to Ta- 
coma, A\'ashington, \\here he has become engaged 
in real estate and mining interests in the North- 
A\est. 

Arthur Andrew was born April 14, 1871, and 
was also educated at Kemper Military College. 
He was married February 7, 1894, to Nannie Lin- 
coln, of Kansas City. He makes his home with 
his father, where he is the manager of Ellerslie 
Farm. 

Thonuis Josiah, Jr., born December 12, 187G, is 
a promising young man, with refined, intellectual 
tastes and studious habits. 

SKETCH 79. 
O. T. WALLACE, POINT LEAVELL, KENTUCKY. 

tFor illustration see page 332.) 

Hon. Oliver Terrill ^^■allace, sou of Salem Wal- 
lace and his wife, Eliza J., itcc Turpin, was born 
in .Madison County, Kentucky, on Paint Lick 
Creek, February 28, 1845. He is a lineal descend- 
ant of Peter Wallace, Sr., and his wife, Elizabeth 
Woods, through their son, William AVallace; and 



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he is a (Icsr-ondant of ;^[ichaol Woods of Blair 
I'avlv, and his wife, ^Fary ('ain])l)c'l], tlu'OUi;h their 
(laiiiilitcr Ilaimali, wlio liccaiiic William Wallace's 
wife. The said Salem AVallace, father of Oliver 
T., was a son of William Wallace (secoml) bv liis 
Avife, Sally Sliaimoii. Said William Wallace 
(second) was the sou of Michael Wallace, by his 
wife, Ann Allen; and Michael was the son of Wil- 
liam Wallace (lirstl, whose wife was Hannah 
A\'oods. 

Salem ^^■alla(•e was born in Garrard County, 
Kentucky, October 17, 1795. His farm was on 
I'aint Lick Creek, where his life was spent. He 
owned and operated a grist and saw mill on his 
farm, lie married ]Miss Eliza Jane Turpin. In 
181(! he represented Madison County in the Ken- 
tucky Legislature. From 1825 to the time of his 
death, March 21, 1808, he was a ruling elder in 
the Associate Eeformed Presbyterian Church. 
His wife's father was William Turpin, a native of 
Culpeper County, Virginia. His wife's mother 
was a iliss Xancy Robertson, also a native of Vir- 
ginia. 

William Wallace (second), who married Sally 
Shannon, was born in Albemarle Countj^, Vir- 
ginia, the 12tli of October, 17G3, and migrated to 
Kentucky about 1785. He was a soldier of the 
Revolutionary Army and was with Washington 
at the surrender of Lord Coruwallis at Yorktown 
in 1781. His wife, Sally Shannon, was born in 
Virginia January IG, 1771, and removed with her 
husband to Kentucky, and there resided until the 
year 1830, A\hen she renujved with several of her 
married children to Adams County, Illinois, 
where she died al)0ut the year 1860. 

The Hon. Oliver T. Wallace was born, as above 
noted, in ^Fadison County, Kentucky, February 
28, 1815, and was reared on a farm. He enjoyed 
the advantages of a high school and college edu- 
cation, graduating in the scientitic course from 
Monmouth College, Illinois, in 18GG. He then 
turned his attention for a time to teaching in the 
public schools of his neighborhood whilst carr}'- 
ing on a small farm. This occupied him about 
eight j'ears. About this time he began to engage 



in land surveying and civil engineering, and for 
the last thirty years has done the greater part of 
the work of this character that has been done in 
<larrard County. On the 24th of October, 1870, 
he was married to ^liss Nancy E. Shearer, daughter 
of William Shearer and Elveree Chenault, by 
Avhom he has had six children. He has a product- 
ive farm of two hundred and nine acres at Point 
Leavell, Garrard County, on \\hicli he has now re 
sided for many years. Since May, 1871, Mr. Wal- 
lace has been a ruling elder of the Associate Ee- 
formed Presbyterian Church. Mr. Wallace has 
clear and strong convictions in regard to the ap- 
jialling evils of the li(|Uor traffic, and for the last 
twenty years he has been a Prohibitionist in the 
full sense of that term, and has regularly voted 
with the Prohibition party, having cast his first 
vote for St. John, the nominee of that party for 
the Presidency in 1881. He sincerely believes that 
it is a grievous sin against God and humanity for 
the government, State or national, to legalize the 
manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as 
beverages, and he has given some of the best years 
of his life to a consistent and courageous fight 
against such legalization. In the fall of 1899 he 
was the nominee of his party for the governorship 
of Kentucky, and he has not given up the fight be- 
cause of defeat. The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
^Vallace are as follows: (a) William Anderson 
Wallace; (b) Annie Chenault Wall.vce; (c) 
Elveree Shearer Wallace; (d) Jennie Turpin 
Wallace; (e) Oliver Terrill Wallace, Jr.; and 
(f) Shannon Phillips Wallace. Mr. Wallace 
drew the chart of one branch of the "Wallace fam- 
ily, to be found in Chapter Second of Part I of 
this work, for which he deserves the tlianJcs of all 
concerned. 

SKETCH 8o. 
M. B. WALLACE, ST. LOUIS, MISSOUKI. 
yiv. M. I), ^^'allace was among the earlier 
patrons of this publication, but the author much 
regrets that he has been unable to procure the 
necessary data for a sketch of Mr. Wallace's fam- 
ily, or even to ascertain with certainty his genea- 
logical lines. 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. mi 

GROUP FOUR. 

PATRONS DESCENDED FROM BOTH THE WOODSES AND McAFEES. 

SKETCHES 81-93. 

As was noted on a previous page, .there are Sliclhy called for two lliousand Kentnckiaiis to 

tliirteeii of the original patrons of tliis pulili- enlist and march (o ("auada to avenge the hloody 

ration who trace their lineage back to .Michael massacre of the Kentucky wounded jn-isoners at 

Woods of lUair Tark, and also to .Tames ^Ic- the Kiver IJaisin a few monllis liefore, and Harvey 

Afee, .Tr., the Kentucky jdoneer. .Ml of these ^N'oods, then nearly twenty-one, was one of the 

])ersons are either tlie cliildreu, grandchildreu twice two thousand sturdy men who gave a 

(U- great-grandchildren of .Tames Harvey prompt response. ITe joined the company led by 

Woods and Sarah T*]verett. iicc Hednuiu. luas- Captain John Hall, of Shelby County, which coni- 

much as a great i)art of the nmtter to be presented pany was one of the six composing the Ninth Iven- 

iu ti'eatiug of Tills gronji is of common concern to tucky Itegiment commanded by Colonel .James 

all of its mend)ers, the items of geneial interest Sinirall. The Ninth Tiegiment, and the Tenth, 

to the group as a whole will be given tirst, and the commanded by Colonel TMiilip Barbour, made up 

sei)arate sketches last. The thirteen persons re- the Fifth Ilrigade, under Brigadier General 

ferred to consist of the author of this volume, three Samuel Caldwell. This brigade was attached to 

of his own children, one of his brothers, three of the Second Division, comnmnded by Major General 

his nieces, four of his nephews, and one of his Joseph Desha. General William Henry Harrison 

great-nieces. was in supreme command of all the forces com- 

•T.VMKS IT.MtvKY Woods, son of Samuel Woods, posing the army which invaded Canada, and at 
Jr., by his wife, Mary, iicc McAfee, was l»orn at the battle of the Thames, October 5, 1813, routed 
the old AVoods homestead on Shawnee Ilun, the allied Indian and Tiritish army under General 
Mercer County, Kentucky, Septeniber 12, 1792. Proctor and the great Indian chief, Tecumseh. 
That homestead was the fourteen hundred acra Colonel SimralFs regiment, to which young Woods 
settlement and ijre-exemption which his grand- belonged, bore a gallant part in that campaign, 
father, Samuel A\'oods, Sr., entered in 1782. His which was as successful and decisive as it Avas 
father died when he was only ten years old, leav- brief. November 4, at ilaysville, Ky., Harvey 
ing his estate much involved, and his opportiini- Woods and his comrades were honorably mustered 
ties for olitaining a good education were probably out of the service they had entered a little more 
not of the best. His mother's father, James Me- than two months before at Newport. 
Afee, was his gimrdian, and young Woods must The '"soldier boys" who returned home from 
have lived for some time at the old McAfee stone Canada in the fall of 1813 were nearly idolized by 
house, lie also made his home for a time with his the Kentucky people, and they must have been the 
uncle-in-law, Alexander Buchanan. He was prob- special favorites of the fair sex. Harvey, liow- 
ably apprenticed to a cabinet-nudcer to learn his ever, does not seem to have been in a great hurry 
trade before he was eighteen. A\'e know he fol- to marry, for it was nearly live years after his re- 
lowed this trade, in cimjunction with that of an turn from the war that he took to himself a wife, 
undertaker, down to within a few weeks of the The portrait of him to lie seen on page 407 
day of his death in IStJO. In .July, 1813, Governor was taken from a miniature of him painted 



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THE WOODS-MoAFEE MEMORIAL. 



in water colors about tlio year 181(5, when he was 
tweuty-foiir. lie enjoyed the aIoIIu in his yonng 
days, and played at the country balls for the 
young folks. On the first of August, 1818, he was 
married to iliss Sarah Everett Dednian, of Ver- 
sailles, Kentucky, lie was then nearly tweuty-six 
and she ^^•as not yet seventeen. The young coui)le 
removed at once to Harrodsburg, Mercer Count}', 
A\here they spent the remainder of their lives. 
The Kev. Dr. Thomas Cleland, long since gone to 
his reward, was then ])astor of the little Pres- 
byterian Church in the town. Harvey Woods and 
his young wife had not yet united with ;-.uy church, 
l)ut it was not a great many years till both were 
soundly converted and received into Dr. Clelaud's 
church — she in 1822, and he in the year following. 
About six years later — February 21, 1829 — Har- 
vey was made a ruling elder of the church, an office 
he filled with the utmost fidelity till his death in 
18(50. The IJev. Dr. John Montgomery, who was 
his pastor for eighteen years, testified, in a letter 
to the present writer, to the consistent, exemplary 
piety of Harvey Woods. 

His distinguishing characteristics were humil- 
ity, solemn dignity of manner, evenness 
of temper, self-poise, firmness, and his 
courageous but quiet devotion to what he 
thought to be his duty. He was never a noisy 
man; never was known to exhibit ostentation or 
conceit; was a lover of peace and order, but not 
afraid to face danger ^\ hen duty called him to do 
so. A poor man all his life, and having a large 
family to support and educate, he toiled hard at 
his calling, never even slopping to ask what friv- 
olous and liauglity people might think or say. He 
reared six sons and three daughters, who grew 
to mature age, and every one of them received 
good educatioiuil advantages, ami several of them 
were graduated with credit from the better class 
of colleges of that period, lie did not require any 
of his six sous to follow the trade he had toiled at 
all his days, but did what he could to help them on 
to higher positions in life than he had been able 
to reach himself. Three of his sons became law- 



yers, two of them entered the Presbyterian minis- 
ti"v, and another was educated for the sacred of- 
fice', but was providentially prevented from seek- 
ing ordination. In January, 18(50, he contracted 
a cold which resulted in an attack of pneumonia, 
and be died February 3, 18(50. He was conscious 
to the end, and liis death was calm and hopeful — 
just such as miglit have been expected of a humble, 
devoted Christian man. His body and that of his 
beloved wife sleep in the old historic burial-ground 
of New Providence Church, in the midst of the 
dust of many of his McAfee and Woods relations, 
and within a stone's throw of the spot where once 
stood the little chui-ch l)uilding in which he and 
his wile heard Dr. Cleland preach some of those 
searching Gospel sermons which brought them to 
confess Christ as their Saviour more than eighty 
years ago. Harvey Woods was about five feet, 
eleven inches high, and rather slender. His hair 
was brown, with a tendency to curl; his eyes blue- 
ish gray, and of a very kindly exjiressiou. His 
nose A\-as somewliat sharp and of Roman type, as 
is seen in his portrait on a preceding page-^a 
feature very geuerallj' preserved among his de- 
scendants. His gait in walking was slow, meas- 
ured and dignified. Few men ever had a kinder 
heart than he, though he was not particularly 
demonstrative in his disposition. If he ever had 
a personal encounter witli any one in his life the 
writer has not heard of it, and when he died he 
l)robably did not have an enemy in the world. And 
it nmy be truthfully said that there has probably- 
ne\er lived a man in the town in which he spent 
nearly the whole of his mature life about Avhose 
integrity and Christian consistency so few people 
had a particle of doubt. 

Sarah Everktt Dedman^, who became, in 
1818, the wife of James Harvey Woods, was born 
in Versailles, Kentucky, January 30, 1802. She 
was a daughter of Nathan Dedman and his wife, 
Elizabeth, iicc (Jooch. Her father's home was at 
the northwest corner of Morgan and ^^'ater streets 
— the place which Senator J. S. C. Blackburn 
owned and occupied for many years. The writer 




NORTHERN SIDE OF NEW PROVIDENCE BURIAL GROUND. MERCER COUNTY. KV. 

FIRST GRAVE OPENED IN i8o;. 
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YE ANCIENT MARRIAGE BOND OF 1786. 
[See Sketch No. 90— Sarah E. Dedman.] 



SKETCHES OF PATEONS. 371 

iil.laiiHMl ;i <i<>od pliotoiii-apli of llic Imusc in 1895, responsible for tlio f;<i<'<l (Mliicational advantages 

wliicli lias been rc]>r(i(lii((Ml fm- iliis work as an all tluMr fliildrcn enjoyed, and did most to stimn- 

eiii;raviii,n. Tiic line siiriiii:, wliicji const it ulcs llic late tiicm to liiiili endeavor, does no! admit of much 

head of one fori; of Glenns Creels, and whose ex- donht. 

istence no doubt determined the location of the \Vhen her husliand died in I'ebniary, ISCiO, Mrs. 

town of ^'eI•sailies, is jnst lielow the Dedinan ^Voods was herself in lied, laid up with a badly 

])lace to the north. .sprained ankle; and after his death she never was 

Of Sarah's childhood we know but little, be- well another day. Life seemed to have lost its 

yond the fact that she was bereft of her father charm for her when caUcd to walk without her 

about the end of the year 1S1:'>, when she was not husband's firm arm to lean upon. The death of 

(piile ele\<'ii years old. Her mother did not sur- -Mr. Woods caused considerable changes in the 

vi\"e lu-r father bnt a few yeai-s at best. Her home, besides his own ileparture. The home 

hrothcr-iniaw, Mann Hutler i who in after years in which she had so ioni; been a hajijiy wife and 

wrote a liistory of Kentucky ) became hei- ii'uai'dian mother was henc<'fortli lonely and full of sao 

]irior to 1814, and with him she lived a while in reminders of a jiast which conld never return. 

Frankfort or Louisville. Another brother-in-law, 'L-r indisjiosition gradually increased as the year 

;Mr. Johnson .Mahme, was occupying her father's wore on, and by the latter i>art of August it be- 

old home in 1818, and there she was nmrried to eame apparent to her friends that she was destined 

Janu's Harvey Woods August 1, 1818. She at very soon to follow her husband to the other world, 

once went with her husban<l to live in Harrijds- Her disease was called "congestive fever" by her 

burg, and there the renminder of lier life was daughter, Mary, who \\rote her obituary, but a 

fjp,»]it loved neighbor, who was present with her at the 

I'rom what some of her (dd friends have told the end, told (he writer (hat it was "congestion of the 

writer Mrs. >\' Is was beautiful as a youug wo- brain." Her death occurred August L'4, 18G0. She 

man, and she was certainly attractive even at fifty \vas wholly uuconseious for some time before the 

years of age. She was about as completely the end came, and gave no parting message to her loved 

opposite of her husliand as a woman eould well ones. But for those who knew and loved her, no 

be. He was quiet, reserved and solemn; she was rapturous death-bed e.\[)eriences were needed to 

vivacious, talkative, outspoken, and full of wit and assure them of her preparation for her change, 

fun. He was hundile, cared not a straw for mere That she died in the faith of Jesus Christ, and 

apjiearances, and had scarcely any wdrldly am- passed into glory whither her husband had pre- 

bition; she, on the other hand, was proud, am- ceded her, is one of the things about which her 

liitious, sensitive to imblic opinion, and deter- children and near friends had not a shadow of 

miiu'd to secure for all her children llie highest doubt. 



THE UEDMANS AND GUOCHES. 



jilaces she possibly could. He was always calm, 
self-poised, and slow to anger; she was easily 

rnme.l, excitable, and sometimes irritable. But '^^i'«- Woods's father was a Dedman, and her 

in som.. respects they were alike— both were de- m(.ther was a Miss Gooch, and a lirief account of 

voted Ciiristians, tench'r-h.'arted towards the poor the families of her parenls will now be given, 

and suffering, and completely in love with eacii The records of Louisa County, and especially 

other. Poor, themselves, their hearts went out to those of Albemarle County, \'irginia, furnish a 

others in need, and to minister to the sick and sor- good deal of infonnalion in regard to the families 

rowing was their delight. That she was the now to be treated of, but oidy the briefest reference 

str.uiger character of the two, and was mainly U) nuist of those records can here be made. In 



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THE ^VOOI>8-Mc•Al•EE MEMORIAL. 



1749 Saimiel Dodmaii, tlio father of Nathan Ded- 
man, bought a farm in Louisa County, but we 
liave no means of knowing where he bad liitlicrto 
resided. In March, ITfiO, Samuel and bis Avife 
Marv sold that farm and moved over into Albe- 
marle into what is known as llaii'iicd ^lountain, 
four miles southeast of Charlottesville. There they 
lived and reared a large family. There Samuel 
died in the year 1800, but bis wife survived him 
till 1819. The writer has visited their old home 
and seen where they were ))uried near the faiiiily 
residence. Samuel was evidently a prosi>erous 
man, if we may jiulge from the numerous pur- 
chases and sales of lands be made, and which the 
county records show to this day. His will, dated 
January 2, 1800, Avben be was probably nearly 
eighty years old, mentions lands, negroes, ready 
money, tobacco, etc., to be disposed of, and the in- 
ference is that he died possessed of a considerable 
estate. ATe have liood reason to believe that he 
was a Christian, and that he was connected with 
the Baptist Church. He seems to bave carried on 
a small distillery on bis farm, and found use for 
a tine punchbowl, mentioned in his will. In that 
day there were even ministers of the (lospel, not 
a feAv, who deemed it proper to brace their nerves 
occasionally Avith a toddy, and accordingly kept 
well-filled decanters on tlieir sideboards for all 
emergencies, great and small. 

The following children were mentioned by name 
in Samuel Dedmau's will, -Tauuary 2, 1800, to wit: 
(a) Jonx; (b) S.vjiuel, [Jit.]; Ici Richmond; 
(d) P.autelott; (e) N.vni.vx; (f) Dixox ; (g) 
S.vk.vh; (h) M.vry; (i) Srs.vxx.vii, and (j) 
Axx. Of some of these children we know almost 
nothing. 

(a) Of the first child, John, we can affirm noth- 
ing with entire certainty; but we know that in 
that same year (1800) a man of tbis name was a 
citizen of the adjoining county of Orange, and that 
John Everett, a son-in-law of Samuel, sold him 
some land, which land tbis John conveyed to one 
William Dedman, of Orange. 

(b) In 179G, four years prior to the death of 



Samuel, husband of Mary, we find a Samuel Ded- 
man executing a deed for land in the Ragged 
Mountain ; and as no Moman signed the deed as wife 
of the grantor,and the wife of Samuel the elder was 
living, we infer this grantor was Samuel, Jr., son 
of the testator of 1800. In 1808 there was a Sam- 
uel Dedman residing in Fleming County, Ken- 
tucky; and as we know Samuel, the testator of 
1800, bad a married daughter — .\nn. who married 
a Mr. Clack, and was living in that county in 1819 
— we infer that Samuel, Jr., son of the testator of 
that name, was this man, Mrs. Clack being liis 
sister. 

(c) Richmond Dedman was living in Montgom- 
ery County, Virginia, in 1819, and that year joined 
bis brothers-in-law, Sims, Everett, and Clack, and 
bis brother liartelott in a conveyance of some land 
to bis brother Dixon, of -Vlbemarle County, Vir- 
ginia. 

(d) Bartelott Dedman, Samuel's fourth child, 
was alive in 1819, and that year joined in the deed 
just referred to in the notice of his brother Rich- 
mond, but his place of residence is not given in 
the deed. His wife Avas named Betsy, and is so 
given in a mortgage be gave to one Xickolas in 
1797. He probably never migrated from Albe- 
marle. His name is, in some of the records, spelt 
Bartlett, and sometimes Bartelott, 

(e) Nathan Dedman, Avho was the father of Mi's. 
James Harvey Woods, was i)robably born in Louisa 
Cinintj-, A'irginia, about 1700-1765. In March, 
17S(), he was married to Elizabeth (looch. daughter 
of AVilliani and Lucy Cooch (see fac-siniile of bis 
marriage-bond (. In 1794 he migrated to Ver- 
sailles, Kentucky, where the renminder of his life 
was spent. His full name was no doubt Nathaniel, 
and for him his daughter Sarah, wife of James 
Harvey Woods, named one of her sons — Nathaniel 
Dedman Woods. The proper spelling of the Ded- 
man name, as we find it in many original docu- 
ments and most court records, is as here given, 
but now and then we find copyists spelling it 
"Deadman," by mistake. Nathan, whilst never a 
man of wealth, was undoid)tedly a man of some 




FORMER HOME Of- NATHAN DEDMAN, VERSAILLES, KY.. FROM i7g6 TO 1813. 
The frame ell was probably erected by Nathan Dedman about 1796. 



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estate, aud lived well. There was, iiudoiibtedly, 
a streak of family pri<le and aristocracy in both 
his family and that of his wife. When Nathan 
hronjiht his wife and several small children to Ken- 
tm:-ky it was still, for the most part, a wilderness, 
and all of it in qnite a primitive couditicm. Be- 
yond all reasonable donbt they came on pack- 
horses bv Cnmberland (Jap. \'ersailles had but 



linsliand. This marriage was an unhappy one, and 
a separation was the result. In 1848 Dixon Ded- 
man died. He seems always to have spelt his 
name "Dixon." but his brother Xathan named one 
of his sons for him. who preferred the spelling 
"Dickson." The writer met an tdd oentlemau in 
Charlottesville in 1875 who had known Dixon for 
nearly forty years, and he described him as a geu- 



receutly been laid out, aud probal)ly nnnd.ered only tleman of the most courtly manners and fastidious 
about twentv families at most. There were only taste. 



one hundred and seventy-two people residing there 
in 1800 — six years after his arrival. In Febru- 
ary, 171).j, Nathan purchased a towii-b.t (No. 42) 
at the coruer of :Morgan and AVater streets, and 
lots 113 and 115 on Morgan street, near Locust. 
On the first named lot he erected a frame dwell- 
ing house. In after years a brick addition Avas 
erected, and the frame portion of earlier date was 
set behind it as an ell to the new i.art. It was the 
first brick house ever built in ^'ersailles, as the 
author was informed in 1S!I5 by Judge Graves, 
one of the oldest citizens of the town. Whether 
Nathan Dednmn had the brick addition built or 
not can not be affirmed by the writer, but the 
Judge Graves just mentioned seemed to tliiuk such 
was the case. An excellent picture of the house as 
it appeared in 1895 will be found heicin. Here 
most of the children of Nathan and Elizabeth were 
l)orn. Here Nathan died about the close of the 
year 1813. His wife survived him only a few 
years. The old homestead was sold, finally, by 
his administrator and the numerous heirs about 
1820, aud the writer has the original deed, signed 



(g) The seventii child of Samuel and Mary Ded- 
mau was Sarah. Some time prior to 1781 she was 
married to a John Everett. It may be that for 
her Nathan named his daughter Saraii Everett 
Dedman, the present writer's mother. But it is 
perhaps more likely that Nathan's daughter was 
named in honor of a certain "Sally Everett" who 
married one Elijah Dedman in Albemarle County, 
Mrginia, Jantmry 19, 1802, just about eleven daj'S 
before Nathan's daughter was born. Who these 
people were we do not know, but tiiey were doubt- 
less near and dear friends, if not kinspeople, of the 
Dedmans. John Everett aud Sarah were citizens 
of Albemarle as late as 1800, but by 1810 they were 
living in what is now Cabell Cimnty, Virginia. 
Later on the children of this pair moved ou down 
into Kentucky, and some of their desceudauts now 
reside at Catlettsliuig. .Mount Sterling, aud Spring 
Station, Kentucky. Mrs. Laban Moore of the first 
named place, and Mrs. James Blackburn of tlie 
last, have kindly favored the author with some in- 
formation in regard to the Everetts. John and 
Sarah had seven children, as fidlows : 1, John 



by all the parties iu interest. A complete list of Everett, Jr. ; 2, Bichmond Everett; 3, Nathan 



his eleven children and a l)rief notice of each will 
be given on subsequent jiages. 

(f) The sixth child of Samuel numtioned in his 
will of 1800 was Dixon, who was one of his fath- 
er's executors. He seems never to have moved 
from Albemarle. He was twice married, but 
seems never to have had any children. His first 
wife was Sarah Buster, whom he nmrried iu 1785. 
In 1823 he married a widow, .Mrs. Sarah Drum- 
hellar, who had a family of children l)y her first 



Everett; 4, Samuel Dedman Evei'ett; 5, Peter 
Everett, and (0 and 7) two daughters whose 
names we could not learn. John Everett, Jr., mar- 
ried Sal lie \\'oodson, of Albemarle County, Vir- 
ginia, and one of his daughters was Sarah Everett 
who married Hon. Laban Moore, and iu 1895 was 
a widow of advanced age and residing at Catletts- 
burg, Kentucky. Mrs. James Blackburn, who iu 
1895 Avas living at Spring Station, Kentucky, was 



SKETCHES OF TATRONS. 



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a diiughtei' of Saimiol Dcdniau Everett, one of the 
sons of Jolin and Sarah above noted. 

I h I The eighth chihl of Samuel and Mary Ded- 
uiau was Mary, who in 1783 was married to John 
Simms. In 1819 she and her luisband were living 
in ^Montgomery County, Virginia. 

(jl Siisanuiih was the nintli child. In 17S4 she 
was married to Willijiiii S;unlrid<i-e. 



\Villiam Goorh and Lucy, his wife, left at least 
nine children, as follows: (a) Jessk Croorn; (b) 
Xiciior.AS L. Gooni; (c) Thomas W. Goocn; 
(di riiii.i.ii' Coocii; (e) M.vttitew Moore GoocH ; 
ffi Daiixkv C. Gooch; fg) William Goocii, Jr.; 
(li) Elizabeth Gooch, iind (j) :Martiia Gooch. 
A\lien the executors of ^Ailliam Gooch came to 
(lualify before the court, they were reijuired to 



(k) Ann Dedniau, the tenth child, was married give bond in the sum of |10,000, which would in- 



to Moses Clack (or Clock) in 1792. She was 
sometimes called Nancy. In 1819 she and her hus- 
band were residing in Fleming County, Kentucky. 
The mother of IMrs. James Harvey AVoods, as 
before noted, was Elizabetli (i(M»ch, the daughter 
of William and I^ucy ( Joocli, of Albemarle County, 
A'irginia. We have to depend almost exclusively 
on the Albemarle court records for information in 



dicate that the estate was one of considerable 
value. 

(a) Of Jesse, the tirst named of the children of 
William and Lucy, we know very little. When 
Xathan Dednuui died in Kentucky, in 1812, one of 
his assets Avas a Ixind Jesse Gooch had executed to 
him for the sum of .foOO. Perhaps Jesse had pur- 
chased liis sister Elizabeth's interest in her father's 



regard to this family. The tirst item is a deed of estate, and this bond was i)art of the price still 

1704 by which William Gooch ac<iuired a farm on unpaid. 

Hardware Iiiver, and as the word "Junior" is ap- (bi The second chihl to he mentioned in tliis 

pended to his nanu' we infer that his father was list was Nicholas L., thoinili he was probablv one 

also named William, and was then alive. Whether of the younger of the children of William and 

this family was related to Sir William Gooch who Lucy. In 179(i, when his father made his will lie 



was the Cobmial Governor of \'irginia while tliis 
William Gooch was a young man we do not know. 
William Gooch nmde his will in March, 1796, 
and was dead before the end of August, following. 
There is not a word in his will which would lead 
one to infer he was a devout man, and no refer- 
ence to the life beyond. It is a very cold, business- 
like document, devoid of all sentiment. Whilst 
we know he had a large family of children, of sons 
and daughters, he does not mention any of his 
daughtei's, and oulj- some of his sons. A deed 



was not yet through school. He was of full age bv 
1805, as he joins his lu'othei-s and sisters in a deed 
to one J((lni Niclioias. 

(c) Thomas W. Gooch, another of the sons of 
William and Lucy, is called simply "Tommy" in 
his father's will, but various records give his full 
name as above. His wife was named Namy. He 
made his will in 3838, and in it he mentions seven 
children by name, and he refers to the late Dr. 
Will. F. Gooch, of Ivy Depot, as "my nephew." 
Dr. Mm. V. Gooch married the daughter of Dab- 



executed by his widow six years after his death ney C. Gooch, a niece of Thomas W., and his first 
makes mention of at least four of his children to cousin. The Doctor had a brother, Claiborne 
whom no reference occurs in his will, and one of Gooch, who died in EichiiKtnd, Virginia, prior to 



the four was his own namesake, William, Jr. 
Here we have an example of the kind of will which 
was made by Michael Woods of Blair Park in 
1701, in which live of his children are not alluded 
to, one of them being his namesake, Jlichael, Jr. 
This mode of making a will is fully discussed in 
Chapter III of Part One of this work. 



the Civil AVar. William F. and Claiborne were 
probably sons of one of the brothers of Tliomas W., 
and grandson of William and Lucy. 

(dj Another of the sons of William and Lucy 
Gooch was Phillip. He was witness to deeds in 
177.'} and 1778, and in 180r> joined with other heirs 
of his late father in a deed to John Nicholas. 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



(e) ^[atthew Moore Ooooli Avas made one of his marie, and she ^vas a citizen of Versailles, Ken- 



father's executors in the will of ITUO, at which date 
he was a ])ractisini; lawyer in Charlottesville. He 
probably mijirated to Lexington, Kentucky, very 
soon after his father's death, for in September, 
1798, he attested at that place a i)ower-of-attorney 
which his brother William gave to Nicholas L. 
Gooch. In July, 1S07. he executed a ]»()\ver of at- 
torney, himself, to his brofhei' Dabney ('., and was 
then a citizen of Lexington, Kentucky. Xo doubt 
if he bad a family be was the ancestor of some of 
the Kentucky Gooches of this day. 



tucky. The only circumstance known to the writer 
which could cast any doubl up()n the supposition 
that Elizabeth was William's daughter is the fact 
that she is not known by him to have signed any 
documents in the settb'ment of William's estate, 
which could prove that she was one of his 
heirs. I!ut this fact might be explained by her 
having sold her interest to her brother, and some 
record of this nuiy now be fcmnd in the All)emarle 
County books. 

( j I ^lartha Gooch, another daughter of William 



(f) Dabney C. Gooch, another of the sons of and J>ucy was nuirried to William Thurmond 
A\'illiam and Lucy, was nol mentioned in his "December ye ith, 1787." The ■written request for 
father's will, but in ISU.j be joined other heirs of a license addressed to the county clerk for this 
William in a deed already often referred to. The marriage was signed by her father, William 
lady he married was named Elizabetli. Gooch, and by her biother-in-law Xathan Dedman. 

(g) William Gooch, Jr., was another of the The present writer has inspected the original docu- 
children whom bis father failed to refer t.) in his meut, and the signatures are both those of men 
will, but he was his son and namesake, neverthe- who Avrote well. She and lier husband signed the 
less, for Will Book Xo. 1 (page 0|, of the Albe- famous deed of 1805 by which seven of William's 
marie records, sho\\s that he was paid a legacy from children conveyed to one Nicludas their interest in 
the estate of William Gooch, his father. In 1798 their father's estate. 



he, like his brother Matthew, was a citizen of Lex- 
ington, Kentucky. The deed of 1805, already re- 
peatedly referred to, sliow s liim not only as a son 
of William and Lucy, lint as a married man whose 
wife was named Susan. 

(h) Elizabeth Gooch, who, in 178(j, became the 
wife of Xathan Dedman, is not mentioned in the 
will of William, but she was almost certainly his 
daughter, nevertheless. She had been living in 



Having given some account of the Dedman and 
Gooch families in "\'irginia, we will now return to 
Nathan Dednmn, of \'ersailles, Kentucky, and 
consider the large family of children which he and 
his wife Elizabeth reared. They had eleven chil- 
dren to wit: (a) John Di-:i)jiax, who was born in 
Virginia. ^larcb 1'2, 1787. and died in early in- 
fancy. 

tb) Martha Dkdman, the second child, was born 



Kentucky a couple of years when her father wrote in Virginia June 15, 1788. She was generally 



his will. When Nathan Dednmn executed his mar- 
riage bond, in March, 178(> la fac-simile of which 
ai)])ears in this vohnne), her father, William 
Gooch, signed it as the young man's surety. One 
of the assets left by Nathan Dedman in 1812 Avas 
a bond ( already referred to ) , for f500, executed by 
Jesse Gooch, son of AVilliam, and brother of Eliza- 
beth. I'ossibly Jesse had liought his sister Eliza- 
beth's interest in her father's estate, and had given 



called "Patsy." August 10, 1800, she was mar- 
ried to Mann lUitler, who wrote a history of Ken- 
tucky, and who was then a lawyer and living at 
Lexington. The father of Mann Butler was a 
native of England who came to ISaltimore in 1783. 
His mother was also English, her name being Mary 
Mann. Their son, Mann ( Edward Mann was his full 
Christian name, but in coui'se of time he dropped 
the "Edward,'' and wrote it simply Mann Butler), 



the said bond in part payment of the same. AVhen was born in Baltimoi"e, Maryland, July 22, 1781. 
their father died he Avas probably living in Albe- His father died there in 1787, and his mother re- 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. •^' < 

tumetl to Euglaiul with her infant son. For years Sarah E. Dednian Mas niai-riucT to James Harvey 

Mann attended schocd at Chelsea, En!;land ; bnt his Woods. Mis. :\Iah.ne died l.er..re 1S20, and he died 

mother liavinii' married a Caplain Lee, of lialti- in IS."). Tliey luid fniii- ( iiildrcii. 
more, in 1798, he accompanied liis stepfather and (d) LiCY (or LuciMU ) Dkdman, the fourth 

mother hack to America. He took tlie literary child, was born in Virginia February 26, 1792. 

(•(.urse at ( Jc'orii'etowii Co]!<"oe, ]). C.. and he also She was probably named for Lucy Gooch, her 

•ii-aduated from thence in both law and medicine, mother's mother. In ISll she was married to 

He be-;an to practise law in Lexiniitou, Kentucky, in Thomas Hardesty, of Danville, Kentucky. Tliey 

1S0('>, Imt llial prdfcssiitn was distast( ful In liim be- lived in Danville and Lawreuceburg, Kentucky; 

cause lie was udihiutiof an urator. He sunn turned Peoria, Illinois; and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 

hisaiuniiou to teaching, and afterwards (o editing at wliicli latter place :Mrs. Hardesty died in 1855. 

a newspaper. He moved rather freijiu-ntly, and This couple had twelve children, one of whom, a 

made several changes in bis vocation. In 1824 he daughter named Amanda, nmrried a ^Ir. Braden. 
went back to Lexington, iifter a residence of many (e) Am)E1!S()X DEroiAX, was born in Virginia 

years in Louisville and Frankfort, to accept the June 23, 179o, and when bnt a boy of ten years was 

chair of ^fathematics and Languages in Trausyl- accidentally killed by falling from a tree, 
vania Fnixcrsity. By 1827 he was back in Louis- if) Dickson Goocii Dei)M.\.x was the sixth child 

vitle, and began to prepare his History of Ken- of Nathan and Elizabeth, and was born in Ver- 

tiicky. He ])ublished tile first edition in is:',4, and sallies ]\[arch 17, 179.5. He was a young man of 

the second in 18:?(;. Hi ISll he uH)ved to St. Louis, most lovable and attractive character, and was 

^lissouri, and was afterwards elected to au ini- generally beloved. He enjoyed good school ad- 

portant city oflice, which he was holding when, in vantages as a boy, and slmlied medicine, takiuij 

185.5, he and a large number of iiromiueut men of the regular course in the ^ledical Department of 

St. Louis perished in the awful disaster at the Transylvania I'niversity, Lexington, graduating 

(iascimade IMver as the train bearing an ex- from thence about 1810. On the 2t>th of .July, 1818, 

cursion was (ui its way to .Telferson City to cele- he was married to a lady of a tine old Virginia 

iirate the opening of the first division of tlie Pa- family — ^liss Elizabeth Brown Wallace, a 

litic Ifailway, just comjdeted. Mrs. Butler onlv (biugliter of Captain William 15. AVallace, of Fal- 

lived al)ont one year after his sudden and shocking mouth, Mrgiuia. Befereiice to this branch of 

death. ;\Ir. and ^Mrs. Butler had thirteen children Wallaces and the probable close connect ion of it 

born to them, all but one or two of them now being with the one treated of in I'art I, Chapter Second, 

dea<l. Presiih'ut Roosevelt, in his Winning of the of this volume will be found in that part of this 

West, coiiipaies the several ])rominent histcn-ians work. Dr. Dedmau probably began his career as 

of Kentucky and pronounces Butler the most im- a physician in Lawreuceburg, Kentucky, about 

partial of them all. 1817, and there he spent the remainder of his life. 

(c) Mauy Ded.max was the third child of Na- He was eh'cled a ruling elder of the Lawreuceburg 

than and Elizabeth, and was born in Virginia Feb- Presbyterian Church August l:>, 1828, and this 

ruary 20, 1790. Like most Avomeu having that office he tilled with credit till his death. His home 

Christian name in that early day, she was faniil- was the glad abode of nearly all the visiting miii- 

iarly called "Polly." In 1808 she was married to isters of this church. In 1S27 he became one of 

Johns(m jMabme. She ami her husliaud and family the charter members of the Anderson Lodge, No. 

occupied the old Dedmau Inmiestead in \'ersailles 90, Free and Accepted ^Lisons, of which liody he 

for some years after both of ;Mrs. Malone's parents was the first Senior A\'ardeii, and several tiiiu's the 

had died, and tli(>y were living there in 1818 wlieu Mastei'. He had a pleasant old homestt^ad in Law- 




FORMER HOME OF DR. DICKSON GOOCH DEDMAN, LAWRENCEBURG. KY.. WHERE HE DIED IN 1S50. 



SKETCHES OF PATKONS. ^7^1 

rcncdtuvfi;, a picture of whidi w ill he foiiiKl licrcin. phiiic llickniiiii. Al llic nnilircak of tlic Civil War 

]Jr. J)('(liiiaii was twice iiiarrird. His lirst wife, in 1S(il Cus ciiiislcil in llic Conrcdcratc scrvico, 

already iiieni ioiied, died Ocfolier It), 1S4;5, leaving and was made ('a])lain of a company of Anderson 

several cliildren, fonr of whom lived 1o matnre <'onnty men. His company was atlaclied to that 

years. ]. One of the fonr was AVilliam Dedman, splendid body of soldiers, the Second Kentucky 

who was horn September IS, 1S24, and dieil in Infantry, commanded by Col. Roi^er Hanson. He 

ISSl. He was, like his father, a ]ihysician. He, served with his re^^iment failhfniiy until the I>at- 

also, was mai'ried twice. His tirsL wife was Fan- tie of ('i:ickaman;^a, when he was kiHed on (he 

nie -Mcl'.rayer, and his second a Miss Easly. field. 1! is remains, after reposinii for many years 

William Dedman left fonr sons and a dau<;hter. where tliey were inleri-ed by his comrades in arms, 

2. A second of the childi'en of I >r. Dickson Ded- were taken np and removed to the beantifnl 
man by his first wife was Henry Dedman, born cemetery of his native town, where they now rest. 
January 21, 1S2S. He became jt lawyef and He left but one son, \\illiam Dedman, who lives 
practised law in St. Louis. He married his first in the West. His widow married a .Mr. W'alkei-, 
cousin, .Mary :Malvina Butler, daughter of .Mann and is still livin;;-. 

Hutler and his .\nnt Patsy Dednuiu. He died in Hr. IHckson (1. Dedman, after remaiuini:; a 

ISdS, leavini; a widow and two dnuulilei-s. One widower for about six years, was married to a 

of his (lauj;hters was named .Martlia .\ileine, who widow, .Mrs. .Mary Sea, me .McPrayer, who had 

was called "P.irdie." She still lives in St. Louis. two sons by her former husband, to wit: .Vndrew, 

3. The third child of Dr. Dickson Dedman by his and lloberl. The only child bi)rn to Dr. Dedman 
first wife was named .Vnna Daviess Dedman, who and his last wife was a son, Charles .^L Dedman, 
was born July lo, 182!). Left motherless whi-n not who has been one of the original i)romoters of this 
fourteen years of age, her father idolized her, and publication, and who now resides at Harrodsburg, 
did all he could to make up for the loss she had Kentucky. Some account (d' himself and his moth- 
sustained in the death of her mother. She was an er"s family will be found in Sketch No. (i of this 
uncommonly beautiful and attractive young lady. volume. On the loth of April, Isr.O, Dr. Dedman 
.Vpril IT, IS.ll, she was married to a Doctor Wil- departed this life, and was buried in the ohl Wal- 
liam Twyman, who died in IS."):'. She remained lace burial-ground in the edge of Jjawrenceburg. 
a widow until June 4, IStil, when she was married (gj The seventh child of Nathan Dedman and 
to Kev. J. B. Harbison, a worthy minister of the his wife Elizabeth was Srs.v.xxAii Di:i>.m.\.\. who 
I'resbyterian Church, then living in Shelbyville, was born July 15, ITitl. She marritd \Villiam 
Kentucky. Soon after their marriage Mr. and Grimsley, and with him lived at Lebanon, Ken- 
Mrs. Harbison moved to Pleasant Hill, Missouri, tucky, St. Louis, ^Missouri, and .Vlton, Illinois. She 
There Mr. Harbison died in September, 1872, leav- left one daughter named Eleauora, who married 
ing one son and one daughter. Their son, Albert Caleb Stone; and another named Eliza Beverley, 
Harbison, was born in ISiio, and is now in busi-, who married Horatio McCIintock. 

ness in Kansas (Jit^-. Tlieir daughter. Miss Agm-s, (,hj The eighth child of Nathan and Elizabeth 

is living with her widowed mother in Pleasant Hill, was called Elois.v, and Eli/.v^ and Eliz.vbetu by 

^lissouri. 4. The fourth and last of the children dilferent persons and at dilferent times. She was 

left by Dr. Dickson O. Dedman was a son, James Itoru .March 18, ITU'J, and died at Mann P.utler"s 

Gustavus, who was born January 4, 18;M. He was home in Frankfort in 1821. 

universally known as "Cus Dedman.'' He was a (j) S.s.u.\u Eveuktt Dki>.m.\..\, the ninth child, 

most relined and courteous gentleman. He mar- was born January 30, 1802, an account of whom 

ried a m)ted beauty of Lawreuceburg, a Miss Jose- will be found on a i»receding page. 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



(k) Bartelett Samuel Dedman was l)orn 
Juue 8, 1S03, aud died a few weeks later. The 
family l?ible of his parents presents a confused 
record of this child's name, aud the writer is not 
sure he has given the same coi'rectly. 

(1) Julia Andeuson Dedman. tlie eleventh and 
last child of Nathan and Elizabeth, ^\as born Jan- 
uary 6, 1805 (possibly ISOO). On the 24th of 
March, 1824, she was married to a Mr. A\'illiam 
Tanner. She and her sister Sarah were deeply 
attached to each r)ther. :Mrs. Tanner had but two 
children, and died two mouths after the second one 
was born, April 20, 1829. Her first child, William 
Atticus, was born in 1825, and died in 1848. The sec- 
oud, Julia Butler, born February 23, 1821>, married 
a Mr. McChesney, of Frankfort, who died in St. 
Louis in 1852. Mr. Tanner, after the death of his 
first wife, married a .second, by whom he had a 
daughter, Isadore, and a son, John. During the 
Civil War Mr. Tanner was at the head of the tele- 
graph system of the Confedei'acy, and lived in 
Mobile, Alabama. 

THE CHILDREN OF JAMES HARVEY WOODS 
BY HIS WIFE SARAH EVERETT, nee 
DEDMAN. 

(a) Samuel Dicksox AVoohs. 

(b) Elizabeth Hannah Woods. 

(c) AV'illiam Harvey Woous. 
(,d) Tiio>L\s Cleland ^^'o()I)S. 

(e) Nathaniel Dedman Woods. 

(f) Mary McAfee Woods. 

(g) Butler "Woods. 

(h) Alice Butler Woods. 

(j ) Charles Walker Woods. 

(k) Edward Payson Woods. 

(1 I Fannie Everett Woods. 

(m) Neander Montgomery Woods. 

(a) Samuel Dickson^ the first child, was boru 
May 19, 1819, at v/hich time his aged great-grand- 
father, Samuel Woods, Sr., was living with Harvey 
and Sarah in Harrodsburg, and for him, doubtless, 
the baby got part of his Christian name. The 
name ''Dickson" was given, we feel sure, in honor 
of his mother's brother, Dr. Dickson Dedman, of 



Lawrenceburg. This first-bcu-n child of Harvey 
and Sarah died in June, 182(>, when only a little 
past seven years of age, the same year in which 
passed away the old Revolutionary veteran whose 
first name he bore. 

(b) Elizabeth Hannah, the second child, who 
has two daughters and a granddaughter among the 
original patrons of this work, will be considered in 
Sketches 81, 82 and 83, to which the reader is re- 
ferred. 

(c) ^^■ILTJAM Harvey, the third child, is repre- 
sented among the original patrons of this work in 
Sketch 84, to which the reader is referred. 

(d) TiiOM.vs Cleland. the foiirth child, has two 
sons, who are among the original i)atrons of this 
work, aud in their sketches (87 and 88) an ac- 
count of him will be found. 

(e) Nathaniel Dedman. the fifth child, was 
bom in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Jlay 20, 1829. In 
1844, when a boy of fifteen, he confessed Christ 
and united with tlie Presbyterian Church. He 
received his scholastic training at Bacon College, 
Harrodsbui'g, aud concluded his course there in 
1849. For a while he was a clerk in the drug and 
book store of Mr. James A. Curry, in his native 
town. In 1851 or 1852 he entered the Law School 
of Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, 
from which institution he was graduated with dis- 
tinction in 1854. In December, 1854, he was mar- 
ried to ^liss Susan Doneghy, of Danville, Ken- 
tucky, daughter of James and Lucy T. Doneghy. 
Miss Doneghy was a lady of culture, and her family 
was prominent and wealthy. After practising law 
for a few years Nathaniel moved to Missouri with 
his brotlier-iu-law, Mr. James ^I. Jones, purchased 
a farm, aud abandoned the legal profession. This 
move was probably prompted by the fact that his 
wife had inherited from her father a large number 
of slaves. Then there was just at that time in 
progress a very extensive migration of Kentuck- 
ians to the splendid virgin prairies of Missouri. 
His new home was in Saline County, within sight 
of the Pettus County line, and near the Longwood 
neighborhood. Here Nathaniel prospered until, 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. 3«1 

duriiiii' llic <'ivil War, his slaves were set free by devoted and lia|i|iil\ mated coiiiile (liaii he and 



the I'^Mh-ral (loveriuiieiit, and the \vh(>k> system of 
domestic and farm hih(n" was radieally altered and 
demoralized. After seA-eral years of unsuccessful 
effort to cojie with the new conditions thus created 
he sold ont his farm, and in the fall of 18()8 settled 
at Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he hoped to re- 
sume his fcn-mer profession — that of the law — hut 
linding this nnderlaking one full of dilTienlties 
after eleven years of farming experience, he em- 



his wife tile wrilei' 1ias nevei- known. 

If) Mai;v Mc.\ii;k. the sixth child, had a 
daughter (now deceased), who was one of the 
original patrons of this work, and in her sketch 
(No. St)) an account of liolh the mother and her 
daughter will be found. 

(g) Hi;tli;i!, the seventh child, was born .May 
22, 18:>4, and lived but two months. Mann l.utler, 
the Kentucky historian, who was the uncle-in law 



braced an opportunity of engaging in the drug of this little baby boy, was just issuing the first 

Itusiness at the town of Salem, Sebastian County, edition of his history, and the name Butler was 

Arkansas, where foi- many years he resided. Later undoubtedly liestowed by his parents in honor of 

on, he followed his sons into the Indian Territory, J^Ii'- I'utler. 



and finally setthMl at Webber's l-^alls. '{'here his 
wife died ]May 7, ISIH, and lie followed her Novem- 
ber 17, of that year, being sixty-eight and a lialf 
years old. Nathaniel and Susan had three chil- 
dren, as follows: 1, Grace Southern, born Novem- 
ber 28, 1855, and died August Ki, ISitl, unmar- 
ried ; 2, Nathaniel Dedmau, Jr., of whom we shall 
sjieak presently; and 3, Eugene Templetcm, born 
January 2(1, lS(;i), and died August Ki, 18114. The 
second child, Nathaniel 1)., was born October 11, 
1857, in ^lissouri. In July, 1893, he was married 
to jMiss Irene Ora (Jaar, of Newton County, 
^Iississi])pi, by whom he has had two cliiblren, to 
wit: »S'»(', liorn July 2, 1897; and Leo Bennett; 
born August 12, 1899, and died February 1, 1901. 
]Sathaniel, Jr.. studied medicine at the Medical 



(h) Aijci: UuTLKU was the eighth child, born 
Septemlier 5, 1835. In her name, also, it was no 
doubt hoped by her parents to honor Mann Butler, 
but her life was even briefer than that of the baby 
brother who preceded her — she lived but two 
weeks. 

(j) Charles Walker^ the ninth child, Avas born 
June 2, 1837. lie was named for a ]Mr. Walker, of 
Ilarrodsburg, a, warm friend of his father. He 
received a good classical education at Bacon Col- 
lege — then in its last days — and at a classical 
seminary conducted by a Professor Hatch. After 
leaving school he engaged in teaching for a num- 
]>er of years. He taught a school in his native 
couuty, in the Salt Kiver Settlement, one in Green 
County, Kentucky, and one in ^Missouri, near the 
home of his brother, Nathaniel D. Woods. While 



College of Louisville, Kentucky, and has j>ractised 

his profession at A\-ebbers Falls, Indian Territory, ti-aching he read law, having the legal profession 

, , ■ -, 1 , 1 1 oi, <^i« .. ; ill view. ^Vhen his father died, earlv in 1800, he 

where he now resides, and wliere lie holds the ])osi- ' • ' 

returned to Ilarrodsburg to be with his now wid- 
owed mother, and at once opened a law-office. The 
death of his mother in .Vugust of that year, and 
the removal of his younger sister (Fannie) to the 
home of her brother, Rev. William H. Woods, at 
(Jreensburg, Kentucky, broke up the home entirely, 
his two younger brothers (Edward and Neander i 
having ])reviously gone from their native town to 
reside. 

Charles was naturally of poetic tem])ei"iiiien1 



tiou of United States Postmaster. Nathaniel D. 
^^'oods, Senior, was one of the most poi)ular young 
m(!n e\"er reared in Ilarrodslnirg, and was a favor- 
ite in all the circles in which he moved. He was 
a IM-esbylerian all his life, and died in the faith of 
.lesus Chiisl. His was, in a Aery marked degree, 
a life of sorrow and peculiar trials; but he liore 
iiji bra\('ly, held fast to his religion, and set a 
worthy examjile of fortitude and Chi'istian con- 



sistency for all who knew of his career. A more and decided literary tastes; and within certain lim- 



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THE WOODSMcAFEE MEMORIAL. 



its he was a youiii!; man of extensive culture. He 
wrote a jiood many little ])i>enis for various news- 
]i:i])('rs, ;ni(l s](ciil iiiiicli lime in reading:: standard 
authors. He confessed Christ and united with the 
Preshyteriau Church in 1854, when about seven- 
teen; hut, after he yrew up and left home, he he- 
came careless in rcinard to his religious vows, and 
the last few years of his life were nuirked by much 
inconsistency, thoujih there is good reason for say- 
ing tliat he never entirely gave up his faith, or 
utterly lost his hold on the godly teachings of his 
parents; and when the end of life drew near he 
gave good assurance to the loved ones about him 
that he Avas a penitent believer. 

When the C'wW War opened in the spring of 
18t;i, it fouml him witli all his sympathies on the 
side of the South. He was just twenty-four, and 
a young man of vigorous, athletic frame, and 
]«)ssessed of the V(n-y (|na]ities of mind and body 
reipiisite to an efficient soldier, lie closed up his 
law-ottice at Harrodsburg in July, ISfil, and pro- 
cee<l('d to Xortliwestern Arkansas to join the com- 
mand of Sterling Price and Ben ^IcCulloch. He 
enlisted as a jirivate in the Second Arkansas 
Mounted Kitlemen, Col. James Mcintosh com- 
manding. He took an active part in the Battle of 
Wilson's Creek |()ak Ililli August 10, 1801, iu 
which General Lyou ( Federal ) was killed and the 
army he and Siegel commanded was routed. From 
the tenth of October, 18(;i, up to the very day be- 
fore he received his fatal wound at Stones River, 
at the close of 18G2, he kept a diary iu which the 
principal events of his life were recorded. That 
little diary is now in the possession of the author 
of tills volume, and it contains a pretty full histoiy 
of his regiment for the period mentioned. The 
spelling and i)unctuation to be found in this diary 
are almost faultless; and the classical allusions 
and quotations reveal a degree of culture rarely 
seen iu one of his age, due allowance being made 
for the fact that lie wrote in camp, far i-emoved 
from books ami the various llieiarv heljis so es- 
sential to accuracy in composition. In this diary 
we see clearlv revealed his fond">ss for natural 



scenery, and close observation of its varied forms 
and phases; his decided admiration for the fair 
.'<ex, and delight in the c(im])aiiy of ladies; his keen 
sense of humor, and his readiness to discern the 
amusing and ridiculous situations of life; and, 
tinally, the enthusiasm and dauntlessuess with 
which he faced the real perils of war. lie was in 
the battle of Pea Kidge, Arkansas, so disastrous 
to the Confederates, wiiere both McCulloch and 
Mcintosh were killed; and these losses deeply dis- 
tressed Charlie, as his diary shows. In the spring 
of 18(;2 his command was transferred to the east 
of the Mississippi, with ^'an Dorn's command. 
About that time he was made adjutant of his 
regiment, a position he held w itli credit till shot 
down at Stones River. He was in the Kentucky 
campaign of Jidy-October, 18(!2, under Kirby 
Smith. He was in the Battle of Richmond, Ken- 
tucky, August 30, 18(52, and marched to near Cov- 
ington, but his connnand was not at Perryville 
(October 8). Towards the close of December, 
1802, he gives, in his diary, detailed accounts of 
the preliminary movements which led up to the 
great coutiict near Murfreesboro, Tennessee 
(Stoues River I. In that battle Lieutenant-Colonel 
J. A. ^A'illiamsou commanded tlie Second Arkansas 
Regiment (of which Charlie was Adjutant), and it 
was part of the brigade commanded by Brigadier- 
General Evauder McXair. The Brigades of Mc- 
Xair, Ector and Raines made up the Division of 
Majtu-General J. P. McCow n. This Division re- 
pcn-ted ftu' duty 4,414 men Wednesday morning, 
Decemlier 31, and lost, in killed and wounded, 1)02 
men — about twenty-two per cent of the whole. 
Opposed to this Division was that of Major-Gen- 
eral McCook (Federal l, which was attacked as 
so(m as it was light enough to see Avell, on Wed- 
nesday morning, December 31. It was in this first 
attack of "N^'ednesday, the thirty-first, that Charlie 
fell. :McXair's Brigade was in line of battle all 
day Tuesday, and also all of Tuesday night. The 
two armies were now within a few hundred yards 
of each other, and the fearful carnage was alxmt 
to begin. ^IcXair and Ector were destined to 



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383 



open tlio battle early next iiiKi'iiinii \i\ diarizing the 
si\'-i;nn liattevy winch ^McCddk was to locate 
aiiiouii- the cedars on the Overall I'anii. Tlie last 
Hues Charlie ever pencilled in his little diary were 
written early Tnesday niorninii'. wlien the men 
were fully expectiuf; to ij-o into hattle tliat day. 
Ihoujuh the battle did not really bejiiu till uext 
niorniuii:. These were his last written win'ds: 
"Deceudjer 30th, On the lines id the fnmt and left 
of INfurf. — Last nijilit we lay in line of battle. taU- 
iuii' a scatteriufi' rain. This niorninji' the clouds 
are breakinii', and the suu shines at intervals. Xo 
tirinii' as yet. To-day the Feds will either iict into 
a licncral eni^aiiciiient or will have to retii-e. ^^'e 
feel ready for them, and if they take their supju'r in 
^Inrf. many a Kebel will lie on these corn and 
cotton tields \\rapt in his last slec])." 



them with shell and lirajie and the infantry of 
^IcCook chimed in. The battery was captured, 
and ]\reC'o<ik's Division was forced back in retreat 
for three i|nari('rs of a mil<-. This lloseorans ad- 
mitted in his rejioi't of the battle. It was in the 
early jiart of lliis charge that Charlie fell, a min- 
nie ball havinj^' passed clear through liis body, 
coniini; out Ity his s]iine. I>leedinii and helpless, 
lie was tenderly borne from the ticdd b\- his old 
friend, Tom lOdwards, and his days of Avarfare 
were forever ( uded. T>ater he was removed to a 
Federal hospital at Nash\ille; and. as his case 
seemed des])erale, his brother Tom j;dt permission 
to remo\'e him to his own home at Lebanon, Ken- 
tucky, where, aftei- a Imni' and most painful illness, 
durin;L: which his wound never heale<l, he died of 
sheer exhaustion. Au"ust 12, 180:5. In Vohnne 2(t 



In 1899 a map of this bloody field was published of "The War of the IJebellion," published by the 

by the ''Stones River Battlefield and National U. S. Governnu'nt, Series T, page 950, we find the 

Park Association," which indicates jiretty clearly folbiwiny otticial i-eport fi'om Lieutenant-<"o]on(l 

the position of all the various (•(munands of both Williamson of the Second Arkansas ^Mounted 

the opposinji' armies for Deeeniber 30 and 31. Riflemen, on the events of Wednesday, December 

With this map in hand the present writer carefully 31: "I regret to report that Adjutant C. W. 

ins])ected the nun-e important localities of tlu^ area Woods was dangeronsly wounded in the first en- 



traversed by the two contending armies. The jdace 
where Charlie fell can be located with reasonable 
certainty within one or two hundred yards. 
Tuesday ilcXair's Brigade lay in line of battle at 
a point one thousand feet to the west of Stones 
River, and about three hundred feet to the south 
of the ;Murfreesb(U'o and Fraidcjin pike. Early 
AW'dnesday morning — as soon as it was light 
enough to see distinctly objects at a little distance 
— McNaii"'s Brigade, under orders, moved a few 
hundred feet to the westward. This move brought 
3IcNair close up to Ect<u-"s Brigade, and also not 
far frcun Raines's Brigade. (Jeneral ]McCook had a 
battery of six guns posted in the cedars a few hun- 
dred vards further west on the Overall I'^arm. 



gagement in the morning, an<l I was thus deprived 
of his valuable services for the renuiinder of the 
day." 

That last, long illness, in sjiite of a devoted 
brother's every effort, resulted in Charlie's death 
soon after he had passed his twenty-sixth year. 
But that ilhu'ss had its blessed compensation — it 
was one means, under God, of causing this way- 
ward young Christian to realize how far he had 
been wandei'ing from his Heavenly Father. It 
emibled him to look sei-iously at the everlasting 
issues of the life we live on this earth, and gave 
him ample leisure in which to confess his sins and 
seek forgiveness anew. He told his brother, as he 
fullv saw death was near, that he could now thank 



Now came the order to McXair and Ector to Cod for having spared him the need of going back 

charge that battery, which they did most gallantly to meet the temptations of army life, and he died 

on the double-i|uick. McCook's infantry were at in the hope of ]>ardon and life eternal throngh 

luind to su[)port the six gnus. As .McNair and Jesus Christ, the Lord. 
Ector advanced rapidly the battery opened on (k) EDw.vjj^twsoN, the tenth child, was born 



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THE WOODS-lIcAFEE MEMORIAL. 



Feln'uary 7, 1840. From early childliood lie gave 
evidence of religious seriousness; and in 18.")2, 
when but twelve years old, he was received into 
full communion in tlic Presbyterian Church. He 
was always a studious hoy and fond of his books, 
and obedient to his parents and teachers. There 
were also some little iteculiarities of disposition 
wliicli made him to differ in some respects from 
the normal boy. He attended Centre College, Dan- 
ville, and was graduated from that institution in 
1858, when oidy about eighteen years of age. He 
engaged in teaching school and in colportage for 
a time in order to enable him to take a regular 
course in divinity, he having dedicated himself To 
the work of the (Jospel ministry. After a year or 
two he entered Danville Thcfdogical Seminary to 
l)r('i)are for what he deemed his God-appointed 
Itrofession. Hut his Avell-meant plans were doomed 
to disa]»pi>intment ; for whih' at the Seminary, in 
18G1-2, he developed melancholia and decided 
symptoms of mental disturbance; and after a time 
it became manifest to his loved ones that h(> was 
incapable of further study. He died in the 
Asylum for the Insane at Lexington in 1877, of 
typhoid fevei-, in his thirty-eighth year. 

(1) F.vxxiE EvKUETT, the eleventh child, was 
born June 1, ISll'. She received her education 
mainly at the Tresbyterian Female College, Ilar- 
rodsburg. She also studied under her brother, the 
l{ev. AVilliaiii 11. AVoods, while he Avas conducting 
a female seminary at Greeusburg, Kentucky. In 
ls.")4, ^\■])(^u a girl of twelve years, she confessed 
Christ in the rresl)yterian Church. Brought, 
early in lier girlhood days, under the influence of 
a very lovely Christian lady who was an Episco- 
palian, Fannie became interested in her friend's 
church, gave up the church of her ]>arents, and 
was in due time received into the Episcojial fold. 
It woidd be difficult, lioA\-ever, to find a nature less 
suited than was hers to the form of faith and 
worship wliicli ]>revails, in the Episcopal Church; 
and in a few years after she had moved away from 
her childhood home, and had gotten beyond those 
influences which bad controlled her at home, she 



united with the Southern Methodist Church, in 
Franklin, Kentucky, where she was at the time re- 
siding. The fervor of the Methodists seemed bet- 
ter suited to her nature than anything she had yet 
known, and fi-oni that day to this .she has been a 
Methodist. 

After the death of her mother (in .Vugust, 1800), 
Fannie made her home with her brother William, 
who was then carrying on his female seminary at 
(!r(.'ensburg, Kentucky. Here she formed a lik- 
ing for the profession of teaching — a vocation she 
has followed continuously since the year 18G1, ex- 
cept during the ten years she was a married wo- 
man. 

As a teacher she has not been content with 
nu'rely instructing the mind with secular truth; 
her great aim has been to reach the hearts and 
consciences of her puijils with the saving truths 
(tf religion. Having, years ago, embraced that 
phase of perfectionism represented by the modern 
H<diness Movement, she has felt called on to in- 
culcate her views in the school-room. Her work 
as a teacher has been done in Kentucky and 
Arkansas, and more recently in Texas, where she 
now resides. 

\\'heu her brother William settled in Franklin, 
Kentucky, in 18<;0, and there opened a school, and 
took charge of the Presbyterian Church, Fannie 
accompanied him. and soon became identified with 
lliat ccmuiiiuity. AA'hile there she met Napoleon 
P.. Suddartli. M. |)., a leading ])hysician of Frank- 
lin, \\]\o was a widower, with two little girls by his 
first wife. Dr. Smhbirth was an able and success- 
ful physician, and a gentlenuin of winning char- 
acter. She A\as married to him December 28, 1863. 
By him she had seven children, to wit: 1, Xeander. 
who was born Decend)er '2(\, 18(>4; 2, Charley, who 
was born November 26, 1865; ■^, Beulah ^IcAfee, 
who was born October 26, 1866; 4, Howard LaRue, 
who was born December 28, 1867; 5, Lena Wick- 
ware, who was born December 2.5, 1869; (», Twy- 
man Hogue, who was born .Vpril 17, 1872, and 7, 
lleber N. B., who was born A])ril 22, 1873. Of 
these seven children four died within less than ten 



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385 



(l;i\s III Ihcir liirH:, :iiiil Iwo otlicrs died iiiidcr ton 
Toars of age. The only one wlio i^row to mature 
years was Howard, tlio fonrlli child. Dr. Sud- 
darlli died a martyr to liis jtrofcssion on the lirst 
day of .July, 1.S78. The community was at the 
time icrrilily sullVrlMg from a visitation of the 
cholera, and he stood loyally at his post, visitinijj, 
as called upon, the licli and the poor of ])oth the 
white and coloi-ed race. He contracted the dis- 
ease while attendini; a negro woman, and died 
after an illness of only twenty-four hours. 

Left a widow with three little children, and not 
having means sulticient to enable her to live with- 
out engaging in some kind of work, she resumed 
her jiKofession as a school teacher, which she had 
not followed for ten years, and has continued in 
this vocation to the ]ireseiit time. She now has a 
school in Texas. 

(in") Xe.vxdku ;M()XT(;omi;i!Y. the twelfth and 
last child of James Harvey and Sarah Everett 
Woods, wiir be ccmsidered under Sketch No. 90, 
(which see). 

SKETCH 8i. 

MRS. ADNE TAYLOR, GREENSBURG, KENTUCKY. 

Mrs. Taylor's full maiden name was Ariadne B. 
Mitchell. ^' She was the first child of Basil B. 
Mitchell by his wife Elizabeth Hannah, ncc Woods, 
and was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, July 30, 



bylerian ('liiircli under the ministry of 1 >r. Thomas 
Cleland. I'rom I lie late Mrs. :Mary Eliza Moore, 
)i(r Tioberlsoii, who was a schoolmate of Eliza- 
beth's, and a b((som friend, we learn that she was 
a most attractive and lovable girl, and very fond 
of reading. She had a good mind, and re<-eived as 
good an education, no doubt, as was to be enjoyed 
in her nali\c town in that early day. She was 
noted for her amiabiiiiy ami piety. On the first 
day of Seplemliei-, ISJI, she was married to B.asil 
r.. .Mitchell, and she lived with him happily till 
his death, February 10, 1846, nearly five and a half 
years. :Mr. :Mitchell was a merchant in Harrods- 
burg up to the time of his death. After she was 
left a widow, Elizabeth ■.\m\ her two little girls 
boarded at Mr. Sam P>unton"s for a time, but later 
on she moved out a few miles into the country to 
a farm she had iidierited from her late husband, 
and this farm she carried on at least one season, 
or longer, very successfully. Her late husband's 
mother made her home with her on the farm. By 
the year 1S4S she was making her home with her 
uncle. Dr. Dickson (1. Dedman, in Lawrenceburg, 
Kentucky, and engaged in conducting a school 
there. On the sixteenth of October, 1840, she was 
married to ^Nfr. James ;\r. Jones, a widower with 
one son by a former wife — John Sanford Jones. 
Mr. Jones's first wife was a Miss Woods, a distant 



1842. Before speaking further of her, a l)rief relative of hers, a grand-daughter of David Woods, 



notice of her parents will be given. Her father, 
Basil Bard Mitchell, was born June 10, 1810, and 
died February 10, 184(i, in his thirty-sixth year. 
He had nmi'ried Elizabeth Hannah Wot)ds Sep- 
temlier 1, 1841, and liy hei' had had two children, 
as follows: (a) Aki.\I)XE B., who was born, as 



and a grand niece of Samuel \Voods, Sr., the Kevo- 
lutiinmry veteran, who died in 182(1, at the home 
of Elizal)eth's parents. .Mr. Jones lived on his 
farm four miles east of Harrodsburg, where the 
town of Burgin now is, and there Elizabeth lived 
the few renmining years of her life. By Mr. Jones 



above stated, July 30, 1842; and (b) Viiu;ini.\ she had a daughter named P^lizabeth Everett, born 

W.M.L.ui:, who was born January 14, 1844. For December 7, IS.")!). She was called "Evie'' by the 

an account of the latter, see Sketch 83. family. This daughter, after making her Innne for 

Elizabeth Hannaii Woods, the second child of about eiglit years with her grandmother, :Mrs. 

James Harvey and Sarah Everett Woods, was born James Harvey AVoods, was taken by Mr. Jones to 

in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, ilay 1, 1821. On the his :Missouri bonu', he having nmrried a third wife. 

twenty-fourth of August, 1834, when in her four- .Mrs. AV Is liad died in August, 18110. Evie grew 

teenth year, she confessed Christ before men and to maturity, and became a bright and lovely young 

was received into the full communion of the Pres- woman. She was graduated from the Columbia, 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMOKIAL. 



Missouri, Feiuale College in June, 1871; and on 
returning to her father's home, in Pettus County, 
■was under an engagement to return to that in- 
stitution in the fall as a teacher, but she very 
shortly after contracted typhoid fever, and her 
promising young life was cut short by death 
August 23, 1871. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Jones lived only about a year and 
a half after the birth of her daughter, Evie. She 
died September 1, 1852, about the time of the birth 
of the second child she bore to her second husband. 
This last named child only lived a short time. Her 
body was laid to rest beside that of her first hus- 
band, Mr. Mitchell, in New Providence Church- 
yard, only about a hundred yards west of the spot 
in which the remains of her parents were de- 
posited in August, 1860. 

Adne Mitchell and her sister, Virgie, after their 
mother's death in 18.52, went to Green County, 
Kentucky, to live with their uncle, the Kev. 
William H. Woods, who was teaching a school 
there. In 1854 Mr. Woods moved to the county- 
seat, Greensburg, and began a female boarding 
school, which he maintained for many years. When 
Mr. Woods moved from Greensburg to Franklin, 
Kentucky, Adne went to the Stuart and Keed Fe- 
male College, at Shelbyville, and from that institu- 
tion she was graduated about 1861. Her sister Virgie 
did not enjoy good health about this time, and she 
did not complete the full course with Adne. When 
Rev. jMr. Woods, their uncle, returned to Greens- 
burg in the fall of 1861, Adne and Virgie went 
with him. On the eighteenth of June, 1863, Adne 
was married to Col. Aylett Buckner Taylor. Col. 
Taylor was born August 26, 1831. Six children 
were the fruit of this union, to wit : 

(a) Thomas Wallace Taylor, the first child, 
was born April 29, 1864. Thomas married Miss 
Flora Alma Buchanan October 15, 1889, and this 
couple have had the following children, to wit : 1, 
Nellie, who was born September 10, 1890 ; 2, Mary 
Louise, who was born June 12, 1892. 

(b) Elizabeth Winn Taylor, second child of 



Aylett and Adne, was born February 8, 1867, and 
will be considered in Sketch 82. 

(c) Basil Mitchell Tayloe, the third child, 
was born November 5, 1869. He studied medi- 
cine, and after his graduation began practice in 
Greensburg, Kentucky, where he now lives, being 
considered the leading physician of his county. 

(d) Sarah Francis Taylor, the fourth child, 
was born August 28, 1872, and several years ago 
married a Mr. Buchanan. 

(e) William Woods Taylor^ the fifth child, was 
born July 11, 1877. He studied dentistry, and 
after his graduation in Louisville he opened an 
office in Gi'eeiisburg, where he already enjoys a 
lucrative practice. 

(f) Virginia Everett Taylor, the sixth and 
last child of Aylett and Adne Taylor was born 
March 11, 1883. She attended school at Belle- 
wood Seminary, Kentucky, and was graduated 
from thence with distinction in June, 1902. She 
is at present (1904) a member of the faculty of 
Caldwell College, Danville, Kentucky. 

Mrs. Adne Taylor has for some years made her 
home in Greensburg, Kentucky, with her three un- 
married children. She has from her childhood 
been a consistent member of the Presbyterian 
Church, and commands the universal confidence 
and esteem of those who know her. 

Col. Aylette Buckuer Taylor was born in Greens- 
burg, Kentucky, August 20, 1832, and there he 
w as reared. He carried on a farm about six miles 
from Greensburg and the same distance from 
Campbellsville, until the close of ISSO, when he 
moved to a farm on Green River a few miles nearer 
the town of Greensburg. Here he lived until his 
death, March 16, 1897. He was twice married, his 
first wife being a Miss Williams, to whom he was 
married September 15, 1853. He was married to 
Ariadne B. Mitchell June 18, 1863. He was for 
many years a ruling elder of Bethel Presbyterian 
Church, and was loved and honored as a man of 
sterling Christian character. He was in his 
sixty-seventh year at the time of his death. His 
father was a practising physician — Dr. Richard 



SKETCnES OF PATRONS. 



:187 



Avlcltc Tiiylor, of ('ii-cciislmrL;-, Ki-nfuck.v. Dr. 
Taylor's wife was (lie widow of a Dr. dray, her 
niaidrn name bi'iny Callu'rinc Byrd A\'iini. She 
was born Fchrnary 22, 17!)."). and died Septondier 
14, 1S40. TIk" fallicr of Dr. llicliard A. Taylor was 
•Toliii Yoniii!; Taylor, who was born January 11, 
17()."). canK' to (trcensburij; from Faucjuier County, 
Niriiinia, about the year 1S(L', and <liwl October 6, 
184"). His wife was Catherine Buckner, born 
April 19, 1773, and died April 10, 1849. She was 
a si-ster of .Tiidge Buctuer, of Greensburg, and an 
aunt of Judge Buokuer, of Lexington, Kentucky. 
The father of the afoi'esaid John Young Taylor 
was Eichard Taylor, who came from England to 
Virginia, and married a iliss Aylette. 

SKETCH 82. 
MRS. A. \V. CRAWFORD, HEREFORD, TEXAS. 

ifrs. Crawford's full maiden name was Elizabeth 
Winn Taylor, and, as shown in the preceding 
sketch, was the second child of Col. Aylette B. 
Taylor and his second wife, Ariadne B., iicc 
^litchell. She was born February 8, 1867. She 
was educated at a school taught near her native 
place at Bethel Church, and at Borne Female Col- 
lege (lS8.~)-7), Borne, C.eorgia. On the l.")th of 
October, 1889, she was married to Rev. A. W. 
Crawford by whom she has had the following chil- 
dren : (a) AuNi-: Mitchell Ckawfoud; (b) Iuvixe 
Cuak; CuAwroitu; (o Roiucut Tavlou Cuawfoud; 
(d) Lawkenx'e Cuawfoud; and (ei .M.\I!(;.\1!ET 
Ckawford. 

Rev. Alexander AA'arwick Crawford was born at 
Dunmore, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, Sep- 
tember 15, 1857. He was reared in Louisville, 
Kentuck}', and was educated in the public schools 
of that city. He chose the ministry of tli(> Gospel 
as his life-work, and received bis theological train- 
ing at Union Theological Seminary, Virginia, in 
1884-87. On the 1.3tli of May, 1887, he was duly 
licensed to jireach by the Presbytery of Transyl- 
vania, at Stanford, Kentucky. He was called 
to the pastorate of Bethel Presbyterian Church, 
Taylor Count}', Kentucky, and was ordained to 



the full work of the ministry by Transylvania 
Pi'esbylciy in <liat cliurcli on (he 16th of July, 
1887. He was inshilled pastor of Bethel Church 
and of the church at Campbellsville, which 
ihurches he served until December, 1890. From 
-May, 1891, till October. 1898, he was pastor of 
Woodlawn Church, ISirmiugham, .Mabama. There 
his health was so poor that lie remained but a 
few mouths, and in Ai)ril, 1894, itecaiue pastor of 
Paint Lick Church, (Jarrard County, Kentucky. 
In the spring of 1902 he accepted a call to Here- 
ford, Texas, his present home. There .Mr. ('raw- 
ford has done a s])lendi(l foundational work in a 
new and rai)idly growing country. 

The father of Rev. A. ^^'. ('rawford \\as Robert 
Irvine Crawford, who was born in Rockbridge 
County, Virginia, October 12, 1821. He was edu- 
cated at Washington C(dlege (now Washington 
and Lee University), and was married to Margaret 
Ann Craig, June 14, 1853. Margaret Ann was 
born in Rockingham County, Virginia, December 
15, 1825. She died al (he home of Rev. A. W. 
Crawford, Birmingham, Alabama, March 19, 1892. 
Her husband (Rober( I.), who had been a mer- 
chant in Louisville, Kentucky, nearly all his life, 
died in Franklin, Kentucky, October, 1901, at the 
home of his son, Rev. A. AN', ('rawford, who was then 
living at that place. The said .Margaret Ann Ci-aig 
was a daughter of George Evans Craig by his wife 
Matilda, iice (lUthrie. Said George Evans Craig 
was a son of George Craig bj'^ his wife Elizabeth, 
lice Evans, and said ilatilda Guthrie was a daugh- 
ter of John Guthrie by his wife Margaret, nee 
(lilkerson. Said (Jeorge Craig, who married Eliza- 
beth Evans, was a son of .Tames Ci-aig, of Ireland, 
by his wife ^lary, iicc Laird. The aforesaid John 
Guthrie, who married Margaret Gilkerson, was a 
son of William Guthrie by his wife Esther, nee 
McClelland. And the aforesaid JIargarct Gil- 
kerson was a daughter of Hugh (Jilkerson, of Scot- 
land, who married lOli/aliedi, iicr (Juthrie, a sister 
of the aforesaid William Guthrie. The before- 
mentioned Robert Irvine Crawford, who married 
Margaret .^nn, nee Craig, was a son of Robert 



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Crawford h\ his wife Xaiiiy (laiiible, ncc Irvine. 
This Kohert Crawlurd was liurii in Rockbridge 
County, Virginia, in ITltl, on Walker's Creek, and 
there lie died Felirnary 13, 1S52. His wife Nancy 
(iaiiil)lc was horn Noveniher 2, 1802, and died 
January 29, 1S37. The said Roljcrt Crawford was 
a son of Alexander Crawford, -Tr. His mother was 
a Mrs. McChire (a Avidow i when Alexander mar- 
ried her. Alexander, Jr., was the fifth son of 
Alexander Crawford, of Ireland, and his wife 
;Mary, inr IMoPheeters, and was born in Augusta 
County, Virginia. He participated in the wars 
against the Indians prior to the Revolution, and 
was a soldier with the Virginia troops at Point 
Pleasant October 10, 1774. He was for many 
years an elder in the New Providence church, and 
died January 19, 1830. 

Alexander Crawford, liefore mentioned, came 
from North Ireland and settled near the North 
ilouutain in Augusta County, Virginia, between 
1725 and 1750. There he married Mary, the third 
daughter of William McPheeters (the grandfather 
of S. B. MePheetei-s, D. D. ) . ( See memoir of Rev. 
S. B. McPheeters, D. D., by Rev. John S. Grasty, 
page 12. ) To this Alexander Crawford and Mai-y, 
his wife, were born eleven children, three of whom 
were preachers : 1. Edward, lived near Abingdon, 
Virginia. 2. James, pastor for many years of the 
Walnut Hill Church in Fayette County, Ken- 
tucky, near Lexington; died 1803; buried Walnut 
Hill Cemetery. 3. John; do not know where he 
lived. One of the eleven children of Alexander 
and Mary was himself named Alexander. To this 
Alexander, Jr., was liorn a son, Robert, who set- 
tled in Rockbridge County, Virginia. To this 
Robert was l»orn my father, Robert Irvine, October 
12, 1821. The family A\ere members of the New 
Providence Church in Rockbridge County, into the 
full communion of which my father was received 
in his boyhood. He was educated at Washington 
College, Lexington, Virginia, now Washington 
and Lee University, and settled in Louisville about 
the vear 1852, where he has for fortv vears been 



engaged in an honorable business career. Soon 
after he went to L()uisville he was elected deacon 
in the First Presbyterian Church and again, after 
a few years, was made elder. He served as elder 
in the First Church all the best of his mauhooil 
days. In the fall of 187S he went as an elder into 
the organization of the Central Church, Rev. Wil- 
liam E. Young, i)astor, and then again afterwards 
took part in the new organization at l*arkland, 
the ^^■oodland Church, in which he has one son 
an elder and one a deac()n. To this new and thriv- 
ing church in the suburb of Parkland, he gave 
the counsels, the prayers, the elTorts of a ripe old 
age. 

In 1853, my father married, in Augusta 
County, Virginia, ^liss Margaret Craig, sister of 
Rev. I. N. Craig, I). D., and daughter of George 
E. Craig — the great-grandson of William Craig 
and Jean his wife, who came from North 
Ireland to America in 1722 with three sons^ 
Robert, James and John. My mother was tho 
great-granddaughter of James. Dr. Willis (t. 
Craig, of the Chicago Seminary, late moderator of 
the Northern (General Assembly, is the great 
grandson of John. 

To my mother and father A\ere liorn six children, 
the youngest of whom died in infancy. The oldest 
of the children, the only daughter, married Rev. 
A. S. Mottett, now of Midway, Ky. I am the 
third child, the second son. My brothers — one 
older, George, and two younger, Newton aud 
Brown — are in busini'ss in Louisville. 
(Signetlj 

ALEX.VNDEU \> ARWICK CUAWl'OUli. 

SKETCH 83. 
MRS. WILL PHILLIPS. LEBANON, KENTUCKY. 
The full maiden name of Mrs. Phillips was Vir- 
ginia Wallace Mitchell. She was the second child 
of Basil B. Mitchell by his wife Elizabeth Hannah, 
iicc Woods, and was born at the old Mitchell 
homestead near Harrodsburg, Kentucky, January 
U, 1S44. Sketch No. 81, devoted to :\Irs. Taylor, 



fiKETCTIES OF PATRONS. 



389 



(■(iiiliiiMs iiuicli relating to Mrs. I'liillips which 
need uot be repeatcil here. Iler father (lie(] wlieii 
slie was (inly a little more than two vears old, and 
wlien less than nine years of a<re she lost her 
ninthei-. As she and her sister went to live with 
their uncle, IJev. William II. Woods, in dreen 
('(umty, and made their home with liim nntil they 
married, they naturally came to think of him as 
almost their father. While livinii; in (Ireenshurg 
she was tanght Ijy her uncle William, her Aunt 
^lary Dedman, ^Miss Alice Ward and Miss Hen- 
rietta (Joalder. After tinishinji- the course with 
her uncle she was for a time a pupil at the Stuart 
and Keed Female College, Shelbyville, Kentucky, 
but her health was not good at that time, and she 
did not remain to graduate. On the 22d of De- 
cendier, l.S(>4, she was marrieil to ilr. William 
Castleman Phillips, who is connected with one of 
the most prominent families of Clarion County, 
Kentucky, and is a son of Mr. James (}. Phillips, 
Sr., by his wife Latira, itcc Castleman. Mr. and 
Mrs. Phillips are members of the (Southern) 
I'resbyteriau Church at Lebanon, Kentucky, near 
to or in which town the whole of their married 
lives has been spent. Mr. Phillips was born April ligion and united with tlie Presbyterian Cliurcli 
0, ISili, and has nearly all of his mature life been iu his native town under tlie ministry of tlie Kev. 
engaged iu planting and stock-raising, but ill- Dr. John :Montgomery. lie attended tlie schools 
health has recently comjielled him to dispose of in Harrodsburg for many years and then was sent 
his beautiful farm, located three miles frcmi Leba- to Danville, Kentucky, to attend Centre College, 
uou, and move into town. ' from which instittition he was regailarly gradu- 

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Philliits are the fol- ated in June, 1S4.3. lie took the classical course 
lowing: and was proficient in nmthematics, Latin and 

(a) AuiAUNE lOLA Phillips, the first child of Creek. His acquirements in these branches and 
William C. and Virginia W., was born August others fitted him for the work of teaching, a call- 
2.J, 18(J8. On the loth of December, 181)2, Adne iug which he followed for more than twenty yeai-s 
was married to Mr. Lee Atwell Scearce, by whom of his life. On leaving college in 1843 he s<>ems to 
she has a son, Ivichard W., born Novendjer 25, have tiiught school a year; and, having chosi'u the 
18!)3. ilr. Scearce has a nice home in Lebanon, sacred oftice as his life-work, he entered Princeton 
He is engaged in the insurance business, and is Theological Seminary, New Jersey, iu the fall of 
one of the most popular citizens of Marion County. 181-1, and was regularly graduated from thence in 

(b) L.vtUA Castleman Phillu'S was the second 1847. Only a few wiH'ks after he began his course 
child of AMlliam C. and Virginia W. She lives there, and probably while engaged in the study 
with her parents in Lebanon, and is unmarried, of one of the works of the celebratwl German di- 
Neither of her parents has had good health in re- vine, Dr. AugTistus Neander, his youngi^t bro(h<>r 



cent years, and siie lias lieen to them an unspeak- 
alile comrort and lielp. 

( c ) KvKUKTT \)i: llAiiT PiiiLLirs, the third child, 
was born April 2(\, 1873. On the 18th day of De- 
cember, 18!)."'», she was married to ^Ir. .Josepii W. 
Irvine, of Lebanon, Kentucky. ^Ir. and Mrs. Ir- 
vine have two children, as follows: 1, Gabriel; 2, 
Phillips. Jlr. Irvine is an active and successful 
business man, and now resides in Knoxville, Ten- 
nessee. 

(d) Maky PiiiLLii'S, the fourth and last child, 
was born Septendx'r 23, 1880. She resides with 
her parents in Lebanon, and is employed as book- 
kee^ier and cashier by the Cumberland Telephone 
Company. 

SKETCH 84. 
REV. WILLIAM H. WOODS (Deceased). 
WiLLiAji Harvey Woods, the third child of 
James Harvey, and Sarah Everett, Woods, was 
born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, November 26, 
1S23. He was a yoting nmu of studious habits, 
scholarly tastes and exemplary character. Feb- 
ruary 27, 1842, he made a public profession of re- 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



— the present writer — was liorii, and AYilliaiii sent 
home the name "Neander"' to his motlier and asked 
tliat it be given the baity, which was done. The 
class to which he belonged at Triiiceton contained 
sixty members, among whom were many who be- 
came distingnished as Presbyterian ministers, to 
wit: Dr. Thomas W. (^attell. Dr. Elijali K. 



liam Harvey, Jr.; L*, Joseph Lisle; and 3, Cort- 
landt IJarret. These three sons are among tlie 
original patrons of this volnme, and sketches of 
them will follow this. I'or a conple of years after 
his first wife died ilr. Woods continued to teach 
and preach in Green County; but the confusion 
and disorder incident to the Civil War then in 



Craven, Dr. John T. Duffield, Dr. Edward Eells, progress produced general demoralization in all 
Dr. Caspar U. Gregory, Professor Joseph J. Hal- 
sey. Dr. Moses A. Hoge, Dr. John il. K. Hunter, 
Dr. Addison Y. Schenck, Professor Charles W. 
Shields, and others. 

When William graduated in the spring of 1847 
he set out for Kentucky with an assortment of 
good books, and paid his way home by selling them, 



lines of professional work. The death of his wife 
also had increased the difficulty of carrying on his 
school at Greensburg; and in the fall of 1804 he 
moved to Shelbyville, Kentucky, and opened a 
classical school for boys, taking with him his three 
motherless little sons, and giving his personal at- 
tention to their educati(m. On the 20th of June, 



for his father was a nmn of small means and had a '^»C>'h I't' ^vas married to Miss Elizabeth Jane Lee 
large family to support and educate. June 23, I^ogau, <>f t^»H'l»'J County,' Kentucky. Not long 
1847, he was licensed as a probationer for the Gos- after his second marriage Mr. Woods began to de- 
pel ministry by Transylvania Presbytery; and ^elop symptoms of the same disease (tubercu- 
after a few months' trial of his gifts, he was duly l^^i^) f»f "lii.'h his first wife had died in 1862; and 
ordained to the full work of the ministry as an uow he began a series of moves, undertaken in the 
evangelist by the same body, and assigned work liope of bettering his health. In the fall of 1865 
in Green County, Kentucky. His first field of li« moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where his 
labor was at Greensburg, where he preached for youngest brother was then living, and purchased 
about three years. For about a year (1850-1) he an interest in a drug house being carried on by 
supplied Six-Mile Church; and for a year (1852-3) Dr. J. W. Smelser. It did not require nnu-e than 
he preached at Ebenezer Church. In 1853 he a year for him to see that this move was a mistake, 
started a school of high grade for young ladies at and in the summer of 1866 he returned to Ken- 
Greensburg, which was carried on till the fall of tucky, and opened a boys' school at Horse Cave, 
1860, when he moved to Franklin, Kentucky, and Hart County. This undertaking gave every prom- 
began to teach a school and act as supply of the ise of success from the start; he had a good at- 
Presbyterian Church of that place. The Civil tendance, some of the pupils being from a distance. 
War began in the early days of 1861, and he was But early in the y«ar following he found his 



located on the border of the territory likely to be 
the scene of bloody contests Itetween the two great 
armies — Northern and Southern — and he moved 
back to Greensburg about (lie fall of 1801. On the 
14th of June, 1849, \\liile serving a church near 
Greensburg, he was married to Miss Sarah Cath- 
erine Lisle, of Green County, who was his devoted 
and efficient help-meet until her death, which oc- 
curred June 9, 1862, in <ireensl)urg. By Cath- 
erine — his first wife — he had six or seven sons, 
only three of whom survived him, namely : 1, Wil- 



strength A\as so far depleted, and his disease so 
far advanced, that he could teach no longer. He 
realized that God's plans for his life were not such 
as he himself would have chosen — his earthly 
course was nearly run. In this dark hour his heart 
turned to the neighborhood in which he had passed 
so large a part of his mature life — Green County, 
He and his wife and his little sons went to the 
hospitable home of Colonel Aylette Taylor, whose 
wife was Mr. Woods's niece, and to whom he had 
been a father for many years of her orphanage, 





REV. WILLIAM H. WOODS. 

(DECEASED.) 

[See Sketch No. 84.] 



MRS. LIZZIE (LOGAN) WOODS. 

(DECEASED.) 

[See Sketch No. 84.I 




REV. WILLIAM H. WOODS, D. D. 

BALTrMORE. MD. 

[See Sketch No. 85.] 



JOSEPH LISLE WOODS, 

(DECEASED.) 

[See Sketch No. 84.] 



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THE WOODS-McAPEE MEMORIAL. 



In that lioiiie loviug hands ministered to his wants, 
and all that could he done was done eagerly for 
his comfort; hnt on the thirtieth of April, 1S(>7, he 
exchanged the weariness and sorrows of earth for 
the endless joys of heaven. His body was laid to 
rest by the side of his first wife's remains in the 
old Lisle family burial plot in Green County. 

Though 3Ir. Woods had early in life dedicated 
himself to the Gospel ministry, his career was that 
of a school-teacher rather than that of a preacher. 
He was successful to an unusual degree as a 
teacher; liut he was not at home in the pulpit. He 
lacked oratorical gifts. He had no natural tituess 
for the platform. He spoke always as if embar- 
rassed in the presence of an audience. He had a 
logical mind, was a tine classical scholar, and had 
been thoroughly trained in theology, and would 
have made a distinct success as a professor in a 
college or theological seminary. He was a man of 
singularly pure life and fervent piety. He was of 
smaller stature than his father, but was strikingly 
like him otherwise. He had his father's sharp fea- 
tures, prominent nose, slender build, pale blue 
eyes, and slightly brownish hair. He was more of 
a Woods than a Dedniau. 

Sarah Catherine Lisle, the first wife of Rev. 
^Villiam H. Woods, was a daughter of Mr. ThomavS 
^^^ Lisle, of Greensburg, Kentucky (a lawyer and 
farmer), by his first wife, Eliza, nee Creel. She 
was born in Greensburg July 31, 1830. Her 
mother had but one child besides herself, a son 
named Joseph D. ilr. Lisle's second wife had 
seven children, as follows: 2, William J., a law- 
yer of Lebanon, Kentucky; 2, Eliza, who married 
Mr. Charles Harrison; 3, Mary, who married a 
Mr. Carlisle; i, Lou, who married a ^Iv. School- 
ing; 5, Dollie, who married a Mr. Baker; 6, Sophie, 
who married a Mr. Byrd, and 7, J. T., Avho has 
ItiH'u dead many years. Catherine Lisle — "Katie,'' 
all her friends called her — was a woman of culti- 
vated mind, refined and winning manners, and de- 
voted piety. She contracted tuberculosis, and 
died June 9, 1862. 



3Iiss Elizabeth .lane Lee Logan, who became the 
second wife of Rev. William H. Woods, was born 
in Scott County, Kentucky, while her father (who 
was a Presbyterian minister) was pastor of Bethel 
Church. Her father was the Rev. James Harvey 
Logan, and her mother was, liefore her marriage. 
Miss Mary A'enable. Both 3Ir. and Mrs. Logan 
were natives of Shelby County, Kentucky. Mr. 
Logan was for years pastor cd' Bethel Church in 
Scott County, and of Mulberry Church in Shelby 
County. Mrs. Logan survived her husband a great 
many years, attainiug her eighty-first year, and 
dying in 1891. To them were born seven children, 
as follows: 1, Rev. James Veuable Logan, D. D., 
an able and learned divine, who for a long period 
has been a nicnd)er of the faculty of Central Uni- 
A'ersity of Kentucky, and resides at Danville; 2, 
Elizabeth Jane Lee Logan, the subject of this 
sketch ; 3, Mattie, who married Rev. Andrew Ir- 
vine; 4, ;Mary Frances, Avho resides in Shelbyville, 
Kentucky ; 5, Sallie A. Logan, who resides with her 
sisters, Mary Frances and Nettie, in Shelbyville; 
6, Jose^jh A. Logan, who resides on his farm in 
Shelby County, and is an elder of Mulberry Pres- 
byterian Church; and 7, Nettie, who lives Avith her 
two sisters, ilary Frances and Sallie A., in Shel- 
byville. 

Elizabeth Jane Lee, who was married to Rev. 
William H. A\'oods in June, 1865, was his faithful 
companion and helper in the several moves he 
made in the years 1865-6-7 after his health began 
to fail, and nursed him with tenderest care down 
to the end of his life in April, 1867. Left a widow, 
she took her youngest step-son, Cortlandt B. 
Woods, and went back to Shelby County to re- 
side. There she lived till her death, which oc- 
curred August 4, 1899. She bore to her husband 
one child, who lived but a short time. She was a 
woman of the kindest nature, gentle, considerate 
and uncomplaining. She had exceedingly clear 
views of the Bible and its plan of salvation, and 
followed Christ with unswerving devotion to the 
end of her days. 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. 



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SKETCH 85. 
REV. DR. W. H. WOODS, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. 
Dr. >\"(Ki(ls was tlic eldest of the cliildren of tlie 
liew William II. >Voii(ls to reacli inatui-e years. 
His father's sketch ncxi iireeedes tliis. lie was 
iiained for his fatlier, hut has usuallv spelled his 
middle name "ITervev" instead of "Harvey,"' 
thoujih the latter spellinji' was that which hoth his 
father and his paternal grandfather followed. Dr. 
Woods was ])orn in (ireen County, Kentucky, No- 
\('nil)er 17, 1852. His mother, as was shown in 
Sketch 81, was Sarah Katherine, iicc Lisle, llo 
was with his father until the hitter's death in 
18()7. On losing' his father, he and his hrother, 
Josei)li Lisle Woods, made their home with Mr. 
Charles Harrison, an unele hy marriage, -who lived 
near Lelianon, Kentucky, on a farm. In the fall 
of 1872, when about twenty years of age, he en- 
tered Hanipden-Siduey College, Virginia, and from 
that institution he was graduated in 1871. Hav- 
ing dedicated himself to the work of the Gospel 
ministry, he entered I'nion Theological Seminary 
in the fall of 1871, and was regularly graduated 
in 1877. In the fall of 1877 he was licensed by 
\\inchester Presbyter^' to preach, and at once was 
chosen to be assistant to Kev. Dr. H. M. ^Vhite, of 
A^'inchester Church. In the following spring 
(18781 he was ordained to the full work of the 
ministry and installed pastor of the Cedar Cliff 
and Cedar Creek Churches, located in Frederick 
County, Virginia. In 1882 the Presbyterian 
Church at Strasburg was added to his existing 
charge, and he made his home in tliat town, and 
served the three churches till Novend)er, 1887, 
when he was called to the pastorate of the Frank- 



and (e) .Ti»si:rii Lisi.k Woods. Dr. W(jods, besides 
being a man of scholarly tastes and attain- 
ments, and a line preacher, has won considerable 
reputation as a writer of poems and stories for 
such jiuirnals as the Vouth's Companion, New 
Vork Inde]»endi'nt, Sunday School Times, Scrib- 
ner's ^lagazine, the Southern .ALigazine and the 
Century ^lagazine. He is considered one of the 
leading ministers of the Synod of Virginia. 

SKETCH 86. 
C. B. WOODS, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO. 
Cortlandt Barrett Woods, sou of Ifev. William 
H. Woods by his first wife, Sarah Catherine, ncc 
Lisle, was born in (Jreenshnrg, Kentucky, August 
21, 1859. His mother died before he reached three 
years of age, and he was for a year or two after 
her death cared for very largely by his cousins, 
Adne and Virgie ^litchell, and a ^h's. James An- 
derson. In the spring of 1807 he lost his father, 
and he was then taken to live with his step-mother 
in Shelby County, Kentucky, whilst his brothers, 
William and Joe, went to live with their uncle-in- 
law, Mr. Charles Harrison, near Lebanon, Ken- 
tucky. From childhood he was troubled with ca- 
tarrh, and in 187(!, when seventeen, he was sent to 
St. Louis for treatment by a noted specialist. He 
was benefitted by the treatment, and in the fall of 
1877 entered Ilampden-Sidney College, Virginia. 
He completed the full course in that institution 
with the exception of mathematics, remaining there 
till June, 1880— three years. By the fall of 1880 
he had a return of th(» former catarrhal symp- 
toms, and returned to St. Louis for further med- 
ical treatment. He undertook school-teaching 



lin S(pmre Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, which that fall, bnt his health forbade his continuing the 



church he still serves. 

On the eighth of October, 1879, Dr. Woods was 
married to Miss Alice May Lupton, daughter and 
only child of Thomas Xeill Lnpton by his wife 
^lary Janny, by whom he has had five children, as 



work, and he took a position with X. K. Fairbanks 
& Co., St. Louis, by whom his br(;ther Joe was then 
employed. By the end of 1880 his disease had 
made alarming ijrogress; and, after being treated 
by Dr. H. N. S[)encer, of St. Louis, for a mouth 



follows: (a) Lkslie Neill Woods; (1)) Willl\m *Jr two, acting on his physician's advice he went to 
Lisle Woods, who is dead; (c) IMakv Lri-rox San Antonio, Texas, and engaged in open-air em- 
WooDS; (d) J.VMisoN Hervey Woods, who is dead; ployments for about six years. His health having 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMOKIAL. 



improved in the mild and dry atmosphere of South- 
west Texas, he once more attempted to enga<!;e in 
business in a more northerly clime, and took a po- 
sition with Fairbanks & Co., in Omaha, Nebraska. 
His experience in that region proving nufavorable 
to his healtli, he again moved to Texas in the fall 
of 1SS7. In December, ISS!), he moved down into 
Old Mexico, and entered the milling business in 
the city of Monterey, being in i)artnership Avith a 
Mr. Geddes. In 1S92 he bought out Geddes, and 
his step-mother, Mrs. Woods, became associated 
with him. Later on, ilr. Woods met with some 
reverses in Monterey, and closed out his business 
there and settled in the City of Mexico, where he 
still resides. 

On the thirteenth of June, 1890, :Mr. Woods was 
married to Miss Anna Sophia Houser. To them six 
beautiful little daughters have been born, to wit: 
(a) Catherine Lisle Woods; (b) Anna Sophia 
Woods; (c) Elizabeth Lee Woods; (d) Maey 
McAfee Woods; (e) Cortlandt B. Woods, 
born 1902; and (f) Frances S. Woods, bom 1903. 
They have never had any boys. 

Anna Sophia Woods, ncc Houser, was the 
second child of Anthony Houser by his wife Cath- 
erine, vcc Iviggs, and was born at Mapleton, Wis- 
consin, November 15, 1863. :Mr. Houser was a na- 
tive of Baden, Germany, and born in 1839. He 
migrated to the United States in 1851 and settled 
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1855 he moved to 
Mapleton, where he engaged in merchandising 
uutil 1858, when he was appointed postmaster of 
:Mapleton by President Buchanan. This position 
he held for twenty-live years. He moved to Da- 
kota in 1883. In April, 18(11, ^Mr. Houser was mar- 
ried to Miss Catherine Kiggs, of Mapleton. 
David Biggs, the father of Catherine, was born 
and educated iu Scotland, but moved to County 
Antrim, Ireland, where he married Ann, a lady of 
the McLean family. Some time after 1830 David 
Biggs and wife emigrated to Canada, where their 
daughter, Catherine, was born iu 1840. The fam- 
ily afterwards settled in Wisconsin, and Cather- 
ine was a teacher in the public schools of Maple- 
ton when she became engaged to Mr. Houser. 



^Irs. Houser died in ISdO, and lier body rests in the 
Catholic liurial Ground at ^lapleton. 

Anna S. Houser. wife of C. B. Woods, having 
lost her mother wlicn a child of six years, was sent 
the next year to the ^ladames of the Sacred Heart, 
Chicago, where she remained two years. In 1875 
she entei'ed St. Mary's Institute, Milwaukee, the 
Mother House of the Sisters of Notre Dame, and 
there she continued for six years, graduating in 
1881, St. Mary's was ccmsidered one of the finest 
private schools in that part of the country. From 
1881 up to the tinu' of her marriage in 1890 Miss 
Houser was almost continuously engaged in teach- 
ing school. She taught two years at the High 
School of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, and three years 
at the High School of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. 
In 1887 she went to San Antonio, Texas, to be a 
companion for her sick brother, Mr. John Houser, 
and there she was appointed the teacher of Eng- 
lish in the San Antonio High School, which posi- 
tion she tilled up to the date of her marriage to Mr. 
C. B. Woods. 

Joseph Lisle Moods, hereinbefore mentioned as 
one of the three children of Bev. William H. Woods 
and Sarah Catherine, ncc Lisle, who reached ma- 
ture years, was born in Green County, Kentucky, 
March 13, 1855. Losing his mother when he was 
aboiit seven, and his father when he was about 
twelve, he and his older brother, William, went to 
live with their uucle-in-law, Mr. Charles Harri- 
son, of Marion County, Kentuckj*. Some time 
thereafter he made his home with his uucle, Joseph 
Lisle, at Independence, Missouri. October 15, 
1885, he was married to Miss Leila Smelser, 
daughter of Dr. James W. Smelser by his third 
wife, Letitia, ncc Boone. He was in the employ 
of the N. P. Fairbanks Company, meat packers 
and lard manufacturers, for many years, and he 
was an uncommonly brilliant and capable busi- 
ness man, commanding a high salaiy. It was 
while sui)ervising the starting of a new factory for 
that concern at Hutchinson, Kansas, that he met 
with the terrible accident which terminated his 
life. An immense vat of boiling lard exploded, 







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CATHERINE LISLE WOODS. 

MEXICO CITY. 



ANNA SOPHIA WOODS. 

MEXICO CITY. 





ELIZABETH LEE WOODS. 

MEXICO CITY. 



[See Skelch No. 86.] 



MARY MCAFEE WOODS. Born 1901. 
CORTLANDT B. WOODS. Born 1902. 
FRANCES SERAPHICA WOODS. Born 1903. 

MEXICO CITY. 



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and he was fatally scalded, dyiiijf June 7, 1889, in 
his thirfy-fomth year. Joe and Leila had but one 
child, Joseph L. Woods, Jr., who was horn in 
April, 1887, and died three months later. Joe 
W Is \\';is a man of hiiih iiitcllijjience and re- 
markable business capaeity; and had he lived out 
the ordinary measure of life, he would no doubt 
have distiuiiuislied himself in the commercial 
world. His widow survives him, and now resides 
with her mother in St. Louis, Mo. 

SKETCH 87. 
W. C. WOODS, LAWRENCEBURG, KENTUCKY. 

Mr. AVilliam Clelaud Woods was the eldest of 
the three sous of Thomas C. and ^lary Ann (Jack- 
son) Woods who survived their parents, and was 
l)orn in Lebanon, Kentncky, December 2, 1853. 
About the year 185!) he Aveut to a school in his 
native town taught by his uncle, Charles W. 
Woods. Later he attended the classical school of 
Professor J. C. Fales, to Avhom 'Mr. Woods consid- 
ers himself mainly indebted for whatever education 
he received in youth. He attended Centre College, 
Danville, one year (1870), and in 1873 entered 
Cteorgetowu College, Kentucky, and took a scien- 
tific course. For a uund)er of years ^fr. Woods 
was the Deputy Clerk of the ^Marion County Cir- 
cuit Court under his uncle, Thomas Cleland 
Jackson. Mi\ Jackson was a remarkably fine 
busini'ss man and possessed a wonderful memory. 
He needed no index of the i)apers in his office, but 
c()uld instantly lay his hands up<»u the documents 
relating to a case when called on. Chief Justice 
Alvin Duval considered him one of the ablest 
clerical officers in Kentucky. When ^Mr. Jackson 
died in 1S7('( his deputy, Mr. AVoods, who was a 
capable man and familiar with all the duties of 
his position, and his friends also, naturally ex- 
pected that he would receive the appointment, but 
the Judge ajtjtointed a gentleman who was a rela- 
tive of his, without clerical experience, to serve 
rill the next election. There Avere six candidates 
for the place, Mr. Woods being one of them. One 
of the candidates, a Mr. A'ancleave. A\as allied by 



marriage tn iiilliicnt iai ('atholic families in 
Marion County, and made a fnrmidalple rival. ;Mr. 
Woods agreed witli this gentleman to withdraw 
from the race, upon cerfain c(mditions, and ^Ir. 
Vancleave was elected. In January, 1SS(», Mr. 
Woods settled in Lawrenceburg, Kentncky, and 
began to travel for a wholesale firm at that place, 
and this ixtsition lie held for six years at a good 
salary. On tlie third day of January, 1883, he Avas 
happily married to .Miss Annie Boyle Bond, a 
daughter of .Mr. William Franklin Bond, one of the 
most prominent and wealthy citizens of Anderson 
County, Kentucky. Mr. Bond was an old friend 
and a comrade of Mr. AVoods's father during the 
Mexican T\'ar. The marriage took i)lace at Ver- 
sailles, Kentncky, the Kev. Dr. O. V. Bout of that 
toAvn performing the ceremony. Mrs. Woods had 
Iieen reared in the Christian Church, but she en- 
tered the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceburg 
when ^Ir. AYoods confessed Christ in June, 1893. 
The author of this volume (an uncle of Mv. 
Woodsj had the pleasure of witnessing this im- 
portant step, juid counts it one of tlie greatest 
privileges of his life that he had some littkj share 
in bringing it to pass. By the appointment of 
Presidt'ut Cleveland during his first term, and 
later on during his second term, Mr. Woods Avas 
commissioned United States Ganger under Hon. 
Atilla Cox, Collet-tor of the Fifth Kentucky Col- 
lection District. For a fcAV years past ^Ir. Woods 
has held a responsible position in the service of 
the Southern Bailway at LaAvrenceburg. Mr. aud 
^Irs. ^^'oods owns a beautiful liciiic in that city, a 
I)icture of which is given, along Avith a portrait 
of Mr. AVoods, on i)ages 399 aud 400. Mrs. AA'oods's 
father, AVilliam Franklin Bond, Avas b(U'n in An- 
derson County, Kentucky, in 182(!, and her mother, 
Susan ^lary, iicc llaid<s, was born in the same 
county in 1829. Three children — all sous — have 
been born to .Mr. and .Mrs. Woods, as follows: 
(a) Joseph Bond AVoohs, born in Lawrenceburg, 
Kentucky, Mny 2, 188-1, and now a pi'omisiug young 
civil engineer; (b) AYJrxi.vM. CL.VRE^XE Woods, 
AA'ho Avas born in Law reiiceliurg November 1(5, 



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1885, and now at school; and (c) Ellis Jackson 
WOODS^ wlio was born in Lawreucebnrg May 7, 
1889, and now at school. 

Thomas Cleland Woods^ the father of the 
subject of this sketch, was the fourth child of 
James Harvey and Sarah Everett (Dedmau) 
Woods, and Avas born in Ilarrodsburg, Kentucky, 
April 0, 1820. His education was received at the 
schools of his native town, including Bacon Col- 
lege. February 13, 1842, when in his sixteenth 
year, he confessed Christ as his Saviour, and was 
received into the full communion of the Harrods- 
burg Presbyterian Chiirch under the pastorate of 
the late Kev. Dr. John Montgomery, of precious 
memory; and from that time until his death in 
1868 he was a consistent Christian. His father, 
as has been shown on a previous page, was a cabi- 
net-maker by trade, and a man so circumstanced as 
to need the aid of at least some of his sous in mak- 
ing a support for his large and growing family; 
and yet Thomas was the only one of the six brothers 
of the family who lived to maturity that seems to 
have worked for any considerable time in his 
father's shop. Their parents both preferred to af- 
ford them the best opportunities possible for pro- 
fessional careers. Thonms had a good mathemati- 
cal mind, and was also of a mechanical turn; and 
for a few years he rendered bis father most valu- 
al)le assistance at the work-bench. This experi- 
ence rendered him expert in both cabinet-making 
and carpentry, and he was equal to making fur- 
niture and building houses in a workmanlike man- 
ner. This vocation, however, was destined to be 
his for only a time. When the Mexican War broke 
out in the spring of 1840, and Congress authorized 
President Polk to call for fifty thousand volun- 
teers to march to Mexico, Thonms C. Woods was 
one of the six times fifty thousand men who of- 
fered their services. He was a member of the 
Harrod Guards, Phil. B. Thompson, Captain. He 
was with General Taylor in his several engage- 
ments in Northeastern Mexico, ending with his 
notable victory at Buena Vista February 23, 1817, 
when Santa Anna's large army was routed and his 



power in that part of the country completely 
broken. The Harrod Guards belonged to the fa- 
mous Second Kentucky Infantry, whose Colonel 
(McKee) and whose Lieutenant-Colonel (Clay) 
fell in that battle, ^fr. William C. Woods now 
lias in his possession a map of the Battle of Buena 
Vista, drawn by his father on the field after the 
Mexicans had retreated, showing the topography 
of the country and the jjositions occupied by the 
several commands. On his return home from 
Mexico in 1817 he studied law, and August 7, 1848, 
he, in comijany with his bosom friend, Charley 
Smedley, Avas duly admitted to the bar at Har- 
rodsburg. It is likely he had had the law iu view 
for some time before he went to ^lexico. Had he 
chosen as his vocation some such calling as archi- 
tecture, or civil or mechanical engineering, he 
would no doubt have achieved very high distinc- 
tion iu either sphere. When, about 1860, he came 
to build for himself a residence in Lebanon, he se- 
lected with intelligent care all the materials for 
the house, drew his own plans, and supervised the 
whole undertaking. Had he cared to do so, he 
could easily have put up the building himself, with 
the aid of a few ordinary laborers. That dwell- 
ing, after about forty-four years of constant use 
and occupation, is now in fine condition, and is 
the beautiful home of Dr. McChord. The weather- 
boarding is still even and plumb, and all its tim- 
bers testify to the skill and care of him who had 
it erected. Thomas must have settled in Lebanon 
within a few months after his being licensed — 
probably in the fall of 1848. On the fourteenth 
of Aug-ust, 1849, he was married to Miss Mary 
Ann Jackson, of Lebanon, and in that town he 
continued to practise law for the remaining nine- 
teen years of his life. He was now and then so- 
licited by friends to enter political life, but he 
had the good sense to stick to his chosen profes- 
sion, in which he was eminently successful. Hia 
wife inherited some estate from her father, and 
Thomas made money at the law; and in spite of 
some very heavy losses he suffered during the Civil 
War (1861-5) he left a very fair estate to his fam- 




RESIDENCE OF MR. AND .MRS. WILLIAM C. WOODS. 

LAWRENCEBURG. KY. 

[See Sketch No. 87.I 




THOMAS C. WOODS AND WIFE. 

(DECEASED.) 
LATE OH LEBANON, KY. 

tSee Sketch No. 87.I 





CLARENCE E. WOODS, 

RICHMOND, KY. 

[See Sketch No. 88.] 



.\\AA\IE A\[LL[;R \V0(.) 
RICHMOND. KY. 

[See Sketch No. 88. 





WILL C. WOODS, 

L.^WRENCEBURG, KY. 

[See Sketch No. 87.] 



JOHN D. WOODS. 

IDECEASED.) 

[See Sketch No. 87] 



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401 



ily. When tlie Civil War came on in ISdl, and 
every man in Kentnrky was talvin<i; sides, Thomas 
was placed in a painful position. He couscieu- 
tiously believed secession to be a fearful blunder, 
and he could not think of destroy! ni; the Union. 
On the other hand, he abhorred abolitionism, and 
he saw two of his brothers leave Kentucky to enter 
the Confederate service (Charlie and the present 
writer) ; and he knew that two others of them were 
strongly Southern in their sentiments (William 
and Nat). He remained a conservative Union 
man throughout that fearful struggle; and though 
offered the command of a Kentucky Federal regi- 
ment by the Union authorities, he refused to have 
anything to do with the war. He was a manly, 
gallant man, and naturally of a fearless, martial 
spirit where his convictions were clear, but he 
could never bring himself to take up arms against 
the South and be arrayed against his own brothers 
whom he dearly loved. His home was for many 
months the military headquarters of Major Gen- 
eral George H. Thomas and staff, pritn* to the 
spring of 1802, but he remained a non-combatant. 
His brotherly feelings toward the present writer, 
however, triumphed over his loyalty for once; for 
only a few days before the Battle of Perryville he 
purchased for that yoiiug "liebel" brother a fine 
horse in Lebanon, which that brother rode over 
the hills in and around Perryville all day and half 
the night of October S, 18G2, and then out of the 
State with General Bragg to Tennessee. Not long 
after settling in Lebanon Thomas entered into a 
copartnership with Mr. John Shuck, an able law- 
yer, and the law firm of "Shuck & Woods'' was one 
favorably known throughout Kentucky for ability 
and sterling integrity. This copartnership was 
dissolved about 18G4, when Mr. Shuck became 
completely disabled by paralysis and retired from 
practice. Not many years thereafter Mr. Woods's 
health also began to show signs of decline. He had 
never been a very robust man, though he had en- 
joyed good health with the exception of some dys- 
peptic symptoms. The Avife of his brother Wil- 
liam had died of tubercular disease in lS(i2 and 



William hiniseU' died of the same ailment in 1867. 
As neither of llie parents nor brothers nor sisters of 
William an 1 Thomas had ever had that disease, it 
is possible that William may have contracted it 
while nursing his wife; and as William was rather 
intimately associated with Thomas from time to 
time about this period, it is also i)ossible that the 
latter derived it fi'om William. Thomas tried va- 
rious health resorts, and sought the aid of differ- 
ent physicians of note, but to no good i^urpose; 
and after an illness of about two years he passed 
away on the 80th day of July, 1868, Avhen in his 
forty-third year. His wife followed him July 2, 
ISGO. They had seven children, all sons, four of 
whom died in infancy. The following grew to 
manhood: (a) A\'. C. Woods; (b) John D., who 
is now dead; and (c) Clarence E. 

Thomas C. Woods was strikingly like his father 
in his physi(|ue and in his temperament. He was 
rather slender, and not much under six feet in 
height. His eyes were blue, and his hair was 
brown with a decided tendency to curl. He had 
the Woods nose. He had a bi'oad and intellectual 
forehead, and was a handsome man. His manner 
was exceedingly courteous, kindlj' and dignified. 
He was one of those gallant, self -forget ting and 
practical men who was always ready to render 
timely assistance to iieople in trouble. Wherever 
he hapiJened to be he was sure to be found minis- 
tering to the comfort iind safety of those about 
iiim who were in ^wril or who had met with acci- 
dents. He seemed to know just what to do in 
emergencies, and did it quickly and well. It may 
be doubted if there has ever lived a man in Leba- 
non who -was more generally trusted and liked. 
No one ever seems to have questioned his upright- 
ness or his goodness of heart. He had much of 
his father's deliberation and self-ijoise, and rarely 
ever became involved in personal difficulties with 
other men; and yet he was high-spirited and not 
afraid to maintain his rights. He was one of the 
truest Christian gentlemen this writer has ever 
known. 

Miss Mary Ann Jackson, the second child and 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



only daiiiihttn" of Thomas Jacksou 1>t his wife 
Xancy Ro<>its, ikc Ikodiiian, was born Jamiary 5, 
1830. Mr. Jacksou was born in Washington 
County, Ki'utucky, December 2."). 1798. In 1812, 
when the soldiers were mnstering at S]irin.<j;field, 
Kentucky, preparing to enter tlie service against 
England — lie being then not fourteen years old — 
Thomas Jacksou acted as drunimei" for the 
troops; and the large Bible which the soldiers then 
presented him in recognition of his patriotic 
services is now in the possession of his grandson, 
Mr. AVill ('. ^^•oods. He began the trade of black- 
smithing about 1817, and December 20, 1821, was 
married to Miss Kancy Kogers Rodman, 
daughter of David Rodnmn, of Washiugton 
County, Kentui-ky, and soon after he moved to 
Lebanou, which town, after the formation of 
Marion County (in 1834), became the county seat. 
About 18G0 he ceased to work at his trade, though 
he still had his shoij carried on, and during the 
Civil War secured remunerative contracts from 
the United States Government. AVhen he died, (m 
January 8, 187(i, he left a considerable estate. His 
wife had preceded him some years, she having died 
October, 1872. This couple had celebrated the 
fiftieth anniversary of their marriage December 
20, 1871. 

Thomas Jackson was the son of John Jackson 
(born November 21, 1770) and his wife Susannah, 
nee Thomas (born February 24, 1775). John and 
Susannah married February 24, 1795, and made 
their home in AYashington County, Kentucky. 
John Jacksou died February 2G, 1833, and Susan- 
nah survived him only a few months, dying June 
27, 1833. Thomas Jackson and his wife Nancy 
had but two children that reached mature years, 
namely : 1, Thomas Cleland, who was born De- 
cember 2, 1827; married ]\Iiss Eliza Greene, and 
by her had a daughter, ]\Iollie, who nuirried a 
Buckner; a son Thomas C., Jr., who is married; 
and a son Charles Green(>, who lives in Chicago. 
The second child of Thomas and Nancy Jackson 
was a daughter, Mary Ann, of whom mention has 
alreadj- been made. 



The wife of Thomas Jackson, as above noted, 
was Miss Nancy Rodman, a daughter of David 
liodman by his wife Elizabeth, ucc Head. Said 
David Rodman was born in Pennsylvania in 177G; 
canu> to AVashingtcm County, Kentucky, in the 
early pioneer ])eriod; was a soldier in the War 
of 1812; was sberilV of Washington County in 
182."); and died in 1859. David Rodman had a 
sister Catharine Jane, who married Charles Mur- 
ray and had by him a large famih- of children. 
The Rodmans and ^lurrays came to America from 
County Anlriiii, Ireland. They intermarried in 
Ireland and afterwards in Anu'rica. David Rod- 
man came to Kentucky down the Ohio in a flat- 
boat in the year 1777 (1779?), and on that trip 
Indians attacked the party and David's father 
was slain in the fight. The Miss Head whom 
David married was a half-sister of the distin- 
guished Methodist preacher, Rev. J(>sse Head. 

SKETCH 88. 
C. E. WOODS. RICHMOND. KENTUCKY. 

,Mit. CL.vuKxri: ICvkukit A>'ooi)S. seventh and 
youngest child of Thomas Cleland Wot)ds and 
Mary Ann Jackscm Woods, was born in Lebanon, 
Kentucky, July 31, 18(i5, attended the Louisville 
city schools, receiving the highest honors in all his 
studies in his class of sixty pupils. Attended 
Central University, Richmond, Ky., 1884-G, and 
married ^liss ^lamie Patterson ^[iller, eldest child 
of Judge Wm. C. and Susie White ^liller, of Rich- 
mond, K}., October 13, 1S8G; she dic^ August 7, 
1890, and is Ijuried in the Col. R. X. White lot in 
the Richmond Cemetery. C. E. Woods founded 
the Lebanon Enter]»rise in 188G, but a year later 
accejjted the associate editorship of the Richmond 
(Ky. ) Register, later became its editor and man- 
ager, and from 189G to 1900 edited the Richmond 
L'llinad'. Concerning his talented and eflicient 
work upcm the Ueyhlt r the following frcmi the 
president of the National Editorial Association is 
sufficient testimonial : 

"I assure yoti that we have no exchange that is 
more valutxl tlian the Register, for thei-e is cer- 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. 



403 



taiiily iio truer jonriialistie type of what is noblest 
iu the State in which it is published, and that is 
saying a great deal." — E. AV. Stephens, Publisher 
Columbia (Mo.), Herald, President National 
I'Mitorial .Vssociation. 

August 5, 189(5, was married to Jliss Mattie 
JIcDonald Chenault, third daughter of William 
Overton and Caledonia sillier Chenault. of Kieh- 
iiumd, Ky. One child, Mamie Miller Woods, born 
August IG, 181)7, named for his first wife and for 
her maternal aunt, :\[rs. :Mauiie Chenault Smith, a 
woman of exalted pi<'ty, and loveliness of char- 
acter, whose counterpart h(» could wish his child 
to l)e. 

In 1894 the subject of this sketch was unaui- 
inouslj^ elected (Jraud Kecorder and Editor of the 
Dcltd of the Sigma Nu Fraternity of the United 
States; re-elected to the position five times. In 
ilay, 1903, he was appointed assistant secretary 
to United States Senator McCreary, of Kentucky. 
Is a memlter of the following orders: Independent 
Order of Good Temi)lars (1878) ; Sigma Nu Fra- 
ternity (18So) ; Kentucky Pi-ess Association 
I 1887) ; Masonic Fraternity (1895) ; Ancient 
Order of United Workiugmeii (1899) ; Benevolent 
and Protective Order of Elks (1900); Independ- 
ent Order of Odd Fellows (1903) ; Daughters of 
IJebekah (1903). Joined the Presbyterian Church 
1888, and made a deacon 1890. The following 
from the liichmond VlUiut.v (A. D. ;Miller, Editor), 
Decend)er, 1903, is republished : 

"The latest accession to the colony of Kichmond 
citizens at Wasliingt(ui is Mr. Clarence E. Woods, 
wiio has assumed the duties of Assistant Secretary 
to United States Senator James 15. McCreary, of 
this city, who, with .Mrs. McCreary, left here on 
Noveudier 3 to take up his residence at the s^jlendid 
new Hotel Willard, so we see by the \\'asiiingt(jn 
dispatches to the Tiiiicx^ to remain there until the 
(lose of Congress, some time next June. 

"Mr. Woods will ))e missed in many ways, for 
he was identified with nearly all the best activities 
of the city, iu capacities that always called for 
service or sacrifice upon his part. His talents and 



jKirse were CA'er at the command of worthy ol)jects, 
so much so that it has l)een said that Richmond 
has no more fi'uly ]>uhli(-siiirited citizen than Clar- 
ence Woods. For about fourteen years lie edited 
the papers here with a skill that gave him an 
enviable reputati(m at home and tlirougiiout the 
State. lie once received a letter from the Presi- 
dent of tlie National Editorial Association say- 
ing his paper 'represented all tluit was truest and 
noblest in tlie inland journalism of Kentucky.' We 
have often heard ;Mr. WoimIs say, in discussing the 
prevak'ut habit of jieople asking free service of 
editors, that he had given gratis more of his time 
and talent than any inenib(>r of any other profes- 
sion of his ac(|uaintance, 'for," said he, 'people ask 
an editor and a preacher to do free that which 
they would not think of imposing upon a lawyer, a 
dfictor, a merchant or a mechanic." And j'et he 
never refused a request — and his editorial brethren 
all knf)w that since he temporarily left active 
journalisui he has been ever responsive to their 
a]ipeals for assistance. This fact warrants <mr 
personal tribute to gratitude now. 

"There are many men in the community e(iually 
fitted fin- the countless positions ^Ir. Woods was 
constantly called upon to fill, but selfishness, or in- 
difference, or laziness on their part and willing- 
ness upon his, made him subject to calls for ser- 
vices here or there. Not only for the living but 
for the dead he gave his time and talents. 

"He has filled four pulpit.^ here during the 
temporary absence of the i)astors; at the graves 
of fraternal dead he has freciueutly performed the 
office of Chaplin in the absence of the regular 
officers. At celebrations of the Odd Fellows and 
Daughters oi Rebekah Lodges he has delivered ad- 
dresses, and at the alumni banquet of the public 
school. The charity committee of the Elks Lodge 
can testify to his devoted services to the ordei*, as 
well as having constantly served on its laborious 
committees on resolutions. The Prandial Club 
lately elected him secretary for the fourth time, he 
having displayed the highest capacity for preserv- 
ing in interesting form the history of the meetings 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMOlilAL. 



of that excellent organization of professional and 
business nien. Church cclcbvations, the Y. M. C. 
A., the Infirmary, public entertainments, regard- 
less of denomination, always denmnded his aid, 
and he entered into them with spirit and vigor. 

"IJecognizing the dominant element in his com- 
position — fidelity to friends — and his fitness and 
devotion to the order, the national fraternity of 
Sigma Nu. with half a hundred lodges and thou- 
sands of nuMubers, has elected Mr. Woods «fce suc- 
cessive times Grand Kecorder and Editor of its 
magazine, the 'Delta.' the rival of the finest (xreek 
fraternity magazines in America. 

"As secretary of nearly every Democratic county 
convention lu're for fifteen years, as a fearless and 
effective champion of Democracy, and as the life- 



^r. Creel, of Louisville, Kentucky, with whom she 
made her liome until her marriage to Mr. Ilenry 
S. Tyler, June 7, 1882. She received her educa- 
tion principally at the private school of Miss 
r.elle I'eers, of Louisville. By Mr. Tyler she had 
three childi'en, as follows: (a) Hexky Gw.vthmey 
Tvi.KU. who (lied :\rarch 11, 1887; (b) Nancy 
TiioMi'Sox Tyleu^ who resides in Brookline, 
^lassat'husetts, with her step-father, Mr. J. Tracy 
Eustis; and (<•) Joiix Tip Tyi.eu, wlio also resides 
in Brookline with Mr. Eustis. Mary was left a 
widow about the close of 1895 by the death of Mr. 
Tyler, who was then the Mayor of Louisville. June 
8, 1898, she was married to Mr. Josepli Tracy 
Eustis, of Brookline, JIassachusetts. By her sec- 
ond husband Mary had one chihl, namely : 



long supporter of Don. James B. McCreary, from William Tuacy Eustis, Second, who was born 



his second race for C\»ugress to the present hour, 
Mr. Woods commended himself to the graces of 
the Senator, whose action in making him his as- 
sistant seci-etary met with approval here and 
wherever he was known. 

"As Mr. Woods's friend, and in the endeavor to 
repay some of the services he so freely performed 
for the Climax and its staff, this tribute is printed, 
believing it to be better to whisper in a listening 
ear than to .sound it alxive a coffined form." 

SKETCH 89. 
MRS. MARY T. EUSTIS (Deceased). 
The full maiden name of Mrs. Eustis was Mary 
Miller Creel, the first child of Henry E. Creel by 
his second wife, Mary ilcAfee, iicc Woods. She 
was born in I^ouisville, Kentucky, February 26, 
18C0. Her mother died January 22, 18(12, when 
Mary was not quite two years old. Her father 
died a few years later. She, therefore, probably 
had HO recollection at all of her mother, and but 
little of her father. I'or about three years she 
lived in Lebanon, Kentu(ky, with the family of 
her uncle, Thonms C. AVoods; and for about a 
year and a half with her uncle, Neander M. 
Woods, in St. I.,ouis, ]\[issouri. lu June, 1871, she 
went to live with her half-brother, ^Lr. Buckner 



November Hi, 1899, and lived but one week. 
Mary's own death occurred at Brookline only one 
day after this child was born — November 17,1899 — 
when nearly forty years of age. Her mother be- 
fore her had surrendered her own life under 
precisely the same sad circumstances when only a 
little past thirty years old. Mary was a woman 
of handsome face and form, and of unusually at- 
tractive character. She was a professing Chris- 
tian from earlj' womanhood, and a member of the 
Episcopal Church. Her body, together with those 
of her mother, her first husband and her first-born 
child, rests in beautiful Cave Hill Cemetery, 
I^ouisville. 

^lary 2»lc.Vfee AVoods, whose second husband 
\\as Mr. Henry E. Creel, who was the mother of 
the subject of this sketch, was the sixth child of 
James Harvey and Sarah E. Woods. She was 
born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, September 22, 
1831. In 1814, when about thirteen years of age, 
she confessed Christ as her Sa^aour and was re- 
ceived into the Presbyterian Church of Harrods- 
burg under the ministry of the sainted Bev. Dr. 
John Montgomery. The testimony of tliose who 
knew her well is that she was uncommonly bril- 
liant and beautiful as a young woman. She was 
high-spirited, and rather (juick-tempered; and. 




MRS. MARY TYLER EUSTIS. 

(DECEASED.) 

(See Sketch No. 89.] 





NANCY THO.MPSON TYLER. 
[See Sketch No. 8<).| 



JOHN TIP TYLER 
[See Sketch No 8g.] 



406 THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 

wlicii couscions of hciii-- w roiijivd, could he viii- his hoiin' a itlcasant one for liis second wife. By 

dictivo. She was jiradnatcd from Greenville In- him she had two children, to wit: :Mauy :\Iilleu 

stitute, narrodslmri,^, when only sixteen. That Cheel. the suhject of this sketch; and an infant, 

school was presided over at the time by a Pro- horn hnt a few days liefore its mother's death, 

fessor ]\rullins- and in after years it hecame and wlii<li sui'vived her only ahont ten days. ;Mrs. 

Dano-hters College, and was conducted hy the late Creel i)assed away .Tainiary 22, 1S(;2, when Imt a 

John Aniiustus Williams for a long series of years, little ].ast her thirl ieih year. r.eantif\il, ac- 

Marv Woods was undouhtedly named for the eom]ilislied, and attractive; and IHessed, appar- 

mother of her father — Mary McAfee, a daughter ently, witli tiie most vigorcms health, and known 

of James McAfee, the old pioneer who led an ex- for her merry and vivacious temjterament ; one 

ploring and surveying party into Kentucky in the would certainly have predicted for her not only a 

summer of 1773. For a few years after her gradu- long, Imt a happy, life. And yet her career was 

ation Marv taught school. On the nineteenth day not only lirief, l)ut mainly one of trial. She was 

of l)ecen\l)er, 1850, she was nmrried to a Mr. Rich- called, in moi-e ways than one, to drink the cup of 

mond Dedman, of Fayette C(Uinty, Kentucky. humiliation and liitterness. Rut she died, as she 

Several of the sons of Samuel Dedman, of Albe- had lived, a believer in Christ, and a mendier of 

marie Countv, Virginia, had settled in Kentucky the Presbyterian Church; and we doubt not she 

about 170O-1.S10. One of these sons was Nathaniel found, as she i)assed into the presence of her Lord, 

Detlman, of Versailles, who was Mary's maternal that earth hath no sorrows that heaven can not 



■andfather. The Richmond Dedman who be- 



heal. 



came Mary's first husband was, almost certainly, ilr. Henry S. Tyler, the first husband of Mary 
'ither a son or a "randscm of one t)f Nathaniel Ded- Miller Creel, was a member of one of the most 
nmn's brothers and hence a cousin to Mary. This prominent families of Louisville. He was born 
marriaiiv was a most happy one (so far as con- September 20, 1851. His father Avas Henry S. 
cerned the relations Avhich existed between her- Tyler (whose name he bore) and his mother Avas 
self and her husband), but Mr. Dedman's life Avas :Miss Rebecca (iwathmey. Mr. Tyler Avas Avell edu- 
cut short bv death in less than one year after their cated, and a man of high intelligence and great 
nmrria"e, leaving her a Avidow before she had force of character. He entered commercial life on 
reached her tAventieth year. She di<l not have any leaving school, and gradually rose to high posi- 
child bv this marriage. tion- As executor of the large estate of his de- 
Mrs Dedman renmined a Avidow for more than ceased father he showed fine business capacity, 
nine vears after her first husband's death, during For years he was prominently engaged in the in- 
Avhich period she Avas, for about six years, occu- surance business. He finally drifted into political 
pied Avith the duties of a teacher in the female life, and was for two tenns a member of the (Jen- 
school Avhich her brother, the Rev. William H. era! Council of Louisville. In 1889 he stood for 
Woods Avas carrying on at Greensburg, Kentucky, the mayoralty of the city, and Avas elected. In 
While there she Avas more than once addressed by 1891 he Avas elected 3[ayor a second time, and for 
INlr llenrv E. Creel, of Louisville, a AvidoAver Avith the third time in 1893. It Avas about the close of 
several children, three of Avhom Avere groAvn. On his third term that death claime<l him for its OAvn, 
the tAventy-second of June, 1859, she and Mr. Creel he dying in his forty-fifth year. It Avas said of 
Avere married, and she Avent Avith him to live in him by one Avho Avrote of him at the time of his 
Louisville, his two younger children, l)otli sons, decease that Mayor Tyler "Avas one of the few 
coming under her care in the home. Mr. Creel men who are most liked by those who know them 
was a man of kind heart, and endeavored to make best." His tAvo surviving children, Nancy Thomp- 





J. HARVEY WOODS. 



FROM MINIATURE PAINTED IN 

[See Sketch No. 90 ] 



SARAH E. iDEDMAN) WOODS. 
1S02-1860. 

FROM PHOTO TAKEN IN 1858. 
[See Sketch No. 90.] 





SALLIE H. iBEHREi WOOD? 

LOUISVILLE. KY. 
FROM PHOTO TAKEN IN 1898. 

[See Sketch No. 90.] 



ALICE (BIRKHEAD) WOODS. 
1845-188 3. 

FROAt PHOTO TAKEN IN 1869. 

[See Sketch No. 90.] 




REV, NEANDER M. WOODS. D. D. 

LOUISVILI-E. KY. 

(See Sketch No. 90. | 



SKETCHES OF PATKONS. 



409 



son and Joliii Tip, irsido with their stop-father, 
Mr. J. T. Eustis, in Brookline, Massachnsetts, to 
whom tliey are devotedly attached. 

SKETCH go, 
REV. NEANDER M. WOODS, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. 
Rev. Neander M. "Woods, the antlior of tliis 
work, was the last child of James Harvey and 
Sarah Everett Woods, and was hOrn September 4, 
1844, at Harrodsburg-, Kentncky. He was edu- 
cated at the schools of his native town, including 
Kentucky University, which liad not yet h(>en re- 
moved to Lexington. His father dying when he 
was y<mng, he was thrown on his own resources 
while yet in his teens. For a time before the Civil 
War, and for several years after its close, he was 
engaged in the drug business. During tlie war he 
was in the Confederate Army (Cavalry Service). 
For a time he served in the First Tennessee Bat- 
talion, and later in the Sixth Kentucky Regiment; 
and for about six months was confined in Federal 
military prisons. After the war he took a special 
course at Michigan University (Ann Arbor) and 
graduated in the class of 1867, he having previ- 
ously nuirried Miss Alice Birkhead, January 3, 
1800. During the last year of his exi)erience in 
the drug business he read law in private, having 
for years preferred the legal profession to any 
other. As s(jon as it was practicabk', he entered 
the Law Department of Washington University, 
St. Louis, and attended the lectures. In due time 
he was admitted to the bar of St. Louis. After 
practising law in that city for a time, he became 
convinced that he ought to enter the (lospel niin 
istry; and, acting on the advice of Rev. Drs. James 
H. Brookes, Robert G. Brauk and Robert P. Farris, 
he abandoned the law, and repaired to Union Sem- 
inary, Vii'ginia, to study divinity. He had con- 
fessed Christ and united with the Presbyterian 
Church before attaining his twentieth year, but 
the question of entering the ministry had not re- 
ceived his special attention until a year or two 
before reaching his final decision. In the spring 
of 1873 he finished his course in the Theological 



Sciiiiiiary, and was at once called to the ])astorate 
of the Second Presbyterian Church, Norfolk, Vir- 
ginia, where he labored nearly eight years. In 
]\rarch, ISSl, be accepted a call to the First Pres- 
byterian Church, Cialveston, Texas, but his wife's 
health at once gave way there; and, acting on the 
urgent ailvice of her ]iliysicians, he resigned his 
charge at tlie close of 1881, and accepted a call to 
the Second Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, North 
Carolina. Here his wife died in June, 1883. In 
June, 1880, he was called to the First Presbyterian 
Church, Colundiia, South Carolina. In June, 
1887, the honorary degree of Doctcu' of Divinity 
was conferred ui>on him by Central ITniversity, of 
Richmond, Kentucky. In the spring of 1880 be 
received a call from the Second Presbyterian 
Church, of Memphis, Tennessee, and here, per- 
haps, the largest and best work of his life was ac- 
complished. In ^lay, 1901, the General Assembly 
of the Presbyterian Church in the ITnited States 
met at Little Rock, Arkansas, and he was chosen' 
Moderator of that body Avithout opposition, by ac- 
clamation. During his IMemphis pastorate, which 
continui'd for more than thirteen years, his church 
moved from its former location (corner of Main 
and Beale streets) and erected a new church at 
the corner of Hernando and Pontotoc streets. 
The lot and building and fuimishings cost $145,- 
000, and it was his privilege to see the whole paid 
for, and the church free of debt, before he left 
Memphis. In the early summer of 1902 the Sec- 
ond Presbyterian Church, of Louisville, Kentucky, 
gave him a hearty and practically unamimous call 
to become its pastor, and he began his pastorate in 
that field July 20, 1902, where he is still laboring. 
After the death of his first wife he was married 
May 20, 1885, to jNIiss Sallie Ilenderson Behre, of 
Walterboro, South Carolina. By liis first wife he 
had four children and by his last wife he has had 
five. One little daughter by each marriage died in 
infancy. The other seven children are now living, 
the three older ones being married and having 
families of their own. The chihlren lionic lo him 
bv his first wife were the following: 1, Emma 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



liirklK^ad, who iiiaiTicd David rScIl ^facjiowan, and 
resides in St. Petersbnrg, Knssia ; 2. l^'lorcncc rSoonc, 
who married Henry II. AAiuh', and resides in 
Memphis, Tennessee; 3, Alice Dediiian, wlio died 
Avhen about fonr year,? old; and 4, Ncandcr ^lont- 
jioiiiery, Jr., who married Miss Tallnlah Gaohet, 
and iives in Memphis, Tennessee. Tlic tliree mar- 
i-ied cliihlren, above menti()ne<l, are all orijiinal 
patrons of this woric, and have sketches lierein. 
Bee Sketches 91-92-93. 

By his second marriage hi- lias had the following 
children: 1, Alice Behre, Avho is now (190.")) in 
the Senior Class of the Girls' High School, Louis- 
ville; 2, Annie Ilowe, who lived bnt a few months; 

3, Everett Dedman, who is now (1905) in the 
Freshman Class of the Male High School, Louis- 
ville; 4, Carrie Webb, a\1io is now (1905) in Grade 
No. 7 of the Kentucky Street School, Louisville; 
and 5, James McAfee, who is now (1905) in Grade 
No. 5 of the Kentucky Street School, Louisville. 
All of the seven living children are communicants 
of the Presbyterian Church, and the partners of 
the three married ones are also Presbyterians. 

ALICE BIRKHEAD AND FAMILY. 
Alice Birkhead, who was the first wife of Rev. 
Neander ]M. ^Voods, was born in Louisville, Ken- 
tucky, May 11, 1S45. She was the first child of 
Mr. John Quinten Birkhead and Letitia, nee 
Boone. Her father's father was William Birk- 
head, and her father's mother ^^as ^liss Hannah 
Walker. William and Hannah had the following 
children: 1, Joseph, and 2, Charles, both of whom 
died in infancy; 3, William, Jr., who v>as for a 
time a locomotive engineer, and, later, a farmer; 

4, A>'allace; 5, John Quinten, who married Letitia 
Boone, and became the father of Alice; fi, Black- 
burn; 7, Elizabeth, Avho married Mr. Robert G. 
Kyle, lived many years in Louisville, and then 
moved to California, leaving two sons (William 
and Robert) and one daughter (Annie) ; and S, 
Laura Holman, who moved with Mr. Kyle's fam- 
ily to California, there married a Judge Carr who 
has died, and now lives in East Oakland, Cali- 
fornia. John Q. Birkhead married Letitia Boone 



in 1S44, and by her had two children, namely: 1, 
Alice, of whom this sketch treats; and 2, Emma, 
who married William R. Smyth (now dead), had 
by him a son, Allicrt, and a daughter, Alice. Mrs. 
Smyth and her daughter reside in St. Louis. Mr. 
Birkhead was for many years associated in busi- 
ness willi Mr. IJ. G. Kyle, above-mentioned, in 
Louisville, where the firm carried on an iron and 
stove foundry. ^Ir. Birkhead died December 7, 
1848, when only about thirty years old. He was 
buried in the old Eastern Cemetery, Louisville, in 
the Boone lot, and a neat monument marks his 
grave. 

Alice Birkhead was educated, in part, in the 
Louisville puldic schools, i)artly in a school taught 
by a Mr. Gilchrist in Shelby County, Indiana, and 
partly at Science Hill, Shelbyville, Kentucky, 
under the care of Mrs. Julia Tevis, the famous edu- 
cator. Alice boarded with Mrs. Tevis and attended 
her school for three years, and graduated from 
thence in June, 18G3. She lived in Louisville till 
1857, Avhen her mother married Dr. James W. 
Smelser and moved to Shelby County, Indiana. 
About the year 1SG3 Dr. Smelser moved to Indian- 
apolis and opened a drug store. January 3, 1860, 
she was married to Neander M. Woods at Indian- 
apolis, theu her home. She had confessed Christ 
early in life, and all her days was a conscientious 
and consistent Christian, as well as a person of 
the gentlest, kindest and most lovable disposition. 
AMiile living in Norfolk (1873-1881), she showed 
slight symptoms of failing health, and one object 
her husband had in view in his removal to Galves- 
ton — under the advice of her physicians — was to 
benefit her physical condition. But the climate of 
the Gulf Coast proved injurious, and she soon be- 
gan to fail. When she settled in Charlotte, North 
Carolina, in January, 1882, it was her hope, and 
her husband's, that the nnu'e bracing air of Caro- 
lina would sutlice to arrest the progress of her 
disease. This, too, was but a vain hope; and after 
a long struggle with her ailment, and in spite of 
the best available medical attention, she steadily 
grew worse, and on the eighteenth of June, 1883, 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. 411 

she passed away jiftcr liaviiii^ hidden her eliildreii Williniii wen- .Toiialliaii r.ooiic and :\rai'y De- 
farewell and solennily coniniillcd thoin to the Haven. Jiniadian pi-dhalily miiirali'd from Chester 
covenant-keei.inj;- God. One of tlic hiiihest testi- Connly. Pennsylvania, ah(Mi( ITS.l-lTllO, and he 
monies to her loveliness of character was rendered seems lo have lived for a (ime a( iMaysville, Ken- 
hy Dr. SmeJscr, who said, after havin-' lived in the tacky, and latei- at Lex i nut (.n. He was a sclnxd 
home with her for ahont ten years as her stej)- Icaclier, hat was rather dissijiated, and very care- 
rather, that in all those years she had never, in a less ahont his ]n-o])erty riuhts. lie once owned a 
sinjile instance, jiiveu him an nnkind or disrespect- line body of land, a ]>arl of which is now covered 
ful word or even look. He loved lii-r as if she were by the city of :\Iaysville, a ;Liift from his father; 
his own child. Her cliaractcristic traits were an- hut he allowed himself to he dejirived of his in- 
failing iicntleness, abhorrence of strife, toider con- lieritance, either throngh his failure to pay the 
sideratiou for the feelings of others, modesty, self- taxes on it, or as the result of dishonestv an 
dei»reciation, and abs(»hite sincerity of soul. Her the ]iarl of some sharper. Jonathan and .Mary 
face and form were, by all who saw her, consid- had the following cliildren, to wit : 1, James, who 
ered beautiful. Her eyes were blue, her hair li\cd in Bourbon County, Kentucky, married and 
nearly black, and her skin exceedingly fair. Her had issue; 2, William, who was born in 1780, mar- 
face nearly always wore a peculiarly pleasant ried Julia Ann Settles, and became the father of 
smile when in the company of others. Shortly be- Letitia and other children, as before noted; 3, 
fore her death, and fully aware that lier case was Jonathan, Jr., who was born about 1795, lived 
absolutely hopeless, she wrote her beloved sister, most of his life in IJourbon County, Keutuckv, 
Emma, that she had everything to live for, and married a Miss Sarah Nesbit, moved to Indian- 
then added — "But, when I think of what a Saviour aixdis, in 18(55, and there died in 18GG; 4, Nancy, 
I have in heaven, I have everything to die for." a\1io married a ^Ir. Shrader, and had issue; 5, Re- 
One of her last intelligible sentences was uttered becca, who married John ^Nfessick, of Shelby 
while her dying hand rested on the head of her County, Kentucky, and had issue; G, Kate, who 
latest born, saying: ''God will care for you, my married a INIr. Land), and had issiu'; and 7, Jlary, 
son" — at (tnce a prophecy and a mother's last who married John Smelser, and had, among other 
prayer. children, James ^^^ Smelser, who, in 1857, marrit^l 
Letitia Boone, who married, first, Mr. Birk- ^Irs. Letitia (Boone | Birkhead, and had by her one 
head, and later on, Dr. Smelser, was born in Louis- daughter, Leila, who married Joseph Lisle Woods, 
ville, Kentucky, NoA'ember 13, 1827. She was a and now lives, a widow, in St. Louis, Missouri, 
daughter of AVilliam Boone by his wife Julia Ann, It thus api>ears that Dr. Smelser's mother was an 
ncc Settles, and her father was most probably de- aunt of Letitia Boone, and hence that he and Letitia 
sceuded from one of the brothers of Daniel Boone, were first cousins. Tlie father of the before-men- 
the famotis pioneer. Letitia had several brothers tioned Jonathan Boone Avas Hugh Boone, of whom 
and sisters, to wit: 1, Jennie; 2, Henry; 3, Carrie; nothing very certain is known, but of Avhom it is 
4, Florence; and 5, Blanche. The native State of believed that he was either a brother or nepliew of 
AVilliam Boone is not positively known, but it is Daniel Boone, the famous pioneer. Dr. Smelser 
reasonably certain it was Pennsylvania, if it was was a man of excellent character, and successful 
not Kentucky. He lived in Bourbon County, Ken- in laisiness. He moved from Indianapolis in 
tucky, some years prior to his coming to Louis- March, 1869, to Memphis, Tennessee, and a few 
ville. He and Julia, his wife, were citizens of months later to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he 
Bcmrbon County when their marriage took place, carried on a drug store. He died there early in 
which was abotit the year 1825. The parents of the year 1873. He had been nmrried three times, 



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THE WOODS Mc A FEE MEMORIAL. 



and by each iiiarriagf liad one diild. By the first 
wife he had a son named Marshal, who died in 
Jleniphis, Tennessee. By the second he had a 
danyhtei* named M(dlie. By the tliiid and hist 
wife, Letitia, )icr Boone, lie had, as stated, a 
danj^hter Leila, who firew to !»■ a hitihiy ( nltnred 
woman, married ilr. Joseph L. Woods, was left a 
widow in 1S83, and now liv<'s with her mother in 
St. Louis, Missouri. 

SALLIE HENDERSON BEHRE AND HER 
ANCESTORS. 

Sallie Henderson liehre, secojid wife of Rev. 
Neander M. Woods, is a dansihter of I'rederitk Gus- 
tavus Behre and Caroline, mc ^^■el^l(, ITenderscni. 
She was born and reared at AN'alterboro, Colleton 
Connty, South Carolina. She was educated partly 
at the schools of her native town, partly in Charles- 
ton, Sonth Carolina, and i)artly at the Charlotte 
Female lustitnte, at Charlotte, North Carolina. 
May 20, 1885, she was married to Rev. Xeander M. 
Woods, who was at the time pastor of the Second 
Presbyterian Church of Charlotte, North Caro- 
lina, by Avhom she has had three daughters and 
two sons, as elsewhere listed. Since her marriage 
she has lived in Charlotte, X( rth Caidlina; Colum- 
bia, South Carolina; Mempliis, Tennessee; and 
Louisville, Kentucky, \\lu<li is lu r ]ires( nt liome. 
The portrait of her which is here given represents 
her as she appeared some years ago. 

Frederick Gustavus Behre, the father of Sallie 
II., was born at the military barracks at Stoeda, 
on the River Elbe, Hanover, January 7, 1837. He 
was the only child of Brigadier-General Christian 
Behre by his wife Johanna Sprannman. General 
Behre was a soldier in the artillery service of the 
Kingdom of Hanover for about thirty years, and 
was with the Prussians under Blucher, who saved 
the day at AVaterloo, in ISl.j. For his long mili- 
tary services he received from the king i Blind 
King George, of Hanover j a handsome gold medal, 
which is now in the possession of his son, Mr. 
Frederick G. Behre, of Walterboro, South Caro- 
lina. The inscription mentions "Thirty years of 



faithful service" as the ground <>f this honorable 
distinction. General Behre was probably born 
about the year 1785, and his wife in 1802. They 
were married in 1S3<>, while he was living in bar- 
racks as a soldier. About 1844-.">, the Revolution 
having begun, and King George having been de- 
posed, fJeneral Behre resigned his ])lac»' in the 
army and migrated to America, settling first at 
Charlest(Ui, Smith Carolina. He was a man of 
culture, a linguist, and a fine classical scholar, and 
he naturally chose teaching school as his vocation 
in his new home. In Charleston, however, he 
failed to find a good opening; and after some ef- 
forts in that city, he left his wife and son there and 
went to the Xortli in search of a position. There 
he succeeded, but his career was suddenly cut short 
liy death about 1847. at the age of about sixty- 
two. He was of French extraction, and possibly 
of Huguenot Idood. Both he and his wife were de- 
voted members of the Lutheran Church. His wife 
survived him nearly f(U'ty years, dying at the home 
of her sou in Walterboro, about 188G. Gottiugen 
was her native city. 

'Sir. Frederick G. Behre was left fatherless when 
in his eighth year. His mother and he were still in 
Charleston, General Behre not having completed 
his arrangements for removing his wife and son 
to the North, when he was cut off by death. Mrs. 
Behre was obliged to work in order to support her- 
self and s(ui, and to give her sou a good education. 
He attended various schools in Charleston, gradu- 
ating from the City High School. She then sent 
him to the South Carolina College, at Columbia, 
and from that institution he was duly graduated 
about the year 18.j7. For a year or two after his 
graduation he occupied his time in stiulying law 
and teaching in Charleston and elsewhere. At the 
outbreak of the Civil War ( 18til ) he had begun to 
practise law. Enlisting iu the Confetlerate ser- 
vice at the beginning of the war, he served in the 
Commissary Department with the rank of captain 
till the ^'ar ended. A\'hile the war was in progress 
he was married to iliss Caroline Webb Henderson, 
of ^^'alterboro, whom he had become acquainted 



SKETCHES OF PATRONS. 



413 



with while teacliiiifi- scIkkiI in that ])lace. Taptain 
Kelire was a man of lihcral cultun' and dci-idcd 
literary attainments, lie learned to read and 
speak both (Jerman and I'-rench with ease, ^[ost 
persons would take him for a I'renchnian. He was 
very successful in the practise of law until the 
failure of his health some years ai;o, wlieii lie was 
obliged to forego all pi-ofessioual labor. 

Caroline Webb Henderson, the wife of Captain 
F. G. Behre, and the mother of t^allie H. Behre, 
was born in AValterboro, South Carolina, Janu- 
ary 11, 1843. She was the daughter of Daniel 
SulliA-an Henderson by his first wife, Caroline Ee- 
beoca Webb. She was sent to school to Charleston, 
South Carolina, whei'e she enjoyed fine educa- 
tional advantages at the female seminary con- 
ducted by the late Kev. Ur. Ferdinand Jacobs, of 
precious memory. As already noted, she became 
the wife of Captain F. G. Behre, of the C. S. Army, 
and by him she had five children, who lived to ma- 
turity, as follows : 

(a) Florence Gustavi.v Behre was born in 
Charleston, South Cai'olina. She attended the 
schools of her native town, and also the Charlotte, 
North Carolina, Female Institute, from which 
school she graduated. She married Mr. Allen C. 
Izard, of AA'alterboro, a young gentleman belong- 
ing to one of the most prominent families of 
Carolina. ^Ir. Izard has for many years been 
an ofrtcial in the freight department of the South- 
ern Railway, and owns a beautiful home in Rock 
Hill, South Carolina, where he has long resided. 
The only child of ^Ir. and ^Irs. Izard is a daughter. 
Alma De Lancy. 

(bj The second child of Frederick G. and Caro- 
line W. Behre was Sarah Hexdersox^ who mar- 
ried Rev. Neander M. >Voods, in ilay, 1S85, as ap- 
pears from the account of her given on a preced- 
ing page. 

(c) The third cliild of Frederick G. and Caro- 
line W. Behre was Joax.na. She was educated in 
the schools of her native town, and at the Char- 
lotte (N. C. ) Female Institute. For some time 
she has been engaged in teaching at the I'resbv- 



terian Orphanage, located at Anchorage, Ken- 
tucky, one of the suburbs of Louisville. 

(d) The fourth child of Frederick G. and Caro- 
line ^V. Behre was SusAX Webb. Her education 
was gotten partly in the schools of her native town, 
l)artly at tlie W'iuthrop Training Schoid of Col- 
umbia, South Carolina, and partly at the Uni- 
versity of Chicago. She chose teaching as her 
life-work early in her career, and has taught in a 
nvind)(>r of schools in her native State, and two 
years at Bellewood Seminary, Kentucky. She is 
now (1904) a member of the faculty of The Ilig- 
bee School for Young Ladies, the most important 
educatiimal institution in ;Memphis, Tennessee. 

(e) The fifth child of Frederick G. and Caro- 
line ^y. Behre was Daniel Hendeksox. He was 
trained in the schools of his native town, and at 
the University of Georgia. For a time he taught 
school, and for two years edited a paper in his 
native town — The Colleton Press. The law, how- 
ever, was his chosen profession; and after prepar- 
ing himself for it, and being duly licensed, he con- 
chnled to settle in a new county of his State just 
established (Dorchester), and made his home in 
its county seat, St. George. A young man of high 
Christian character, lovable dispositicm and bright 
mind, he was just entering ui>ou what looked to his 
friends to be a most prosperous career. He was a 
mend)er of the Constitutional Convention whicli 
met in 1001 to frame a new Constitution for 
South Carolina, and he was spoken of as a candi- 
date for Lieutenant-Governor of his native State. 
By one of those strange, shocking providences, 
\\hich now and then come to blast the highest of 
human hoi)es and try the faith of the strongest 
Christian, this beautiful and promising joung life 
was brought to a sudden close. While alone in 
his office, late at night, aliout the middle of Febru- 
ary, 1!J02, getting ready for the session of court to 
begin next morning, he was attacked with an 
ordinary spell of vertigo, which, for the instant, 
rendered him unconscious. In this condition he 
tell forward into a hot tire, and ere he could re- 
gain consciousness his face and lu'ad were fear- 



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fully burned bcvond all hope of rccovcrv. When found sonio of tlio most distincuislifd and hon- 
rescued from his dr('a<lful situation it was too late ored names whU-h adorn the early Colonial and 
to prevent fatal injury. lie had the best of care Kevolutionary history of South Carolina, 
and iH'ofessional attention, l)ut in a few days it Daniel Sullivan Henderson, the father of Mrs. 
was apparent his end was near. Durinij- the night F. <i. IJelire, was of Scotch-Irish extraction, and 
just before he passed away, as his sister was was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1801. 
sponging his once handsome, but now mutilated, He Avas twice married, and left five children of the 
face and eyes, he said to her, in Christian faith first wife, and five of the last wife. His father was 
and submission: "To-mcu'row you will see the Daniel Henderson, who was probably from North 
light of the sun, but I shall behold the glory of Ireland, and he came to America after the Kevolu- 
God." And it was even so — the morning on earth tion. He Avas engaged in iron manufacturing in 
broke bright and fair, but ere the sun had fully Charleston, and there are now in that city iron 
risen his noble spirit had gone to be with Christ, fences which were constructed in his establisli- 
ilarch 1, 1902. Like his mother and all liis sisters, ment. He had a brother, Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. 
he had early in life given his heart to (iod, and the Henderson, who was a gallant soldier in South 
only sorrow of the loved ones was for themselves Carolina. He married Mrs. Jessie Kii'kwood {ncc 
and not for him. ]\Ielville), the widow of William Kirkwood, who 
(f) F. (j. and C. W. r>ehre also had a sixth had one son, by her first marriage, namely; Wil- 
child, a son named Edw.vkd Palmeu, who lived but Ham, Jr., and two by her second, namely: Daniel 
two years. Besides, there were two other children S., and Edward, who Avas a physician. Wni. Kirk- 
born to Mr. and IMrs. r.elire, but neither lived more wood, Jr., was for many years Collector of Customs 
than a few weeks. for the I'ort of Charleston, and died in Walter- 
Mrs. TJehre's father, Daniel S. Henderson, was a boro at an advanced age, about ISSG. He left one 
successful lawyer, and an elder of the Walterboro daughter, Jessie, who became the Avife of Hon. 
Presbyterian Church. Her mother. Miss Caroline Campbell (1. Henderson, of Walterboro. Both Mr. 
liel)ecca Webb, came of a most excellent family, and Mrs. Campbell G. Henderson still reside in 
and Avas reared an Episcopalian; but after her Walterboro, and have the folloAving children, to 
nmrriage she connected herself Avith her husband's wit: (a) Caruie^ Avho married George Eraser, and 
church, and all of her children Avere brought up is now a widow, and living in ^Valterboro; (b) 
in the Pr(>sbyterian faith. The home in which Lottie, who married Rev. T. 1'. I?urgess, and noAV 
ilrs. F. G. Uehre got her training was one of mod- resides at Edgefield, South Carolina; (c) Le Roy 
erate Avealth, godly influences, and liberal cul- G., Avho is a Presbyterian minister, and has charge 
ture. All of her life she has been an active and of a church at Grilfln, Georgia; and (d) Lilly, 
useful Christian, and devoted to reading. Natur- who is single, and lives with her parents. The 
ally of a gentle and refined nature, of strong in- first Avife of Daniel Sullivan Henderson, and the 
telligence, dignified bearing, and sympathetic mother of Mrs. F. G. Behre, was Caroline Rebecca 
heart, she has throughout life occupied a high Webb, Avho Avas born l)ecend)er 13, 1815. She died 
place in the alTections and esteem of her acquaint- May G, ISl'J, in her thirty-fourth year. She Avas 
ances. Fcav ladies are so Avell informed on the descended from the distinguished Pinckney family, 
Bible, general history, and the best class of fiction, of Avhich Ave shall presently gJAC some particulars. 
The type of educated, low-country South Caro- The fcdlowing children Avere born to Daniel Sul- 
liuians, of Avhich she is a representative, has no livan Henderson and Caroline Rebecca Webb, his 
superior in any part of our country. Among her first Avife, to Avit : 
ancestors (presently to be considered) are to be (a) The first child of Daniel S. Henderson and 



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r'arolinc K. Wclib was Savali AVchli, lioni in 183."). a tyiHcal pnlil iciaii wlndii con-ii]!! nicn nmld vise, 

SliL' has iic\'t'i- man-icil, and li\('s in ^^'allc■I•lK)I•(>, liu(, a jicntlcnian (if lionnv and cnllivation wlio 

Siiutli Carolina, licr nalivc iilacc. slainls I'nr pi-inciplc. His lialf-ln-Klhcr, Hon. Eil- 

|h) The second child was named .Tcssie ;Melville, ward I'alnicr Henderson, is his law jiartner. 

who was born ahont ]S:{7, married her cousiu, The second wife of Daniel S. Henderson was 

William Ilender.son, and died in 1S70, leaving oue Charlofte .MaHlda Eraser, who hort; to him six 

(laniihler, Eva, who married lOdmnnd IJivers. Mr. children, as follows: 

and iH's. liivers have three dan^hlers, and now (a) The Ijrsf child of Daniel S. Henderson and 

live in Cliarleston. his second wife was Alcxan<ler Eraser, who was 

(c) Camphell (iilchrist Hen<lerson was the third liorn about 1853, married :\Iiss Alice Xeyle, and 
child, and was born about 1S3S. He married Jes- died in 1885, loavini;- the followinji children: 1, 
sie Kirkwood, as above stated, by whom he has Campbell Gilchrist, who resides in Tennessee; 2, 
four children now livint;-, as jjreviously shown. Alice, who resides witli her widowed mother in 
Mr. C. C Henderson studied law, and all of his Walterboro; .3, Charles, who is a mechanical euiii- 
mature life has been euga^cd in the practice of neer and lives in Colnnd)ia, South Carolina; 4, 
that profession, or in fultilling 1 he duties of offices Julia, who lives with her mother; and .">, Alex- 
of his native county and State. He is a ruling ander E., who lives with his mother. 

elder of the Walterboro Presbyterian Church. (b) The second child liy the second wife was 

(d) The fourth child of Daniel S. and Caroline Edward Palmer, who was born about 1855, studied 
(Webb) Henderson was Caroline Webb, who was law, married a :Miss Johnson, and is a partner 
born January 11, 1843, and of whom some account <»f the Hon. Daniel S. Henderson, at Aiken, South 
has already been given. Carolina, as above noted. He has several ohil- 

(e) The tifth child was named William, who did dren. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, 
not reach maturity. 'ind a gentleman of the highest standing, and 

(f j The sixth child was Daniel Sullivan Hen- greatly esteemed by all who know him. 
derson, Jr., who was born in ^Valterboro, South (f) The third child by the second wife was 
Carolina in 1849. He graduated at the College of Charles, Avho died early in life. 
Cliarleston with first honors, taught school for a ( "C) The fourth child by his second wife was 
time, studied law with Hon. Perineau Finley, of Eranklin Elmore, who was born about 1859. He 
Aiken, South Carolina, and was, later, by him ad- married ]\nss Kate Crawford, and resides at Bath, 
mitted to partnership in the practice of law. He South Carolina, where for nmny years he has been 
married Miss Lilly Ilipley about 1874, by whom he the superintendent of the extensive kaolin works 
has three sons living, to wit : I'erineau Einley, who located at that place. He is an active nunnber of 
is a lawyer, and who nmrried Miss Grace Powell; the Presbyterian Church. He has several children. 
Daniel Sullivan (third) ; and Kipley. Hon. 1). S. (e) The lifth child by his second wife was Char- 
Henderson, of Aiken, is a lawyer of eminence, and lotte Matilda, who is unnuirried, and lives in 
stands among tiie first mendiers of the bar in his na- Walterboro. 

tive State. He has been for many years one of the (f j The sixth and last child of Daniel S. Hen- 
attorneys of the Southern llailway. He has been derson by his last wife was Sophie, who married 11. 
solicited by friends to beconn- a candidate for sev- Ludlow Eraser, ilr. Eraser resides in Walterboro, 
eral of the highest offices in the gift of his State, where he is cashier of a bank, and an elder in the 
and some of these offices he has tilled. He is an I'resbyterian Church. ^Ir. and ^Irs. Era.ser have 
elder in the Presbyterian Church of Aiken, and a two children, IhMiderson and Ludlow, Jr. 
man of sterling character and ability. He is not Caroline IJebecca ^^'ebb (born in 181."), married 



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Daniel S. Henderson, and died in 1849) was the 
daughter of Cliarles Webl) li.^- liis wife !^arah S. 
Webb. Tile said Cliarles ^^'ebb was the son of 
Benjamin Webb by his Avife Anna Pinckney; and 
his wife Sarah ^S. ^A'ebb was the daughter of Wil- 
liam Webl) (Xo. 1) and Margaret D'Oyley. The 
said Benjamin Webb, who was the father of 
Charles Webb and the husband of Anna Pinckney, 
was the son of AVilliam Webb (No. 2) and his wife 
Sarah Miles. Anna Pinekuey, wife of Benjamin 
Webb, was the daughter of William Pinckney and 
Iluth Coteswortli. And the William Webb (No. 
1 1, who was the hus])and of Margaret D'Oyley and 
the father of the Sarah S. Webb who married 
Charles AVebb, was the sou of a Mr. Webl) who.se 
wife was, as is supposed, a Miss Brewtou. And the 
Margaret D'Oyley, who marrietl AA'illiani AA'ebb 
(No. 1), was the daughter of Dauiel D'Oyley by 
his wife Bel)ecca Pinckney. The writer has no 
means of kuowing how this IJebecca Pinckney was 
related to the other Piuckueys noted herein. The 
AVilliam Pinckney, who married Ruth Cotes- 
worth, and was the father of Anna Pinckney, was 
the .son of Thomas Pinckney (No. 1). Said. 
Thomas Pinckney (No. 1) married a Miss Cotes- 
worth, an aunt of the Ruth Coteswortli just men- 
tioned as the wife of William Pinekuey. Hence, 
AVilliam and Ruth were first cousins. The AVebbs 
wei'e people of high Christian character, members 
of the Episcopal Church, and closely related to 
some of the most prominent families of South 
Carolina. Charles AA'ebb, who married a Miss 
Sarah S. Webb, and who was the father of Caro- 
line Rebecca ^^'ebb, was also the father of two 
sons (Edward and Benjamin), who were Episcopal 
ministers of the anti-ritualistic type, godly, con- 
secrated and evangelistic. ^Ir. Charles AA'ebb, 
now living in Charleston, a dry goods mercl ant, 
and a gentleman of high character, is a son of the 
Rev. Benjamin Webb just referred to. 

The head of the celebrated Pinckney family in 
America was Thomas Pinckney (No. Ij, who was 
born and reared and married in England, and mi- 
grated to South Carolina in 1G8T. His wife was a 



Miss Coteswortli. Thomas (No. 1) had three sons 
of whom we knot\, as follows: 

(a) Charles Cotesworth (No. 1), who returned 
to England without taking any specially promi- 
nent part ill public life in America. 

(1)| The next son of Thomas (No. 1) was 
Tliomas Pinckney (No. 2), who was Chief Justice 
of South Caridina, and a distinguished lawyer. 
He had two sous, to wit: 1, Charles Cotesworth 
(No. 2), who was, perhaps, the most distinguished 
member of the family. He was sent to Paris in 
1783 by President AA'ashington to adjust the deli- 
cate questions connected with the treaty with 
Great Britain which ended the Revolution. His 
memorable word.s — "Millions for defence; not one 
cent for tribute"' — will be remembered as long as 
the American Republic lives in history. 2, The 
other son of Thomas (No. 2) was Thomas Pinck- 
ney (No. 3). He was born in Charleston in 1750, 
and he and his brother, Charles Cotesworth (No. 
2), were educated at Westminster and Oxford, 
England. He got his legal training in The 
Temple, and was admitted to the English Bar in 
1770. Returning to Charleston, he began to 
practise law there in 1772. In 1775 he enteretl the 
Continental Army as a Lieutenant. He served on 
the staffs of General Lincoln and Count d'Estaing. 
He was severely wounded at Camden, and was 
thereby compelled to forego further service in the 
field, and resumed the practise of law. President 
AA'ashington appointed him minister to the Court 
of St. James in 1792, and to Spain in 1794. In 
1799 he entered the United States Congress. In 
the AVar of 1812 he was made a ^lajor General by 
President Madison and served with distinction in 
that conflict. His brother, Charles Cotesworth, 
was the third president of the Society of the Cin- 
cinnati, and he succeeded liiin as the fourth. 

(c) The youngest son of Thomas (No. 1) was 
AVilliam Pinckney, who was born in 1703, and 
married Ruth Cotesworth. He was educated in 
England, and on returning to South Carolina 
entered on merchandising and planting. He was 
for years Commissioner in Eiiuity. He died in 



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17(5(5. Williiini IkkI (Hic daunhtcr and throe sons, 
to wif : 1, Anna Pincknc.v, who married Benjamin 
Wehl), and became tlie mother of ('harU^s Webb, 
and the grandmother of rarolinc Kebecra Webb, 
and the great-jirandmother of Caroline W. Hender- 
son. 1', Cliarles Pineicney, who was a distinjjnished 
jnrist, and one of tlie framers of tlie original 
r. S. Constitution. 3, Thomas Pinekney (No. 4) 
was the third ehild of William and Pntli. lie was 
a .nallant soldier in the Freneh and Indian >Vars, 
and in the Kevolution. At the storminjn' of (.^nebee 
he was present, haviui!,- the rank of Colonel, and 
possibly a staff officer. When the gallant English 
commander, General AA'olfe, received his fatal 
wound in that famous conflict, Colonel Pinekney 
caught him, and he expired in Colonel Pinckney's 
arms. 4, William Pinekney, Jr., was the fourth 
child of William and Kuth. He was a soldier in 
the Revolutionary Army. His plantation on the 
Ashepoo River was called "The Dawn of Hope," 
and beneath the grand old live oaks on the spacious 
lawn President Monroe, as he passed through 
Carolina, partook of an elegant entertainment 
given by Mr. Pinekney in his honor. 

SKETCH 91. 
MRS. D. B. MACGOWAN, ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA. 
Emma Birkhead AVoods was the first child of 
Rev. Neander M. AVoods by his first wife, Alice, nee 
Birkhead, and was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, 
where her father was then living and engaged in 
the drug business. She went with her parents in 
their several moves — to Memphis, Tennessee; Fort 
Smith, Arkansas; St. Louis, Missouri; Norfolk, 
Virginia; Galveston, Texas; Charlotte, North 
Carolina; Cohnnbia, South Carolina; and again 
to Memphis, Tennessee. She was a child past six 
years of age when her father moved to Norfolk to 
take charge of the Second Presbyterian Church in 
that city, and here she spent nearly eight years of 
her girlhood. AMiile there, when twelve and a half 
years old, she made a profession of religion. There 
she studied in the Leech-AYood School, and in the 
Norfolk Female College. She attended Savre In- 



stitute, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1882. She went 
to Cjiarlotte about six montlis after her parents 
had removed thither, and there she attended the 
Charlotte Female Institute for two years, gradu- 
ating in June, 1884. After graduating she taught 
scliocd in Charlotte for nearly two years; and after 
her parents moved to Cohnnbia she engaged in 
the same vocation there for a time. She also 
taught for a ^\■hile in ^lemphis in the girl's school 
conducted by a :\Irs. Tucker. On the fifth day of 
April, 1894, she was married at the Second Presby- 
terian Church, ilemphis, Tennessee, by her 
father, to Mr. David Bell Macgowan, and went 
with him at once to reside in St. Louis, where he 
had been for a short time with the Post-Dispatch, 
employed in newspaper \coYk. From St. Louis 
Mr. Macgowan removed to Chicago about the year 
189(5, to accept a position with the Chicago 
Trihiiiie. In October, 1899, Mrs. Macgow'an went, 
with her thx'ee children, to Berlin, Germany, 
Avhither her husband had preceded her a few 
months, to be the special correspondent of the Chi- 
cago Tribune. After a residence of more than two 
years in Berlin, she removed with her husband to 
St. Petersburg, Russia, where he had been engaged 
to represent the American Associated Press. In 
Russia they remained about two years, when, in 
December, 1003, Mr. ilacgowau was sent back 
to Berlin by the Associated Press. During her 
five and a half years' residence in Europe 
Mrs. Macgowan, along with her husband, has 
enjoyed exceptional opportunities for seeing 
EuroiJe and learning a great deal, at first 
hand, about Germany, Russia, Finland and other 
countries, and for becoming versed in the lan- 
guages and customs of the several nationalities 
with which she has been thi'own. Quite recently 
Mr. Macgowan has again moved to St. Petersburg 
to represent the London iStiindard. The following 
exhibit presents the names of the five children of 
Mr. and Mrs. Macgowan in the order of birth, as 
follows: (a) Birkhe.\d, who was born September 
G, 1895, in St. Louis; (b) Eveuext, born January 
6, 1898, and (c) M.vry Locke, born June 30, 1899, 



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THE WOODS-McAFEE jMEMORIAL. 



in Chicago; (d) Basil Finis, wlio was born May 
25, 1901, in St. Petcrslmrg-, Kussia; and (e) 
Caruick Bell, avIio was hoin l)( ccnilicr, 1!I0:?, in 
Berlin. 

David Bell Macgowan is a son of Evander 
Locke Alacjjowan by his wife Mary Jane, nrc Bur- 
rows, and was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, 
near Memphis. In January, 18S1, his parents 
moved to ilemphis, and in the schools of that city 
he received his earlier trainiut:;'. He attended 
Washing-ton and Lev Fnivei-sity, and was gi-adu- 
ated therefrom in 1S90. Later iie went to Europe 
and studied in the University of Halle, and in that 
of Berlin. Before going abroad he engaged in 
newspaper work in ^Memphis. Very early in his 
college course he seems to have determined upon 
a literai'y career, and newspaper work fell in with 
his general aim. It has been remarked by men in 
Memphis, who watched his career, that he was one 
of the few young men connected with reporting 
who devote themselves seriously to their work and 
keep free of the common vices of that class. He 
was solter, industrious and upright ; and early in 
life umde a profession of religion and united with 
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which 
his father was a ruling elder. In the fall of 1893 
he returned from Germany, and soon afterwards 
made an engagement with the St. Louis Post-Dis- 
patch. He also worked for the St. Louis Republic 
for a time. In 1890 'Sir. ^Macgowan went to Chi- 
cago and took a position with the Trihitnr. of that 
city. In May, 1899, the Tribune, needing a special 
correspondent at the (Jei'mau capital, sent him to 
Berlin in that capacity. In 1901, the Tribune com- 
posed its differences with the American Associ- 
ated Press, and discontinued its special agencies 
in the several European capitals, and the latter 
organization employed him to represent it at St. 
Petersburg. There he resided until December, 
1903, when he was transferred back to Berlin. 
While doing his work for his regular employei's, 
Mr. Macgowau was a diligent student of the his- 
tory and literature of both Germany and Kussia, 
and now and then he has been called on by jour- 



nals of tJie higliest class in America and England 
to write s])ecial articles on various living topics 
of the day. Owing to the character of his em- 
ployments he was necessarily brought into close 
touch with men of high ofticial and literary char- 
acter, which gave him excellent opportunities for 
advancement and improvement. His knowledge 
of internal ccmditiims in Bussia, Finland, Poland 
and Germany is the result, not of flying trips on 
fast railways trains, or mere tourist opportunities, 
but of the most careful study, for years, while 
actually on the ground. On this acccmnt journals 
like The Cciifnrj/ Mafiazinc often employ him to 
furnish articles upon the social, industrial and po- 
litical situation in the countries where he has 
spent the last six years of his life. December 1, 
1904, ^Mr. Macgowau resigned his connection with 
the American Associated Press, and soon after- 
wards accepted the position of s])ecial corresi)ond- 
ent of the London Stinuliird at St. Petersburg, to 
which city he has gone to live a second time. Very 
recently he has been granted personal interviews 
with Count Tolstoi, and has also been most cor- 
dially entertained by some of the leading Polish 
noblemen at Warsaw, while engaged in literary 
work there. 

John jNIacgowan, the great-great-grandfather of 
the subject of this sketch, was born in Edinburg 
about 1726. He was successively a Methodist, an 
Independent and a Baptist preacher. From De- 
cember lo, ITfiO, till his death, Xovember 25, 1780, 
he was the pastor of a Baptist chapel in Devon- 
shire Square, Loudon. He was buried in the fa- 
mous old Xon-couformist cemetery of Burnhill 
Fields. One of his sons, Ebenezer Macgowau, came 
to Virginia in 1783, when a boy of sixteen. About 
1817 he moved to Rutherford County, Tennessee, 
and died there at an advanced age. Thomas, the 
son of Ebenezer Macgowan, Avas born in 1801, and 
moved to Shelby County, Tennessee, in 1830, and 
died there in 1880. Evander Locke Macgowan, son 
of Thomas Macgowan, and father of the subject 
of this sketch, was born August 22, 1835, and now 
resides in Memi)his, Tennessee. Evander and his 



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only brother, David, served in the (Confederate 
Army thronahoiit the Civil War. The mother of 
Evander L. .Mae^owan was Miss ^farllia .Ioih-s 
Locke. ITer family were amonp; the early settlers 
of Shelhy County, Tennessee. The Lockes mi- 
grated to Aiiu'i'ica ]>rior to the Revolution of ITKI, 
and two of Martha J. Locke's brothers served with 
General Jackson in the War of LS12. .Mary Jane 
Rnrrows, w ho hecame the wife of Evander L. Mao- 
gowan, was horn February 1!), 1888, and on the 
nineteenth of December, LSoC), she was married. 
Her father. Rev. Reuben Burrows, D. D., was one 
of the ])ioneers of the Cund)erland Fre.^bytcrian 
Church, and was born in North Carolina, and 
moved to West Tennessee when a young man. The 
mother of Mary Jane Burrows was Elizabeth Bell, 
a daughter of John Bell. Said John Bell was a 
soldier in the ^Var of 1S12, and was with General 
Jackson at the Battle of the Horse Shoe. All of 
the brolhers of Mrs. Evander L. Maegowan were 
soldiers in the Confederate Army during the Civil 

WAV. 

SKETCH 92. 
MRS. H. H. WADE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. 

The full maiden name of Mrs. Wade was Flor- 
ence Boone AVoods. In giving her the name of 
"Boone" her parents desired to recognize the re- 
lationship which her mother's mother sustained to 
the family of which Daniel Boone, the famous pio- 
neer, was a member. Letitia Boone, who married, 
first, John il Birkhead, and, later. Dr. J. W. Smel- 
ser, was a descendant of one of the brothers of 
Daniel Boone, as is reasonably probable. This is 
fully sho\\u in a foregoing section devoted to the 
Boones. Florence Boone AN'oods was the second 
child of Rev. Neander M. A\'oods by his wife Alice, 
iicc Birkhead, and was born at Madison Court 
House, Virginia, July 18, 1872. Her father was 
then pursuing his course of preparation for the 
ministry, and was spending the summer vacation 
of Union Theological Seminary in .>hidison 
County, \'irginia, in missionary w(»rk, under the 
direction of NN'est Hanover BiX'sbytei-y. Florence 



was baptized wiien only a few months old by the 
late Rev. Dr. R. L. Dabncy in the cha])el of Union 
Seminary, I'liiicc lOdward County, Virginia. It 
would Iherefoi-e seem well-nigh imjtossible for her 
to be anything but a I'resliyterian. When her 
fathei- settle<l in Norfolk, \'irginia, as pastor of 
the Second Presbyterian Ciiurch, she went along 
as "the baby" of the young ])astor's little family. 
There slie resided neai'ly eight years, and there she 
began her school days. In ^larch, 1881, she went 
with her i)arents to (ialveston, Texas; and in 
January, 1882, to Charlotte, North Carolina, where 
she attended the Charlotte Female Institute, an 
excellent school conducted by the late Rev. W. R. 
Atkinson. This scho(»l she attended about four 
years. \Vhile living in Charlotte she lost her 
mother — June 18, 188:!. The last of June, 188G, 
she moved, along with her father, to Columbia, 
South Carolina, wliich was her home till Jlay, 
1889. AVhile living in Columbia she attended the 
public scho(ds of that city. In the fall of 1889 she 
entered the Clara Conway Institute, Memphis, 
from which institution she was graduated in June, 
1891. On the eleventh of June, 1896, she was 
married to ^Ir. Henry Harrison Wade, of Mem- 
phis, Tennessee, by her father in the Second Pres- 
byterian Church. She has had three children, all 
sous, as follows: (a) Ni:.vxi»ku Woods W.vni;, who 
was born March 19, 1899; (b) Hi:nry HARltisoN 
Wadi:, Ji'xiOK, who was born July 21, 1901; and 
(c) Mi'NSOx Lan(! Wadi;, who was born October 
11, 1903. 

Mr. Henry Harrison AA'ade was born in Memiihis, 
Tennessee, May 1, 1S09, and was the youngest 
child of the late Henry Wade by his wife Susan, 
lire Lang. Henry AN'ade was born in Bridgeport, 
Connecticut, August 25, 1813, and was a son of 
Nathaniel Wade by his wife Ruth, nee Somers. 
Henry Wade settled in Memi)his whin it was a 
snuill town noted for its unpaved, muddy streets, 
and its promise of rapid growth in the near future. 
The Second Presbyterian Church, Memphis, had 
been organized Saturday, December 28, 1841, aud 
Ueurj- AVade was one of the first persons to be re- 



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oeived into the new ehiirch after its organization. 
When the congregation began, in 1846, the erec- 
tion of their first house of worship at the corner 
of Main and Beale streets, Mr. Wade was one of the 
fonr members who gave a thousand doUars each toi- 
wards its construction. In July, 1840, he was made 
a ruling elder of the t^econd riiur(h,an ottice which 
he filled with credit till his death, nearly thirty- 
one years thereafter. He was the superintwident 
of the Sunday-School from 1856 to 1874. For a 
long period he carried on a book store in Memphis. 
His death occurred January 0, 1880. He left three 
children, as follows: 1, Susie L., the wife of Mr. 
E. Witzmann; 2, Belle, who now lives with Mr. 
and ^[r.s. Witzmann, in ^lemphis; and 3, the sub- 
ject of this sketch. 

Susan, iicc Lang, the mother of Henry Harrison 
Wade and wife of the late Henry Wade, was born 
in Bath, New Hampshire, January 25, 1823, and 
died in Memphis July 4, 1895. Her father was 
Sherburn Lang, born July 25, 1782, and died Octo- 
ber 5, 1857 ; and her mother was Mehetabel Elcker, 
born April 5, 1797, and died in 1866. Mehetabel 
Kicker's mother was Susan Salter, who was born 
in England, and came to America when quite 
young, both of her parents dying on the ship com- 
ing over. The before-mentioned Sherburn Lang's 
father, named Samuel Lang, who served as a sol- 
dier in the Eevolutionary Army, Iniilt one of the 
first houses ever erected in Bath, New Hampshire, 
and died November 8, 1828. 

Mr. Henry Harrison ^Vade was educated in the 
^lemphis public schools. For a number of years 
he has been engaged in the well-known music 
house of E. Witzmann, his brother-in-law, at Mem- 
phis. He and his wife are connected with the 
church of which his father was for so many years 
an honored member and officer. 

SKETCH 93. 

N. M. WOODS, JR., MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. 

Neander Montgomery Woods, Jr., was the 

fourth child of Rev. Neander M. Woods by his 

wife Alice, ncc Birkhead, and was born in Norfolk, 



Virginia, ^lay 11, 1876 — his mother's thirty-first 
anniversary. The first five years of his life were 
spent in Norfolk. He accompanied his parents to 
Galveston, Texas, in March, 1881; and to Ohar- 
lotte, North Carolina, in January, 1882. In June, 
1883, when he Avas a little past his seventh year he 
lost his mother. He was with his father in his 
move to Columbia, South Carolina, at the close 
of June, 1886; and to Memphis in the spring of 
1889, when he was about thirteen years old. His 
education was begun in Charlotte, and continued 
in Columbia and Memphis. About 1890 he went 
to St. Louis and entered the Manual Training 
School of Washington . University, making his 
home for the time with his grandmother, Mrs. 
Smelser, who lived in St. Louis. He was there 
about a year and a half, but the climate of that 
city, in winter, was too severe, and he was sent 
to Yauderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. 
Having developed considerable liking for mechan- 
ical lines of work, he took the course in civil en- 
gineering. He spent the last two years of his col- 
lege training at the Alabama Polytechnic Insti- 
tute, Auburn, Alabama, from which institution he 
was duly graduated in June, 1898, having chosen 
architecture as his life-work. In November, 1898, 
he was maiTied to Miss Tallulah Gachet, of Au- 
burn, Alabama. For a time he worked in the office 
of a prominent architect in Chicago, and later on 
formed a partnershi]) with Mr. B. C. Alsup, an 
experienced and well-known builder and architect 
of Memphis, Tennessee, with whom ]\Ir. Woods is 
still associated. The firm of Alsup & Woods has 
planned and erected a great many of the most im- 
portant buildings in and around Memphis, and no 
firm in that growing citj' stands higher than theirs, 
and noue is kept more steadily employed. Mr. 
Woods is a student of all the various branches of 
work relating to the profession, is constantly add- 
ing to his architectural library, and aims to keep 
abreast of the times. 

Miss Tallulah Gachet, who became the wife of 
Mr. Woods in 1898, is the only daughter of Cap- | 
tain Charles Gachet bv his wife Tallulah, 7icc ' 



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421 



Lamiikiii, aiul was liovu and reared in Anhnrn, 
Alaliania. (_)n ])er nuiflier's side sIk- is descended 
from Colonel Josluia Hoiijjhton, .lolin Crutchfield, 
and Lientenant Thomas Waguan, all of whom were 
Kevolutionary soldiers from (ieoriiia. On her 
father's side she is (h'soended from Harrison Jones, 
of Viriiinia, who was the tirst soldier to be voted 
a pension by the United States Conjiress, he hav- 
ing snffered the loss of one of his legs at the Battle 
of (Jnilford Conrt Ilonse, Mareli 15, 1781. Cap- 
tain James Scott, of Prince Edward County, Vir- 
ginia, and his father, Thonnis Scott, who were 
patriots in the Ivevolntion, were of the ancestors 
of Mrs. ^^'oods's father. She also claims descent 
from the Colonial families of Baytop, Strachey, 
Collier, Cox and Major Lawrence Smith. The 
vStrachev family can be traced back for nearly six 



linndred years, Sii' John Strachey, one of its mem- 
heis, having been one of the twenty knights made 
such by the investiture of Edward, The Black 
Prince, in 1337. John Cox was a member of the 
Ccnit aitpnjiited by Viiginia to settle all dispiitcxl 
ipiestions between tlie Indians and Whites in Lan- 
caster County, and he became the husband of the 
only daughter and heiress of William Strachey. 
Dr. Charles (Jachet, ^Irs. XN'oods's paternal grand- 
father, came to America after the IJevolntion, and 
was on the Island of Santa Domingo at the time 
of the insurrection of 17!)1, and his life Avas saved 
by his body servant. 

^Ir. and Mrs. Woods have two children, as fol- 
lows: (a) Charles Gaohkt Woods, who was born 
July 12, 1900; and (b| Tallflah Gachet Woods, 
who was born May 10, 1!)04. 



Woods-McAfee Memorial 



PART FOUR 



THE APPENDICES 



A — Journals of James and Robert McAfee 
Kept in May-August, 1773 



B — Three Ancient Pioneer Roads of Interest 
to both Woodses and McAfees 

C — Some Ancient Documents of Special 
Interest to the Woodses 



APPENDIX A. 



JOURNALS OF JAMES AND ROBERT IVlcAFEE, AND NOTES BY THE AUTHOR. 



Tlic tour of tlic ilcAfee Company from Hote- 
tcmrt County, A'irninia, to the wilderness of Ken- 
tucky in tlie summer of 1773, luul, in some degree, 
a causal connection with the settlement of the latter 
region; and no comi)lete history of Kentucky cimld 
lie written without talking it into account. .Marshall, 
IJutler, Collins, etc., in their histories of (he State; 
I'resident Koosevelt, in his valuable and en(ei-lain- 
ing work, The Winning of the ^^'esl ; Davidson, in 
his History of the Presbyterian Cliurch in Ken- 
tucky; and a multitude of other liistorical writers, 
have ti'eated of it more or less at length, (ien. 
K. B. ilcAfee, who was a son of the Koltert .McAfee 
who kept one of these Journals, and a nephew of 
the James McAfee who wrote the other, left behind 
liim an autobiography, in manuscript, in which he 
not only gave a narrative of the tour of 1773 based 
upon the two Journals, but also embodied a num- 
ber of additional items concerning the tour which 
he had gotten from the lips of his uncle James. 
These two Journals, however, constitute our prin- 
cipal basic authorities for that tour, they being 
the written records of two of the main actors in 
the events to which they refer, made at the time. 
For this reason it has been deemed highly im- 
portant that these ancient documents should be 
put in print for permanent ijreservation, they never 
having been published before. 

Inasmuch as the exploring and surveying tour 
recounted in these Journals was made one hundred 
and thirty years ago, when there were no roads or 
settlements of white men auywhei'e in Kentucky, 
and when only a dozen or more of its numberless 
water-courses had as yet received names, it is easy 
to understand that the route travelled by these men 
could not be intelligible to the average reader. The 
author of this volume has given the spare moments 
of about a year to locating, as exactly as possible, 
the precise route travelled by the McAfees in going 
to, and returning from, the Kentucky wilderness. 
By careful study of the excellent lai'ge-scale maps 
of the United States Geological Survey, by personal 
visits to some of the localities traversed by the 
McAfee Company, and especially by a voluminous 



(•orr('S]KUidence with persons now residing along 
llie line of the route believed to have been followed 
by these explorers, the author has been able to 
locate, with almost entire certainty, all of the more 
important places referi-ed to in the Journals. The 
results of his labor he has, to a great extent, em- 
bodied in a series of maps to be found in this work. 

Tlie two Journals will here be given side by side 
in parallel columns; and by means of copious notes, 
recorded on the pages of this volume next folloAving 
the Journals themselves, the records made by these 
two men will be fully elucidated. The reader is 
asked to study the notes as he goes along, making 
frequent reference, also, to the several maps which 
are valuable commentaries on the Journals, and 
helpful, likewise, to a clear understanding of the 
notes themselves. 

It will be seen that the Journal of James McAfee 
begins abruptly, apparently on the 9th of June, 
and as though some of its pages were wanting. It 
is likely James and IJobert both began their 
Journals on the 27 th day of May, when they 
lU'obably left the Salt Spring on the Great Ka- 
na\\ha liiver a few miles above where Charleston, 
\\. Va., now stands, and embarked on that stream 
in the canoes they had built at that point. The 
loss, however, is inconsiderable, for the first few 
days of their journey by boat were not especially 
important, so far as known. Besides, the Journal 
of Kobert supplies us Avith a record of their move- 
ments almost from the very day of their embarka- 
tion at the Salt Spring, w'hich is still to be seen five 
miles above the city of Charleston, AVest Virginia. 

Several things which will strike the attentive 
reader of these Journals are worth noting here. 
For one thing, there are no such allusions to the 
points of the compass as -would indicate that any 
one of the live men of the party had a compass 
with him. There are many remarks on the direc- 
tions which they went, but all seem to be only 
the hasty guesses of men accustomed to judge by 
the sun and other heavenly bodies. We may there- 
fore rightly expect to find their estimates of di- 
rection not always quite accurate, for they were 



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TiiK W(K)i>s-.\rrAi'i:i-: .\ii:.M(>i;iAL. 



coutinuallv turniug about and cliangins; their 
comse, and ofteu times the skv wouhl be overcast 
witli ihmds, tlius k^ivinfi them in donbt for a 
season. .Much liiiht is thrown by these records 
upon the temperaments and aptitudes of the 
writers. ]{oth of them were evidently intensely 
practical men, with scarcely any poetic sentiment 
or sense of humor. They constantly note the 
character and possibilities of the soil, the Aveather, 
the streams, the timber, and tlie sprini^s, but not 
a word do we find about either the esthetical or 
humorous side of life. They must have looked upon 
some uncommonly lovely water scenes and land- 
scapes in both the uiouutaius and the more level 
regions, but not a single sentence do they devote 
to such things. Then there must have been many 
an iuiiusing incident, and many a ludicrous situa- 
tion, during the eighty days covered by tlie Jour- 
nals, but not one word is to l)e found in the entire 
records to suggest that any one of the party 
cracked a smile in all their wanderings. ^lore to 
their credit, however, is the fact that we may look 
in vain through the whole of both the Journals 
for a single symptom of conceit or boastfulness. 
There is not only no bragging, and no dramatic 
posing, but not even a pointed mention of any- 
thing which could have been intended to awaken 
in those who read their narratives a feeling of 
special admiration for the writers. The well known 
propensity of the average sailor or tisherman to 
spin yarns concerning his real or imaginary adven- 
tures and achievements found no place in their 
souls. James could make a detour of thirty miles 
away from the Company, absolutely alone, for two 
days and nights in a howling wilderness which his 
feet had never trod before, and where he knew wild 
beasts and yet more ciniel savages might be 
encountered any moment, and liobert could do the 
same thing; and yet when we examine their Jour- 
nals we liud only the briefest and most prosaic allu- 
sion to these really perilous and remarkable excur- 
sions, the full siguiticauce of which would scarcely 
have dawned on us had not Gen. U. B. McAfee 
talked with his uncle James a generation after it 
all occurred, and wormed the facts out of the old 
hero. James could bring down a splendid buck- 
elk with his rille up there on the North Fork of 
the Kentucky Kiver above the site of "Bloody Jack- 
son," on the 8th of July, 1773, furnishing the only 
food the party had for the next four days, but we 
have to go to the narrative of his nephew to find 



out about it. Tlien both James and Robert could 
pass through the unspeakable horrors of August 
IL', wlien, in an almost starving condition, they 
climbed the lofty])eaks of the Big l?lack Mountains, 
in what is now Harlan County, Kentucky, under 
a scorching August sim, and from those far sum- 
mits beheld the sun sinking in the West while 
they themselves were sinking from sheer starva- 
tion to the barren and blistered earth, and yet be 
saved from death l)y a merciful Providence — they 
were able to pass through all of these thrilling 
experiences; and yet, when, at the close of that 
never-to-l>e-forgotten day, they jottetl down in their 
note-books the record of their journey over those 
desolate mountains, they scarcely made an allusion 
to its almost tragic details; and it is only because 
Gen. Iv. B. McAfee, in after yeai-s, di"ew the facts 
from his uncle James's reluctant lips that we can 
know the whole story to-day. If these men had in 
their souls any love for the beautiful in luiture, any 
appreciation of life's humorous incidents, any con- 
ceited estimate of their own heroic qualities, or any 
ambition to pose before posterity, we look in vain 
for any tokens of these characteristics in the Jour- 
nals they have left us. They were simply men of 
practical common-sense, great shrewdness, and al- 
most unlimited resource, who could face with calm- 
ness the worst perils, and meet with fortitude the 
most appalling conditions of life in the wilderness, 
and yet never lose their wits or their simple faith 
in God. 

Whilst the autograph narratives themselves 
seem to have been lost, and we have to be content 
with copies, we have every reason to believe that 
in these copies we ^jossess documents which are 
unquestionably genuine, and which have undergone 
no material alterations of form or verbiage in the 
[)rocess of transmission. Careless or officious copy- 
ists may possibly have effected slight changes here 
and there, but the documents, as we now have them, 
bear on their faces the strongest evidence of being 
substantially the very records which James and 
IJobert McAfee made in 1773. In these Journals 
we have two independent accounts of the same oc- 
currences, marked by those slight variations which 
only tend to prove their genuineness. Both write 
like sensible, truthful men. Scrutinizing their 
grammar, orthography and forms of expression, we 
tind that they compare favorably with that of the 
better class of educated farmers now to be met with 
in Virginia and Kentucky. They were, beyond all 



AIM'KXDIX A— Till': .M( Ai'lCi: .folifNAI.S ol' 177.'.. 4-27 

{liu'stioii, no iiiiinraiil. liacUw (xidsincn, Iml liad t'W- Isaac Slicll).\. we sliall liiid llicy lost- notliinn' tiicro- 

joytMl fair (■ducat ioiial advatdaiics as icsiiccis IIk^ liy. Tlicii' .loiiniais stand vcfv far above the orifj- 

Kiiiilisli liranclics. In Imtli .Touinals we lind an inal ietlci-s and diaries of men like Boone and the 

occasional misspelt word, faulty ])unctuat icm, and jii-eal majority of llie pioneers. Tliat of James vo- 

some of tile crude coll(K[uialisms in common use at \-eals. in se\-eral instances, his familiarity with 

this day amonj; ]dain farniin<r peoi)le; hut if we Itihlical laniiuaiie. I'.ut the Journals will now be 

coni])ai-e these documents with those left us liy the liiveii just as they are, and may therefore speak for 

early ex]>lorers and pioneers of the best class, siu-h then [.selves. The notes will sei"ve to explain all 

as Dr. Thomas ^^'alker, ('(d. Christopher (Jist, and nnitl<'rs needing' elucidation. 



428 



THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



JAMES' JOURNAL. 

(Note. — It seems very evident that the earlier 
pages of James's Journal became detacbetl, and 
were lost. X. M. W.) 

Tlie channel of Ohio and all the creeks are 
mostly sandy, entirely free stone where any appear 
in the creeks or rivers. On both sides of the Ohio 
the hills Join the bottoms in every five or six miles, 
coming- close to the river in points, first one side, 
then on the other, at these points the bottom is 
not a hundred yards wide ; the hills and ridges 
of considerable height running up the creeks on 
both sides of the Ohio river as far as we could 
see; a great many of them well timbered, very fine 
food for cattle; others of them in places barreny, 
full of pine and stony and bushy; sufficient quan- 
tity of free stone appear in many places to make 
the best of grind stones for all America. There 
ai>pears convenieucy for mills on these creeks in 
places, though in great danger of fioods; there may 
be exceeding fine meadows made on the river and 
these creeks. 



June 10th, we proceeded thirteen miles farther 
to the mouth of Sandy river, camped one night, 
some men hunted seven or eight miles up Sandy 
river; it appears about 100 yards wide in general. 
The land appears much like what I said before and 
tlie hills likewise. 



ROBERT'S JOURNAL. 

1773. — ilav the 29th in the morning we got to 
the 01ii*»' (mouth of Kenhawa) where we found 
Capt. Bullit & his company;" & in the evening there 
came five Delaware Indian canoes & their families 
going down to the Big Falls to hunt. After day 
the 29th of ^lay we came to the mouth of New 
Kiver' where we lay till Tuesday the first of June, 
& the surveyors measured the Ohio & the New 
Eiver — the Ohio was 400 yards across, & the New 
River was 200 yards across. June the first we took 
the Oliio River with a boat & four canoes, & left 
Capt. Bullitt to go to the Shawnee town to see what 
was to be done there, & we went down the river 
about 20 miles & camped to kill meat — & we went 
out to see Avhat sort of land there was there, but 
there Avas not much land that was good on this 
side of the river,^ & the water was not at all good. 
June 2d A\e lay by, & June 3d we moved Camp about 
four miles down the river to an old Indian camp 
wIhtc there was fine bottom land on both sides of 
the river, & we lay there until June the 7th, & I 
hunted a part of three days on this side of the 
river; up a large creek & on the ridges & the hills 
was very broken & brush}- for about ten miles 
from the river & the Creek there was about one 
or two plantations — & on both sides of the river 
there were two large lionds of water about one 
mile long each, & about four hundred yards wide 
for this length. The river keeps its , breadth & 
runs in general S. W. course. June 7th we came 
to a large Creek, & that day Ave hunted up that 
creek about 12 miles where there Avas very fine land 
on both sides; & on the 8th Ave hunted down the 
riA'er about three miles & there Avas good land on 
the river, but there v\ere some large ponds be- 
tAveen the bottom & the hills; & 1 left the riA'er 
& took out from it about five miles across the 
woods Avhere there Avas some good upland, to a large 
creek, about S miles from the riA-er, AA'here there 
Avas not any good land to the mouth. The 9th 
day Ave Aveut over the Big River"' about six or 
seven miles up & doAVU. There Avas good land on 
the RiA-er & out about one mile very big high 
hills & middling good Avater. The most of the 
Avater this length, in the creeks & branches seems 
to go dry in a dr^- spell. The 10th we took the 
river AAhich Avas high & rough Avith the Avind; Ave 
Avent about four miles from Sandy Creek to Sandy 
River Avhere Ave lay all night; & the Ohio seemed 
to run from that a N. W. course 



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429 



James' Journal . 

.Tunc lltli, wo left Sniidy river, sailed 4.") miles" 
and jiot to the incnith of Sciota, and !t eaiioes of 
Delaware Indians' ^\•ith ns; we passed a jireat 
many creeks that day, most of (liem on onr side 
of (»liio. The other side the hills appear (doser to 
Ohio tlian hefore, faeinii' the river miihllinjj' high, 
fnll of rocks, cedar and jiine trees till within tliree 
miles of Sciota. In the fork of Sciota a larsie 
hottoni appears. We lay at camp till Jnne the 
15th at the mouth of Sciota Avhere we saw 17 
liorses swim OA^er the Ohio hy fonr Indians just 
then hvonght Avitli saddles and i)ack-saddles; hnt 
no lund)er appeared to us, they havinsi opportunity 
to hide it hefore we came; we helieved the whole to 
he white nieu's and lately taken from them.*. 

Captain Bullitt came to us on Sunday, the 13th 
with his proceedings amongst the Shawnees, which 
I have taken coi)ies of in another place." White 
men were with Captain Bullitt ; one of our com- 
pany to the Xatiou says that it is 100 miles from 
the mouth of X^ew river aci'oss to the X^ation; the 
hills continue for 60 miles along that path; some 
good land in places; the water middling scarce; 
after that the laud level to the Xatiou, and the best 
ever they saAv; many thousands of acres about the 
Xation clear without a stick or bush on it, they 
say some hundreds of acres of meadow without a 
bush on it ; the grass then to their chin, a kind of 
rough natural grass, the water much better than 
that of the river. Captain Bullitt, three white 
men, and three Delaware Indians with him, got to 
the Xation undiscovered which the Indians tliought 
very strange. They were obliged to stay at a 
wigwam under the care of some Indians that even- 
ing and next day till ten o'clock, in that time the 
rest giving notice to all the Xation concerning his 
business with them. About ten o'clock Captain 
Bullitt and the white men were ordered to the towu, 
where 115 warriors, spears and fixed bows and 
arrows, painted in the most frightful manner. 
Some of them rolled iu the sand and mud in the 
way just befoi'e the town. Captain B. not know- 
ing what they meant his approaching them nigh 
was surrounded with them. One of them running 
with a tomahawk drawn apparently to strike him ; 
the whole 115 warriors with shouts and hideous 
cries, some firing off guns over his head, sonu^ along- 
side, some amongst his feet, nigh powder burning 
of him, arrows drawn iu a violent manner, first 
against his back some of them cut through his coat, 



Robert's Journal. 

The nth we look (he river — & it went about 
1'5 miles a X. W. course & seems to make large 
low grounds on botli sides of the river, & then it 
went a S. W. course ab(mt 3 miles & then it falls 
into its old course till it goes to the mouth of 
Sciota bounded on both sides of the river with 
sharp ridges. Sciota seems to come in the same 
cotirse of Ohio & there are sharp hills join the 
Ohio below the mouth of Sciota & on both sides of 
Big lUver there seems to have been old Indian 
towns" where there is a small branch of very good 
water & seems to have been very good land but it 
has been all overflowed with the river, which 
seems to be the case of all the bottom land that 

1 have seen yet. 

June 12th I went out at the mouth of the Sciota 
to see the land & I went to the top of a high hill, 
& I could see about 6 miles up the Sciota, & at 
the uniuth there seemed to be a flat of laud about 

2 miles wide as far up the river as I could see & 
high ridges on each side of the river. Both up & 
down & on this side of the Ohio, as far as I could 
see, there was nothing but high brushy hills at 
the mouth of Sciota there Avas on this side of the 
river, there appears to have been an old French 
town'" with about 19 or 20 houses in it, compactly 
built together in the compass of about 2 acres of 
ground in it & a good deal of cleared land & fruit 
trees which has been about the time of the first 
wars. 



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THE AVOOUS :\r(AFEE MEMORIAL. 



James' Journal. 

he not knowing well what tlicv meant, walked up 
to the town tlirongli tlicni, tlicv tlicn left of¥, and 
some of tlie head warriors shook luinds with him, 
told him that was their manner of treatment of 
a nation at their first eoming to make peace with 
them, and afterwards seemed very friendly with 
him. and afterwards entered on their hnsiness. 
Captain Bullitt staid five days in the Nation wait- 
ing before he got his business settled with them; 
in two and one half days he came in a eanoe down 
to us. The Sfiota is a small river running ex- 
ceeding crooked about 100 miles from the Nation 
to the mouth.; about 20 miles level from the Nation 
and good land, the other eiglity miles hilly the 
nigher the Ohio the bills on both sides exceeding 
high, rocky and full of ])ine in ]>laces. though good 
liottom on the river, and some gocxl land in places 
up the small creeks. 

At the mimth of Sciota on ojir side Ohio has 
been a small town, and some grtmnd cleared about 
the time of the war. by the buildings we take to be 
the French'" — s<uue of them sijuare logs, large and 
well built, with doors and chimneys, clapboard 
covering, and some covered with bark. 

June 14th, Monday. We went five miles to get 
meat; got some. 

13th, iloved camj) two miles to a large creek." 
staid two days, hunted, got meat, searched the land, 
found little on the creek, the hills exceeding high, 
bushy, rocky, and full of stones as any I ever saw. 



•Tune ITtli, we moved camp ten miles to the 
mouth of a creek,''' the hills continued on both 
sides of the river to that creek ; up it half a mile 
from the river is a salt pond, about six feet wide 
at top, eigliteen inches deep, the water brown 
colored, free from turf or grass or weeds or any 
living thing in the waters, such as is common in 
other ponds of water. The water is very salt 
tasted in that pond, none running out of it above 
ground — the creek within 30 yards of it. It has 
been greatly made tise of by buffalo and deer: 
The Indians are there ofti-n and made salt many 
times, the traders tell us. 

June 21st, Abraham Hampenstall [Ilaptonstall] 
and James ^Ic.Mahan laid officers rights of 2000 
acres of land on that salt pond and up that creek. 



Robert's Journal. 



Monday Uth June— AVe left the mouth of 
Sciota & Ment about 5 miles before the batteaux 
to get meat & lay all night & f(mnd none; & the 
15th we moved camp about 2 miles further to a 
large Creek'" & hunted that day & found meat & 
lay there 2 nights. The Cre<»k made very little 
good land to what one would expect according to 
its size; & on the river the land is much the same 
as I remarked before, with high ridges on each side. 

The ITtli went down the river about 10 miles 
to a small Creek' where there Avas a Salt Lick 
about one mile from the river. The size of the 
spring is about five feet square & affords water 
about the full of a hogshead at once. & is sharp 
salt as brine, & there is no current runs from it 
nor to it, but it appears that it will be of great 
use if it continues & don't go dry. On the Creek 
which it is on, there is a great deal of goml land 
& fine limestone water. Down the Ohio to where 
A\e lay that night is some good land where they 
began to survey — \\here we lay from Thursday 
the ITth till .Monday the 21st about 45 miles below 
the mouth of Sciota,'"' & from that we went down 
the river 10 miles to a creek & encamped that 
night'" — The lands still appear good in places along 



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431 



James' journal. 

I walked three days iu that part of tlie (•ouiitry;" 
off the river there tlie laud l)e<iius jj^ood though 
high ridges ou both sides of the ereek. I walked 
up that ereek aud down ajiother 'M) miles, observ- 
ing the land as I went, — the lauds, \\ater, and 
tiinl)er exceedingly good for farming; tlie best of 
meadows may be made on all those ereeks, not 
hard to clear, Captain Bullitt left his batteaux 
there, aud i[r. Kennedy, sui'veyor, aud twelve men 
to lay olT a town on the river — 100 acres for the 
townsite, the survey to be divided into halfacre 
lots — 000 acres around the town, each lot having 
ten acres of that laud to raise corn on. If you 
choose to live in the town for fear of the Indians. 
I have two entries on that creek," 400 acres each, 
eight miles up it — all that creek entered and sur- 
veyed by Kennedy & Company. 

June 22d, Captain Bullitt and twenty men went 
farther dowu the Ohio''* in order to view and take 
up more laud ; we canipt in 15 miles one night." 
I saw the land oft" the river grew better and water 
as good as iu our part of the country — mostly 
limestone. Opposite oiir camp ou the other side 
of the Ohio bank, for two miles is the tinest cedar 
tiudier at Lariane's [Lawrence's] Creek."' 

June 23d, We moved eight miles farther to the 
mouth of Breckeu's Creek," surveyed two tracts 
of laud, one for Brecken — one for Ilei'rard [Har- 
rod] ; The laud out from the river there for 7 or 
S miles seemed hilly and poorer. 

June 24tli, Thursday. We moved down six miles 
to Wilper's Creek,-" laid oft' laud for the second 
town, a large bottom on the river. The hills (mt 
from that six or seven miles, high, rough and poor, 
not worth surveying, called Wilper s folly. 

June 25, Friday. >\'e sailed 30 miles down 
Ohio not looking [at] lau<l, to tlie mouth of Little 
Mej'Ome a creek about 100 yards wide at the mouth- 
It comes in the other side Ohio. Two miles below 
that a small clean gravelly island in the Ohio six 
miles below that the month of Licking Crwk ou our 
side, about 80 yards wide at the month. "" 

June 20th, Sunday [Saturday] Monday [Sun- 
day], 27th We left .Mr. Douglas, survey(U' there aud 
part of the company to survey 7000 acri's as an 
officer's claim. John Fox owner. The bottom on 
the river Very good; the upland broken and 
scarce of water, but rich and vastly full of l)eech 
tiud)er; for 20 miles up that creek the laud broken 
aud so full of beech timber and water bad,"" we 



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the river, w ith liigii hills ou each side & <mt froui 
the river there is very tine land as can be for corn, 
wheat, hemp, tobacco, or anything that man can 
put in the ground. 



The 22d ^Ve went down the river about 20 miles^" 
to a large creek— the hills l)egin to fall flat ou both 
sides of the river; & I hunted out from the river 
where the laud & water still appear to get better; 



& the 24th of June we came dowu the river alwut 
8 miles to a large Creek, & I left the Company & 
went to the woods to see the country,"* & I went 
about 10 miles \\\) the creek & there was not much 
good land — then I went dowu another creek, about 
8 miles; there \\as some good wheat land iS; the 
creek went into a small river, & I went down the 
river about 25 miles; there was a great deal of 
tiat laud, lV: I left the river cV; crossed the ridges 
about 13 miles where there was still good wheat 
land; & canu' to the river to look for my Company, 
& they were gone by, & I was forced to make a 
bark canoe & went down the river till the uu)ou 
set, (& lay at the sh(«-i' — & iu the moruiug I went 
down the river till abimt ten o'clock & f<mnd the 
Com]tany at the mouth of Licking Creek, which 
was the 27th of the mouth ( Junel On that creek I 
made one entry of land;"' 



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passed by tliem — ouly that officer's claim. Robert 
(McAfee) was 40 miles up that creek,"^ the land 
is middling good in places and level — the water 
scarce, that Licking Creek 100 yards Avide 40 miles 
up it, appears to be a long ways from the Moun- 
tains, and may afford a vast good laud on it, un- 
known to us; some entries made 40 miles up it. 

June 28th. We went 20 miles farther to the 
mouth of a small branch, miles above the mouth 
of Big Meyome, laid off 4r)0 acres for the 3d town."* 
A\'e staid three days there, hunted out 5 or 6 miles, 
found the land very good, but very much broken, 
with branches and gullies, and scarce of Avater, 
etc. What is very good, very little low grounds 
on that part of tlie river. The largest bottom we 
saw for 80 miles we there found five miles long, 
by three fourths of a mile wide; no pond of any 
bigness in that bound ; mostly hilly and rich ground 
for ."» or b miles out. There ]Mr. Hite and 6 men, 
in two canoes, came to us from Pittsburg. Mr. 
Hite surveyor in that company. 

June 30th, We set sail down; in four miles we 
got to the month of Big ileyome a little river about 
100 yards wide at the mouth, appears the best land 
we haA'e seen on all Ohio. In going ten miles 
farther doA\n there came in four creeks — Some a 
mile, some two miles apart ; some of them 50 yards 
across ; up these creeks and along the river were 
the largest low lands I ever saw. On the heads of 
these two Meyomes the Peeks live, a nation of In- 
dians. The traders tell us up those two rivers is the 
best land ever they saw on all Ohio. From the 
mouth of Big Meyome the Ohio, in going 14 miles, 
turns from south west to south east in the bend of 
a gravelly island about one mile long;-" at and 
in that bend old Wilper^" laid an officer's claim of 
some thousands of acres. The river turned and run 
a little south west about about 6 miles; thence 
Wending, running Bouth east about 12 miles in a 
great bend to the north of a large creek. In that 
scH-ond bend was two large ponds of brush and 
water; the land vastly full of beech timber ap- 
pears unhandy to make use of. Clear off the river 
the hills very high and poor. 

( Note. — For some reason James McAfee's Jour- 
nal has no record of the first seven days of July. 
— Editor. ) 



Robert's Journal. 



The 28tli we went down the river about 25 
miles to a large bend of the river where there was 
good bottom land & a great deal of broken upland, 
Avhere we intended to make a survey. The 29th we 
viewed the land to see how it lay, & there came 
another surveyor & his company to us; 



L^ the 30th of the month we went to survey the 
land & went one stjuare & quit it l)y reason we 
could not get it surveved as we would have it. 



The first day of July we Avent on down the 
river about 8 miles & we went by the mouth of 
the Big ^liami, & then the river begins to run to 
the south east for about 18 miles where Ave lay 
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July Stli, Thursday, we set sail down the Ohio 
with eijiht nu'ii,"' ^Ir. Taylor suiweyor, iu order to 
go to Levisa river to survey our land as we had 
made choice of that part of the country; the mouth 
of it is 30 miles above the big falls on the Ohio. 
Sailed 44 miles to the mouth of Kentucky river — 
7 miles above the falls. 

July 0th, Friday, We sailed to the mouth of a 
creek and went up it to a lick.^" Mr. Breckeu one 
of our company that A\as through the Shawnee 
Nation with Captain Bullitt got notice of that lick 
from some of the Indians, promised one of them a 
rille gun to tell him where it lay. Mat Brecken and 
Jack Drennou left our company the Saturday be- 
fore, went across the woods and found the Lick 
before we got there ; claimed it as property and laid 
in 400 acre survey. We travelled round the Lick, 
10 or 12 miles upland, very good, mostly oak 



Robert's Journal. 

turning to the south east about 12.") miles & lay 
all night ;'- the lands on both sides appear to be 
much more Hat & rich, but not much water — for 
it appears that the creeks & branches go dry in 
anything of dry weather. The river begins to 
turn to the ^\ est from this. The 3d we lay there," 
& the 4th we came up the river about 10 miles to 
the Big Bone where ('apt. Bullitt intended to 
make a station & survey land. On the 5th we 
went to see the Big Bone,^* which is a wonder to 
see the large bones that lie there, which have been 
of several large big creatures." The lick is about 
200 yards long i^ as wide, & the waters & mud are 
of a suli»hur smell. There are several other licks 
on the same creek, & the same taste & smell ; & 
there is very line laud on the same creek which was 
surveyed that day. 

The Gth we lay by, & the 7th we intended to 
set sail down the river, & there came down the 
river a trading canoe which told us that above 
the mouth of the Canaway that they came by a 
man lying in the edge of the water that appearefl 
to have been drowned ; but did not draw to shore 
to see whether he Mas drowned or killed by the 
Indians. He appeared to be bloody on the back 
as he lay in the water. In the evening [afternoon] 
we left Capt. Bullitt & went to look for Levisa 
to get our lauds surveyed f^ & about 25 miles on our 
side of the river the hills began to fall very low, & 
fall into a large bottom about 16 miles in length. 
We went till S o'clock at night cSt put to shore & 
lay in our canoes all night. About one hour 
before day, on the 8th, we took to the river & got 
to the mouth of Cantucky or Levisa at day break, 
& went up the river about IS miles to the mouth 
of a creek that came from toAvards the Big Bone.^* 
The lands seemed to be full of beech — only one 
bottom at the mouth of the creek on the other 
side of the river, where we lay all night. The 
9th we went up the river 5 miles to the mouth of 
a creek where the river was shut up with a stone 
bar that came across the river all to about 10 feet 
of water which is a little remarkable that a river 
of 100 yards across & 10 feet in depth of water, 
should be stopped. Up the creek, that comes in 
there, one mile is a salt lick which is a wonder to 
see. The Lick is about one mile in length & one 
hundreds yards in breadth, & the roads that came 
to that lick no man would believe till he saw the 
place; 6i: tlie woods round that place are trod for 



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tiinlK'i-; a sin'at iii;iii,v small creeks :iii(l Imuiclies; 
scarce as iiuirh water among them all as would 
save a man's life while he travelled across them. 

We lav at the Great Salt Lick from Friday 9th 
to Wednesday 14th. The company surveyed several 
tracts of land there;'" we travel Ictl about six miles 
up the river above the Lick; there are some high 
ridges on the river all rich and well timliered, in 
other places a little off the fine upland well tim- 
bered Avith oak & hickory. It may afford a vast good 
laud towards the head unknown to us. In what we 
see about 26 miles from the mouth" there is no 
conveniency for mills on Cantucky river. I had for- 
got above the mouth of Cantucky on the Ohio river 
a bottom about l.j miles long on our side; against 
it a small timber island 8 miles from the mouth of 
Kentucky. 

The 15th July we left the Great Salt Lick, took 
a path to the right of the river up a creek*" a south, 
course about 30 miles and camped that night. 

The 16th. In five miles we crossed the Cantucky 
river to the east side along the path; five miles 
in a piece of black oak timber land ; Ave stopped and 
surveyed one track of land for Robert McAfee con- 
taining 600 acres about 100 of that meadow 
ground.*^ 

Friday IGth, left an axe, tomahawk and fish gig 
in the spring." 

Saturday ITth, We kept the path*^ on the east 
side of the river about S miles, in good land; we 
left that path, went to the south west, in six miles 
we crossed the river at high hills and cedar banks" 
— no bottom in that part of the river. We left the 
river and travelled that evening across the woods 
12 miles'" still through good lands but scarce of 
water. The land well timbered — we camped that 
night. 

Sunday 18th, We camped on a small creek abt)Ut 
5 miles on the Avest side of the river,'** that creek 
about 15 miles above Robert McAfee's survey at 
the great meadoAV on the rlA'er. 

Monday 19th July, I surveyed 800 acres on the 
head of that creek about five or six miles from the 
river. 

Tuesday, 20th. liobiu McAfee and me travel le<l 
up the river six miles on both sides the land still 
good but Aery little Avater or springs in that part. 



Robert's Journal 

many miles that there is not as much ftM)d as 
would feed one sheep; & there seems that there 
nmy be a great deal of salt made there; & the land, 
a deal of it, is fiat & good for farming; but there 
is no Avater — Avhich Avill be hurtful to that place. 
The 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th & 14th Ave lay there 
till there Avas some land surveyed.*" 



Thursday the 15th took a sniall biilTiilo path" 
Avhich Avas about 50 and a hundred yards wide in 
common about 30 miles across low fiat ridges, mid- 
dling good land & timber, but no Avater. 

The 16th Ave Avent about 3 miles, & came to 
the same riAer — Cantuck — & crossed it to the sun- 
rise side, & then 2 miles across to another bend. 
The land on the river seemed to be very full of 
beech ; & from that bend I nuide two surveys'" 
near joining to the river, Avith about 50 acres of 
meadow uoav ready made, & there can be made 50 
acres more Avith a little trouble; Avith bottom & 
upland sufficient, Avith very good Avater in different 
places of it. The 17th Ave set off for Levisa & 
crossed the river about 7 miles from my survey," 
through as fine land as could be & timber, but not 
much water. There Ave left the river to the left 
hand across the woods about 12 miles,'" through 
as good laud as can be, but still the Avater is scarce 
— where Ave lay all night, Avhich Avas on Saturday. 

The 18th Ave Aveut tOAvards the same river across 
about 8 miles to the head of a spring'* & lay all 
night — through good laud, where there were two 
surveys made. 

The 19th Ave Avere a little surprised by a gun 
that Ave took for Indians;''' 

the 20th we looked for more laud across the riA-er, 
but saAv none that would suit us. There is not 
any good land for five or six miles on each side 
of the river, for the river is bounded Avith Aery 
high cedar hills, that it is hard to get into the 



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Wednesday, 21st., we went, from the Cove Spring 
at two miles across to the Crooked Creek^" — four 
miles down that creek made two surveys for James 
McCouu Junior. 400 acres each."'" 



July 23rd, Friday — ilade 3 surveys in tlie creek 
above James JlcCoun Jr. for Saml. Adams. 3 
more for George McAfee above that; 3 more for 
James McCoun Sr. above that in a brushy fork on 
the east side of Crooked Creek full of swamps, 
black oak timber and hazel brush ; made also two 
surveys for myself, 400 acres each,^' joining James 
McCoun brushy, a large spring in the bauk of the 
creek in each survey on the east side. Made also 
a survey of 400 acres for John McGee joining that 
one; for James McAfee Sr. 400 acres joining that 
one ; for Sam Adams 400 acres — all on sd. creek. 



July 30th, above that made 3 surveys for Wm. 
McAfee, one for James McCoun, and one for 
Jeremiah Telford &c. 



July 31st, Saturday, We left Crooked Creek 
where we got our lands sur^'eyed and set off up 
Cantucky river for home. ilr. Taylor our sur- 
\e3or, and two men with him set off for the Falls 
of the Ohio, about tift}- miles from that, where we 
expected to meet Capt. Bullitt again and com- 
pany." That evening very wet. We came about 
7 miles, part of it thi'ough cane breaks, to a large 
creek; camped that night under a I'ock at the foot 
of a high cedar hill." 

August 1st. ^A'e left Kock Camp, travelled 
mostly an eastern course about IG miles amongst 
broken ridges covered with cane and clover — 
amongst these ridges we crossed two creeks and 
camped.^'* 



Robert's Journal 

river <ii' diil from it. Put- there seems to lie a 
great deal of fish in the river. The 21st we went 
across from James' survey about 3 miles to a 
large creek, & a little down that creek, & made one 
survey for James McCoun of 400 aci-es.''"* 

The 22(1 we [made] one survey for his brother 
John [McCoun] joining to James, & went up the 
creek about five miles & camped for to survey 
SOUK' mm-e land, & made two for Sam Adams on 
the 23d ; 



the 24th we made six surveys more — the 25th was 
Sunday. The 26th we moved our camp up the 
creek four miles to survey more land. 27th we 
made tive surveys more which made 2000 acres of 
land. The 2Sth Ave moved our camp up the creek 
4 miles further to survey the rest of our land; & 
lay all day the 29th to plot Avhat was surveyed. 
The 30th we moved up the (creek) two miles, & 
made the last of our surveys" — one for Wm. 
-McAfee, & one for James Curry, & one for Jeremiah 
Telford; & we parted Avith the surveyor & two 
more men that intended to go back to the Ohio to 
Capt. Bullitt at the Falls. "' 

The 31st of July Ave set out [on] our journey 
for home Avhich Avas on Saturday about 2 o'clock 
in the morning [afternoon] Avhich Avas cloudy and 
like for rain, & did rain vein- hard. We canu' about 
7 miles across & came to one foi-k of the river, 
through fine cane land, as good as can be for any 
use, & Ave lay all night by the side of the river 
under the very high rocks to shelter the rain, & 
dry our things — for it Avas exceeding Avet.""^ 

And the 1st day of August rained some showers, 
& Ave travelled OA-er high ridges, full of caiu, & 
A'ery rich; so that we had hard getting along. 



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James' Journal. 

August 2(1, We travelled an east course about 
20 miles through rich woods and mostly cane — a 
great nianj' branches mostly dry — we camped at 
a Lick.'" 



August 3d, We left that Lick and travelled a 
south east course mostly through black oak timber 
woods and bold liills, about 20 miles and crossed 
Cantucky river within 8 miles of [at] pine hills 
and broken mountains." We left the river that 8 
miles amongst the pine Knobs — a great many small 
licks — and east of these licks near a little pine 
mountain 16 miles into the level woods; we 
camped amongst these licks; came 28 miles that 
day.- 

August 4th, we travelled three miles to the 
south and struck the river again; took up it about 
20 miles that day and camped. 



August oth, We still kejit up the river, in 8 
miles we passed a Salt lick under the side of a 
great rock''" on the east side of the river; five miles 
farther up comes in a large creek on the west side; 
15 miles fartlier up comes another large one on 
same side — no good land on that part of the river. 
We came 40 miles that day and camped. '"' 



August Gth, we travelled up the river, passed 
one big creek on the east side;" we travelled about 
20 miles and camped — the day being Avet. no good 
land still. 

August 7th, Saturday, We travelled up the 
river six miles and it forked,"" we took the left 
hand; about 20 miles it forked again and we 
camped.""' Some good bottoms seen in the river 
that day. 

August Sth, Sunday, We travelled up the river 
about 20 miles, the hills very high and full of green 
briar and some laurel."* 

Monday 9th August. Very wet, we travelled up 
the river about 20 miles further through high hills 
worse with green briar and laurel. 



Robert's Journal. 

And the 2(1 we ( aiiie from morning till about the 
middle of the day through liigh rich cane woods, 
across several creeks, & in the after part of the 
day we came to where the woods grew flatter & 
more fit for farming — where we biy all night at 
a Lick,'" & it looked like for rain. Tuesday the 
3d — was very fair and clear, & we [saw] several 
creeks of good land, but the ridges wei'e but mid- 
dling; & about the middle of the day Ave crossed 
some high bold hills, & Ave came in siglit of the 
mountains, about 8 miles distance where Ave found 
the river,^^ & we came about 5 miles further to 
Avhere there Avere a great many mud licks, where 
we lay all night.^' 



The 4th Avas clear, & we came up the river, 
Avhicli ran A^ery crooked, & there Avas some good 
bottom land for about the half of that day's traA'el, 
& the hills came close on botli sides, Avhere Ave lay 
all night. 

Tliursday 5th, was clear, & A\e came uj) the 
river, it Avas still close on every side Avith hills, & 
Ave came to a high bank of rock^" that Avas IioUoav 
under, & there Avas standing A\ater in some of the 
holes of the rocks that Avas very good & salt, but 
these Avere not much for a public use; & about five 
miles from that the river forked, & Ave took the 
left hand & came al)out 15 miles farther & it forked 
again & Ave took the left still, & came about 12 
miles & camped at a small branch :"" the Avoods 
came close to the river, with rough green briar 
hills: The (Jth rained some all day, & Ave came 
up the river about 20 Jiiiles tlinmgh very bad 
ground that Ave had hard getting along, & Ave had 
the river to raft once across. The 7th Ave came 
25 miles, the river forked about 6 miles from Avhere 
Ave lay, & Ave took the right hand"- & came about 20 
miles further, & it forked, Avhere Ave lay all night. 
The river AAas something opener tliat Ave had good 
coming that day, & Ave took the right hand fork."' 

Sunday the Sth Ave came up the river about 25 
miles — The river Avas A^ery crooked so that Ave had 
to cross near 20 times & very often to our middle."* 
AVe killed a buck Elk & lay all night."' The 9th 
was Avet almost all day, so that aa'c had 
very bad travelling; there Avas some open 
land for a Avhile in the morning, & then the 
river was verj' close till niglit, & it run A'ery 
crooked, & Ave had it to cross every bend, for 20 
miles,"" AAhich Ave tra\'elled for that daj-. 



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Tuesday 10th August. Travelled still up the 
river about 20 miles, the hills exceeding high and 
close to the river. 

August 11th, Ave kept the river about 8 miles 
further and then left at a short bend — it run north 
west; we took up a creek toAvards the south about 
6 miles to the head of it in a high hill ;"' we crossed 
some high laurel hills that evening and camped. 

August 12th, Thursday, We travelled through 
the laurel hills six miles furtlser and struck a large 
creek at a big fork at the falls of it,"" we took the 
south fork in about two miles we came to some big 
Elk Licks on it and very big paths up it runs 
straight into the north side of an exceeding high 
mountain we came over that mountain that even- 
ing and camped on a small creek at the foot of it. 

Augiist 13th, Friday. We left that camp and 
travelled 8 miles across the head of Powell's Val- 
ley to the hunter's path." 

August 14th Saturday. We took that path, 
crossed t\\o little mountains over to Clinch water;" 
travelled 25 miles that da}-. 

August 15th, Sunday. We travelled that path 
about 15 miles and struck the ford of Clinch at 
Castlewood's, 12 miles below James Smith's;'' we 
came eight miles that night to the ford to David 
Gees.'"* [Guest] 

August IGth, Monday. We came but five miles 
to Capt. Kussell's. Our feet were much scalded 
and so lame that we could not travel.'^ 



Robert's Journal. 

The lOlh we came still up (he river till about 10 
o'clock, & we went to leave it but could not, it was 
so bad,''' & \\e took the river & kept it that day, 
which was about 20 miles. 

The 11th we kept the river till about 2 o'clock, & 
we left it"- & came across the woi'st Laurel Moun- 
tains that I ever saw, about 20 miles that day. 



The 12th we were all day in the worst mountains 
that ever I saw, which seenu'd to us that we should 
never get out of — & there wa.^ but little to kill, ^^ 
oar provision was almost done — began to look a 
little discouraging to us, but in the evening Ave 
came to some better ground which give us more 
hopes, & Ave got meat that night plenty at the side 
of a laurel branch"" where we lay all night. 

The 13th Ave travelled about 8 miles in exceeding 
bad laurel mouutaius, which seemed to be hard to 
get out of — and it rained very hard. 

The 14th Ave got in the head of PoAvell's Valley 
on the Long Hunter's road, & Ave had tAvo moun- 
tains to cross on a small path,'- & the 15th we got 
to a house in the morning, Avhich was a glad sight 
to us." 



(Note: The mission of Captain Thomas Bullitt 
to the ShaAvnee Nation at Chillicothe, in June, 
1773, mentione^l above by liobert McAfee in his 
Journal under date of June 1, and by Janii's in his 
Journal under date of June 15, Avas deeuu'd by both 
James aud Robert to be of such interest and im- 
portance as to Avarrant their taking copitts of the 
proceedings of the same in the back of their respec- 
tive Journals. Captain Bullitt had Avith him, on 
that mission, one MattheAV Bracken, besides tAVO 
other Avhite men, aud three friendly Indians. This 
man Bracken Avas, in a sense, a member of the Mc- 
Afee Company. It seems that the ilcAfees, before 
leaving the mouth of the Great KanaAvha on their 
Avay down the Ohio, entered into an agreement Avith 



Hancock Taylor, the surveyor, to accompany them 
and lay off land for them AAiiile in Kentucky, and 
TaA'lor had for his assistants this man Bracken and 
a Jacob Drennon, of Avhom mention is made by 
James McAfee in his Journal July 9. — The three 
documents are well Avortli a careful reading. They 
slied light upon the Indian character, and on the 
conditions prevailing in the West in that eavly day. 
Capt. Bullitt is here seen to have been a man of no 
small skill as a dii)lomatist, as AA'ell as a soldier of 
tlie most dauntless courage. See the description 
of Captain Bullitt's remarkable reception at Chilli- 
cothe b}' one hundred aud fifteen Avarriors, as given 
in James McAfee's Journal Juue 15. — N. M. W.) 




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CArTAlX r.ULLITT'S SPEECn. 

To TiiK CiiiKFS OF Tin: SiiAWAxoi; Xa Tio.N. .Made in 
TIIK Couxciii ITOLSi:. 

Chill icotho, Juno 9th, 1773. 

'•Brothel's, I am soiit witli my jicdith' to sctth' tlie 
"oouutry on tlic Ohio Kivor as low as tho Falls, the 
•'King has houoht of tho Xorthoni and Southern 
"Intlians; and I am desired to anniaint you and 
"all the people of this sjreat country, that the Enj^- 
"lish are, and intend to live in friendship with you 
"all, and expect the same from you and them; and 
''as the Shawanoes and Delawares are to he our 
"nearest neighbors, and did not get any of the pay 
"given for it, it is proposed and agreed by the prin- 
"cipals of thosewho are to be theowners of the land 
"to contribute to make your two tribes a present 
"to be given yon the next year and the year after. 
'•1 am appointed to live in the country; I am sent 
"to settle it in order to keep proper regulation, and 
"as I expect some more princijial men out of my 
"ccmntry in a short time, there will be something 
"more to say to you. And the (Jovernor was to 
"come through this country last year, had he not 
"been taken sick, so that he may be out this or next 
"year, as he is desirous of seeing you and the coun- 
"try. I will have a belt of wampum when we have 
"anything more to say. As the King did not buy 
"the country for any other ])urpose than his people 
"to live on, an<l work to supply his country, there- 
''fore we shall have no objection to your hunting, or 
"trapping on it. We shall expect you will live 
"with us as brothers and friends. I sliall write 
"what you say to my Governor and exjiect it to be 
"a good talk." 



The Axsweu of the Chief Cornstalk Next 

MOUNING. 

"Old Brother the Big Knife: 

"We heard you would be glad to see your broth- 
"ers the Hlunxanoes and Delawares and talk with 
"them. A\'e are a little surprised that you sent no 
"message before you, but came quite near us, and 
"then through the woods and grass, a hard way 
"without our knowledge, till you appeared among 
"us quite unexpected. But you are now- standing 
"among your brothers who think well of you and 
"what you have said to us. We have considered 
"your talk carefully and we are pleased to find 



"iioiliing liad in it, or no ill meaning, but what 
"seems pleasing, kind, and friendly. You have 
"mentioned to us your directions f(U" settling of 
"jK'ople over the river on the opposite side to us, 
"and it is not tbe meaning of your King and Gov- 
"ernor to dc|iriv(' us of tiie hunting of the country 
''as usual, l)ut that your directions are to take 
''proper care that we shall not be disturbed in our 
"bunting for which we stand in need of, to buy our 
'•clothing, all of which is very agreeable to your 
"ycmng brothers. Your young men we desire will 
''be strong in the discharge of ycmr directions to- 
''ward us. as we are <letermined to be strong in ad- 
"vising our young men to be friendly, kind and 
"peaceable to j'ou. This spring we saw some 
"wrong by our young men in disturbing j'onr peo- 
"ple by taking their horses, but we have advised 
"them to the contrary and have cleansed their 
"hearts of bad intentions, and expect it will be 
"barkened to by them as they are pleased with what 
"has been said." 



LETTER OF BICIIAKD BUTLEE. 

"Chillicothe, June 10th, 1773. 

"Gentle:me.\ : I have lieen present as a witness 
"and interpreter between Captain Bullitt and the 
"Shawanoes and a part of the Delawares. I be- 
"lieve (and not without some surprise that I ac- 
''(juaint you) that his progress in treating with 
"these i>eople has exceeded the expectation of most 
"people, as they claim an absolute rite to all that 
"country you are about to settle. That it does not 
"lie in the power of those who sold it to give this 
"land ; — and as I am a well-wisher to your under- 
"taking I can do no less in justice to Capt. Bullitt 
"than to acquaint you that it is my opinion that it 
"lies in your power to fulfil every engagement he 
"has made in your behalf, by endeavoring to nmke 
"good order among you, and a friendly counte- 
"uance to your present neighbors the Shawanoes, I 
"do assure you it lies in your power to have good 
"neighbors or bad, as they are a people very capable 
"of discerning between good treatment and ill ; they 
"expect you will be friendly with them, and eu- 
"deavor to restrain the hunters from destroying 
"the game, and that the young men who are iu- 
"clined to hunt will be regulated by the law of the 
"colony in the case, and as I dai*e say it is not to 
"hunt the land but to cultivate it, that vou are 



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"about to settle it, it will be an easy matter to re- 
"strain those that would hunt, and caiise your in- 
"fant settlement to be disturbed, althoujih I am at 
"present a stranger to you all, I beg leave to sub- 



•scribe myself your well wisher and humble ser- 
'vant "Richard Butler. 

"To the Gentlemen Settlers Relow the Mouth of 
•Sciota." 



NOTES ON THE McAFEE JOURNALS. 



BY REV. NEANDER M. WOODS. 



1. — The famous Salt Spring, on the bank of the 
Great Kanawha River, at the mouth of Camj^bell's 
Creek, at which point we believe the ilcAfee Com- 
pany embarked in canoes they had constructed 
there, was about 00 miles, l)y water, from the 
mouth of the river. And as the party reached tlie 
Oliio, a little after day-break, on the morning of 
Saturday, the 20th of May, it is safe to assume they 
took leave of the Salt Spring some time during 
Thursday, May 27. 

2. — Captain Thomas Rullitt was an experienced 
and gallant soldier, whom Lord Dunmore, Gov- 
ernor of Virginia, had commissioned to visit the 
headquarters or capital of the Shawnee Nation, at 
('hillicothe, situated about TOO miles to the north- 
west of the mouth of the Great Kanawha. His 
name, will, for all time, be associated Avith the Falls 
of the t)liio and the city of Louisville, where now 
lives his great-grand-nephew, the Hon. Thomas 
Walker Bullitt, one of the most distinguished law- 
yers of Kentucky. 

3. — West "S'irginia's principal river, like all 
streams which are afflicted with different names 
for their several parts, has long been the innocent 
cause of much confusion. This river, from the 
point at which the (Jaulcy River enters it, is prop- 
erly called the (ireat Kanawha: al)Ove that point 
it is the New River clear to its source in the North 
Carolina JMountains. Robert McAfee, in his entry 
of this date (May 29) affords an example of the 
confusion referred to, in that he first calls this 
stream the "Kenhawa," and then, a few lines far- 
ther on, he calls it "New River." On some of the 
older maps we find it nuirked "Wood's River," 
which Dr. Hale (Trans- Allegheny I'ioneers, images 
20-22), says was in honor of that early explorer. 
Col. Abraham ^^'ood, its first (white) discoverer. 
Col. Wood seems to have crossed the Blue Ridge, 
in 1054, at the gap known as Wood's Gap, and to 
have struck the river, which took his own name, at 
the mouth of Little River, about 12 miles south- 
west of Christiansburg, Ya., and about twice that 



distance to the north of the ga]) referred to. That 
gap was also named for him. It is situated on the 
boundary line of Patrick and Floyd counties, Va., 
and close to the North Carolina line. 

4. — We find both James and Robert, in these 
Journals, when referring to their movements along 
the shores of the Ohio, often using the phrases 
"this side," and "our side," which meant the south 
side. Only once or twice, in all the nearly 40 days 
they were on the Ohio, do we find them even setting 
foot on the northern shore; and theyi did no sur- 
veying whatever on that side, so far as appears 
from their Joiirnals. This may have a two-fold 
explanation: The danger of attempting to settle 
on the north bank would have been very consider- 
ably greater than on the southern shore, because 
the chief town of the Shawnecs was only about 100 
miles from tlie (.Hiio, and they weve a vicious and 
most warlike tribe; and, then, the McAfees, no 
doubt, felt that, as yet, the whites had no lawfully 
established claim to the lauds to the north of the 
Ohio. Captain Bullitt, in his si^eech to the Shaw- 
uees, at Chillicothe, June 10, 1773 (see his speech 
on page. 439), seems to concede as much. The Mc- 
Afees were God-fearing, honorable men, who seem 
never to have even desired to wrong the ignorant 
savages. The Treaty of Fort Stanwix, November 
o, 1708, had, as uearl}- everyone then supposed, 
completely extinguished the Indian title to the 
whole of Kentucky as far down the Ohio as to the 
mouth of the Tennessee River; and the McAfees, no 
doubt, felt sure they had a right to lay in entries 
and make settlement on the south side of the Ohio, 
but none on the other side. 

5. — No doubt, to men Avho had probably no clear 
recollection of ever having seen so considerable a 
stream as the Ohio, the name "Big River" seemed 
approi)riate. Here we find one of the few in- 
stances, if not the only one, of their venturing to 
explore the northern shore of the Ohio. They were 
then skirting the edge of what is now West Vir- 
ginia, near the mouth of Guyandotte River, and 






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just above the Big Saudy, at wboso iiioiitli tlic ]>arty 
camped the night of June 10. 

G. — James estimated their "sail" at 45 miles, 
from the Big Sandy to the Scioto, on June 11, 
which is G miles too much. Yet, even 3!) miles a 
day in eantx's is fine speed. Bobert's description 
of the course of tlie Ohio on this day, and bis esti- 
mates of distances, are very inaccurate. James 
was the more experienced nuin of the two. 

7. — Koberfs Journal f(U" May 29 stated tliere 
were live canoes of Delaware Indians then with the 
white companies, but James here mentions nine 
canoes. No doubt, as the party bad moved so very 
leisurely down the Ohio for the tirst ten days, addi- 
tional canoes had overtaken them. What puzzles 
us is that the Avhites knew bow to distinguish 
friendly Indians from hostilcs far enough oft' to 
l>reveut any clash occurring as the result of mis- 
apprehensicm. 

S. — This was an omincms incident, and Avell cal- 
culated to afl:"ord matter for serious thought. Where 
were the former occupants of those empty saddles? 
^^'here had those Shawnee bucks been to find those 
horses? The nuud)er of the riderless animals is 
given by James at 17, but it is likely that the figure 
1 did not belong tbert^ — the true number was prob- 
ably 7. Four Iiulians A\ould hardly have been 
e(|ual to vamiuisbing luore than their own number 
of the kind of white men then in the counti'y. No 
shots seem to have been exchanged, and no attempt 
made to intercept the lied Skins, who luid evidently 
been up to grave mischief. 

9. — Robert here refers to the well-known Indian 
renuiins on both sides of the Ohio at the numth of 
the Scioto. They are known as "The Portsmouth 
(iroup." rollius (Vol. 2, pages 301-3) gives an ac- 
count of them with illustrations. Here and at one 
place on the Cundjerland Biver, as Collins thinks, 
Mere the only real homes Indians ever had in Ken- 
tucky. 

10. — This town, built by the French and Indians 
at least 20 years before the McAfees saw them, is 
also referred to by man}' historians. Collins (Vol. 
2, pages 300-1) gives a brief account, drawn partly 
from these journals. TJie last vestiges of it dis- 
appeared more than a century ago, the buildings 
being of wood. 

11. — James seems to have been deeply interested 
in Captain Bullitt's mission to Cliillicothe, and 
took copies of the most important parts of the pro- 
ceedings, which Axill be found in full at i)ages 439 



to 440. The truth was, all scltlei's south of the 
Ohio bad need to be concerned with the plans and 
temper of the Shawnees, as Avas amply demon- 
strated by the tearful experiences of the Ken- 
tuckiaus in after years. 

12. — This was Kinuicoiinick Creek at whose 
uumth is now located the village of Quincy, Lewis 
Co., Ky. 

13. — This was Salt IJck Creek, Lewis Co., at 
whose mouth stands A'anceburg. Less thiin a mile 
up it is the salt s]iriiig which gives the creek its 
name. 

14. — This brief renuirk, and the further state- 
ment in the TU'xt sentence as to the distance (30 
miles) travelled u]i and down that creek, convey no 
adequate notion of the real significance of that 
thre<i days' walking. It nu'ant that James separate<l 
from the rest of the party, and made a lengthy 
detcmr through the forest alone (while the rest of 
the men were busy surveying claims), and was out 
there by himself for at least two nights and three 
days, and at one tiuie was at least 15 miles from his 
companions. This, too, when be was liable at any 
moment to fall in with a baud of Indians, to say 
nothing of all the other possible dangers to which 
he would be exposed. It is hardly practicable for 
us, in this day, fully to take in the situation, or to 
understand the mettle of such a man. 

15. — From the 17tli till about noon of the 21st 
of June, the whole party lay at the mouth of Salt 
Lick Creek (Vanceburg), which is just 211/0 miles 
below the mouth of the Scioto, and went 15 or 16 
miles farther on the 21st. The Journal of Bobert, 
as we have it, gives the distance of Salt Lick Creek 
below the Scioto as 45 miles, but it seems almost 
certain that A\hat he really meant to guess was 25, 
and the larger figures given are no doubt the un- 
intentional mistake of some copyist. 

IG. — This refers to the point at which the party 
camj)ed the night of Monday, June 21 — the mouth 
of a creek which Bobert supposed was 16 miles be- 
low where Vanceburg now stands. James says it 
was 15 miles. 

17. — These two entries, of 400 acres each, on 
Salt Lick Creek, eight miles from its mouth, made 
by James, were the first ever nmde by anj' of the 
McAfee Ciuupany proper in Kentucky. Indeiil, it 
is a fact that, with the exception of some surveys 
which some ha^e alleged (without any clear evi- 
dence) to have been made in 1770 by George Wash- 
ington a little farther up the river, the surveys at 



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this place by the ]McAfees aud Biillitt were tlie very 
first by any men, in Kentucky. 

18._lThese figures, taken together with other 
(lata furnished by these Jonnials, enable us to form 
some idea of the size of the little army or fleet now 
moving down the Ohio. Capt. Bullitt had left a 
surveyor and 12 men at the mouth of Salt Lick 
('reek to lay off a towu, and then next day h<' takes 
with himself I'O men down the river to uiake entries 
farther below. This means that the Bullitt Com- 
pany alone consisted of at least 34 men. If to these 
we add the companies of McAfee, Harrod, Douglass 
and Taylor we have probably an aggregate of about 
50 or 60 able-bo<litxl men, not one of whom \\as a 
"tender-foot" For this assemblage of nuni, and 
their considerable outfit and provisions, not fewer 
than 25 boats would be requisite. The sight of 
such a fleet as that moving down the river was one 
well calculated to strike terror to the hearts of any 
savages who might chance to get a view of it. 

19. Jnne 22 James nuikes a record, the first 

part of Avhich narrates the doings of June 21; and 
one thing he states is that "We campt in 15 miles 
one night." The only intelligible interpretation 
of this statement is that it tells us of the journey 
nmde in the afternoon of Monday, June 21. Bob- 
ert tells us, June 21, that tliey Aveut down the river 
It; miles to a creek, and camped that night. The 
guesses of the two brothers must both refer to the 
distance travelled the afternoon of .Monday, the 
2 1st. 

20.— If the distance travelled this day (June 22) 
was really 20 miles, as our copy of Robert's record 
has it, then the McAfee Company went to the 
nu:)uth of Lawrence Creek, about 5 miles below 
.Maysville, before going into camp, and this agrees 
with tlie latter part of the record James made on 
June 22, which will be considered in Note 21. Col- 
lins (Vol. 2, page 545)) asserts that the McAfees 
reached the month of Limestone Creek June 22, 
and remained there two days, but this is clearly in- 
correct. The truth is, from the reading of the two 
Journals, it seems nearly certain they did not stop 
at Limestone at all, but passed it Jnne 22, and did 
not make camp till tiiey reached the mouth of Law- 
rence Creek, some five miles below. Gen. B. B. 
McAfee goes still wider of th.e nmrk, and says they 
reached the mouth of Limestone on the 24th of 
June. Collins has them leaving Limestone on that 
day, after a two days' stay there. From Maysville 



to Covington is 01 miles, by the river, and it would 
have occupie<l about two whole days to have com- 
passed that distance, not stopping on the way to 
look at land. But James's record shows that they 
did stop, making only S miles June 23, and miles 
on June 24. On the 25th. they travelled about 40 
miles, making no sto]ts, reaching the mouth of Lick- 
ing Kiver that night. 

21. — This item altout tlie fine cedar trees James 
saw across the Ohio from their camping place evi- 
dently relates to the doings of June 22. The pre- 
vious part of the record, under date of the 22d, re- 
lated to what occurred on the day before. James 
nowhere .stntes how far lliey travelled on the 22nd 
of June, but he states that the party camped that 
night at th(> montli of Lawrence Creek. This 
stream is just about tlie distance from Salt Lick 
Creek (35 miles) which both Journals show the 
party to have come on the two days, Jnne 21 and 

22. This creek is five miles below Limestone Creek 
at whose mouth Maysville was afterwards built. 
There is no reason for suitposlng this party made 
any stop at the mimtli of Limestone. It had prob- 
ably not been named at this eai'ly day (1773), and 
no settlement was made there till after years. 

22. — James says they travelled S miles on June 

23, and camped at the month of a creek which he 
calls "Bracken's.'" Be it noted that IMatt Bracken 
was with this party, and it is evident the aim of 
the i»arty \\as to honor him by naming the stream 
for him. It probably hatl never before had any 
name. It is certain, however, that in some way 
Bracken's name was afterwards given to the creek, 
which entere the Ohio at Augusta, Kentucky, about 
7 or 8 miles farther doAvn. The one which James 
calls "Bracken's" is now known as Lee's Creek, and 
it was there the party lay the night of Jnne 23. 
Such a transposition of nanu>s is easily accounted 
for when we reflect that creeks in an unsettled re- 
gion must often have looked much alike; and, in 
the absence of maps or distinct marks of some sort, 
subsequent travellers might confound one with an- 
other. The Bracken Creek of to-day, which conies 
into the Ohio at Augusta, is 13 miles below Law- 
rence Creek, whereas the creek where they camped 
June 23 is scarcely S miles below it. 

23. — To the stream six or eight miles below Lee's 
Creek, whicli is the true Bracken Creek, and which 
is at the town of Augusta, James here gives the 
name of an old soldier in the party by the name of 



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448 



Wilpor. I'.ut liis iiainc ditl not stick wlicic Hie 
party put it any move thaii lirackcirs ditl. Wil- 
pei's name siave phue to Bracken's, and later on 
fastened itself to a creek in Boone Cuunly, Ken- 
tucky, on which ''Old Wilper" laid in some lands, 
as noted in James's Journal on June 30. The night 
of June -i was evidently spent at the iriouth of the 
irue r>vacken <'reek where Aufiusta now stands. 

L'4. — At the mouth of Bracken Creek, where the 
town of Aujiusta n«»w stands. Bobert took leave of 
his companions to make a l()n»; (U'tour thr()U_a:h the 
interior to the scmthward. Thursday. June 24. The 
party luid, no doubt, gotten there before noon that 
day. lie seems to have gone entirely unattendtHl. 
He ascended Bracken Creek to its source, 10 miles 
to the south of the Ohio; and then, within one mile 
farther on, lie came upon the head spring of a small 
stream now called Willow Creek, which he de- 
scended to its mouth at the North Fork of Licking 
Kiver, a distance of nearly 8 miles. Following the 
downward course of the Licking for about 2,") miles 
he reached a point probably not more than a mile 
or two Ih'Iow the site of the present town of Fal- 
mouth. Somewliere up there he laid in several sur- 
veys. Here he turned away from the Licking to- 
wards the Ohio, and a trip of 13 miles across the 
hills brought him back to that stream. He prob- 
alily regained the Ohio about where tlie railway 
station called Bradford now stands, or ]iossibly 
near Foster, not more than 10 ov 15 miles below the 
point at which he had left his companions. Beach- 
ing the river, he discovered that the Company had 
all gone on down the Ohio. Nothing daunted, he 
constructed, with his tomahawk and knife, a canoe 
out of the bark of a tree, and embarked. Pulling 
at his oars till the setting of the moon that night, 
he lay bj- till day-break. Then resuming his jour- 
ney, he paddled his little boat on down the river, 
and at 10 o'clock that morning, Sunday, the 27th 
day of June, he reached the mouth of the Licking, 
and was rejoiced to find his companions there 
awaiting his coming. They had gotten there two 
days before he arrived. Some of the party — and 
almost certainly his brother James with them — 
had gone up the Licking about 20 miles to inspect 
the land, but found it undesirable. If IJobert was 
really alone on his long tour to the interior he must 
have been something of a surveyor, for James states 
in his Journal that Bobert laid in sevei'al entries 
40 miles uj) the Licking. 



2."). — According to James the Company — from 
whom Bobeit had sejiarated himself on the 24th 
of June, to make his exploring tour of 2 or 3 days 
into the intericu" — spent the whole day (June 2.">) 
pulling at their oars. He niakes the ])arty to have 
covered a distance of 41 miles on this day. That 
the starting point on this morning was the mouth of 
the creek where now the town of Augusta stands 
seems beyond all serious doubt; and this i)oint, by 
actual survey of the V. S. engineers, is jnst 4210 
miles al)Ove the month of Licking Biver, which 
they reached in the evening. Their guess at the 
distance and their speed in covering it in canoes 
were both alike excellent. From Augusta to the 
Little .Miami lii\cr is o7y]l miles, and James makes 
it 30 miles. 

2G. — The only way in which Tames could know 
the character of the land on Licking Biver 20 miles 
above its month Avas by the personal ins])ection of 
it by himself or others in the Company. It is clear 
that some of the men — and most probably James 
among them — made an exploring trip u]) that 
stream on Saturday the 2Gth of June, while Bobert 
was separated from his companions and exploring 
30 to 50 miles still farther up its cimrse. 

27. — James says Bobert was 40 miles up the 
Licking, and also that some entries were ma.le 40 
miles up it — by whom he does not state. Bobert 
says he himself made one entry of land on "that 
creek" ; but whether he did this while far up that 
stream on his lonely tour (June 24-20), (u- near 
its numth after he had rejoinwl his companions, he 
does not affirm. It seems probable, however, that 
Bobert made at least two or three entries of land 
on the Licking while out on his tour, and that he 
estimated those surveys to have been 40 miles above 
its mouth. This was only a wild guess, and he 
jirobably did not get within 50 miles of the mouth. 
In Note No. 24 the guess was made by the present 
writer that Bobert descemled the Licking, Avhen 
out on his tour, to a point very near where Fal- 
mouth now stands; and that town, we know, is 51 
miles from the mouth of the Licking. The follow- 
ing conclusions seem to be well established, to wit : 
I , Bobert came down the Licking on June 24-26 to a 
pitint about 50 miles from its mouth; 2, that he laid 
in at least two or three surveys of land up there; 
:', that Bobi'rt was either something of a surveyor 
( as his son, deneral B. B. ^IcAfee. seems to have 
thought), or else had a surveyor along with him, 



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and hence was not Mithout at least one eoni]>anion 
on that tonr; 4, that some of the rest of the Com- 
pany (James McAfee beinjj;- ill most certainly amonii 
them ) made a trip of at least 20 miles np the Lick- 
ing Jnne 20, starting from its month at the Ohio, 
and fonnd the land poor and nninviting; and, 5, 
that these explorations of the Licking River by the 
McAfees ^\ere the fii'st ever made by any \vhite 
man a.s mnch as even a mile or two above its mouth. 

28. — This Avas the third so-calkxl town which 
was laid off, the first being where Vancebnrg is, 
and the second al)ont the site of the town of Au- 
gusta; but nothing seems ever to have come of 
these efforts. It is not exactly clear whether the 
^[cAfees had any personal interest in these at- 
tempts at town-l)uilding. The exact site of this 
third town was in what is now Roone County, Ken- 
tucky, about four miles above the mouth of the Big 
:JIiami River. Close by its site there is now a vil- 
lage called BuUittsville, in Boone Co., Ky., and 
this was probably named in hon(n' of Capt. Thomas 
Bullitt. 

2D. — How accurately the liends of the Ohio are 
ilescribed in these Journals may be seen at this 
point by studying them with a good map at hand. 
After passing Lawrenceburg, Ind., it turns to the 
southeast, and then below Rising Sun, Ind., it runs 
almost due east till near the mouth of Big Bone 
Creek, in Boone County, Kentucky. 
- 30. — Once again "Old Wilper" bobs up. Me was 
probably an eccentric old soldier who had served 
the colouj' of Virginia as a commissioned officer 
in tlse war against the French and Indians, and 
was now laying in ''ofticers' rigiits." Just here, in 
Boone Co., is a creek, which still bears his name, 
"Woolper," which may compensate him for the 
failure of his name to stick long to that creek at 
Augusta, Ky., which his companions seem to have 
intended should bear it. See James's Journal, en- 
try of June 24. 

31. — The recortl of Roljert is the only one we 
have for this stage of the journey, James having 
no record after June 30 till the Sth of July, and the 
one we have is not clear as to the distances trav- 
elled. It seems that the town laid off on the 2Sth 
June was four miles above the mouth of llie Big 
Miami River, and on Julj' 1 the party only went 8 
miles, camping 4 miles below the mouth of that 
river in the bend of tlie Ohio, about 2 miles below 
the site of the present town of Lawrenceburg, In- 
diana. AA'hen Robert savs the Ohio there begins 



to run for 18 miles to the southeast, "where we lay 
all night," he means that their place of camping 
the night of July 1 was where that IS mile stretch 
of the river begins, and not where it ends. 

32. — This joui'uey of 2.") miles, on the 2d of July, 
carrie<l them 10 miles past the mouth of the Big 
Bone Creek, into which it had been their purpose 
to turn, as Captain Bullitt desired there to make 
a station, and survey land. All of the party had 
information beforehand in i-egard to the wonderful 
Salt Lick, which was located a few miles up that 
creek, but the whole party unwittingly passed by 
its mouth on Friday, July 2, and went into camp 
10 miles below, right at the well-known bend of the 
Ohio which begins at the village of Sugar Creek, in 
Gallatin County, Ky. AA'arsaw, the county seat, is 
only about 4 miles lielow tlie point where the party 
cam]K'(l this night. 

33. — The party, for some unexplained reason, 
sjient all of Saturday, July 3, in camp at the point 
they reached the night before. While here two of 
their party, Matthew Bracken and Jacob Drennon, 
stealthily took leave of the McAfees for a season, 
in order to carry out a little scheme of their own. 
The jiarty had resolved to go back up the river 10 
miles in order to visit the famous Lick, called the 
Big Bone, where some days were to be spent; and 
Bracken and Drennon knew they could readily ex- 
ecute their scheme in time to rejoin the main party 
at the Big Bone and so be ready to start with them 
when the}' should resume their journey down the 
Ohio. James McAfee, in his record of July 9, lets 
this Bracken-Drenuon cat "out of the bag." It 
seems tliat Bracken was one of the three white men 
who had accompanied Captain Bullitt to the Shaw- 
nee capital, on the Scioto, early in June, as re- 
corded on a previous itage. AYliile on that mission 
Bracken learned from an Indian that there was a 
lick near the Kentucky River, not far above its 
mouth, which was, in its way, almost as remark- 
able as the Big l?one; and, for the promise of a 
ritle gun, the Indian had told Bracken exactly how 
to find it, as he should be passing not far from it. 
He made known his secret to Drennon, and the two 
agreed to take an unfair advantage of their com- 
panions, in violation of the well established rules 
whicli explorers associated together are wont to re- 
gard, by going a few days in advance to seh^t the 
best lands, and lay in their surveys. There was an 
old trail, made, no doubt, centuries ago, by the 
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Bone down to tlio lick tlit'si' men had their eyes on, 
and the camping place of the McAfees, Tnly 3, was 
only a very short distance from that trail. This 
\\as the trail Gen. George Rogers Clark followed to 
the mouth of Licking River on his expedition 
against the Indians on the .Miami and Scioto 
Rivers, in Septend>er, 17S2; and it came in after 
years to he known as "Gen. Clark's War Road," 
and is so designated by Filson on his map, pub- 
lished in 1784. It Avas ahmg this road the gallant, 
but ill-fated. Captain William McAfee (younger 
brother of James and Robert ) went with Gen. 
Clark on that expedition, and along it he was car- 
ried back, not long after, in a dying condition, he 
having received a mortal ^Aound in the battle Clark 
had with the Indians in Ohio. Bracken and Dren- 
non only needed to cut across through the woods 
from the camp of the party at the Ohio a few miles 
to the south, when they would come into this trail, 
and less than a day's travel would bring thein to 
the coveted lick. They carried out their purpose, 
and got to the Big Bone before the ^McAfees left 
there, July 7. 

34._The larger part of Sunday, th(^ 4th of July, 
1773, was spent by this party of perhaps 50 white 
men at the Big Bone Lick. There were no fire- 
crackers exploded, however, and ''Old Glory" Avas 
not fioating above them, and no patriotic speeches 
were nmde. This was several years before the 
"Immortal Declaration" was published, and every 
mother's son of the party was a loyal subject of 
King George III, against whom, in a very few 
years, nearly all of them, it is j)robable, took up 
arms. 

35. — The amazing spectacle which those meu 
then and there beheld has been described hundreds 
of times by travellers, and by learned scientists; 
and all who care to look into the matter fully Avill 
find ample accounts in the various works to be 
found in all the large liliraries of the world. This 
lick was frecpiented, in former ages, by immense 
creatur(*s like the ma.^tcdon, long since extinct, 
\\hicli became imbedded in the soft mud, and there 
perished. Skeletons lijive been shipped from this 
place to scientific museums in America and else- 
where. In Collins (Vol. 2, page 52), a brief ac- 
count of this "graveyard of the mammoth" — as he 
calls it. — is given, which will interest the un]ir()IVs- 
sional reader. 

3G. — It was the intention of tlie McAfees to have 



left the Big lione early in the day, Wednesday, 
July 7, but the arrival of some traders from up the 
river detained them for most of the day. The 
traders had seen the corpse of a man floating at the 
edge of the river above the mouth of the Kanawha, 
and tills ])r()V(>k('d simie discussion. But that 
afternoon the ^fcAfces bade a final farewell to 
Captain Bullitt and his men, and proceeded alone 
down the river. The mouth of the Kentucky River 
was only about 30 miles by water from the Big 
Bone, and into that streani they meant to turn, 
whilst Bullitt's objective point was the Falls of the 
Ohio, some 51 miles farther down. 

37. — The "eight men" included the five men com- 
posing the McAfee Company proper ; and the three 
surveyors, Taylor, Bracken and Drennon. The 
place at which the party rested the night of July 7 
could not have been more than eight or ten miles 
above Carrollton. This entry in James's Journal 
is very confusing and unsatisfactory. The editor 
is decidedly of the opinion that a number of the 
pages of the original document of James got so 
badly defaced as to be almost wholly illegible. One 
whole week's record is entirely Avanting ( July 1-7 ) , 
and this entry of July S can hardly be what James 
actually wrote. The record of Robert is clear and 
consistent, Avhilst this one of July 8, purporting to 
be the Avriting of James, is a mass of errors and 
contradictions. The distance traTelled on Thurs- 
day, July 8, Avas, according to Robert, about 28 
miles, only about 10 of which miles were on the 
Ohio, and Avere traA-elled before the break of day. 
We are compelled to conclude either that James's 
manuscript became almost hopelessly defaced, or 
that the coypists haA'e made sad work of it. We 
must rely on the record of Robert mainly for this 
8th day of July. 

38. — This creek, at whose mouth they spent their 
first night as a party in Kentucky, was probably 
that knoAvn as Big Twin Creek, or the one entering 
the Kentucky River from the east, a mile below it, 
in Owen County. Gen. McAfee thinks it Avas 
Eagle Creek they stopped at, but it is not far 
enough from the Ohio, and not near enough to 
Drennon's Creek, to fit into his father's Journal 
records. 

39. — This creek is the stream Avliich bears the 
name of Jacob Drennon, one of the surAcyor's as- 
sistants in this party; and the lick one mile above 
its mouth is named in honor of the same enterpris- 



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ing woodsman, who, in company witli Bracken, 
had visited tliis spot nearly a week before. This 
"flank movement" on tlu' part of these two men evi- 
dently made a painfnl impression on the mind of 
this upriiiht Scotch-Irish Treshyterian. as one will 
disin\cr itu reading the whole of his record for 
this day. His nephew, (Jen. K. B. McAfee, in his 
autobiography, snpplements the account by stating 
that the con«luct of these men so displeased the Mc- 
Afees that they were not allowed to proceed far- 
ther with the Company. This, however, is a mis- 
take, for these men were evidently with the Com- 
pany till July 31. when they and Taylor took final 
leave of the McAfees to rejoin Bnllitt at the Falls. 
See the Jimrnals of James and Bobert, nnder date 
of July 30 and 31. 

40. — Both Journals mention surveys having been 
made by the party at Drenuou's Lick, but neither 
states just how many. James says "several 
tracts,'' and we may safely assume this would mean 
at least 3 tracts of 400 acres each. This was. so 
far as can be gotten from these Journals, the fourth 
locality in which the ^McAfees made entries; the 
first, on Salt Lick Creek ; the second, on upper Lick- 
ing; the third, at the mouth of Licking; and this 
(the fourth I , on Drennon's Creek. We do not know 
whether any of these claims were ever perfected, 
but it is very doubtful. They got all the laud they 
could handle when they got to "Crooked Creek" 
(Salt River). 

41. — James here speaks of the farthest point up 
the Kentucky River whicli he explored at this time 
as being about six miles above the mouth of Dren- 
non's Creek, and about 20 miles from the Ohio. 
His estimate is almost exact. From the mouth of 
Dreunon to the Ohio by the Kentucky River is just 
21 miles by the engineers' survey, and he went 
"about six miles" above that point on his excursion 
in a vain search for "conveuieucj' for mills.'' 

42. — The remains of this old "Buil'alo Trace" 
Avere seen bj^ the present writer in June of the 
year 1903. It comes up Drennon's Creek from 
the Lick towards Newcastle for some distance, and 
then diverges a little to the east of due south to- 
wards Six-Mile Creek and Frankfort. This same 
Trace is constantly alluded to in the old surveys, 
and was a historic route to and from the central 
part of Kentucky and the Ohio River. It was the 
most direct nmte the ifcAfees could have chosen 
to reach the locality on "Crooked Creek," Avhich 
they had decided upiui hmg in advance of their 



reaching it. There is a neat modern hotel now at 
Dreunon Springs, and the same salt and sul- 
phurous waters issue forth as of yore, only not in 
such altundance. ]ierhaps. as once they diil. owing, 
no doubt, to the thousands of wells which have 
iK'en dug all over the land, and also to the .sto])ping 
np of the springs by cultivation. 

43. — These two surveys; one of 400 and one of 
200 acres, included a large part of the area now 
occupied by the city of Frankfort.. They were the 
very first surveys ever made by man on the hanks 
of the Kentucky River. See a full account of them 
in Collins. Vol. 2. page 249. 

44. — The spring in which these various articles 
were hidden is still there, and known as the ilc- 
Afee Spring. In March of the year 1903 the 
present writer was in Frankfort, and had a talk 
with Judge Lysander Hoard, tlie present owner of 
the land on which the spring is. It is about one 
mile and a half northeast of the C(mi-t House, on 
the Franklin and Owen turnpike. It is a bold 
spring, and is about 50 yards from a cliff. One- 
half a mile al>ove it is a much larger spring known 
as Cove Sju-ing. with which s(mie might ccmfound 
it. This larger spring is the head of a large 
branch, and once turned a mill wheel, and su])plied 
the city with water. It is the smaller spring, 
however, which the McAfees had to do with in 
July, 1773. 

45. — This "path," be it noted, was that same old 
historic "Buffalo Trace," one branch of which went 
right up the ridge in a southeasterly direction to 
where Lexington now stands. It has been f<dlowed 
closely by the track of the railway between Frank- 
fort and Lexington. 

40. — James tells us that the party went up "that 
path'' about S miles, and then turned to the south- 
west and within 6 miles came again to the Ken- 
tucky River. In other words, they traversed the 
two sides of an irregular triangle. Robert takes 
no account of the S miles they travelled up the 
ridge along the Butl'alo Trace towards the south- 
east, nor of the G miles to the southwest towards 
the "Levisa'' ( Kentucky River i. He simply states 
that they crossed the river about 7 miles from his 
survey (the bottom at Frankfort). Both state 
what is true. They went up the ridge along the 
"Trace" to about where Ducker's Station now 
stands; lint whilst the soil and timber Avere excel- 
lent, water was too scarce for their wants, and they 
wliecled to the "right oblique," and the point at 



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wliiiii tlicy n'^aiiicd the i-ivcr was a little U'ss than 
7 miles from where they had started tiiat morniiic:. 

47. — In this tramp across the woods for twelve 
miles they must have passed very close to the site 
of Lawreucehiirii'. ^•oinji' southwesterly to within a 
few miles of Salt River, and then tiirninii- to the 
southeast, as water was still scarce. 

48. — This was the Sahhath, and James says noth- 
\n^ of any travellinji', hut they did journey ahout 8 
miles. This hroufiht them to a sprinij, wliicli is 
one of the lieads of Gilhert's Creek, then proceeded 
up towards the west. On reaching- the siirinc; they 
seem to have concluded that they were not far from 
the place which A\as to jirove their jT;oal. This 
spriuii' is, hy James (in his recortl of Wednesday, 
July 21), desiiiuated "Cove Spriufj;.''' The spelling 
may ]>ossihly have heen Cave instead of Cove, hut 
after careful inspection of the spring itself and its 
surroundings, hy the present writer within the year 
1!)03, the conclusion was that, unless the natural 
features of the spot have been completely trans- 
formed, there was nothing there like a cave. On 
the other hand, there is much in the tojiograjHiy of 
the laud thereabout to warrant one in calling the 
spot a cove. It is between Lawrencebnrg and Sal- 
visa (3i/> miles from Salvisa ), only about 7.") yards 
to the east of the turnpike. For a long time it was 
called Lillard's Spring, but in recent years has 
been known as McCall's. It is a bold spring of 
clear, cool water; and in the fall of 18(52, a large 
part of the Confederate forces under the command 
of Gen. Kirby Smith camped hy it and found it 
equal to supplying their needs. 

40. — These men had no reason for supposing 
there were any white explorers in all central Ken- 
tucky besides themselves, and the report of a gun 
must have nuide them feel that Indians were near 
by. No explanation of this incident seems ever to 
have been given. 

50. — Where he got the name of "Crooked Creek"' 
for this stream (Salt River) we can only surmise. 
Its remarkably tortuous windings may have sug- 
gested the name to him. Possibly Daniel Boone, 
while in Kentucky a year or two before, had wan- 
dered along its banks and noted its unusual crook- 
edness, and when he got back to the New River set- 
tlements in Virginia, on his way liack to his home 
on the Yadkiu, had spoken of its peculiarity in 
connection with the very inviting character of the 
laud thereal»out, so that the ^IcAfei's understood 
soniething of the region before they started on this 



tour. It is said that I'.oone spent some months in 
a ca\t' on the bank of Kentucky River only a few 
mik'S east of the ))art of this stream at which the 
.McAfees finally settled. 

."01 J. — When these men left Cove Sjiring, July 
21, they travelled "two miles,"' according to James; 
or "about 3 miles,"' according to Robert; and then 
they came to the stream which Ave know, beyond a 
shadow of doubt, to have been Salt River. We 
may reasonably "split the difference"" between the 
estimates of the two chroniclers, and ])ut the dis- 
t^ince as 2V:' miles. As W(» know exactly the loca- 
tion of the Cove Spring, and also the bends of Salt 
River to the westward of it, we can locate almost 
the very sjtot at which tiiey came first to the bank 
of Salt River. That stream makes a bend to the 
eastward right on the line of the present counties 
of Au<lerson and Mercer, and just there it is a little 
closer to the S])ring than at any other iwint — about 
2% miles. From ^IcBrayer Station, on the South- 
ern Railway, that bend is 2 miles, due southwest. 
Now, James narrates that the party Avent doA\ n the 
river from that ])oint "fonr miles," and made sur- 
veys f(U' the ilcCouns. Robert says they went "a 
little down that creek," i. c.. Salt Ri^-er, and made 
the ^IcCoun surveys. Four miles is rather too 
great a distance to be designated as "a little down 
that creek"" in the connection in Avhich this phrase is 
used. Hence, we must again "split the difference" 
between the two statenumts, and Ave Avill say the 
distance Avas about 3 miles. One Avriter may haA'e 
had in mind the direct distance, regardless of the 
tortuous course of the stream ; and the other may 
have kept the actual Avindings of the stream in 
vieAw So, Ave may safely conclude that the sur- 
veys of July 21 were about 3 miles below the point 
at AAhicli the party first struck Salt River. But in 
so deciding Ave have to question the accuracy of the 
naiTative of Gen. R. B. McAfee, Avritten i)robably 
()() to 70 years after the Iavo Journals Avere. The 
(leueral positiA'ely asserts that the surveys for ;Mc- 
Coun, made July 21, Avere at the mouth of Ilara- 
moud Creek, Avhich is from 8 to 12 miles below the 
point at Avhich we haA'e decided the party first 
came to the hank of Salt RiA'er. Hammond Creek 
rises to the northeast and southeast of Lawrence- 
burg, and Hows south Avesterly to Salt RiA'er; and 
^Ir. "N^'ill C. A\'oods, of LaAvrenceburg, Avho has 
hunted up and down both Salt River and Ham- 
mond Creek freipu'utly, is confident that the site 
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THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 



the mouth of Hammoud, at the point where Hick- 
ory Nut Creek puts iu on the west side of the river. 
Where Gen. ilcAfee jjot liis data for his opinion, 
we know not ; but Hammond Creek is several miles 
too far down to meet the requirements of the case. 
Hence, we consider it extremely probable that the 
first surveys on Salt IJiver by these men were near 
the mouth of Hickory Nut Creek. 

51. — This reads as if James meant to say that 
he had his two tracts of land (on which he resided 
fn.m the fall of 1T7!>, till his death in 1811) sur- 
veyed on Friday, July 23. but his language does 
not necessarily demand this meaning. He men- 
tions 14 separate tracts of 400 acres each in his 
record, dated July 23. but. of course, no such quan- 
tity of laud could have been laid off by that party 
of men in a single day. When we reflect as to the 
very unfavorable circumstances Tinder which these 
men had to make entries in their Journals, at 
times, we can readily understand how the date at 
the heading of a record might be ambiguous to their 
])osterity generations later. If we examine Rob- 
ert's record from July 21 to 31. and Gen. R. B. Mc- 
Afee's comments in his autobiography. Me shall be 
able to discover the probable order of the various 
surveys. 

52. — It seems impossible to ascertain from the 
two Journals, even with the aid of the explanatory 
comments fo\ind in the autx)l)iogra]>hy of Gen. R. 
B. ilcAfee, the exact amount of laud the surveyors 
laid off for the McAfee Company, or the precise 
individuals for whom all of the several tracts were 
surveyed. Two surveys Avere certainly made on 
Salt Lick Creek, about June IS; at least 3 were 
probably made on the Licking River about 50 or 
GO miles above its mouth ; one was made June 27 
at the mouth of the Licking; at least 3 were made 
at Drennon's Lick Jiily to 14; 2 were made (July 
16) on the meadow now covered by the city of 
Frankfort ; and 2 more July 19 at tlie Cove Spring, 
the whole aggregating about 5,000 acres, before 
the party reached the banks of Salt River. On 
Salt River (''Crooked Creek") surveys were made 
at five or six separate localities scattered along that 
stream from a point 3 or 4 miles bebiw where they 
first struck it to the point one mile southwest of 
llarrodsl)urg, where the turnpike to Terryville 
crosses it by a bridge. The distance by land be- 
tween these two points is about 20 miles. The 
great nmjority of the surveys, however, were 
located at, or within a few miles of, the survey of 



James McAfee, Jr., on which he built his fort in 
1779, and his stone house in 1790. As far as can 
be made out from all the records at command, lands 
were entered at this time on some i)art of "Crooked 
Creek," within the limits named, for each of the 
five men composing the ^IcAfee Company proper; 
for the two ilcAfee brothers (William and Sam- 
uel), who were not then with the Company; for 
James ilcAfee, Sr., the father of the five brothers 
of that name; and for Jeremiah Telford, and James 
and John Curry. There must have been, in all, 
about 25 separate tracts of land taken up at this 
time on Salt River, aggregating 10.000 acres. These 
surveys, being added to those laid in before reach- 
ing that stream, make a grand otal of 15,000 
acres of choice Kentucky land, which this Company 
laid claim to in June and July, 1773. Inasmuch 
as the euti-j- of each 400-acre tract gave the indi- 
vidual making it au additional claim to 1,000 acres 
adjoining it, in case he should jierfect his title and 
pay the government price for the land, we have 
above 52,000 acres of land, (more than 80 square 
miles) to which these men laid claim. ^Much of 
this land, however, never actually became their 
jn-operty, as they did not care to perfect all their 
claims after they made their final settlement. The 
three town-sites which they took part in laying off, 
namely, at Vanceburg. Augusta and Boone County, 
seem never to have been further developed. It is 
not entirely clear from these Journals whether the 
McAfees were personally concerned in the proprie- 
torship of all of these town-sites, or only had a 
kindly interest in Captain Bullitt's plans in regard 
thereto. In any event, all these attempts to found 
cities seemed to have come to naught. As to the 
surveys on Salt River, however, — especially those 
on which the McAfees and their relatives and 
neighbors actually took up permanent residence in 
tlie fall of 1779 — we know that these were carefully 
and conspicuously marked, before these men 
started back home, by cutting and piling up brush, 
and by deadening trees on the same. Thus the fact 
is established, beyond all dispute, that nearly one 
year before Harrod struck the first blow ^ith his 
axe to found llarrodsburg — the first town founded 
in Kentucky — the ilcAfees had selecteil, surveyed 
and nuirked a settlement on Salt River on Avhich 
all of them afterwards lived, and where most of 
them died and were burietl. and which abides to 
this day. 

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clear, to wit: 1. tlic tlircc men. Tavlur, Hrackon 
ami iM'i'nnon, coutiniu'd with the .McAfees until all 
of tlu'ir surveyini;' liad been finished; 2, that Han- 
cock Taylor was the head surveyor of that trio, and 
Hrackeu and iM-ennoii wei'c iiiei-ely his assistants; 
and, 3, that the .MiAfees liad evidently intended to 
icjoin rai)tain Hull ill on their homeward journey, 
hut, after duly weiuhiuji; all the circumstances after 
concludiuii- their surveys, had resolved to attemjit 
to ascend Kentucky Hirer to its head streams far 
u]i in the numntains. From thence tliey could 
make their way over into Powell's Valley, and to 
Clinch River, where they would be ou somew'hat 
familiar rjround, and where a frontier cabin could 
here and there be seen. 

54. — This day's joiiruey took them across lands 
now constituting the northern eud of the town of 
Harrodsburg. The distance they travelled that 
rainy afternoon, through the cane-brakes of what 
is now "The Cane Kuu Neighborhood," was quite 
9 miles instead of 7. They must have passed just 
to the south, and in sight of, the place where Har- 
rodsburg Junction is located, and struck Dick's 
Kiver at the most westerly point of the big bend 
21^ miles southeast of the Junction, where the 
rocky cliffs an<l the cedars are still to be found, 
and which, no doubt, look very much as they did 
130 years ago. 

55.— They camped this evening (Sunday, xiugust 
1 ) , on the east bank of Sugar Creek, in what is now 
Oan-ard County, ha\ing passetl just to the south 
of where Brvautsville now .stands. 

56. — It would seem that the lick was probably 
within sight of the high hill which is now in the 
southern end of Kichmond — perhaps Irvine's Lick. 

57. — When on some of the bold hills as they were 
approaching Drowning Creek, in what is now the 
eastern end of ^ladison County, they saw looming 
u]i about 8 miles in the distance, to the east of 
them, the mountains just back of, and around the 
site of, what is uow the towu of Irviue. Here the 
nKHintaius and also their sorest hard.ships began. 

58. — There are clauses in the Journal of James 
this day which, in the form we have them in the 
copy at hand, defy all attempts at rational explana- 
tion. "The little pine mountain 10 miles into the 
level woods'' is an insoluble puzzle, but the place of 
their camp the night of August 3 was, beyoud all 
doubt, only a ver^' few miles east of where Irviue 
now stands. The records of the succeeding days 
make this certain. It is evident that the aim of 
the party at first was to strike across the country 



to the southeast, regardless of the windings of the 
K<'nlucky Kiver, but a few hours spent in climbing 
those mountains coiivinc(Ml them that this would 
be next to impossible. Hence, the very ne.xt morn- 
ing they came back to the river. 

5!t. — This salt s]H'ing is there to this day, as the 
writer has learned by correspondence with persons 
in that part of the country who are familiar with 
it. Some jx-i'sons living iu*ar by obtain salt from 
it in (mr day by boiling down its waters. Its ex'act 
location, being so certainly identified, furnishes a 
fixed point by means of Avhich we can easily solve 
several otherwise puzzling questions relating to 
the jouruey of these men. 

GO. — There are several palpable errors in the en- 
tries of both Journals this day. Janu^s and Robert 
both make the distance between the mouths of the 
South and Middle Forks (near l>eattyville) to be 
15 miles, when, in fact, it is less than 5. This mis- 
take was either due to the carelessness of copyists, 
or to the fact that the record of this day's journey- 
ing was not made for a day or two after, when some 
of the details had fadetl from their minds. Pos- 
sibly the party had to ascend the two considerable 
creeks (Crystal and Silver Creeks) which come 
into the river just there, in order to avoid rafting, 
and in this way travelled 2 or 3 tinu-s as far in be- 
tweeu the mouths of the two forks of the river as 
they would have had to do if asceudiug the stream 
close to its bank. If we deduct 10 miles from this 
part of their day's jouruey we help to clear up a 
second palpable error, uamely, the statemeut of 
James to the effect that the party went 40 miles this 
day. That wcmld be hardly practicable, even now, 
with existing roads; in that day, when there were 
no roads, it was impossible. Deducting 10 miles 
we have 5 miles left for the distance between the 2 
forks, and 30 miles for the whole day's journey. 
Even 30 miles is renmrkable for men pulling their 
way through the bushes and along the steep, rocky 
banks of the river. That this unich was accom- 
lilished seems certain, however, lor their camping 
place at evening (August 5) was on the North 
Fork, 12 miles above the mouth of the S(mth Fork, 
and that is just about 30 miles from where they 
camped the previous night. 

61. — This "big creek'' was Holly Creek, which 
enters the river in the extreme southern I'ud of 
Wolfe County, close to the edge of Rreathitt. 

62.^This "fork," as both James aud Robert re- 
garded it, was Frozen Creek, in Rreathitt Countj'. 
James savs "we took the left," which, of course, 



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is an error. Robert says, correctly, "we took the 
rijiht band." It oonbl not possibly have been other 
than as Robert eives it. 

63. — This day the party were in '"Bloody Breath- 
itt," and walked right alous: over the gronnd on 
which the now famons Jackson is bnilt. They 
went on past that point about 3 miles to the month 
of Quicksand Creek, where they camped for the 
night of August 7. 

64. — This was the Sabbath day, August 8, and 
a day of fearful hardship. At this day greenbrier 
and laurel bushes are abundant there. The hills 
were steep, the bushes were thick and thorny, and 
the river very crooked ; and, besides all these trying 
conditions, the steep mountains came down so close 
to the rivei-'s edge as to allow no foothold for a man 
to walk on dry land, and the water was deep. 
Nearly 20 times this day they had to cross the river, 
and very often they were up to their waists in 
water. For some reason neither of these chroniclers 
remark on a large fork of the river they passed tliis 
morning a few miles from the camp of the previous 
night. That fork bears an appropriate name- 
Troublesome. They had camped on Quicksand; 
they had to ford Troublesome, and when even- 
ing drew on they were probably exhausted. 

65.— But at the evening of this Sabbath of trial 
there was one important and cheering incident — 
James saw and brought down, with his rifle, a buck 
elk, whose flesh was the life of the party for the en- 
suing four days. But for this merciful interposi- 
tion of Providence the probability is the whole 
party would have died of starvation. Not another 
particle of food did they get till late in the after- 
noon of August 12. For days in succession no 
game of any kind was even seen. The killing of 
this animal determined them to go into camp just 
there where he fell. James himself does not make 
the remotest allusion to this incident anywhere In 
his narrative, and Robert simply states: "We 
killed a buck elk," not deeming it worth noting 
who did the killing. This Sabbath evening feast 
occurred on the boundary line between Breathitt 
and Perry Counties, about 30 to 35 miles below 
where the town of Hazard now stands, and about 
25 miles above Jackson. 

66.— The travelling this day (ilonday, August 9), 
was extremely trying for most of the time, and the 
river had to be crossed frequently in order to get 
round the bends. A more painful and wearisome 
journey than this can hardly be conceived of. 

67. — This day, after going for a few houi's by 



creeping along under the high, steep, rocky banks, 
amidst briars and underbrush, until they felt they 
could endure it no longer, they essayed to abandon 
the river and strike across the ridges towards Vir- 
ginia. This was probably at the big bend about 7 
miles below Hazard. They knew they were getting 
well on towards Powell's Valley, and no doubt 
hoped to be able to find a more endurable way 
than the river banks afforded. But this was a vain 
hope. A brief experience with the greenbrier and 
other brush and the steep mountains drove them 
back to the river banks again, and for 20 miles they 
pulled themselves along, though they knew they 
dare not follow the river much longer, as it was 
leading them too far to the north, and they needed 
to turn southeast. 

68. — It was out of the question for tlunn to cling 
longer to the river's course, for that meant carry- 
ing them far out of their desired direction, and they 
were still over 250 miles from home. So, coming 
to a creek putting in fiom the south — which could 
scarcely be anything but Leatherwootl Creek (or 
JIacie's), in Perry County — they resolved to fol- 
low its c(mrse, and they here bade a final fare- 
well to the river, at 2:00 p. m., Wednesday, Au- 
gust 11, and marched up the banks of this creek 
towards the south. The considerations which 
constrain the present writer to the conviction that 
it was at the mouth of Leather\\-ood Creek (or 
Macie's), and nowhere else, that the party left 
the North Fork of the Kentucky River, in an at- 
tempt to reach Powell's Valley, will here be pre- 
sented. He feels that the requirements of the 
Journals and also of the topographical and geo- 
graphical conditions of the case are such as can 
not be met nearly so well, if at all, by any other 
point on the river. In the first place, when we note 
the distance these men had travelled (according to 
the Journals) since they began the ascent of the 
river near Irvine, Kj-., August 4, and compare 
their estimates with the actual measurements of 
the river we find them to agree most strikingly. 
During the 8 days, or parts of days, they were 
ascending the river the Journals show them to have 
travelled (after deducting 10 miles for the palpable 
over-estimate of Augiist 5) a distance of 104 miles. 
No doubt they were here and there able to save a 
mile or so by cutting across a bend over a ridge; 
but as the.y would also lose distance by having to 
go around the mouths of creeks some distance in 
order to find accessible fording places a little 
above, we may allow the gains on the one side to 



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eounterbalaiire Uw losses on the oilier. AN'hon wo 
measure the aetual distances on tlie large-scale 
maps of the V. 8. (ieological Survey ( li miles to 
one inch ) we timl that from the point at which the 
]>arty hegan the ascent of the river near Irvine to 
the mouth of Leatherwood Creek in Perry 
County it is not far from the same number of miles 
as the Journals call for — the difference is only 
about eight miles. The Journal of James makes 
the distance 1G4 miles; the actual distance is about 
^7>^^ miles. If we fix upon any other creek which 
would answer even a majority of tlie requirements 
of the Journals in other respects (except 
trade's), we raise difficulties whicli are ]U"actic- 
ally insuperable by widening greatlv the differ- 
ence between the distance as given in the 
Journals and that actually shown by the maps. 
Secondly, James says the point at which they 
left the river was marked by a "short bend'' 
of the river turning to the northwest. The 
river actually doo^s make a decided bend to the 
northwest right where the creek in question comes 
in. The bend is not at this day a strikingly abrupt 
one, but it is an unmistakable bend to the north- 
west, and it may have made much more of an acute 
angle there 130 years ago than it does to-day, as the 
tendency in rivers is to wash out the bank at abrupt 
bends as the freshets act upon them year by year, 
thereby producing a wider and more regular curve 
in the banks. Thirdly, James says the creek up 
which they went came in from the south, and 
headed up in a high hill about six miles from its 
mouth. This requirement is met by the smaller 
fork of Leatherwood Creek with absolute complete- 
ness. Its head is just six miles from its uKmth, 
and it issues from the base of a "high hill" whose 
top is 2,200 feet above sea level. Fourthly, the 
Journal demands that the six miles going up this 
creek, and the other six miles travelled after reach- 
ing its head that evening, should be through high 
laurel hills of the Avorst character for men on foot. 
This is precisely the character of that regiim to- 
day. A reliable citizen of that very neighborhood, 
Mr. It. N. Cornett, informed the writer that the re- 
gion fixed upon as the one answering these condi- 
tions is exactly such as the Journals descrilie, and 
that there are now patches of laurel to be seen just 
there which would almost entirely baffle any at- 
tempt of a man to push his way through them. 
Fifthly, the Journals demand that a jcmrney of six 
miles, on August 12, from the camping i)lace which 
they reached August 11 after going ui> the cre«'k 
six miles, and theo us much farther through laurel 



hills, shall bring us to a certain large creek just 
where thei'e is a fall in its course, and where a fork 
of it comes in from the south. The Poor Fork of 
Cumberland River, just where Clover Lick Creek 
enters it in Harlan Ctmnty, Ky., answers every 
re(|uirement most minutely. The Poor Fork is 
marked just there by a fall produced by a ledge of 
rocks running entirely aci-oss the stream to the 
southern bank, and right there Clover Lick Creek 
enters from the south. Sixthly, the Journal of 
James calls for a salt sjiriiig on the creek two miles 
above the falls of (he larger stream into which it 
there emi)ti('s. There were, when tliose men passed 
up that creek, on the 12th day of August, many 
well beaten paths nuide by Elk and other wild ani- 
Huils which fre(|uented those licks. The same gentle- 
uian to whom reference was made a nuuuent ago 
(Mr. Cornett) informs the writer (as other persons 
besi<les him have done) that those salt springs or 
licks are still just there, 2 miles up the Clover Lick 
Creek from the Poor Fork falls referred to, and 
that it has always been the tradition in the vicinity 
that the Avild beasts in fornun- tiuu-s resorted to 
the spot to lick the salt. Seventhly, the uarrative 
of James states that the licks he saw were situated 
right at the uortheru base of a mountain, which 
uiountain was so much loftier than any they had 
yet seen in their travels that he characterizes it as 
"an exceeding high mountain." The fact is, that 
right at the salt springs now, on Clover Lick Creek, 
2 miles above its month, begins the steep ascent of 
the highest mountain range in the State of Ken- 
tucky, which has an altitude of 3,800 feet, just over- 
looking the salt springs, and reaches an altitude 
of 4,100 feet a little to the east of that point. These 
peaks are not only from 1,000 to 1,800 feet higher 
than any these men had yet seen in Kentucky, but 
they are marked by that overwhelming barrenness 
and craggy grandeur which, as Gen'l K. B. McAfee 
learned from his uncle James in after years, so 
teri-itie<l the stai'ving men of his party as, weak and 
fainting, they slowly dragged themselves up its 
steep face under a blazing August sun. Eighthly, 
great as was the altitude of the mountain James 
describes as looking down upon the elk licks at its 
northern base, those men managed to climb over it 
and reach its southern or southeastern base by a 
journey of about four miles. The actual distance 
from the salt springs now on Clover Lick Creek, 
before described, uj) and over the liig I'.lack Moun- 
tain to the south of them is only about 5 or (> miles 
by actual measurement. Finally, the Journals re- 
quire that the distance from the camping place of 



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August 12, at the southern base of the "exeeeding 
hijih inouiitain" acntss the head of Powell's Valley 
to rowell's Kiver shall be about 8 miles. As a 
matter of actual incasurenieiit on the excellent I'. 
S. Survey maps the distance from the point at 
which the writer believes the party canqted the 
night of Aujilist 12 to the place where they camped 
on I'owelTs IJiver the niiiht followinj; is (Uily about 
10 miles. Yet other re(|uirements of the .T(mrnals 
are fully met by the rout(> which the writer alleges 
was the one actually followed by these men. but 
enough has been said. When we look at all the re- 
quirements of the two Journals, and study the to- 
pography of the region traversed by the McAfees, 
the conclusion seems irresistible that the route con- 
tended for by this writ(>r was substantially the 
very one which these men followed in 1773. Every 
attempt to fix upon any other route from the Ken- 
tucky IJiver to ro\\ell Kiver raises various difficul- 
ties, some of which are absolutely insuperable. 

69. — This s]>ot <m the Poor Fork in Harlan 
County, Ky., having been identified by the writer 
after long and patient research, he employed a 
lady at Harlan Court House, who does excellent 
work as a photographer (^[rs. Bailey), to go to 
the place, some 30 miles distant, and procure a 
good photograph of it for this book. And the reader 
will find a beautiful engraving made from the pho- 
tograph at page 43S. 

70. — A modest hero was Robert. This is all he 
has to say of an act of his which revealed fortitude 
and calmness in the face of death. That unerring 
shot which he fired at a buck deer saved himself 
and four other men from death; and yet he does 
not even say he was the man who pulletl the trigger. 
His brother, James, nnder someAvhat less tragic 
circumstances, had done a like deed just four days 
pre^'iouslj'. 

71. — The head of any river's valley is always a 
rather indefinite sort of region, but it is certain 
that Powell's River has nothing worth calling a 
valley above the Big Stone Gap; and from that 
point on down to the village of Dryden, twelve 
miles l>elow, there* is a valley which we liiay con- 
fidently call "the head of Powell's Valley.'' The 
writer has visited the spot, and intelligent persons 
at Big Stone (lap told him that it Avas common in 
that section to speak of the area between the Gap 
and Dryden as the head of Powell's Valley. This 
settles it that the ^IcAfees came to Powell's River 
August 13 somewhere within these limits. In this 
vicinitj', beyond all reasonable doubt, occurred the 



sad disaster which overlook Boone and his com- 
l)any only 7 weeks later (October 10, 1773), when 
his eldest son and several other men were slain by 
a band of Indians who waylaid them. 

72. — Janu's and Robert <lo not seem to have 
agreed exactly as to the precise place at which 
either the head of Powell's Valley or the Long 
Hunter's Road was reached. Intelligent men dif- 
fer everywhere as to boundaries and a thousand 
other details. It is of no moment to us. Their 
cam]) for the Hisi:ht of August 13 was probably on 
the bank of Powell's River about where ^Fud Creek 
comes in on the eastern side, at the upper end of 
Stocker's Knob. If their camp was on the west 
side of the river they were perhaps within a stone's 
throw of the Long Hunter's Road, which passetl 
down the eastern bank. James might consider they 
were at or on that road before they crossed over the 
river the evening of August 13 ; Roliert may have 
thought that as that I'oad was not literally trodden 
by them till they started next morning it was not 
proper to say they reached it till the 14th. Why 
they seem to differ one day as to Avhen they got into 
and crossed the valley is not (piite <-lear. But the 
reference made by both James and Robert to those 
two mountains Avhich Avere crossed by the party 
August 14 proves they both had the same locality 
in mind. Those mountains Avere, beyond all doubt, 
Wallen Ridge and Powell IMountain. They fire 
quite lofty, but are quickly crossed, because not 
wide. Like tAvo capital AAs set side by side, their 
feet touch ; and as soon as tlie McAfees reached the 
eastern foot of Wallen Ridge, they had only to step 
across a narroAV creek to begin the ascent of PoAvell 
Mountain. So James calls them "two little moun- 
tains," for they are little in Avidth,- though big in 
height. Robert simply says "two mountains" 
Avhicli Avere crossed "on a small path." 

73. — James, Avho, Avhilst never prolix in his Jour- 
nal, is fond of giving exact details (thereby fur- 
nishing to those Avho come after him the sure means 
of identifying many of the localities visited), tells 
us that on this day the party kept that trail for 25 
miles, and then for 15 miles additional the day fol- 
loAving, reaching "the ford of Clinch at Castle- 
Avood's, tAvelve miles bcluAx- James Smith's," some 
time during the day. The records he made on these 
tAvo days — August 14 and 15 — furnish ns Avith the 
only absolutely clear and certain identification of 
the Long Hunter's Road to be found in any histori- 
cal document knoAvn to the Avriter, and throw light 
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of that regicni which had othtTw ise ri'iiiaiiicd ut- 
terly obscure. It is here settled, beyoud all pcr- 
adventure, that the trail which the Loug lluuters 
tnnt'llcd ou their way to Keutucky, iu 17Gl)-70, rau 
at least forty uiiles from Clinch Kiver at Castlo- 
wood to Powell's Iliver to the west. The infornia- 
tiou which the author has been able to gather iu re- 
gard to that road or trail will be fouud eiubodied 
iu Appendix P of this work, aud the map accom- 
pauyiug the sauu>. The point at which the partj' 
crossed over to the south or left bauk of Clinch 
Kiver is not stated by either James or Kobert, but 
it is reasonably certain it was wliere they first 
struck that stream on Saturday eveTiiug, August 
14, fifteen miles below Castlewood, and about at the 
present village of Dungauuon, iu Hcott i'ouut}', 
Virginia. 

74. — The idcntiticatiou of the point on Clinch 
Piver reached on Sunday- morning, August 15, after 
a journey of 15 miles up stream from where they 
camped the night before is very complete. First, 
it was the ancient ford situated at a place which 
since the year 1771, has been known as Castle's 
Woods, now abbreviated to Castlewood. There 
was a fine growth of timber in a fertile, grassy and 
beautiful valley at that point, aud that section is 
still one of llie Iiest farming regions in Virginia. 
A man by the name of Castle settled there in 170S 
to 1770, and it was long known as Bush's Fort, near 
w hat is now called the Mud Store. The first set- 
tlers tliereabout were Castle, Dickenson, Bickley, 
Ucsher, William Pussell, David Guest, and James 
Smith. The present railway station of Castle- 
wood is iit this ford. The old hcaue of James 
Smith was just about twelve miles above, 
on the north side of Clinch Iliver. The location 
of the cabin of David Guest was near l)y. 
The records of Washington County, N'irginia, 
show that iu the spring of the next j'ear (1774) he 
located a farm just a few miles below the ford of 
Castlewood, nearly opposite the mouth of the 
stream calle<l CJuest liiver, which doubtless was 
uiimed for him. At this date, however, (Aug. 15, 
1773), his place was S miles from Castlewood ford, 
most pr(^bably up the river. To his house the Mc- 
Afee party went this day before putting up for the 
night. From his house to Captain Russell's, which 
the party reached the next day, was only about 5 
miles. It is, indeed, possible that David Guest 
Avas at this time living at the farm which we know 
he got surveyed the next spring, which \\as S miles 
below, instead of above, Castlewood ; aud that the 



-McAfees, when they reached Castlewood found 
that, for sonu' rea.son, it was best not to spend the 
night tlx're, aud tlmt they then travelled down the 
liver to where Guesls's cabin stood, thus almost 
retracing their steps; but this is not at all likely. 
It is extrenu'ly i)robable that in August, 1773, 
Guest was living at a ford S miles above Castle- 
wootl, and that there the .McAfees spent the night, 
August 15. It was at this identical cabin that 
l?oone and Family found shelter in the fall of 1773 
— only a few weeks after the McAfees were there — 
after the terrible disaster he met with on Powell's 
Iliver, 40 miles to the west, October 10, 1773. Here 
Poone's family I'emaiued from October, 1773, till 
March, 1775. The information given above was 
obtained in part from a little volume by Charles 
15. Coale, published in 1S7S, by Gary & Co., Itich- 
moud, Virginia, entitled Life and Adventures of 
\Mlburu ^N'aters, Embracing the Early History of 
Southwest Virginia, pages lGG-170; and partly 
from Summers's History of Southwest Virginia, 
Hill Printing Co., Pichmond, Va., 1903, pages 143 
and 811. For a full consideration of these matters 
see Appendix P., of this volume. 

75. — The exact site of the cabin iu which Capt. 
Pussell was living at this time can not be now given 
with any certainty. All we know is that it was 
about 5 miles from David Guest's ford, but in what 
direction from that ford is uncertain. We know 
that William Pussell then resided somewhere in 
that vicinity. The .McAfees evidently knew him as 
an old actiuaiutauce, for so Gen. P. P. McAfee 
]»ositively declares. The house he was then inhab- 
iting nuiy have been abandoned a few years later 
for one not far away at a more suitable location. 
AVe know that these early houses were nothing but 
very small cabins of the rudest character, and that 
for years after the first settlement of that region 
the owners spent only the summer months there to 
make a croj), and as soon as the com was gathered 
retired a considerable distance up the Clinch or 
Uolston to spend the winter, where there were more 
comforts aud less exposure to Indian attacks. 

The part3' lingered at Pussell's till their lacer- 
ated and swollen feet and lind)s had healed — per- 
haps for four or five days — and then resume<l their 
journey. They still had nearly a week's travel be- 
fore they could greet the anxitms loved ones at 
home, and savages were liable to attack them at 
any stage of the journey. After reaching Pussell's 
on August 16, the Journals were discontinued. We 
know they all got home about August 25. 



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APPENDIX B. 

THREE ANCIENT PIONEER ROADS OF INTEREST TO BOTH WOODSES AND McAFEES. 



THREE FAMOUS PIONEER ROADS. 

The history <)f the AVoodsps and iloAfces in Vir- 
jjinia and Kcnturky, durinji- tlio last threo-quarteis 
of tli(* cinliti'cntli century can not be proi>erly ap- 
preciated unless somethinji more than a mere pass- 
ing allusion l)e made to several of the famous old 
highways on, or near to, which many of them re- 
sided, and over which hundreds of them travelled. 
The history of these roads is, in some degree, the 
history of the families named, as well as of Ken- 
tucky and Virginia, as we believe the reader will 
concede after giving this AjijK'udix a cai'eful pe- 
rusal. 

There are three of these historic highways which 
deserve special notice. The first is "The Wilder- 
ness Road," say, from where it crossed the Potomac 
River at "The Pack-Horse Ford" (otherwise known 
as Wadkins Feri*j') ; up the Great Valley to the 
James River at Buchanan (Pattonsburg) ; to New 
River at Ingles' Ferry; doAvu the Holston Valley, 
and across Clinch and Powell's Rivers to Cumber- 
laud Gap; and on across Kentucky to the Falls of 
the Ohio (Louisville) — a distance of about six hun- 
dred and sixty-four miles. The second is "The 
Long Hunters' Road," which, we may say, began 
at Pepper's Ferry, New River; ran down that 
stream a short distance, and then turned towards 
the West; ascended the valleys of a number of 
creeks till it reached the summit of the divide near 
the site of Tazewell Court House; descended 
Clinch Valley to below Castle's Woods; left the 
Clinch, and passed nearlj^ due west across Powell's 
Mountain and Wallen's Ridge to Powell's Valley; 
ran down that Valley to a point two miles east of 
the site of Jonesville, where it joine<l the Wilder- 
ness Road and Boone's Trace; then on through 
Cundjerland Gap into Kentucky; and was finally 
lost in the Wilderness about where Skeggs's Creek 
enters Rockcastle River, a distance of more than 
thre(' hundred miles. The third of these historic 
old highways was that known a.s "Boone's Trace,'' 
or "Boone's Road." This road began in East Ten- 
nessee, on the Watauga River; ran in a north-west- 
erly direction by the famous Long Island (in what 
is now Sullivan count}, Tennessee) and across the 



South and North Forks of the Holston River to 
Moccasin Gap, near tlu^ site of Gate ('ity, Virginia ; 
across the Clinch and Powell's Rivers to a point a 
few miles west of the latter stream, where it came 
into the Long Hunters' I{oad; pa.ss«>d through 
Cundterland (Jap, and on north-west to the Hazel 
Patch, near Rockcastle River, where the Wilder- 
ness Road diverged towards the north-west; and 
\\('nt on nearly due north through Boone's Gap to 
Boonesboro, on the Kentucky River, a distance, 
altogether, of about two hundred and thirty-three 
miles. These three roads we Avill consider in the 
oi'der named. 

SIGNIFICANCE OF ROADS. 

That highways play a most vital part in the 
economy of Innuan life is one of those perfectly 
obvious truths which everybody freely concedes, 
but which hardly anyone fully appreciates. For 
all creatures whose modes of locomotion require 
them to travel along the earth's surface, roads, as 
all will agree, are absolutely indispensable. In 
fact, even the fowls of the air and the fishes of the 
st'a have tlieir "beaten tracks," so to speak. So 
closely are the roads of a country related to all the 
social and commercial activities of the people who 
nuike and use them that a complete history of the 
highways of a state would be, in no snuiU degree, a 
history of its inhahitants. Hence, if we would 
understand aright the devek>pment of national life 
we are bound to know much of the origin and 
growth of its principal roads. 

It would simply be impossible to give a complete 
account of roads like those now to be considered, 
which had their beginnings in the frontier settle- 
ments of Virginia and Tennessee from one hundred 
and twenty-ti\-e to one hundred and fifty years ago, 
and were gradually extended into Kentucky to 
localities several hundred miles from their respect- 
ive starting points. 

This is the case mainly because roads of this 
character are rarely the outcome of some one 
definite and consistent plan, much less of actual 
surveys. They are, as a rule, the resultant of pre- 
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APPENDIX B— THREE PIONEER ROADS. 



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individual adventure; and the eai'lier portions of 
them are apt to lieounie well established, and ma- 
terial chanjics in their courses are apt to occur, long 
before anv serious attempt is made to record their 
actual history. This has been the case with not a 
few of the ])rincii»al streets of fjreat cities, so that 
about the (»nly certain thinu; one can affirm in re- 
j?ard to them is that they are narrow enough and 
crooked enough to have been laid out by oows and 
pigs. Another explanati<m of the haziness and 
uncertainty which mark the allusicms we tind in 
the books to the origin of nearly all the older high- 
ways is the fact that nearly all of them had their 
beginnings in pre-liistoric times. On this subject 
a great deal of misconceptiiui exists in the minds 
of the masses of the ])eople. ]Most jiersons, if they 
think at all on this point, seem to imagine that all 
of the old pioneer roads of Virginia, Tennessee and 
Kentucky, for example, were the work of a few 
bold and sagacious white men who, generations ago, 
came into the wilderness and blazed paths for 
themselves, independently of any antecedent 
agency of man or beast. For instance, it is prob- 
ably the notion of many ediW-ated Kentuckians to- 
day that what is known as "Boone's Trace," lead- 
ing from East Tennessee and South-western Vir- 
ginia through Cumberland (lap into Central Ken- 
tucky, was, throughout its entire course, the orig- 
inal work of Daniel Boone. They seem to think 
that that shrewd and fearless old hunter, with a 
sort of superhuman intuition, came into a perfectly 
pathless wilderness, and, without a suggestion from 
either savage men or wild aniumls, divined exactly 
where a road could and should be constructed ; and, 
inside of thirty days, created a brand-new road two 
hundred and thirty three miles long. The simple 
truth is, however, that, for perhaps two-thirds, if 
not three-fourths, of the way, Boone almost cer- 
tainly did nothing more than to make a sagacious 
choice of already existing trails, which Indians 
and wild iR'asts had been using continually for a 
thousand years before he was born. That he did a 
good deal of original work all will admit. Pi'o- 
f essor kShaler ( see his Kentucky, images 4G-4S ) , who 
is an acknowledged authority on such subjects, is 
of the opinion that Indians were living in what is 
now Kentucky perhaps as far back as two thousand 
years ago, and that the buffalo roamed over its 
plains and mountains from five to ten centuries be- 
fore the coming of the \Miites. When Boone 
marked his famous "Trace" for Colonel lIendei*sou 
in 177"), the Indians, whilst not then actual resi- 



dents of Kentucky or Virginia, were constantly 
])assing back and forth as they had been doing for 
ages; and the butfalo, the elk and other animals 
were roving ovt'r the country, as was their wont, 
in search of salt springs and pasturage. The idea 
that these wild children of the forest and plain — 
human and beastly — could have lived in this region 
fcu" centuries, and yet not have formed any well- 
defined trails or highways suited to their needs and 
habits, is simply absurd. We may rest assured 
that every mcnintain i)ass, every gnussy valley, and 
every considerable salt lick in the country was 
perfectly well known to them, and that paths lead- 
ing to and from them intersected each other all 
over the land. Hence we must see that the mak- 
ing of highways was not exclusively the invention 
and occui)ation of civilized man. This is not said 
in order to detract in the least from the just fame 
of Daniel Boone. lie can be universally conceded 
to have been a grand character and a man of most 
unique personality, without ascril)ing to him any- 
thing he did not do. That he possessed marvelous 
courage, fortitude, sagacity and resource no one 
can deny. For the particular work he was called 
to do he perhaps had no equal. What we are say- 
ing is that he was not so much a road-builder as 
a path-finder. 

But, after giving full weight to all such expla- 
nations of the origin of our roads as those just pre- 
sented, we are still far from having told the whole 
truth. AA'e must go back of the pioneer, back of the 
buffalo, and back of the Red Man, even to that 
Almighty Creator who built the worlds. We must 
think of Him who set in motion the forces of nature, 
who decreed all those changes which determined the 
topography of the earth's surface, and who produced 
those elevations and depressions of the land which, 
far in advance of historic times, tixeil the natural 
barriers to the movenu'uts of man and beast. If 
Cod himself did not actually construct highways 
on the earth, He at least, in large measure, made it 
certain where they would, or would not, be made 
by the creatures of His hand. In order to see the 
force of this observation, one has but to examine 
with care the existing highways of our country to- 
day, and he will soon discover that the trend of the 
mountain ranges and the coui-ses of the streams 
have, in the nuijority of cases, given the cue to the 
surveyor and road-builder. Those awful contrac- 
tions of the slowly cooling globe which, millenniums 
ago, caused the earth's crust to crumple and pile 
upon itself, thert^by creating the mountains; and 



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the erosive action of the glaciers, the rain and the 
frosts, which concurred to create the channels of 
the rivers — these stupendous operations, in which 
no creature had any hand, reveal to us the real 
genesis of most of the higliways now in existence. 
The full force of these reflections can not be ap- 
preciated without a careful examination of the bet- 
ter class of maps showing the wagon roads and 
steam railways of the Virginias, Tennessee and 
Kentucky. If anyone will first locate exactly the 
three pioneer trails of 1750-75, he will find that 
graded wagon roads and railway lines now cover 
nearly every mile of them. The care of the Nor- 
folk & Western, the Southern, and the Louisville 
& Nashville Eailways can to-day convey' one at the 
rate of thirty miles an hour over almost the iden- 
tical routes of all those ancient trails. The once 
narrow foot-paths along which the Indians stealth- 
ily nmi'ched, single file; where the stately buffalo 
and elk once travelled through virgin forests in 
solemn silence; and over which once creaked and 
jolted the slow-moving wagon of the emigi*ant, now 
run macadamized tiu'npikes or the lightning ex- 
press trains of modem civilization. Slight digrest- 
sions from the original routes we shall find, and 
here and there a change of several miles, but the 
general features of the land which determined the 
trails of the Indians and wild beasts will be seen to 
have controlled the modern engineers in their work. 
The old pioneers of a century and a quai'ter ago, 
if recalled to our earth, would no doubt stand 
aghast at some of the momentous changes which 
the twentieth, century would present to their 
wondering eyes; but as they should be whirled in 
the cai's along down the Clinch Valley, or the 
Holston, from New River to Cumberland Gap, and 
then up through Central Kentucky, they would 
doubtless be led to recognize familiar natural 
features and exclaim : "You moderns have simply 
followed the trails we walked generations ago." 

Thus it will be seen that our existing highways 
are, after all, not so verj' recent as we may have 
suppostnl — they haA'e an exceedingly long history, 
and they are so clearly connected with the develop- 
ment of our beloved country that we may well af- 
ford to pause for a moment and study their origin 
and growth. 

(a) THE WILDERNESS ROAD. 

This highway, like nearly evei-y other with which 
we are acquainted, did not spring into being all at 
once ; it was a gradual growth. There was a time — 



say about the beginning of the eighteenth century — 
when such a name as "Wilderness Road" (as ap- 
plied to the highway we have in mind) was not 
known. Michael Woods settled in Lancaster 
Countj-, Pennsylvania, in 172-1 ; and had he then 
been asked to say \\hei"e the A\'ilderness Road was, 
he would probably have thought of the trail then 
leading from Lancastei*, Penn., south-west towards 
the Potomac River. In 1731 — the year he mi- 
grated to Piedmont, Virginia, with his family — he 
would, no doubt, have included the northern end of 
the Valley of Virginia in that appellation, having 
only the most vague notion of what there was far- 
ther to the south and south-west. By 1700 the title 
had no doubt already begun to be applied to the 
old Indian trail down past New River into South- 
western A'irginia. By 1775 it had come to be used 
to designate the trail all the way from Philadelphia 
to South-west Virginia a.s fai* as to the Holston 
River and Big Moccasin Gap. It is extremely un- 
likely that by this time (1775) any one thought of 
the "Wilderness Road" as extending farther than 
that gap. Of course the old Indian trail had, for 
generations, continued on to the north-west, and the 
hunters, explorers and traders had travelled 
that way, but the particular title "Wilderness 
Road" was not then applied, as we feel sure, to the 
trail west or north-west of Holston River at Big 
Moccasin Gap. Later on, however, the Long Hunt- 
ers' lioad and Boone's Trace, which, for such a 
great distance coincided with the Wilderness Road, 
were swallowed up, as it were, in that more general 
appellation, and at length it came to jjass that the 
Wilderness Road extended, without a break, from 
Philadelphia to the Ohio Falls — eight hundred and 
twenty-six miles; the name "Boone's Trace" or 
"Boone's Ifoad'' came to be limited to that part of 
the trail which extends from Rockcastle River on 
to Boouesboro; and the name "Long Hunters' 
Road" dropped out of use, and the greater pai't of 
that highway came gradually to be known as "The 
Tazewell Road," leading along the Clinch Valley. 
One result of this gradual obliteration of the title 
"Long Hunters' Road," was that, no matter what 
particular route a man travelled from New River 
to Cumberland Gai), he was said to have come by 
the "AVilderness Road," when, as a matter of fact, 
he may have travelled more than a hundred miles 
by way of the Long Huntei*s' Road, as did William 
Calk in the spring of 1775, whose itinerary is given 
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dotumeut shows that Calk turned out of the 
Wilderness Road about the site of Marion, Vir- 
iiinia, on the 24th of ^Marrh, and did not see it again 
till April ;>, \vh<'n he came into it in Powell's Valley 
— about ten days later. This matter will af;ain be 
considered when we come to treat of the Lon>i' Hunt- 
ers' Road in tlie following' section. 

The descendants of both Michael Woods of Blair 
Park, and James McAfee, Sr., must forever feel an 
interest in the AVilderness Road, for, from 1724 to 
the close of the pioneer period of Kentucky, those 
men, or their children, or children's children, either 
lived directly on that highway, or were frequently 
travelling along its course, during the days when In- 
dians and wild lieasts violently disputed the rights 
of the settlei's. As already noted, JNIichael Woods 
arrived in the colony of Pennsylvania from Ireland 
in 1724, and made his home in Lancaster County 
for about ten years; and his place of residence was 
either directly on, or very close to, that famous 
highway, which ran out of Philadelphia almost due 
west to York, passing through Lancaster County, 
only that the ''Wilderness" in those days was, for 
the most part, conceived of as being in the western 
ends of Pennsylvania and Marykind. About 1732 
a settlement was made where Winchester, Virginia, 
now stands, and thus the "\\Mlderness Road" was 
C(tnsi(h*rably projected up the (Jreat Valley. The 
old Indian trail had been there, of course, time out 
of miml, but now and henceforth it was the "Wil- 
derness Roa<l." In 1734 ^lichael Woods and family 
and the Wallaces, we feel entirely certain, passed 
along that trail, t>r road, on their way to their new 
home at the eastern foot of the Blue Ridge, in what 
is now Albemarle County. That road came up the 
Valley from NVadkin's Ford at the I'otomac, thir- 
teen miles north of .Martinsburg, and passed 
through ^Vinchester and Staunton. At or near 
Staunton an old Indian \\'ar-Path strutk across to 
the south-eastward, ascended the Blue Ridge to the 
gap which came to be known as >V()ods"s Cap, and 
passed down close by the spot where Michael lived 
for twenty-eight years. Several of his daughters 
and (me of his sons, not long after, settled in what 
is now Rockbridge County, immediately on the 
\Vilderness Road, and there lived out their days. 
That highway crossed the James River at the place 
where Buchaimn now stands, and only live miles 
east of that place was the home of Michael AV'oods, 
Jr., and only nine miles south, lived Andrew 
Woods, another son of Michael of lUair Park, 



directly on tiie ( Ireat Road. A little further south, 
on Catawba Creek, in what is now Roanoke County, 
Ux(h\ James McAfee, Sr., and sons, and, a little 
later, Archii)ald Woods, another son of Michael 
^\'()(l(ls and lirother to Andrew and Michael, Jr. 
The phice was tlie jintperty of James McAfee from 
1748 to 1771, when he sold it to Archibald Woods, 
and moved just two miles down the road, and there 
lived till 1785. The Wilderness Road ran by the 
front doors of Woods and McAfee; and John Fil- 
son, in his itinerary of 1784, mentions the Woods 
home on Catawba Creek as one of the stations of 
that road, twenty-one miles south-west of Fin- 
castle, ami twenty-nine mik^ north-east of Ingles' 
Ferry at NeAV River. No doubt both the Woods 
and McAfees families on Catawba had seen and 
entertainetl scores and hundreds of the most noted 
explorers, hunters and emigrants in the thirty-five 
years following the year 1748. 

In the years 1774-177S the McAfees made an- 
nual or semi-annual trips to their lands on Salt 
Itiver, Kentucky, and the AVilderness Road was 
probably their principal route to and from their 
new home in the ^^'est. And when in the fall of 
1779 they at last movetl their families and effects to 
Kentucky, they went by this old road, or that called 
"Long lluuters' lioad," through Cumberland Gap. 
By this route, or the Long Hunters' Road, went Sam- 
uel \\ oods, Sr., and other AVoodses — a large com- 
Ijauy — in the year 1782. In 171)4 or 1795, Nathan 
Dednum most probably travelled this road on his 
way to Versailles, Kentucky, where he settled. In 
fiercer County, Kentucky, this highway passed 
only a few miles to the west of the McAfee settle- 
ment as it led on to the lalls of the Ohio. Hence, 
it is not too much to say that there has never, per- 
haps, lived in either \'irginia or Kentucky any two 
fauiilies who had a closer connection with the 
Wilderness Road throughout nearly its entire 
course than the W'oodsi'S and Mc.Vfees. 

For all coming time this historic highway will 
be associated with the name of that genial, schol- 
arly gentleman, the late Captain Thomas Speed, of 
Louisville. He brought into his debt all who love 
the story of Kentucky and South-western Virginia 
by giving to the world, in 188G, his most interesting 
monograph on The ^^'ilderness Road, published as 
Nundjer Two of the Filson Club Series. The au- 
thor of this work is proud to have claimed Captain 
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valuable assistance in the preparation of this vol- 
ume. He was one of the orifjinal sul)scribei's to tliis 
puhlieation, and the reader will find a brief sketch 
of him, and also liis ])ortrai(. in Tart III of the 
same, Sketch No. 3. 

The Wilderness Road, as already intimated, was, 
for generations prior to the advent of the Aug:lo- 
Saxon, an Indian and lir.tt'alo trail, along whose 
course travelled the Indians Itetween the North 
and S(nith. In the earlier Colonial davs, before the 
Indians became hostile to the Whites, it was a 
favorite route for the < 'liei'okees, Catawbas, et(\, of 
the lr?outh in going- to Philadel])hia to purchase 
needed goods, for traders going to the Southern 
Indians, and as a war-path when the Northern and 
Southern tribes were engaged in bloody contests 
with each other. The earliest instance the writer 
has been able to discover of white men using this 
trail i)rior to the commencement of white immigra- 
tion to South-western Virginia is that of a Mr. 
Vaughn, of Amelia County, Virginia, who, in the 
year 1740, was emi^loyed by certain traders to go 
with them, as a pack-man to the Cherokees to what 
J is known. as The Long Island of Ilolston Kivcr, in 
what is now Sullivan Coimty, Tennessee. Mr. 
Vaughn nuule many trips along that trail until 
1754. He stated that it was an old trail when he 
fir§t saw it in 1740. (See Kamsey's Tennessee, 
page 04; and Summers' South-west Virginia, page 
40.) The trail then crossed New River where 
Ingles located his famous ferry in 1754, though 
this ferry was not established by law till 1702. 
(See Hale's Trans-Allegheny Pioneers, pages 252 
and 258. ) This highway had several things in its 
favor. For one thing, it was about the best route 
available, because it Imd, as a rule, but few very 
difficult passages for pack-horses. The mountains 
and streams, whilst very- troublesome liere and 
there, did not in any place present insuperable 
difficulties. In the next place, game was abundant 
along most of its course, which was a matter of the 
first importance. Again, to the AVhites it offered 
fewer disadvantages than the I^ong Hunters' Road 
(The Clinch Valley Route), in the way of hostile 
Indians. Most of the time the danger was greatest 
from the northerly side of the route, as the 
Shawnees and Delawares were beyond the Ohio, 
and the AYilderness Road was not as easily reached 
by their raiding parties as was the more northerly 
route — The Long Hunters' Itoad. P.nt, finally, the 
early settlement of the fertile valleys of the AVa- 



tauga and Lower Holston in East Tennessee, begin- 
ning in 1709, and the rapid development of that 
section as a civilized community, with well-manned 
forts, made tliis highway a great public necessity 
and convenience. It was these various favoring 
conditions which rendered the Wilderness Road 
popular, as far down as Big Moccasin Gap and the 
Long Island of Holston, before Kentucky had a 
single permanent white settlement, and gained for 
it the distinctive title of "The Great Road." 

The following table gives a list of the stations of 
this road from Philadelphia to Louisville, based 
mainly upon Filson's itinerai-y to be found in Col. 
Durrett's Life of John Filson (pages (50 and 07), 
elucidated with explanations to enable any one not 
very familiar Avith the subject to understand read- 
ily the location of the several stations. It should 
be borne in mind that in the various old journals 
now accessible to us, giving the stopping places 
passed on this road, we do not find all travellers to 
have gone exactly the same track all the way. Here 
and there, it is apparent, there were alternative 
routes for short distances, some travellers going one, 
and some another. Moreover, no two of the old 
journals give the same names to stations, and some 
mention stations which others who passed them 
fail to refer to. In the list given in Speed's Wil- 
derness Road (page 17), one omission occurs, 
namely; the stage of the road from the North Fork 
of James River (near Lexington), to the James 
River, proper — a distance of eighteen to twenty- 
five miles — is not given at all. Filson gives it, and 
makes the distance eighteen miles, but if the James 
was crossed at Buchanan, and the North Fork about 
Lexington, it is nearer twenty-five miles than 
eighteen. But we have to remember that nearly 
all the distances noted in those days were mere 
guesses, and sometimes very wild ones at that 

STATIONS OF THE WILDERNESS ROAD, 

PHILADELPHIA TO FALLS OF OHIO, 

via CU.MBERLAND GAP. 

MILES. 

Philadelphia t(» Lancaster 06 

Lancaster to York 22 

York to Wadkius Ferry — (at the Potomac) ... 74 

\Yadkins Ferry to Martinsburg, Va 13 

^lartinsburg to Winchester 13 

\Yinchester to Shenandoah River (Main Br.) . . 45 

Shenandoah River to Staunton 44 

Staunton to North Fork of James — ( Lexington ) 37 

Nortli I'^irk to James River 25 

James River to Botetdurt C. II.— (Fincastle) . 12 



APPENDIX B— THREE PIONEER ROADS. 459 

MILES. MILKS 

Botetourt C. H. to Woods's on Catawba 21 From New River to Bis; ^loccasin Gap 141 

Woods's to Paterson's on Roanoke i> 1' roni Biji Moccasin (iap to (Cumberland (lap. . (b 

Patersons lo Alh-hanv .Mountain— ( P.iacks- From Cumberland (!ap to Hazel Patch bi 

l,„i.„. , ■ ■ S From Hazel Patch to Ohio Falls 14b 

Alle,!j;hanv .Mountain to New Itiver 12 

New \lhvv to F(.rks of the Road 1<> Total «-'» 

Forks of Road to Fort Chiswell 12 

Fort Chiswell to Stone Mill 11 (b) THE L()N( J HFNTERS' ROAD. 

Stone Mill to Boyd's . . ... .... 8 ^^^^ dcsionate by the above title 

Bovd s to Head ot Holston — ( Middle I'ork ).. . d ^ ' , „ ^r „. ., 

H.'ad of Holst.m to Washington C. H.-( Abin- and which e.xten.led from New Rivr up the courses 

jou) l-'i of a number of streams to the elevated divide near 

Washin-iton C. H. to Block-house 35 the site of the present town of Tazewell, and from 

Block-house to North Fork of Holstcm 3 thence down the Clinch Valley to Castle's Woods 

North l^.rk of Holston to Moccasin (Jai> b .^^^^ bevond, was, without doubt, au Indian trail 

Moccasin (Jap to Clinch River (Ford) 1- , ." ,i i „ +1, \am.;+<^c, ,„Tf<ir.o,i +I10 nnnTitw 

.„• , T,. \ ,^ 1,4-1^ 1 f a^ „i. ri,.,wj- o centuries old when the \\ hues entered the countiy. 

Clinch River ( F(U'd I to lord of Stock (reek. . . - . , . ^^. « r., ,, /-, i. 

Ford of Stock (^reek to North Fork of (Minch.. 7 Bickley, m his History of Tazewell County, as 

North Fork of Clinch to Powell's Mountain ... 3 quoted by Summers (page 28), says, "The principal 

Powell's ^Mountain to AVallen's Ridge 3 Indian trails through Tazewell County led through 

Wallen's Ridge to A'alley Station 4 j-^^^ .^yj down] (.'linch ^'alley; l»ut after the Whites 

Valley Station to Powell's River 2 ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^, ^^^^^^ ^^.^^^^ ^^jj j^^^ fj.^,,,^ ^,,p qIjJ^, 

Powell's River to Junction of Long Hunters . ,, ^, ^ . ^ ,, ,, ,, ,• +1^ 

j,^^, , '^ 4 River. ' That is to say, the paths paralleling the 

Junct\imof"l/lI. Road to ^lartin's' Cabins!... 19 Clinch Avere abandonwl by them, and they now 

Martin's Cabins to Cumberland (iap 20 used others which came into them at an angle from 

('umberland (Jap to Cumberland River (Ford). 13 tlie north-west or north, so as to avoid travelling 

(Uimberland River to Flat Lick— (\\here War- ^.,,.^^1^^ ^^j^ ^^.jjif.jj ^^lej were likely to meet their white 

rb.rs' Road turned due north ) 9 ^,^^,^,^5,,^ (^^^^ ^j ^liese newly adopted trails came up 

Flat Lick to Stinking Creek ^ , t.- , , 1 . 1 ' m t-^ 1 a 

Stinking Creek to Richland Creek 7 tlie Big Sandy branch, known as Tug Fork, and 

From Point on Richland Creek, first reached, led over into Abb's Valley, twenty miles north-east 

to a point farther up its course 8 of Tazewell Court House. Another of these trails 

From Upper Point on Richland Creek to Rao- came up the Louisa Fork of Sandy River, and came 

coon Sjtring b ^^^^^ ^^^ white settlements on Clinch River near 

From Raccoon Spring t.. Laurel River. . 2 Castle's Woods. Hence we mav safelv assume 

From Laurel River to Hazel Patch (where , , .,,.,,., ^ -, ,„• , -.r ,, 

Boone's Trace diverged from \Vilderness tliat the old trail which went down Clinch Valley 

Road, the former going nearly due north, and became the Long Hunters' Road in 17G9-72 

and the latter bearing to the north-west) . . 1.") was not blazed by white hunters — they simply dis- 

From the Hazel Patch to Rockcastle River. ... 10 covered it, and adopted it for their own purposes. 

From Rockcastle River to English's Station... 25 p^.i^^^ ^^^^ j^j^j.j ^.^uy small parties of daring 

^'""7 C^uf (^ch-iixh'^'*"' ^" ^"'' ^'^''■'"■'^'"'~ 3 frontiersmen had traA-elled this trail down into the 

From Col.* Edwards's to Whitley's Station'. '. '. '. '. 5 liowling wilderness in search of big game, and it 

From Whitley's Station to Logan's Station 5 seems to have gradually taken the name "Hunters' 

From Logan's Station to (Jlark's Station 7 Path"; but after the famous trip of the "Long 

From Clark's Station to Crow's Station 4 Himters" into Kentucky (in 17G9-72), it got to be 

From Crow's Station to Harrod's Station 3 j.^^^^^.^ .^^^ .rpi^^. j^^^„ Hunters' Road." (See the 

From Harrod's Station to Harlan's Station... 4 , ^, l. ^ 1 ei — •> i i- » 1 

,, ,r 1 • oj^ !-■ j^ TT 1 • ' w'+ I-- if\ two ;\IcAfee Journals of 1< (3, Appendix A, records 

From Harlan s fetation to Harbison s Station. .10 7 1 1 j 

From Harbison's Station to Bardstown 25 ''^ August 13, 14, and 15.) 

From Bardstown to (Bullitt's) Salt \\'orks. . . 25 In later times, however, this trail lost its former 

From Salt Works to I'alls of Ohio ( Louisville) 20 titles to a large extent, and different poi'tions of it 

1 came to have separate distinctive names. A large 

'^'^^'"^^ '"^^^ secti<m of it took the name of "The Tazewell Road," 

SUMMARY '*^"^ retains it to this day. The Long Hunters' 

From Philadelphia to the Pcitomac 1G2 K<«i«l tl^es not seem ever to have had any one ex- 

From the Potomac to New River 239 elusive point of departure on New River, but we 



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kuow of several erdssings whicli were used by dif- 
ferent persons. Fn^ni the mouth of Poplar Camp 
f'reek in Wvthe County, to the. south, on to the 
moutli of the Uluestone River, in what is now Sum- 
mers County, West Virginia, there were doubtless 
a number of fords and ferries which hunters from 
the east side of New River in both Carolina and 
Virginia, made use of in getting across into the 
wilderness. But it is extremely likely that Pep- 
per's Ferry was the principal crossing place for 
those who were bound for Clinch Valley. In mod- 
erate stages of water the Xew River was fordable 
at Ingles" Ferry, a short distance above, as we learn 
from the Journal of William Brown (1782), which 
is in the po.ssession of his grandson, ^Ir. George G. 
Brown, of Louisville, and which we have had the 
privilege of perusing; and the same was probably 
true of Pepper's Ferry. Some of the hunters, 
whose homes were a considerable distance to the 
north or south of this ferry, no doubt found it de- 
sirable to reach the divide near Tazewell by going 
directly up some of the numerous streams which 
head in that vicinity, and there striking the trail 
leading down the Clinch A'alley. Hence it is 
scarcely exact to say that this road began at some 
one point on Xew liiver, but at several, and that 
the main part began near the head branches of 
Clinch River, having several ft^^ders, or contribut- 
ing paths, leading up to it from a number of the 
fords or ferries of Xew River, as just stated. 

It should be understood as we iiroceed that the 
claim of this road to consideration does not rest, 
except in very small measure, upon the mere fact 
that certain bauds of hunters selected it as best 
suited to their purposes. Its importiince arises 
from the fact that it wa.s, for some ^ears, a rival of 
the more southerly trail — the Ilolston Valley Iioute, 
better known as "The Wilderness Road," for 
emigrant travel to the Kentucky country; and that 
after it had been outstripped in popularity and 
usefulness by that road for purposes of interstate 
commerce, it became an important Virginia high- 
way; and at this day, under the name of "The 
Tazewell Road,'" it is in constant use as the main 
thoroughfare of the Clinch ^'alley, not including 
railways. 

The exact year in which this trail was, for the 
first time, used by explorers and hunters bound for 
the Clinch A'alley, it would be impossible to de- 
termine at this late daj-, but there are some well- 
ascertained facts in connection with the earliest 



settlements close to and on both sides of Xew River 
which throw considerable light on this question. 
Dr. Hale in his Trans- Alleghany Pioneers (pages 
13-17), treating of this subject, gives us some in- ■ 
formation of value. He says that it was a tradi- I 
tiou in the X'ew River region that Thomas Ingles 
and his son William made a tour of observation as 
far as that stream in the year 1744. It is known 
that in the year 174S Dr. Thomas Walker led a 
company of explorei-s and hunters down into South- 
western Virginia, then an uninhabited wilderness, 
and the route he travelled, as Dr. Hale shows, was 
not the trail known in after days as the Wilderness 
Road, but, beyond reasonable doubt, one of the sev- 
eral paths which led from Xew River up to about 
where Tazewell Court House now stands. On this 
tour (which was made two yeai*s prior to the one 
on which he passed through Cumberland Gap into 
Kentucky) he went up the ci-eek, and north of the 
mountain range, which for generations has borne 
his own name. Dr. Hale, in a letter to the present 
writer, dateil May, 1901, spejvJcing of this tour, 
says: "In the same year (1748), Dr. Thomas 
Walker and party made a land and exploring ex- 
petlitiou to South-we.st Virginia. I have never 
seen the itinerary of Dr. Walker's first journey, but 
tradition says that he crossed Xew River at the 
Horse Shoe Bend [near Draper's Meadows, now 
Blacksburg], went down the river to Walker's 
Creek (so named by him), and up that creek and 
over to Clinch and Ilolston Rivers, etc". In his 
book Dr. Hale asserts that Walker's Creek and Lit- 
tle Walker's Creek, and Walker's ;Mountain and 
Little Walker's ilouutain were all named by Dr. 
Walker on this tour of 1748. From Xew River, at 
Goodwin's Ferry — where the pai'ty probably turned 
to the westward, and within six miles of which 
place they struck \\'alker's Creek — to where the 
two head streams of Clinch River unite near Taze- 
well Court House, is about seventy-five miles, by 
the country road now in use. That road goes up 
Walker's Creek to its head, at Sharon Springs; 
crosses Brushy M(mntain and Garden Mountain 
into Burke's Garden; passes across that historic 
garden to the north-west; crosses Ivich Mountain; 
then, turning south-west, gets on to the South Fork 
of Clinch near its junction with the X'orth Fork, 
and two miles south-west of that point comes to 
Tazewell C. H. How far Dr. Walker travelled 
down Clinch Valley we do not know, but he may 
have gone nearly to Powell's Rivei*. That Dr. 



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461 



Walker aud party did not blaze out an entirely 
new trail themselves, but followed one of the old 
Indian trails on this tour, seems I'easonably cer- 
tain. We know tliere is a re^nlar county road 
from Goodwin's Ferry to Tazewell (\ II., as just 
detailed, and Dr. Walker and j)arty probably fol- 
lowed it in 174S. Now this tonr certainly sngiiests 
to us that at that early day there was a practicable 
bridle-path to the Clinch Valley from NeAV River. 
It is well known that in this same year (174S) 
was made that fannms setth'iiieiit ;i few miles east 
of the Horse Shoe Bend of New Kiver known in 
former times as Draper's Meadows, but now occu- 
pied by the town of Blacksburg. The founders 
were Thomas Ingles and his three sous, Mrs. 
Draper and her son and daughter, Adam Harmon, 
Henry Lenard, and James Purke. Let it here be 
noted in passing that Dr. Hale spells the name of 
the principal founder of Draper's Meadows 
"Ingles," not Engles, nor Inglis, nor English; and 
as he was a great-grandson of Thomas Ingles, and 
was born and reared at Draper's Meadows, it is safe 
to assume that he knew the proper spelling of this 
name which has been so badly handled by nearly all 
the writers whom we have had occasion to find 
using it. It was also in this same year that James 
McAfee, Sr., who is treated of at length in Part II 
of this work, purchased the old Indian Camp farm 
on Catawba Creek, only twenty miles north-east of 
Draper's Meadows. That the New River was at 
that date the extreme south-westerly frontier of 
Virginia, and that there was probably not a single 
family of Whites then living west of that stream, 
will hardly be (piestioned by any one. This, how- 
ever, does not mean that no Indian traders or hunt- 
ers or explorers had yet gone into the wilderness. 
The trath almost certainly is that individual ad- 
venturer.s, here and there, for some years before this 
date had been tempted by the prospect of gain, or 
the love of exciting sport, or a desire to acquire a 
knowledge of unexplored regions to journey far to 
the south-west of New River at the risk of their 
lives. We may be sure there was no lack of foot- 
paths and bridle-ways, and we feel confident that 
there were then in existence several of these roads 
having their starting places at points on New 
River, converging at some jjoint near the head of 
Clinch River, and leading on down that stream to- 
wards Kentucky. See Haywood's account of a 
hunting party in 1762, who travelled down Clinch 
River (page 48). 



The country lying between New River and Taze- 
well Court House is, for the nu)st ])art, so extremely 
mountainous that no large proi)ortion of it is, as a 
rule, adajited to agricultural purposes. This, no 
doubt, accounts for the fact that it was not settled 
as rapidly as the country farther to the west and 
south-west. There are rich valleys here and there, 
and the region is most pictur(>sque, but the moun- 
tnin ranges are lofty, and are set in close rank one 
behind another. Rut settlers besran to take up 
<'hoice lands soon after Dr. Walker's first tour 
(174S). The Doctor, himself, had excellent vision, 
and knew a prize when he saw it. For example, in 
^larch, 1750, he surveyed for himself a tract of 
6,7S0 acres in that lovely "oasis," Burke's Garden 
(see Summers, page 45), only about ten or twelve 
miles east of Tazewell Court House, and three years 
later (1753), James Burke and his family settled 
in that place, which ever since has been called 
"I>urke's Garden." The famous Dunkard Settle- 
ment on the west side of New River at Ingles' 
Ferry was made in 1749, and, in 1750, one Stalnaker 
erected his cabin fo the north of the Wilderness 
Road (with Dr. Walker's assistance), west of 
Wytheville, and he was then the last settler on that 
route to the south-west. In 1768, Capt. Joseph 
]\Iartin, a most adventurous woodsman, penetrated 
to within twenty miles of Cumberland Gap, and 
erected cal>ins with the aid of more than twenty 
companions. The Indians soon drove him back to 
the settlements on the Holston, but his cabins were 
re-occupied (possibly re-built) not long after, and 
his place was for many years a ncvted stopping-place 
for people going into Kentucky through Cumber- 
land Gap. In 1766, a party of hunters visited the 
Clinch ^'alley, two of whom erected a cabin at Crab 
Grchard, three miles west of Tazewell Couit House, 
and one of these hunters built him a house five 
miles east of that cabin. (See Summers, pages 46 
and 84.) The place on Clinch River, which was at 
first called Castle's Woods (now known as Castle- 
wood, a railway station), was founded in 1771, or 
possibly three years earlier, by a man named Castle. 
(See Summers, page 367.) This place is in Rus- 
sell County, forty-five miles south-west of Tazewell, 
and twenty-two miles north-west of Abingdon (the 
distance given being air-line in each case). This 
place is one of special importance to this discus- 
sion, as we shall see presently. The records of 
Washington County, Virginia, show numerous sur- 
veys of land which Avere made on Clinch River in 



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1774 and 177."), some of tlieni as far clown as Fort 
Blackniore at the month of Stony Creek. (See 
Snmmers, ])a,<ies 808-815.) 

Tlie settk^nients from the liead branches of the 
Clinch River down to PoAvell's Valley rapidly in- 
creased, thereby angraenting continnally the need 
of a great thoroughfare down that way. Such a 
thoroughfare was more and more fully established, 
and it was the Long Hunters' Road. In 1772, 
James IMoore and James Poage settled in Abb's 
Valley (where Absalom Looney had settled the 
year before), situated eighteen miles north-east of 
Tazewell; two families on the North Fork of Clinch 
River; seven families near Tazewell ; one at Maiden 
Spring, twelve or fourteen miles south-west of Taze- 
well ; and doubtless many others in neighboring 
communities on or close to the Clinch River. We 
may not be able to ascertain the names, or even the 
number, of all the settlers who came to the Clinch 
Valley, but we can by various criteria, arrive at a 
pretty fair estimate of the density of the popula- 
tion throtighout the extended region under review, 
and, (■onse(|uently, of the need for such a highway 
as we contend the Long Huntei-s' Road actually 
was. One criterion was the ofticial acts of the 
county iu regard to the construction or manage- 
ment of roads to or iu the Clinch Valley. In 
March, 1773, six citizens of the county (then Fin- 
castle, later Washington) Avere ordered "to view the 
nighest and best way" for a road from a, point on the 
^^'ilderuess Road not far from where the present 
town of Marion stands, across Walker's and Clinch 
Mountains in a north-westerly direction to Elk 
(xardeu, on Clinch River; and in July of that year 
.1 report was nmde by the commissioners to the ef- 
fect that they had attended to the business; and 
the road was partly established. The distance Avas 
about twenty-five miles. In November of that 
same year another road Avas ordered to be viewed 
from Maiden Spring, Avliich is in TazcAvell County, 
on the Long Hunters' Road, by the best Avay to the 
Great Road (Wilderness Road). That road was 
about tAventy miles long, and iJrobably came into 
the Wilderness Road not far from the same place 
as the one just meutioned. Both of these ncAV 
roads, it should be noted, connected the Wilderness 
Road and the Long Hunters' Road, and the de- 
mand for them i)roved that both of the great trails 
or higliAvays at which they terminated Avere of 
great importance. ( See Summers, pages 132-134. ) 

We nmv also get some fair notion of the charac- 



ter of the settlements along the Clinch River for 
nearly a hundred miles of the course followed by 
the Long Hunters' Road by noting the character 
and extent of the military protection Avhich the 
]>ublic authoi'ities felt it was needful to provide for 
the settlers along Clinch RiA^er. From Summers' 
South-Avest ^'irginia (pages 150-7) Ave learn that . 
from the mouth of Stony Creek, in Avhat is now l| 
Scott County, all the way to the neighborhood in 
Avhich Tazewell Court House now stands — a dis- 
tance, by the Long Hunters' Road, of about ninety 
miles — there Avas in 1774 a string of forts or sta- 
tions occupied by regular militia Avho were there 
to protect the settlers and travellers against the 
Indians, as folloAvs: Fort Blackmore, at the 
mouth of Stony Creek, sixteen men. Sergeant 
Moore, commajiding; at Fort Moore, twenty miles 
east, Avith twenty men. Lieutenant Daniel Boone, 
commanding; Fort Russell, four miles farther to 
the east, tAventy men. Sergeant W. Poage, com- 
nmnding; Fort Glade, twelve miles farther east, 
Sergeant John Duncan, connmindiug; Elk Gar- 
den, fourteen miles farther east, fifteen men. Ser- 
geant John Kinkead, commanding; Maiden Spring, 
t.Aventy-three miles farther east, five men. Sergeant 
John Crow, comnumding; Whitlow's Crab Or- 
chard, three men. Ensign John Campbell, com- 
manding. How far east of Maiden Spring Whit- 
loAv's Crab Orchard Avas Ave can not say, but it only 
needed to be about twelve miles in order to be in 
the immediate vicinity of the spot on which Taze- 
Avell Court House now stands. That this string of 
forts marked the course of an important higliAvay, 
and Avas maintained in large degree for the protec- 
tion of all Avho resided or traA'elled on it, one can 
not doubt for a moment. AVhat these forts meant 
to the people along that valley Ave may learn from 
the fact that in the fall of the year (1774), when 
all the available Fincastle men Avho could be spared 
had jointxl iu the expedition to Point Pleasant to 
aid in defeating the anny of savages there, a series 
of raids Avas begun by Indians (believed to have 
been Cherokees) and a number of the citizens of 
the Clinch A'alley were slain. (See Summers, 
pages 15()-7. ) 

We doubt not that the reader has, ere this, been 
Axondering as to Avhat nuiy be our Avarrant for 
speaking so ixtsitively of a trail or highway called, 
indifferently, "The Hunters' Path," and "The Long 
Hunters' Road," as though it had actually existed, 
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hundred years. Tliis is a natural and proper in- 
quiry; and we liave puiijosely left it unanswered 
till now, believing that the facts we have Iteen jire 
senting would, if first considered, make our expla- 
nation more easily understood than would other- 
wise have been possil)le. It is not at all strange 
tliat even well informed students of the history of 
Virginia and Kentucky should liave to confess that 
they have never heard of the path or road we are 
dealing Avith; for we have so far been unable to 
find, in any of the many volumes we have consulted, 
a single sentence in I'egard to its name, its origin, 
its development, or its uses. We do not profess to 
have consulted all of the histories of the three 
States traversed by this road, but Ave hav(> studied 
the principal ones Avith a good deal of care; and all 
of them maintain an uiuiccountahle silence on this 
subject. It is simply inexplicable that one can 
not find any allusion to "The Hunters' Path" or 
"The Long Hunters' IJoad" in the fullest and most 
popular histories of Kentucky, South-Avestern Vir- 
ginia, and Tennessee. And the anomaly is only 
aggravated by the fact that every one of the his- 
tories referred to does mention the famous com- 
pany of "Long Hunters," of 1709-1772, Avhose 
choice and use of this trail caused it to be called in 
honor of them — "The Long Hunters' Road." Mar- 
shall, Butler, Collins, Smith and numberless other 
writers on Kentucky history; Haywood, Ramsey, 
Phelan and others, of Tennessee; and Summers, 
Preston and others, of South-Avestern Virginia, all 
tell us about the "Long Hunters" themselws, but 
giA'e no intelligible account of the trail they fol- 
loAved from Xcav River to Cumberland Gap. As 
has been intimated on a int'vious page, this silence 
would not have been wholly excusable even if this 
road had ceased to exist the day after that famous 
company passed over it; but Avhen Ave know that 
it was for many years an alternative route Avith set- 
tlers travelling fi'om Xew River to Kentucky; that 
for several generations it has practically been the 
only east and Avest thoroughfare, north of the Wil- 
derness Road, for people Avho live in the Clinch 
Valley; and that it is still constantly used and 
knoAvn as "The TazeAvell Road" for a large part of 
its coui'se — Avheu we think of these incontroverti- 
ble facts — Ave are at a loss to comprehend why so 
many ju'ominent and trustworthy historical writers 
had nothing to say on this point. If one Avill take 
the pains to examine all of the liistories Ave men- 
tion, in order to note what they say of the "Long 



Hunters," he will i)robably be struck with the fur- 
ther fact tliat not one of them cites anv original 
authorities for his statements concerning them, 
but all siH'ak as though copying Avhat some one 
early Avriter had said. Pe7'ha]>s, if the real author 
of tlie account of the Long Hunters, which we AthI 
repeated in so many volumes, could be discovered, 
Ave might ascertain the source of his information, 
but the present writer has not had the time to 
make as tliorough a search as he Avould have been 
glad to conduct if he had had more leisure. But 
we have in our possession copies of certain journals 
of the most unimpeachable kind, Avritten Ity tAvo 
well-known ]>ioneers of high character in the sum- 
mer of 1773, which not only mention this road by 
name, but AA'hich inform us Avhere at least forty 
miles of its course can be found. Besides the tes- 
timony of these tAvo journals we have reliable and 
convincing corroboratJA-e evidence from the journal 
of another pioneer, and several other sources Avhich 
enable us to speak Avith reasonalile certainty of 
the course that trail pursued for a distance of at 
least tAvo hundred miles. To these matters the 
reader's kind attention Avill presently be invited. 

The niinierous histories we have mentioui'd, in 
their notices of the "Long Hunters" of 1709-1772 
are not exactly at one in all their statements. 
Some acce])t the year 1709 as the date of this tour, 
AA-hilst others mention the year 1770; S(une speak as 
if there Avere only about tAventy men in the party, 
and others claim there Avere as many as forty ; some 
seem to incline to the notion that this company 
travelled down the Holston Valley for at least the 
first few days of their jimrney from NeAV River, 
Avhilst others are either silent on this ]>oint entirely, 
or leaA'e on the reader's mind the somewhat vague 
impression that they Avent down the Clinch Valley. 
In the nuiin particulars, hoAvever, there is almost 
exact agreement as to the following points, to Avit: 
That the company was made up of some men from 
Rockbridge County, Virginia, of others from the 
New liiver neighborhood, and of still others from 
North Carolina; that the party entered Kentucky 
by Avay of Cumberland tJap; that some of these 
men left the nmin body, and embarked on the Cum- 
l)erland River for Ncav Orleans, and returned to 
Virginia by sea; that some of them hunted as far 
as Dick's River to the Nortlnvard, and to Green, 
Barren and Hart ('ounties to the Avestward ; and 
that some of them did not return to their homes for 
two or three years, whence the name of "Long 



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Hunters," l)_y wliich they have over since been 
known. The names of only a part of the company 
are given by any of the writers referred to. Dr. 
Hale, alone, of all the writers. ]>ositively states 
(see page 102 of his Trans Allegheny Pioneers) 
that the place of rendezvous was, for some of the 
company, Drapers Meadows (now Blacksburg, 
Viro-inia), a few miles to the east of New River, 
and that others fell in Avith them at the Holston 
and Clinch settlements. As the settlements on 
both the.se rivers extende<l, at that date, from tlx'ir 
head branches well down towards Powell's Valley 
— a distance of more than a hundred miles — this 
statement is rather vague. Dr. Hale and several 
others make Col. James Knox the commander of 
the party. As Draper's Meadows was less than a 
day's ride from the homes of the McAfees, whose 
Journals of their tour of 1773 constitute our main 
authorities for our present contention ; and as the 
Rockbridge members of the party most likely had 
to pass their very doors in reaching Draper's 
Meadows; and as the McAfees were probably then 
contemplating their own tour to Kentucky, which 
they took a few years thereafter; and especially, 
as we learn from the two McAfee Journals, above 
mentioned, that the McAfees, on coming into the 
path or road which those hunters had travelled, at 
Powell's River, August 13, 1773, at once recognized 
it, and called it by its proper names, it is most rea- 
sonable to believe that some of the McAfees saw 
and conversed with some of the men of the famous 
hunting company and learned from them some- 
thing of their plans. The McAfees were uncom- 
monly intelligent frontiersmen, and masters of 
woodcraft; and in that eai-ly day no such an assem- 
blage of adventurers bound for the Kentucky wil- 
derness could rendezvous in their immediate vicin- 
ity, and at such a public place as the supply store 
at Draper's Meadows, without their being apprised 
of it in advance, and making sure of learning all 
about it. The speed with which gossip travelled 
from cabin to cabin and from station to station 
on the frontiei's in those days puts our modem 
newspaper endeavors to the blush. We may most 
safely assume that when, in Powell's Valley, on 
the thirteenth of August. 1773, the McAfees stum- 
bled on to the trail which the Long Hunters had 
followed on their way to Cumberland Cap, a few 
years before, they were like men meeting an old 
acquaintance, and needed no introduction — they 
instantlv realized thev were at the trail once called 



''The Hunters' Path," but after 1772 known as 
"The Long Hunters' Road," and neede<l only to 
follow it themselves in order to reach their homes. 
The tour of th<' ^Ic.Vfce Company from Virginia 
to the Kentucky Wilderness in 1773 is recounted 
with tolerable fulness by all the lai-ger histories 
of Kentucky, Collins being the fullest. (See Vol. 
2, pages r)Or)-mO.) Having concluded their sur- 
veys on Salt River, they set out for home on the 
31st djiy of July, striking across the country on 
foot. They struck Kentucky River in a few days, 
and August 4 they began to ascend the banks of 
that stream at a point about three miles above the 
site of the present town of Irvine, and stuck to it 
till noon of August 11. They set down, in writing, 
the estimated distance day by day. They aver- 
aged, according to their figures, about twenty-two 
miles a day for seven days and a half, aggregating 
about one hundred and sixty-five miles by noon of 
August 11, when they took final leave of the (North 
Fork of) Kentucky River. By actual measure- 
ment on the large scale U. S. maps in our posses- 
sion — scale two miles to one inch — the distance 
from the point at which they began to ascend the 
river near Irvine to the mouth of Leatherwood 
Creek, in Perry County, Kentucky, is almost ex- 
actly one hundred and sixty-five miles, as any one 
can see who cares to look into the matter. Of 
course, they were not infallible in guessing the dis- 
tances travelled, and we could not be so in measur- 
ing the river on the map. But the coincidence is 
striking. It is possible the creek at which they 
left the river August 11 was Macie's — we think it 
was Leatherwood, eight miles above Macie's. We 
are sure it was not any creek above Leatherwood, 
for none above it can possibly meet all the require- 
ments of the ca.se, due regard being had both to the 
known conditions of the river, and those of the ad- 
jacent country, as well as the records of the two 
Journals. Any attempt to bring them out on 
Powell's River above Stone Gap must end in con- 
fusion. They went up that creek (Leatherwood, 
or, possibly, Macie's) to its head, six mile.s, and 
then through the roughest and most difficult laurel- 
clad mountains six miles farther, and camped that 
evening. Next day, August 12, they went on six 
miles farther througli terrible laurel hills and came 
to "a large creek at a big fork at the falls of it." 
This, we confidently believe, was Poor Fork of 
("umberlaud River, just where Clover Lick Creek 
enters it from the south; and just there is a falls, 



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465 



exitctly iiiiswcriiii; to tlic .Tciiriial of .Tiiiiu's ^FcAfcc. 
A ])i(tur(' of tlic sjiof is liivcii in ApixMidix A. V\) 
that creek, two miles, they eaiiie to some salt 
springs witli inimerons wide elk ])alhs leadinti' from 
them U]i the iioi-thern front of "an exceedinii- liii;ii 
mountain." There are now sn<h spi'injis and the 
traces of elk paths on (Tover Lick Creek, just two 
miles ali(»ve its mouth at Poor Fork; and at thoso 
sprinjis there rises, on tlie south si(h', the rocky 
front of Pig Bhick ^lountain, reaching an altitude 
of ahout four thousand feet aliove the sea, and 
twenty-three hnndred feet al)Ove the creek at the 
licks mentioned. Pp and over that "exceeding 
higli mountain" they climlied, going nearly du(> 
south; and after imredihie har(lslii])s, and a<iile 
suffering due to hunger, thirst, laceratwl arms and 
legs and scalded feet, they cam])ed that evening at 
the south-easterly hase of that nKHintain, not far 
north of ("lover l<^)rk. l-'riday, August 13, they 
crossed ("lover I"(n'k, the Little Black Mountains, 
Stone ^lountain, and then, finally, to the head of 
Powell's Valley, where they reached "The Hunters' 
Path,"" as James ^IcAfee states in his Jcnirnal. 
That day they made only eight miles, owing partly 
to their exhausted condition, partly to the exceed- 
ingly rough, laurel-clad mountains they had to 
cross, and partly to the hlinding rain which fell on 
them as they dragged their weary limbs along. At 
the risk of wearying the reader with details already 
presented in the preceding Appendix (A), we have 
given this sumnian' of the jourueyings of the three 
days prior to the arrival of the company at PoAvell's 
Kiver, because up(in our conclusious concerning the 
exact point on that stream at which they camped 
the night of the 13tli niust depend the location of 
the "Hunters' Path," as James McAfee calls it, or 
tlie "Long Hunters" Koad," as IJobert designates it 
in his Journal. We can not detennine just where 
that trail ran unless we know about what point the 
]\IcAfees camped Friday night, August 13. After 
the most painstaking study of the whole case, and 
the juost thorough examination of the excellent 
maps in our jxissession, and after considering every 
other possible route the ^IcAfees could have trav- 
elled from the Kentucky to Powell's Kiver, we feel 
fully conviiu-ed that they could not have struck 
Powell's Kivei", August 13, anywhere along its 
course except at some point above Dryden and I)e- 
low Big Stone (Jap. The writer has been on the 
ground as far up as the town of Big Stone Gap, 
and then up the South Fork of Powell's Biver for 



some miles above tliat town, ex|)ressly to study this 
]>robleni; and any llieor,\- whicli does nol make the 
cam[> of the MtAfees on the niglit of August 13 on 
the liank of Powell's Kixcr at a |)oint several miles 
below I'ig Stone (iaj) and iit least on(> or two miles 
above Hryden introduces confusion into the prob- 
lem and raises ditlicnlties absolutely irreconcilal)le 
with se\cra] of the known facts ami conditions of 
the case. These two Journals are nnimi)eachable 
documents, written by men of large ex]M'rience in 
woodcraft, and we must credit them as reliable. 

Let us now sum up the points made entirely clear 
by the records in the Wo McAfee Journals. For 
convenience we will quote the exact words of both, 
bearing on this one (luestion as to the existence, 
location and topographical features of the particu- 
lar trail we have under review. First from James 
McAfee: "August 13th, Friday. We left that 
camp and travelled 8 miles across the head of 
Powell's Valley to the hunters" path. August 14th, 
Saturday. We took that path, crossed two little 
mountains over to ("linch water; travelled 25 miles 
that day. August ir)tli, Sunday. We travelled 
that path aliout L"t miles and struck tlie ford of 
("linch at ("astlewood"s, 12 miles below James 
Smith's; we came eight miles that night to the 
ford of David (Juest. August Kith, Monday. We 
came but five miles to ("aptain Kussell's. Our feet 
were much scalded and so lame tliat we coidd not 
travel." 

I\ol)ert, in his Journal, cov<'ring the same period, 
says: "The 13th we travelled about 8 miles in ex- 
ceeding bad laurel mountains, which seemed to be 
hard to get out of — and it rained very hard. The 
14th we got in the head of Powell's Valley on the 
!>((ng Hunters" Koad, and we had two mountains to 
cross (in a small i)ath, and the loth we got to a 
house in the nnirning, which was a glad sight 
to us."" 

One tiling made clear by these records is that 
there was then a narrow trail or road in existence', 
leading from I'owelTs Valley to ("linch Kiver (25 
miles), and then liji that stream fifteen miles to a 
ford known as Castlewood's; and that somehow 
the ilcAfees were able to recognize and identify 
that trail as the "Hunters' Path,"' according to 
James, and the "Long Hunters" Koad,"" according 
to Kobert. And a necessary inference is that tliose 
experienced and intelligent woodsmen had had a 
very definite knowledge oi that trail prior to Au- 



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•mst, 1778, so that tlic moiucut they camt' into it 
they knew what it was. 

Another thing- made clear by tliese records is that 
in going from Powell's River to Clinch River by 
that trail— a distance of al)out twenty-five miles 
there are two separate and distinct mountain 
ranges to be crossed along a narrow path. This 
mea'iis that the trail, as travelUil by them August 
14, ccmld not have gone either up or down the 
Powell's River very far without seriously increas- 
ing the distance they would need to travel in order 
to^reach Clinch Wver within twenty-five miles. If 
they reallv struck Powell's River a few miles above 
X)ryjen— say, at the mouth of jMud Creek— then 
they did not go up the river more than tAVO miles 
before they came to Buck Creek (which puts in 
from the east) and there turned sharply to the right 
(the east) and began the ascent of Walleu's Ridge; 
and having gotten to its eastern base, at once began 
the ascent of Powell's ^Mountain, at whose eastern 
foot they came to Stock Creek in what is called 
"Huntei^' Valley," not quite half way to the point 
at which they struck the Clinch River. Thus forty 
miles of the Long Hunters' Road are identified, and 
we are also furnishcnl with data for extending it in 
both directions for a great distance when other 
known facts come to be considered. 

Mr. W. J. Dickinson, of Castlewood, to whose 
kindness the author is much indebted for valuable 
information used herein, thinks that by the 
phrase, "head of Powell's Valley," which is em- 
ployed in both of the McAfee Journals to designate 
the" locality in which Powell's River and the Long 
Hunters' Road (or Hunters' Path) were reached, 
we are bound to understand a region considerably 
above Big Stone Gap; but in order to confirm this 
theory Mr. Dickinson is obliged to adopt a route 
for tiie jMcAfees from August 10th to the 1.5th 
which can not possibly conform to the plain re- 
quirements of the records in the two Journals. 
For one thing, from the lower end of the pass 
called Big Stone Gap clear to the remotest head- 
springs of Powell's River on the divide north-west 
of Gladeville — a distance of at least twenty miles 
— the country is so exceedingly mountainous, and 
the river so closely hemmed in on both sides by 
lofty ranges and peaks that it is doubtful if at a 
dozen places throughout that entire distance there 
could be found, near the ri^-er, spaces fit for a game 
of golf, much less anything that we could call a real 
valley. A more interminable network of closely 



connected ranges of mountains fnmi two thousand 
to thirty-five hundred feet high could scarcely be 
found in Anu»rica. In all that region, from Big 
Stone Gap to the north-west, the noi'th and the 
nortli-east, not a village of a hundred souls can be 
found within a distance of twenty miles, with the 
single exception of Gladeville; and that village (of 
two hundred souls) is not on Powell's River at all. 
It is idle to talk of that little river having anything 
worthy of being designated as a valley above Big 
Stone Gap of stifficient width to speak of as the 
Journals do — it is simply a rushing, roaring, tum- 
bling numntain stream, with high mountains on 
both sides, descending nearly five hundred feet in 
ten miles of its course betwe<>n Little and Big 
Stone Gaps. What sort of speed this indicates nuty 
be inferred from the fact that the Falls of the 
Ohio, at Louisville, which cover a distance of 
three miles, and reiuler boating impracticable, 
show a descent of less than 9 feet to the mile, about 
one-fifth that of Powell's River at the place 
named. Nothing of a valley, desen'ing even to be 
called the "head" of one, can be seen till Big Stone 
Gap is passed, and that ''head'' is at least ten miles 
long — it is but a narrow valley even there, and till 
we pass Stocker's Knob and reach Dryden. There 
the real valley of that stream begins, and the re- 
gion above Dryden for ten miles is liut its head. 
The present writer personally inspected that beau- 
tiful region a few years ago for the purpose of get- 
ting at the truth in regard to this point, going from 
Cumberland Gap to Big Stone Gap on the cars, 
and then on horseback up the South Fork of 
Powell's River some miles into what is called the 
Cracker Neck, and all that he there saw and learned 
only helped to confirm the theory he has adopted, 
and which he has sought to illustrate in two of the 
maps contained in this volume. He put the ques- 
tion to a citizen of the town of Big Stone Gap, at 
the time of the visit just refeiTed to, as to Avhere 
the head of Powell's River was thought to be, and 
he replied, in substance: "Below this town." 
About five years ago he wrote to the Rev. R. G. 
]Matlieson, who was then the pastor of the Presby- 
terian Church at Big Stone Gap, and asked him for 
his opinion, and his reply was in these words : 
"Big Stone Gap is properly spoken of as at the 
head of Powell's Valley." That is the verdict of 
men who live on the ground. 

A strong confinnation of our views on this par- 
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Iiiivc sought Id iii;iiuI;iiM in rciiard to tlic Lout; 
lluiitcrs' Itoad, is lo lie round in the Joiirnal of 
a N\'illiiun Calk, w lio tia\clicd from New IJivcr to 
Central Kent nek v in I lie spiiiiii of 177."), less than 
two years after tlie homeward trip of the .McAfee 
Compauy. It is a siiii^nlar fad that <'alk"s .lonr- 
nal is pnhlished in that deliiihtfnl and vahialile 
moiKmrajili of the late Captain Thomas Speed, de- 
\()ted to the AVilderness Road (see pajies 83-38), 
when, as a matter of fact. Calk's journey was au il- 
lustration of till' importance of the Long Hunters' 
itoad. Calk crossed New River at Pepper's Ferry 
(tile crossin;^ jdace more particularly connected 
with the honi!, Hunters' Road) ^Marcli 21, and after 
travelling- two days (ahout sixty miles) along the 
Wilderness ]{(iad lie turned out of it near where 
•Marion now is and set his face to the north-west, 
towards Clinch Riv( r. At the evening of the second 
day after lea\ ing that highway he got to one 
Daniel Smith's, on Clinch River, and he did not 
even see the AVilderness Road again till he got 
<l(iwn into Pitwell's Valley near where the town of 
.Tonesville now is. He got to Elk Garden March 
30, passed Castle's Woods the next day, and late in 
the night of Ajiril 1 he reached Cove Creek, which 
is just eleven miles east of Powell's River at the 
mouth of Ruck Ci-eek, \\here the McAfees passed, 
going homeward on the fourteenth of August. 
Calk's brief record of April 1*, the day after he 
reached Cove Creek, is as follows : "This morning 
is a very hard frost and we start early, travel over 
Powell's Mountain and camp in the head of Powell's 
Valley, where there is very good food." Now we 
contend that this Journal proves st veral tilings: 
first, that there was at that day a practicable horse- 
back trail down the Clinch Valley to Cumberland 
(iap suited to emigrants going to Kentucky; sec- 
ondly, that Calk travelled, for many miles, the very 
I'oad the McAfees had passed over in 1773; thirdly, 
that he could not possibly have gone by Rig Stone 
(Jap without needlessly inci"easing the length of his 
journey; and fourthly, that he considered the re- 
gion below Big Stone Gap as the "head of Powell's 
N'alley." His Journal shows that he covered in 
one day the distance from the place where he 
struck the head of that valley to where the A\ilder- 
uess Road and the Long Hunters' Road came to- 
gether near the site of Jonesville; and as we know, 
from other sources, that it is just alxuit twenty- 
three miles from the mouth of Buck Creek down 
the valley to the junction with the Wilderness 



Road and Boone's Tiac( — a comfortable day's 
journcN w ith hcaxily laden iiack-horses, "over very 
bad hills," as Calk .says — the conclusion is irresist- 
ible thai Calk came from the u])])!'!- Clinch Valley 
by the Long Hunters' Road, and that he got into 
Powell's A'alley at the very ])lace where the Mc- 
Afees left it August 14, 177:5, as they were going 
back home to Botetourt County, N'irginia. 

Additional light is thrown upon this ([uestion 
by the records we find in various Avorks concerning 
the painful disaster Daniel Boone suffered in 
Powell's Valley October 10, 1773, as he and a large 
comi)any of ])eople were on their way to make a 
settlement in Kentucky. In all the fuller histories 
We find some account of it. (See Summers's 
South-western AMrgiuia, pages 112-3; and Collins's 
Kentucky, A'ol. 2, page 711.) Not long after 
Boone's return from his sojourn of 1769-71 in the 
Wilderness of Kentucky to his home on the Yadkin, 
in North Carolina, he made up his mind to sell out 
his interests there and move to Kentucky for the 
purpose of making his permanent home in that 
beautiful country. Accordingly, he left the Yad- 
kin September 25, 1773, taking along all of his 
family, his household effects, and his cattle and 
horses. A number of other families and a goodly 
company of armed men joined liiin, so that by the 
time he reached Powell's Valley his party was the 
most formidable one that had ever ventured that 
far. The question before us is this: Did Boone 
and his associates travel the Long Hunters' Road 
on that journey'? Wg do not hesitate to give it 
as our confident judgment that he did travel that 
road, and especially that the part of that road 
A\liicli was followed by the McAfees August 14 and 
IT) was, beyond all reasonable doubt, the precise 
route of Boone in October, 1773. In the light of 
the facts before us, we do not see how it would 
be possible to malce even a plausible argument 
in favor of any other route. Whether he 
came that road all the way from New River by 
way of Walker's Creek and the site of Tazewell 
Court House, or whether he, like Calk (already 
c(msidered), got into the Long Hunters' Road on 
the Upper Clinch some miles below that place, we 
can not positively assert; but we believe that the 
Long Hunters' Road, at least from where Calk got 
into it, was the one he chose, and we think it can 
be proven. 

One reason which constrains us to judge thus is 
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the histories mentioninji the matter at all, so far 
as we have heen .ihle to examine, the disaster which 
OA'ertook Boone and party Octoher 10, 1773, oc- 
curred in Powell's Yallev, and at a point forty 
miles from a certain settlement on Clinch River, 
whither they retired, and at which Boone made his 
home for the next eijihteen months. Some writers 
go so far as to say that this sorrowful event oc- 
curred risjht under the shadow of Cumberland 
ilountain, proper, and only about two miles east 
of Cumberland Cap. We understand there is a 
spot just there to which citizens of that vicinity 
are in the habit of pointinc; in our day as the scene 
of the trasjedy referred to, and the place where the 
six murdered white men were buried — Boone's own 
son, James, being: one of them, "\^'e do not believe 
that any spot within less than fifty miles to the 
north-east of Cumberland Gap can possibly be the 
place. Let any man take a reliable map and try 
to find some place on Clinch River which is only 
about forty miles from that Gap, and at which 
there was, at that date, a settlement offerincj shel- 
ter for families of women and children, and he will 
soon discover the utter hopelessness of the task. 
E\en the crossing of Clinch River reached by the 
Wilderness Road is more than sixty miles from 
Cumberland Gap, and there are other reasons for 
rejecting the supposition that Boone and party 
-ft-ent that way. There is eveiy reason for assum- 
ing that the discouraged company would retreat 
over the very path they had just come in safety up 
to the moment the savages waylaid them, and not 
attempt some untried trail in the wilderness. 
There were but t^^■o roads back to the settlements, 
namely : the Wilderness Road on the south, and 
the Long Hunters' Road to the north. That there 
was a settlement on Clinch River which did offer 
shelter to families at that very date is absolutely 
certain; and that place was Castle's Woods, which 
is just forty miles from Powell's River, and which 
the McAfees reached, to their great joy, August 15, 
1773. That forty miles, we need not stay to prove, 
was but one stage of the Long Hunters' Road. 
There Avere, in later yeai*s, several bloody scenes 
enacted close to Cumlterland Gap, along the road 
in ([uestion, and, we doubt not, numbers of scalped 
and murdei"ed white men were buried there; but we 
insist that those mournful events came after the 
one we are considering now. 

A small A'olume published in ISGS by the Apple- 
tons, of New York, as one of "The Young Ameri- 



can Series,"' written by the author of Uncle Philip's 
Conversations, gives some details of this sad affair 
in Powell's Yalley which we have never met with 
elsewhere. It is therein related (page 54) that 
in about a fortnight after Boone and party left 
their old home on the Yadkin they reached Powell's 
ilountain; and having passefl that ridge and 
climbed Walleu's Ridge, they began the descent of 
this last named mountain. While (|uietly going 
down the same, passing through a dark and nar- 
row gap, they were suddenly greetefl a\ ith the yells 
of savages, rushing down from their rear, and a 
shower of aiTows. Six of the company fell dead 
in their tracks, one of the slain l>eing James Boone, 
the eighteen-year-old son of Daniel. The In- 
dians either killed or frightened away into the for- 
est all the cattle belonging to the party. The 
slaughtered men, as we know from other sources, 
constituted a small rear guard, charged with the 
care of the stock, and the rest of the company were 
some distance in advance — some of them several 
miles ahead. By the time the main body of armed 
men reache<i the scene, the savages had finished 
their deadly work and taken flight. The shock to 
the main body of the party was so overwhelming, 
as they gazed upon the six ghastly corpses, that, 
despite the courageous protests of Boone — who was 
for going on to Kentucky — the sentiment was al- 
most unanimous in favor of retreating back to the 
nearest white settlement on Clinch River, forty 
miles distant. To this sentiment Boone Avas com- 
pelled to yield, and after sorrowfully burying the 
six dead comrades and loved ones, they began the 
tedious journey back over the mountain to Clinch 
River. If any one will again consult a good map, 
and, selecting a point anywhere he may choose at 
the Avestern base of Walleu's Ridge, and seek for a 
settlement on Clinch RiA-er (then existing), just 
about forty miles tOAvards the region Axhence Boone 
had come, he will find that, by the Wilderness Road, 
he Avould land at Avhat Avas then the Blockhouse at 
least tAveuty miles south of Clinch Iviver. If he 
Avill try the other road, he Avill find he reaches Cas- 
tle's "Woods, AA'hich is on the Long Hunters' Road. 
It should be added that the little vohime from 
which Ave have gathered these facts expressly states 
that the trail they followed over PoAvell's Moun- 
tain Avas one the Boones had blazed, from Avhich 
AAe infer that it Avas this AA'ay Boone and party had 
traA-elled in 17G9. The Long Hunters of 17G9 cer- 
tainly Avent that Avay, and so, probably, did Boone 



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469 



on his tour of that same year. In fact, Booue, 
while not with Col. Knox's pax'ty in ITGl), went 
into Kentuclvy tliat same year and remained nearly 
as long as Knox, and was, in the common estimate 
of the puhlic, himself, one of the "Long llnnters." 
The bearing of all this on our contention is that 
Booue not ouly chose this route for the large com- 
l)any comjKised, in part, of women, children and 
cattle, in ITTJi, iuit ahuost certaiidy had gone that 
way in IKJil, showing that the Long Hunters" Koad, 
iu the judgment of the most noted and capable 
woodsman of the eighteenth century, was not only 
a niute to Kentucky, ])ut the best one of which he 
had knowledge for the use of families. Let it be 
noted that if we take two figui'es shaiM'd like the 
tirst letter of the alphabet, one taller than the 
other, and set them side by side with their bases 
touching (thus Aa) we w'ill have a good rejire- 
sentation of Powell's Mountain and AVallen's 
Kidge, the former being the taller of the two at 
the point where the trail in question crossed. On 
reaching the foot of Powell's Mountain coming 
west one begins, probably iu the course of a few 
hundred yards, to ascend Wiillen's Bidge. This 
physical fact, which obtains just at that point, does 
not obtain at anj' point to the south-west of it; and 
the language employed in the narrative above 
(pioted from is just such as we would expect where 
the two mountains were thus related to each other 
— there is no valley between them, but the one be- 
gins where the other ends. 

Summers tells us that when Boone reached Cas- 
tle's A^'oods after the disaster at the western base 
of Wallen's Bidge iu Powell's Valley he found the 
cabin of David Guest vacant. The truth is, many 
of the settlers (as is stated by Coale, above (luoted) 
did not remain all the year, in that early day, in 
that place. Their custom was to spend the sum- 
uier so as to raise a crop at Castle's Woods, a level, 
fertile, easily cultivated section of the valley, and 
in the fall move back to the settlements to 
the eastward. There Booue made his home till 
.March, 1775, when he moved into Kentucky, blaz- 
ing his "trace" for Henderson to the Kentucky 
Biver. From June to August, 1774, he was in 
Kentucky with one, Michael iStouer, at Gov. Dun- 
more's recpiest, to warn and conduct out of the 
country the surveyors then there, as the Indians 
were planning an extensive campaign, which cul- 
minated in the battle of Point Pleasant iu October 
of that year. The records of \Vashiugtou County 



I which county after 177(> for many yeare em- 
braced the whole of what is now south-western 
Virginia, and mucli of what is now West Vir- 
ginia) show that in 1774 Daniel Boone was 
a, citizen of the Clinch Vallej- and in command of 
I'ort Moore and the twenty men who constitut^il 
the garrison. That fort was either at Castle's 
\\'oods or very ue;u' it. (See Summers, pages 
15(J-7. ) Boone started to Kentucky in June, 1774, 
at Gov. Duumore's request, and got back in Au- 
gust, 1774; and tiuding that the Clinch Valley men 
had all gone to meet the Indians at Point Pleasant, 
he set out for that place with a body of men. He 
Avas ordi'red back, however, to protect the settlers 
on Clinch, and there he seems to have remained (at 
Ca.stle's Woods) till about February, 1775, when he 
weut over onto the Watauga to assist Col. Hen- 
derson in his treaty with the Indians, preparatory 
to his final move to Kentucky. (See Summers, 
pages 150-157. ) The significance of all these facts, 
so far as concerns our contention, is that Boone 
used the same trail to aud from Powell's Valley as 
the McAfees did in 1773, and Calk in 1775. The 
Long Hunters' Bead passed that way, and we have 
good reason for supposing that Boone and family 
had used it in the fall of 1773 all the way from New 
Biver to Powell's Valley. 

Of course, it is not to be thought for a moment 
tluit there was but a single trail in the Clinch Val- 
ley leading to tlu; wilderness beyond. It is un- 
doubtedly true that there were many different 
trails crossing the mountains to the west and north- 
west of Castle's Woods. One went up Guest Biver 
aud crossed to where the railroad stilt ion, Norton, 
now is aud weut on towards Pound Gap or tiie 
Big Sandy Biver. One went neai'ly due north- 
west over Powell Mountain from the Hunters' Val- 
ley into what is called the "Cracker Neck," on to 
Big Stone Gap, aud then north to\\iU*ds Pound 
Gap, etc. And it is nearly certain that these trails 
were so often useil by hunters that the name "Hun- 
ters' Path" may have been applied to them. Our con- 
tention is, simply, that there was one trail which, 
l)y pre-eminence, was called "The Long Hunters' 
Boad," after the return of the Long Hunters from 
Kentucky iu 1772; and tliat this i)articular road 
was continuous from New Biver to Kentucky by 
way of the Clinch ^'alley; that it was from about 
ITtiU onward the iinly east and west thoroughfare 
in that whole secticm of the country excepting its 
more southerly rival, the ^Vilderness Boad; and 



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that it was, to smiic extent, a rival of tliat otlier 
road for emigrants bonnd for Kentucky. 

The Long Hunters' IJoad did indeeil have its pe- 
culiar drawhaoks and disadvantages, which easily 
account for the larger popularity of the Ilolston 
Valley route. One wa.s the exceedingly rugged 
character of the countiy it pa.ssed through from 
New Kiver up to the divide at the site of Tazewell 
Court House, a distance of about seventy-five niil(«, 
or more. It was fearfully rugged a century and a 
third ago, and it is that now. Here the Ilolston 
Valley Eoute had a decideil advantage. Then, 
again, the character of the country farther down 
Clinch Aalley, and especially f(»r the last fifteen 
miles before reaching Powell's Valley was much 
the same. The ascent of Powell's Jlountain, and 
then of Walleu's Kidge, right next to it on tlic wcsr, 
was very trying. A man on foot found it steep, in- 
deed; but the pack-horse, loaded (b>\vn, found it 
more disagrwable. As for wagon.-i, it is diyubtrul 
if (me ever has crosswl Powell's ^Mountain trmii 
Stock Creek down into the narrow defile at its 
westerly base, along which the railway mnv passes. 
This need surprise no one, for Indians preferred 
crossing ridges rather than rivers, and this road 
was no doubt made by them. By diverging to the 
left at the crossing of Stock Creek at the western 
end of Hunters" Valley and going through Love- 
lady Gap and on to Powell's Valley at Dryden, the 
use of wheeled vehicles is practicable, and there is 
a wagon n.ad that way, at this day calle<l the 
Tazewell Ivoad. But these topographical difficul- 
ties served to dwarf the usefulness of this great 
thoroughfare, especially for purposes of interstate 
commerce. Then there was another objection to 
this road : It was closer than the ( Jreat Koad was to 
the side from which Indian attacks were most 
likely to come, dOAvn almost to the close of the 
eighteenth century. Xear Tazewell there were In- 
dian trails coming up the several branches of the 
Big Sandy Kiver, along which numerous murdering 
and plundering bauds were wont to come. The 
same was true of the country from Castle's Womls 
down to Powell's Valley : There were several gaps 
to the uorth-Avest through which ran Indian trails 
which the Northern Indians often nuide use of, and 
by means of which the travellei-s on the Long Hunt- 
ers' Koad could be more easily put in peril than was 
likely along the other highway to the south. True, 
these two roads^ — the Clinch Valley and the Holston 
Valley Koutes — A\ere not so very far apart — not 



more than fiftcH'n to twenty miles, as a rule — but 
between them ran ranges of lofty mountains, and 
numerous streams which were natural barriers to 
the uuivements of ho.stile intrudei-s. Of course, this 
])articulai' drawback ceased to have any impor- 
tance after the Indians were driven far to the west 
and troubled ^'irginia and Kentucky no more; but 
it had its eftect in fixing the conditions of life in the 
Clinch Valley. The main tremble with the Clinch 
\'alley, however, was one which im <ivilizing 
agencies can ever entirely remove; and that was 
the small proportion of arable land. In this re- 
gard it compares unfavorably, on the whole, with 
the route down the Ilolston. Whilst there are here 
ami there some sjdendid valleys and nu'adow lauds 
of greater or less extent along the Clinch, some of 
\\luch are ecjual to the choicest in the world, the 
fact remains that the mountains hold sway as a 
general rule, and, after all the progi'ess of a cen- 
tury and a half, Clinch Valley has nothing like the 
population of the other route. Klines may affect 
the wealth of that section, but they can hardly add 
to the arable lands. 

But after all is said that truthfully can be said 
on the subject, our contention, as we believe, stands 
fast, that from the middle of the eighteenth cen- 
tury unto this day there has been a notaiile high- 
way from I*ei)per's Ferry on New River up to Taze- 
well, then down the Clinch to Castle's Woods, then 
across Stony, Cove and Stock Creeks to Powell's 
\'^allev, then through Cund)erlaud Gap into Ken- 
tucky, which highway has played a very consider- 
able i»art in the early settlement of south-western 
Virginia and Kentucky, and whose history deseiwes 
to be rescued from the oblivion in which it has so 
bmg been allowed to lie. The testimony of two liv- 
ing authorities of high character will conclude 
what Ave have to say on this subject. 

One of these is William J. Dickinscm, Es(i., of 
Castlewood, Russell Ctmuty, Virginia. This gen- 
tlenmu's gi*eat-grandfather was one of the first of 
the eai'ly settlers of that region ; and there is prob- 
ably not a man in the Clinch >'alley who is more 
thoroughly informed in regard to the early settle- 
ment of that i)articular secticm of ^'irgiuia than hi'. 
The place at which he lives is historic. The name 
"Castlewood" now applies only to a small village, 
one of the stations of the Clinch Valley Division of 
the Norfolk & Western Railway, but in the olden 
days the name was Castle's Woods, and was meant 
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471 



owned liy a inaii iiaiiicd ("asllc. Tliat man Castle 
settled tlieii" ahont 17(t8-1771, and tlie large wooded 
tract lie took np became famous, mainly because 
the land was so extremely fertile ami so well 
adapted to cuilivation. Tlie tindier has been about 
all cut down, but the land is noted for its luxuri- 
ant grass and tine crops. Hence this name "Castle's 
\Voods" attached not to one farm or a village, or a 
ford, I)ut to a region which extended along the bank 
of the Clinch tor some distance. The earliest set- 
tlers in that vicinity were, besides Castle, Henry 
Dickinson, Charles Bickley and Hlimou Ocsher. 
Xear by is a village called for l>ickins(»n, and an- 
other called lUckley's ^lill. In 1770 a fort was 
erected there called I'.ush's Fort, at a place now 
known as ^lud Store. In 1771 this fort was at- 
tacked liy seventeen Indians, who were repulsed by 
the NVhites, and that region was visited by the sav- 
ages again and again nearly to the close of the 
eighteenth century. (See Life and Adventures of 
^lilburn Watei's, by C. B. Coale, printed l)y Gary 
i^ Co., Richmond, Va., 1S7S. ) As previously shown, 
the McAfee Company passed there going east in 
August, 1773, and Booue and party going west in 
October following, only to return a few weeks hiter 
and occupy the vacant cabin of David Guest, which 
was Boone's home till early in 1775. This place is 
now the home of Mr. Wm. .1. Dickinson, who has 
given the present writer the benefit of his extensive 
knowledge of matters relating to the early history 
of that region. Mr. Dickinson says that the Long 
Hunters' Koad led from I'ejtper's Ferrj' down the 
Clinch, then over to Powell's Valley, and down that 
^'alley to Cumberland <iap, and he gives it as his 
opinion that this was the route which the McAfees 
travelled going home in August, 1773. Mr. Dickin- 
son does not think, however, that the Long Hunters' 
Iioad ran directly west from Clinch Kiver at Dun- 
gannon across Stony, Cove, and Stock Ci'eidcs, 
direct to Powell's Kiver, as we have it, but made a 
long detour to the north-west and got into Powell's 
River up west of the site of X'orton, about twelve 
miles above Big Stone Gap. To that view he seems 
to have been inclined mainly because lie feels that 
the phrase "head of Powell's ^'alley," previously 
discussed, compels him to go considerably above 
said Gap. This view, however, as any one can 
readily see \\ho studies the records in the two Mc- 
Afee Journals, reuders it absolutely impossible to 
make any consistent inter[)retatiou of said Jour- 
nals — it tlir(!ws the whole of the records from Au- 



gust 10 to August 1.") into a hopeless, unintelligible 
jumble. It would do the same for the Journal of 
Calk, 177."'), with this exception, however, that his 
views as to tiie course of the Long Hunters' Road 
agree in all essentials with that adopted by the 
author (d' this volume. This discussion, it is need- 
less to renuirk, can be intelligible — not to say en- 
durable — only to those who are willing to make 
constant ns(! of good nmps as they pi'oceed. 

The last authority we sliall (luote is the Hon. 
David E. Johnston, attorney at law, Blnefield, 
>Vest A'irginia. This gentleman kindly wrote down 
his views for the author in January, P.»04, and we 
feel sure that he is an uncommonly well informed 
l»erson, and e^•ery way trustworthy. Judge Johns- 
ton says there are several wcdl known roads from 
Xew Kiver up to Tazewell Court House, but lie 
names two that were used during the latter pai't of 
till} eighteenth century as fee<lers to the Clinch \'al- 
ley road (Long Hunters' Koad), going down to 
Powell's Valley aud Cumberland (Jap. He holds 
that this road actually existed in those early days, 
and was used by persons passing from X^ew Kiver 
to Kentucky. He spi^aks of it not as a mei-e trail 
for hunters, but as a highway from east to west. 
One of the feeders of the main road — we consider 
the main part of tlie Long Hunters' Koad to hav^ 
begun on Clinch Kiver, near Tazewell Ourt House 
— was a continuation of a road from the Greenbrier 
and Jlonroe County section of c<mntry. It crossed 
Xew Kiver just above the mouth of Kich Creek, 
went down the X'^ew about three miles to the mouth 
of East Kiver, thence up the latter and over onto 
Bluest(uie Kiver, and up that stream to its source, 
and then over onto the head of Clinch Kiver. This 
trail, Judge Johnston positively states, was used 
as far back as 177!», and how much earlier he knows 
not. After the Kevolution, a considerable time, 
this trail was made a regular wagon-road, aud is 
now in constant use. 

The most ancient road, however, of which he 
knows, which started at Xew liiver, cam( u\) to - 
Tazewell, and went on down the Clinch to Cumber- 
land Gai»,was one which left Xew Kiver at Pepper's 
Ferry, went along down the bank of that stream a 
few miles to the northern side of Cloyd's Mountain, 
then turned to the westward and went up to Walk- 
er's Ci'eek, up that Creek to the mouth of lvinil)er- 
ling Creek, np Kimberling to the wilderness sec- 
tion thrcuigh Kocky <Jai> to Clear I'ork, thence uj) 
<'lear l''ork to the head (d' Clinch, and down Clinch 



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to Castle's Woods, Towell's Valley, Cuniberlaud 
Gap and Kentueky. This trail, like that up East 
aud Bluestoue lUvers, was made a wagou-road loug 
after the Kevohitiou. I'xith led into, aud were feed- 
ers of, the Long- IIuut<'rs' Ivoad. If any oue feeder, 
however, must be called the Long Hunters' Koad, 
that from Tt^pper's Ferry is the one. 

That such an ancient, extensive aud important 
highway, as we thiidc we have proved the Long 
Hunters' Koad to have lieeu, should have received 
no uu'ution in any of tlu' fullest and most popular 
histories of the two gi"eat States it traversed is 
oue of the most unaccountable of anomalies. It is 
a fact, which can hardly be ipiestioned, that tliou- 
sauds of emigrants and travellers from Virginia 
aud Carolina must have followed this road on their 
way to Kentucky during the last (juarter of the 
eighteenth century; and it would scarcely be pos- 
sible, at this day, to tind a single intelligent citizen 
of mature years in the entire region through which 
this road passed, \\ho was reared in that country 
and is possessed of even a small measure of anti- 
quarian taste, that has not some knowledge of its 
origin and location. And yet one may search the 
nu>st highly valued t)f th()se histories from cover to 
cover without being altle to find a single sentence 
on this subject. There is but oue explanation of 
this omissiim, aud that is one which we cousider 
not at all adequate, namely, that the larger popu- 
larity and usefulness of the Holston ^'alle3' Koute 
(The Wilderness Koad, or (ireat Koad) simply 
overshadowed that of the Long Hunters' Road. 
Oue result of this was that there gradually, and 
almost uuconsciously to the people, grew up a habit 
of using the phrase "came through the w ilderuess" 
as synonymous with "came by the \Mhlerness 
Koad." In other words, the journey from New 
River through South-westeru Virgiuia to Ken- 
tucky got to be understood as a journey by the oue 
road which led down the Holston Valley; or at 
least the distinction between the Clinch N'alley aud 
the Holstou Valley was dropped out of mind. The 
onl3' very clear and definite conception of the mat- 
ter which the most of the people had was that the 
journey was from Mrginia to Kentucky through 
the Oreat AMlderuess. In this way a man like 
Calk (see his Journal in Speed's Wilderness Road) 
could come down the Ix)ng Hunters' Ivoad iu the 
spring of 1775, aud not even see the Wilderness 
lioad for more than a hundred miles of his journey, 
and yet his Journal could appear iu a monograph 



devoted to the Wildei-ness Road, and thousands 
could peruse it without suspecting that it had al- 
most wholly to do with an entirely different high- 
way — the rival of the other. 

In order to see this point fully, we should remem- 
ber that of all the tens of thousands of settlers and 
travellers who came "through the Croat \Vilder- 
uess" to Kentucky from 1775 to 1800, i)erhaps not 
oue in a thousand kept a written journal of the 
triji, no matte r which of the two possible roads he 
travelled; and that of the few jcmrnals kept prob- 
ably not one iu a hundred is now extant and ac- 
cessible to till' pul)lic. Think of it — there are now 
extant, so far as we know, but three journals of 
trips over the Wilderness Road, proper; and there 
is but one of a trip by the Long Hunters' Road I 
If we may make a rough guess we may say we have 
one extant journal for each thirty thousand per- 
sons Avho passed either uj) or down the Holston 
Route, and one for the ten thousand who went by 
the other road. For oue hundred thousand pil- 
grims, four journals. Of course we have hei*e and 
there numberless brief references to the trips of 
persons coming and going, but these furnish 
scarcely any detinite information bearing ou the 
problem we are dealing with. Is it any great 
wonder, then, that Avithin a few decades after these 
old pioneer roads had ceased to have much im- 
ptu'tance for the uses they had served in pione<n' 
times, people completely lost sight of the difference 
between the two rival routes we have under review, 
and contented themselves with the loose, indetinite 
notion that a journey through the Great ^Vilder- 
uess was simplj- a journey from New River through 
CunU)erland Gap into Kentucky, regardless of the 
particular route through South-western Virgiuia. 

A single other fact it may not be amiss to men- 
tion in closing this discussiou. It should be borne 
iu mind that probably no wheeled vehicle ever 
passed over Cumberland CJap into Kentucky before 
the dawn of the nineteenth century. Fairly good 
\\agon-i*oads did, indeed, exist along the Holstou 
\'alley Route from New River all the way down to 
Abingdon long before the close of the eighteenth 
century, ^^'e know that Col. Richard Henderson, 
when on his way into Keutucky iu April, 1775, 
brought his wagons, Avith great difficulty, as far as 
Martin's Cabins, only twenty miles east oi Cuiii- 
berlivnd Gap^ but he had to leave them there, and 
the rest of the trip to Boouesboro he went on hoi se- 
back. Hence, down to the ninetet^nth ceutm \ . i iese 



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473 



two rival roads were aliout on a par so far as cou- 
crriied modes of couveyauce for luovei's going into 
Keutiicky; for, althougli it was i)racticable to use 
wagons ou the Wilderness I load all I lie way from 
Ingles' Ferry to Abingdon long before that was 
possible from Pepper's I\»rry down Clinch Rivei", 
and getting o\'er PowelFs .Mountain where Calk 
crossed it on horseback in 1T7.~) was no doubt very 
tedious, owing to the steepness of the way, j'et no 
man would care to come half the way in wagons, 
and then have to resort to pack-horses — it was one 
mode or the other the whole way. The ugly place 
at Powell's ilountain and Wallen's Ridge between 
Stock Creek on tiu' one side and Ruck Creek ou the 
other was, in after years — we know not how soon — 
avoided by cutting a gt)t)d road around to the south- 
A\-est from the crossing of Stock Creek by the site 
of Duffield, ascending the North Fork of the Clinch 
a. few miles to Ward's ^lill, and then going through 
Lovelady (iap, due west to Powell's River, near 
Drydeu. That road is now a fairly good wagcni 
road for a rough country. It was made before emi- 
grant travel to Kentucky had ceased; it did away 
with a serious oltjection to the Clinch Valley Route. 
Calk, in 1775, avoided the nmin difficulties of the 
road from Pepper's Ferry to the head of Clinch 
River by taking the Wilderness Road as far as to 
[Marion (sitel and then crossing over to Clinch 
River. 

The truth probably is that this northerly route 
was used by perhaps one-fifth of the whole number 
of travellers — certainly by many — and the failure 
of the historians to take any notice of it is a re- 
markable fact which demands fuller explanation 
than we have offered. At all events, the writer be- 
lieves that in matters of this kind the whole truth 
ought to be told if we are to understand the real 
history of communities, and he has felt it worth 
while to give much thought and labor to ascertain- 
ing what was true and setting it down for the beue- 
tit of ijosterity. 

STATIONS ON LONO HUNTERS' ROAD, NEW 
RIVER, VA., TO ROCKCASTLE RIVER, KY. 

MILFS. 

Pepper's Ferry to Cloyd's Mountain 10 

Cloyd's Mountain to ^Valker"s Creek 10 

AValker's Creek to [Mouth of Kimlicrling Creek. 12 
iMouth of Kind)erling to Wolf Creek, at the 

Mouth of Clear I^irk lO 

M(mth of Clear Fork to its Source 21 

Source of Clear Fork to Tazewell C. II 8 

Tazewell C. II. to ^laiden Spring 15 



MILES. 

Maiden Spring to Elk Garden 25 

Elk Oarden to Castle's Woods 23 

Castle's Woods to Stanton Creek IS 

Stanton Creek bv Hunters' N'aib-v, to stock 

Creek ." ' 14 

Stock Creek to Buck Creek at I'owell's River. . 10 
Mouth Ruck Creek to Jumtion of Three Roads. 23 

•Tunction of Roads to [Martin's Cabins lit 

Martin's Cabins to Cund)erland (Jap 20 

Cumberland Cap to Flat Lick 22 

Flat Lick to Rockcastle River 50 

(irand total 31G 

Of course, it is not pretended that the above ex- 
hibit is accurate in all respects — we do claim that 
it is substantially ccu'rect as to all essential details. 

(c) BOONE'S TRACE, OR ROAD. 

There is ]»erhaps no other road in existence in 
which Kentuckians feel the peculiar sentimental 
interest which they have in Boone's Trace. The 
very mention of its name carries them back to the 
pioneer period of their native State, and awakens 
visions of Indians, and tomahaAvks, and long bar- 
relled, flint-lock rifles, and hunting shirts, and 
coon-skin caps. It makes them think of those old 
days, a century and a third ago, when there were 
no human habitations in their State, and when the 
buffalo, the elk, the deer, the bear, and the panther 
were in full i)ossession of the land. By it they are 
reminded of magnificent virgin forests, of ^'ast 
areas of land, untouched as yet by plow or hoe and 
covered with luxuriant grass, and of e\eu the 
larger streams as being as limpid as the clearest 
mountain brooks one can find to-da3^ The Wild- 
erness Road and the Long Hunters' Road do, in- 
deed, remind us of all these things, but they had 
mostly to do with Virginia. Boone's Trace is pre- 
eminently of Keutuck}'. 

This road, however, can never be entirely dis- 
sociated, in our minds, from the other two great 
highways we have been considering. The three are 
indissolubly connected, and we must know some- 
thing of all of them in order to know much of 
either. The nuinner in which they overlap and co- 
incide is quite peculiar — there is nothing just like 
it in any other highways with which we are famil- 
iar. Their origin and history are not the sanu', 
and yet they so blend and harmonize and run to- 
gether, that we are comjielli'd to tliink of them as 
a trio whose several tones can not be considered 
apart — each one contril)utes its share to the pro- 
duction of effects which owe tlicir sweetness to all. 



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And the thvcc jircat t^tatcs wliicli wcir traversed 
by one or all of these old pioneer thoroiisihfares — 
Virginia, Kentneky and Tennesset^^ — have all of 
these roads bonnd up with their own history and 
development, and thr<!ngh all the coniing yeai-s men 
who love the story of any one of these splendid 
Commonwealths must find a certain pleasure in 
readiufi about this trio of roads. How eminently 
fittiu-i it is, then, that the one locality of greatest 
notoriety and distinction, which is common to all 
of these historic thoroughfares is also the point at 
which the three States concerned come together — 
on the crest of that magniticent pass. Cundierland 
(Jap, at which <me may stand with his feet t(mching 
i-ach of these States at (mce, and, at the same time, 
their thrix' great<'st pioni^r roads. The stone 
which marks this happy conjunction of States and 
roads can be seen there at this day. 

Boone's Trace began on the Watauga Kiver in 
what is now Carter County, Tennessw, at a place 
known as Sycamore Shoal.'*; ran mainly in a north- 
erly direction till it reached the Big iloccasin Gap, 
at "the site of the town of Gate City, Virginia; then 
across the Clinch and Powell's Rivers to Cumber- 
land Gap; and then more than half way across Ken- 
tucky to the Kentucky River, in what is now Madi- 
son County — a distance of about two hundred and 
thirty-three miles. 

In one important particular this road ditt'ered 
greatly from the other two ; it was not gradually de- 
veloped and extended through a long c(mrse of 
years, but was determined upon and laid out, from 
beginning to end, within three weeks" time. Of 
course, like the other two roads, it Avas for the most 
l)art an old Indian or butt'alo trail, which had been 
used more or less by savages or wild beast.s, one 
or both, for centuries; but there was a certain time 
— the month of March, 177.5 — when this route into 
Kentucky ceased to be merely what it had been for 
generations before, and took on a totally new char- 
acter, and began to have a new and most important 
use which it had never known before. From the 
day Boone and his assistants decided upon the ex- 
act location of his "Trace" it assumed a distinctive 
character as a highway by which white men of the 
then colonies of ^'irginia, and the two Carolinas 
in the South, and others far to the North, were 
guarant<^Hid access to, and egress from. Kentucky 
on horse-liack. 

When Boone marked out his road through Cum- 
berland Gap to the Kentucky lUver, he marked also 



the point at which we may say the real settlement 
of Kentucky began. And we can not justly over- 
look the important part played in this dranm by 
another man of force and ability who stood back of 
Daniel Boone and employed him to act for him in 
this undertaking, ^^'e refer, of course, to Col. 
Richard Henderson, of North Carolina, the father 
of the short-lived "Transylvania Colony." He it 
was that took the lead in planning and executing 
the i)Ui'chase from the Cherokee Indians of the best 
part of what we now know a.s Kentucky — about 
seventeen milliim acres — for the sum of ten thou- 
sand pounds, sterling. With him were associated 
a number of gentlemen — Haywood (page 30 i, men- 
tions nine, including (V)l. Henderson — and (me of 
the most prominent of the ctmipany was Nathaniel 
Hart. The uegotiatiims were begun in the fall of 
1774, and finally concluded by the Treaty of Wa- 
tauga, ilarch 17, 1775, at the Sycamore Shoals. 
This place is in the present County of Carter, near 
the town of Elizabethton. When Col. Henderson 
and Cid. Hai*t visited the Cherokee towns to ar- 
range for the C()uucil to be held at Sycamore Shoals 
they took Daniel Boone with them. Boone had by 
this time been relieved of his <luties as commander 
of the three f(U-ts «m Clinch liiver near Castle's 
Woods. Mouette, quoteil by Ramsey (page 117), 
states that there were twelve hundred Indians ac- 
tually present on the treaty grotmds. The elo<[uent 
and ]iathetic address of the Cherokee chief and ora- 
tor, Oconostota, so often referred to in the his- 
tories, was made at this great council, in which he 
])icturcd with great power and feeling the gradual 
decline of the Red Man, and foretold, with prophetic 
accuracy, the final extinction of his race. He, 
in his speech, solemnly protested against the ces- 
sion of their lands to the Whites, but his name was, 
after all, signed to the treaty — he saw he Avas in a 
hopeless minority. Though Boone, doul)tless, put 
no money into the undertaking he did invest what 
was (|uite as essential to success ; his knowledge of 
the savages to lie dealt with, and his uuecjiualltd ac- 
(luaintauce with the region transferred by the 
Cherokees to the Henderson Comjjany. It is not 
easy t() see hoA\- Boone's services could have been 
disijensed with either in bringing about the pur- 
chase in a peaceable and satisfactory manner, or in 
oi)ening up a suitable thoroughfare to the heart of 
Kentucky which wotild invite settlei"s from the 
various sections of countrv on which Henderson 
expected to rely for jjurchasers and settlers. By 



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47:") 



some writers it is asserted — with good reason, as 
we believe — that the visit Boone had made to Keu- 
tneky in 17()t) Avas at the snggestion of Col. TTeiuh'r- 
S(m, ajid for the express purpose of pri'iuiriiiu' tlie 
way for the \\'ataiifia Treaty of 177."). 

It sliouid 1)0 remembered, as has been intimated, 
that the real settlement of Keiitnoky had not been 
bemnn when Boone started, about ^lai'cli 10, 177."), 
with his (•om]>any of men from the Watauga Set- 
tlement to mark out his famous "Trace" to the 
Kentueky River. True, the ileAfees had located 
and surveyed their settlement on Salt lUver, in 
what is now fiercer County, in July, 1773, and had 
visited their lands to improve and look after them 
in 1774, and several weeks prior to Boone's leav- 
ing Watauga, in ilarch, 177r>, they were in Ken- 
tucky planting crops. It is also (rue that ('apt. 
James IIarro<l had made an attem]»t to effect a set- 
thinent at llarrodsburg in 1771, but he had been 
compelled to abanchui his cabins a few weeks after 
their erection, and not till the spring of 1775 did 
the permanent possession of them begin. Henoe, 
we may truthfully say that Boone's road-nmking 
journey to the interior of Kentucky in March, 1775, 
was epochal, marking tlie dawn of a new day for 
that fair portion of Virginia which lay to the west 
of the Cund)ei-land Mountains. From that day on- 
ward Kentucky had something she had never 
boasted before — a highway, at least in embryo, 
which was in some real sense, the work of men of 
the all-ct>mjuering Saxon race. Indian trails and 
buffalo paths without number she had had for ages 
— now, for the first time, she possessed the sem- 
Idance of at least one road, partly due to the efforts 
of civilized man. 

The region from which Boone's Trace tonk its 
(leparture was that lovely valley on the ^\'atauga 
River in which the Beans, and Robertsons, and 
Carters, and Seviers, and Womacks, etc., had, prior 
to 1772, created the famous >Vatauga Association, 
and made a start in the settlement of East Tennes- 
see, W'hich ante-dated that of Kentucky by several 
years. In that part of the country several forts had 
been erected, and a few homes established as far 
north as the Long Island of Ilolstou Iviver; and 
about Abingdon, some forty miles to the north- 
east of that ])laoe, a very considerable population 
had grown up, with clnirches and th(> other 
iiuirks of a civili/A'd community, several years be- 
fore Boone began his road-making tour to Keu- 
tuckv. But the frontier of civilization was then 



at the North Fork of ITolslon River, or at Big ^loc- 
casin (iaj), a coniile of miles north of it. That dar- 
ing adx'enturer, Ca])lain Jose])h Martin, as before 
noted, had, indeed, gone right up into the very 
shadow of Cumlierland ilountain, twenty miles 
east of Cumberland <iap, and built his cabin, in 
17<)8, but the Indians had forced him back a very 
few months after he got there, compelling the 
abandonment of his outi)ost for a time. The title 
"\Vilderness Road" could have had no very definite 
meaning, as we believe, in ^larch, 1775, as a])piied 
to the mere Indian trail going west from tliat <iap, 
over which there was practically no traffic — a i»ath 
which was not only in the wilderness at Big .Mo<-- 
casin (!ap l)u( whose remotest termini touched 
nothing else but the wilderness. In other words, 
for all the pui'poses of civilization there was as yet 
nothing in the way of a road west or north of that 
dap, but only a path for savages and wild 
beasts. The name "Wilderness Road'' did not 
signify a road that was wholly within a howl- 
ing wilderness, but a highway which led to a 
country at least partially settled, beyond which lay 
a wild and uninhabited region. After Kentucky 
had been partially occupied by white men, and 
intercommunication between it and the Mother 
State had been fairly established, the name ">Vild- 
eruess Road" was more and more applied to the 
whole route to the Falls of the Ohio, and the names 
"Long Hunters' Road" and "Boone's Trace'' 
dropped more and more out of ])oi)ular usage. 

The accounts of BiM)ne's nmrking his Trace, as 
we find them in Haywood, Ramsey, Sumnu'i*s, Col- 
lins, etc., substantially agx-ee as to the following 
particulars: First, the Trace began at Sycamore 
Shoals on the ^^'ataug■a, though Boone and i)arty 
had no marking or cutting to do -till they got to 
Long Island, about twenty' miles north-west of 
Sycamore Shoals. This, because there was already 
a road to that point. There was then a fort at the 
upper (or southern) end of that Island, and an- 
other about seven miles to the east; and though 
these were the out-posts of civilization then, we 
can understand that fairly good bridle-paths ex- 
tended that far. Secondly, Boone and party 
started for Kentucky on this road-making mission 
jMai'ch 10, which was a week in advance of the 
actual conclusion of Col. Henderson's treaty with 
the ('herokees, and proceivled to Boonesboro (to 
be), where they arrived about the first of April, 
about three weeks in advance of Col. Henderson and 



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I)artT. Thirdly, Boone's party cousisted of thirty 
men, of whom twenty-two were his own, and eight 
were of Capt. Twetty's company. Fourthly, the 
only implements these men had for "road-making" 
were hatchets and tomahaiika. I'ossihly they 
had axes also. They had no plows, soi"aiM*rs, 
or even hoes, much less any appliances for 
blasting. This at once suggests that what they 
did ^\•as, for the most part, to cut away some of the 
smaller limbs and undergrowth along trails or 
paths already in existence. Fifthly, the most 
laborious work they performed, and the only work 
worthy of being designated as original road-mak- 
ing, occurred between Kockcastle Kiver (where 
they crossed it) and the Kentucky River. For 
twenty miles north of liockcastle IJiver they cut 
their way through a region covered with dead 
bi'ush, Avliich must have extended nearly to the 
Gap in Big Hill which bears Boone's own name. 
The remainder of the way to Kentucky Kiver, a 
distance of about thirty miles, was through thick 
cane and reeds. Lastly, Col. Henderson, who fol- 
lowed Boone about three weeks after he started, 
took wagons as far as Martin's Cabins, twenty 
miles east of Cumberland Gap, which point he 
reached only with much difficulty. The rest of the 
journey to Boouesboro was made on horse-back, 
occupying tifteen days. On reaching Boouesboro 
he found the Indians had already attacked Boone's 
company twice, killing Captain Twetty aud three 
other men, and wounding a fifth man. 

This Trace, after passing Big Moccasin Gap fol- 
lowed the same trail Dr. Walker had gone in 1750, 
aud which in after 3-ears came to be called the 
Wilderness Koad. About four miles west of Pow- 
ell's Kiver, and two miles east of the site of the 
present town of Jonesville, this Trace came into 
the ti'ail which the Long Hunters of 1701) had trav- 
eled on their way down Clinch and Powell's Kivers 
to Cumberland Gap and Kentucky. There are 
numberless places ou the present wagon-road along 
the course of this old Trace which can be identified 
be^'Ond question as having been trodden hy Boone 
and party, and by Henderson and party, in March- 
April, 1775, aud by thousands of immigrants to 
Kentucky. The author of this volume, after consid- 
erable effort, procured good photographs of Cumber- 
land Gap, A\'asioto Gap (Pinevillej, and a view of 
Boone's Trace on Cumberland Kiver in Wa,sioto 
Gap, all of which have been reproduced in half- 
tone engravings for this work. They can be read- 



APEE MEMORIAL. 

ily found in this volume by referring to the index. II 

The interest which the descendants of both the 
^^'oodses and McAfees naturally have in the Wild- 
erness Road is largely the same as to Boone's Trace, 
since the two are one and the same from Big Moc- 
casin Gap to the Hazel Patch, a distance of nearly 
one hundred and forty miles. At the Hazel Patch, 
a few miles south of Rockcastle River, the Wilder- 
ness Road diverged to the north-west, and Boone's 
Trace went on in a northerly direction. The Wild- 
erness Road seems to have turued directly west- 
ward from the Hazel Patch and to have crossed 
Rockcastle River about the mouth of Skeggs's 
Creek, and then proceeded on towards Crab Orchard 
and the Ohio Falls. It was that way nearly all the 
older Woodses came in migrating to Kentucky in 
1780-1795. That way went the McAfees, again and 
again, both going and returning, and just there at 
the Hazel Patch occurred one of the most impres- 
sive little incidents in the history of the McAfees. 
As Col. Henderson and his company were follow- 
ing Boone's wake on their way to Boouesboro, 
about three weeks behind him, he met here and 
there along the Trace, numbers of settlers hurriedly 
coming back on their way to their old homes iu Vir- 
ginia or the Caroliuas. Most of them were leaving 
Kentucky in great alann because of the bitter hos- 
tility of the savages. When Col. Henderson 
reached the Hazel Patch Sundaj', April 10, at noon, 
he met a considerable company of men who had 
come from the AMlderness Road and were return- 
ing to 'S'irginia. ^Vniong them were James Mc- 
Afee, aud his three bi'others, George, Robert and 
\\'illiam. (See Col. Henderson's Journal, as given 
by Collins, Vol. 2, page 199. ) General R. B. McAfee, 
iu his autobiography, says this meeting occuiTed 
"at the crossing of Skeggs's Creek (a branch of 
Rockcastle River''), but he must have meant to say 
it was "just after the crossing" of said creek, for it 
is almost certain that Boone's Trace did not cross 
Rockcastle at the mouth of iSkeggs's Ci'eek, which is 
two miles to the west of Hazel Patch, but nearly 
five to ten miles north or uorth-east of Hazel 
I'atch. In this case, as Col. Hendei'son was going 
north by Boone's Trace, the two parties could not 
have met at all except at, or south of. Hazel Patch, 
svhere the two trails separated. The McAfees, of 
course, had come via Crab Orchard on the ^MIder- 
uess Road. But, be that as it may, there is no sort 
of doubt that the McAfees and Col. Henderson met 
then and there on that Sabbath day, April l(i, 



APPENDIX B— THEEE PIONEER ROADS. 



477 



177."), and tliat flic Colonel, sccinji; that he was 
(Icalinn- with intelligent, serions men of the better 
class — men mIio were not leaving; Kentnckv in a 
panicky state of mind because of tlie savages, but 
simply because they had yisitcd their lands on Salt 
Riyer, put in their crops, and conchuled all the 
business for which they had yisited Kentucky, and 
were returning to their families in Virginia. 
Shrewd a man as Col. Henderson was, it probably 
did not take him but a few moments to see that 
these McAfees were the yery kind of people it 
would be adyisable to enlist in his venture at 
Booneslioro. So he inyited them to listen to him 
while he unfolded to them his plans. He recounted 
to them the Treaty of Watauga, whereby he thought 
he had secured a siire title to about two-thirds of 
Kentucky, and pictured to them the adyantages 
they would secure in going with him to Boonesboro 
and there casting in their lots with the Transyl- 
vania Cobmy. The shrewd Colonel's logic won the 
favorable attention of CJeorge, Robert and William 
ilcAfi-e, and they agreed to go with him. But 
James, who was the elder brother, and a man of 
about forty, shook his head, and declined the pro- 
posal. He told the Cobuiel, aiul his own brotliers, 
that the Treaty of Watauga lacked the sanction of 
the Colony of Virginia, and hence could not be 
valid. His three younger brothel's listened to Col. 
Henderson, but James refused to yield his judg- 
ment. The result was the three younger McAfees 
went on to Boonesboro with Col. Henderson, and 
James pursued his journey home without them. It 
took those three younger bi'others only about two 
months to learn that the advice of their brother 
James was sound — Virginia and Nox-th Carolina 
repudiated the Treaty of Wat<auga, and the Tran- 
sylyania Colony bubble suddenly burst, and the 
whole scheme proved a failure. That conference 
at till! Hazel Patch that April day a century and 
a third ago has made Boone's Trace an object of 
interest to every McAfee for all time to come. 
AVhat a scene that would have been for an artist 
to transfer to the canvas! 

The route Boone's Trace followed, going north 
from Rockcastle River, led uj) Roun<lst<)ne Creek, 
a considerable stream, which heads up in the Big 
Hill near Boone's Gap, and close to the present 
ifadi.son County line. Ilei-e was the stretch of 
twenty miles which lay through "dead brush." 
From that gap on to the Keiducky Rivei- — about 
thirty miles di.stant — Boone's party had to use 



their hatihets almost constantly to clear a bridle- 
path through the rich cane. This looks as if there 
was no old trail up Roundstoue. (See Speed's 
AMlderness Road, page 2fi. ) The fifty miles from 
Ro<kcastle River to the Kentucky (at Boones- 
boro), as it seems to us, represented almost the 
whole of Boone's real road-making. (See Collins, 
\'(d. 2, ])age 4!)7. ) He could have chosen to get onto 
Station Camp Cre<'k, about twenty miles nortli- 
east of the place at which he crossed the Rock- 
castle, where he Mould have gotten into the old In- 
dian ti'ail, leading to the Kentucky River at the 
site of the pi-esent town of Irvine — the same trail 
Dr. Thomas Walk«'r struck :\Iay 19, 17.")0— (see 
Johnston's First E.xplorations of Ktmtucky, 
Page 01) — but he evidently preferi'ed to locate 
the proposed "Capital of Tran.sylyania" right in 
the "Bluegrass," and so was willing to cut his own 
road, if need be, that last fifty miles. The picture 
of a "Typical Pioneer Fort," to be found in this 
work, is regarded as a fair reproduction of the one 
Boone constructed at Booncslxu'o in 177."). 

That this so-called road which Boone marked out 
in 177.") was an exceedingly superficial sort of thor- 
oughfare is apparent from the estimate which the 
^'irginia Legislature seems to have had of it only 
a few years after it was constnioted. Captain 
Speed says of it, in his Wilderness Road (page 
20) : "The road marked out was at best but a 
trace. No yehicle of any sort pa.ssed over it be- 
fore it was made a wagon-road by action of the 
State Legislature in 1705." The action of Vir- 
ginia, however, just referred to, reads as if Boone's 
Trace was not even a foot-path — almost as if it had 
never lieen heard of at all. In October, 1779, a lit- 
tle more than four years after Boone did his work 
for Henderson, Ave find the Virginia Legislature 
passing an act, entitled "An act for marking and 
opening a road over the Cumberland :\ronntain 
into the County of Kentucky." By said act Eyan 
Shelby and Richard Callaway were appointed com- 
missioners to exploiv the country adjacent to, aiul 
on both sides of, the Cumberland [Mountains, and 
to trace out and mark the most convenient road 
from the settlements on the east side of said moun- 
tains over the same into the open countrr in the 
said county of Kentucky, and to cause such road, 
with all convenient dispatch, to be opened and 
cleared in such nianner as to give passage to trav- 
ellers with pack-horses, etc., etc. The act provided 
an armed guard of fifty men to be subject to the 



478 THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMORIAL. 

call of the citimiiissidiH'rs. If \vo cmild jH-rsonify uess Road from New Uivcr thr()u<j;li Cuiiiberlaud 

the three ,i;Teat i)ioiieer roads of which we have Iteeu Gap to Rockcastle River, and then hy the Wilder- 

treatinji, and could think them capable of such un- ness Road on to Salt River. The road was no 

diiiiiitied English, as is some of the haudy slani- of (h)uht rou<i1i and stee]t in places — it is not all a 

our day, we could readily imai-ine them as con- smooth, dead level iiijihway to-day — hut it was a 

frontinjj;- the Vir.iiinia Road Commisssioners as ]>ractical)le trail for "travellers with ]»ack-horses." 

they clindHd the steep i;rade at Cumlierlaud (Jap Let us ]ioi)e it was a most delii-htfuUy pleasant 

on their mission to "trace out and mark a road such thorouiilifare wlien those Vir<;inia Road commis- 

as would i-ive ])assasie for travellei-s with i>ack- sioncrs of 177!I-17S1 jiot throui.di with their task 

Jiorses" witii tlie rather visiorous iu<iuiry : "We from the foot of Cuudterlaud .Mountain on tlu- east 

would lie pleased to know, jrentleuu'U, where irv to the level lauds in the interictr of tlie "County of 

come in." They mijiht even have ventured to re- Kentucky." 

mark: "We like your nerve." Rut certain it is, STATIONS OF ROONE'S TRACE, 

those (•(unmissioners obeyed the order of ^'irJ^'inia, mii.i:s. 

and on December 1, 1781, they reported to the Leg- I'''"'*'" ^.vcamore Shoals to Long Island of 

islature tiiat thev had completed their task, and „ ir"''^'"!! ■ • • • • • • • • • • • ■ • • • • 2.) 

, , . , ■ ,. 1 ,, , TT I rom Long Island to Rig Mttcca.sin Ciap 10 

asked tor the compensatu.n due them. (See lieu- ^j.^^,, ,.;„. ^,,„.,.y^ijj (j^p ^^ juu.-tiou of Thre,- 

ing's Statutes at Large, Vol. X., page 143 ; and Roads 37 

Sumnurs" South-west Virginia, page 280. 1 There From Junction of L'oads to Cundierlaud C.a]i. 31) 

is certainly iu these transactions a pretty clear in- From Cundierland Oajt to Flat Lick 22 

dication that Boone's Trace and the Long IIuu- I''i'"i" I'l-'* I^'''^ ^o the Hazel Patch 40 

, , T, 1 1 J.1 A»"i 1 T> 1 11 1-1 From Hazel I'atch to Crossing of Rockcastle 

ters Road and the >\ dderness Road, all combined, ,,. -^ .,„ 

... River 10 

weiv reganled by the Virgmia Legislature as al- p^.^j^^ R,„-kcastle River to Rooues Gap 20 

most equivalent to no road at all ; as certainly not From lioone's (Jap to r.oonesboro 30 

e(pial to "the passage of travellers with pack- — ■ — - 

horses." But it is beyond all (piestion that before Total 233 

the above mentioned act was carried into effect From Big :\Ioccasiu Cap to Hazel Patch this 

thousands of settlers, with \\;omeu and childreu i"oad coincides with the Wilderness Road. From 

and cattle and household effects, had come into the junction of the three roads in Powell's Valley 

Kentucky by one or another of the three old roads to the Hazel Patch it coincides also with the Long 

we have beeu discussing. For instance, the :Mc- Hunters' Path. It is seiiarate and distinct from 

Afees and their associates, in the fall of 1779, trav- either only from the Watauga to Big Moccasin 

elled either the Long Hunters' Road or the Wilder- Gap, and from the Hazel Patch to Boouesboro. 



APPENDIX C— S0:ME ANCIENT DOCUMENTS. 



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APPENDIX C. 

SOME ANCIENT DOCUMENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO THE WOODSES. 



We have reix'uttvlly had (iccasidii, in the i)r('(('<l- 
iii<j pa<>('S of this worlv, to make reference to certain 
old pajM'rs lielontiinj:; to ^fr. J. AA'atson Woods, of 
Jlississipjii, and sonic of Ihcni are liclieved to he 
of snflicient importance ta warrant onr ([noting or 
suniniarlzini;- tlieni in sncli manner as to preserve 
for posterity tlieir princijtal jiarts, in case tlie oricf- 
inals sliould he hist or destroyed. We liave talceu 
ureat care to nialce a perfectly reliahle exliihit, he- 
lievin;n' tliat in comiui;' year's some of the descend- 
ants of tile Woodses niii;ht tind it extremely desir- 
ahh' to use this record in proving ])ortions of the 
history of their ancestors. .Mr. J. \\'atson Woods 
is a son of the late William Mottett Woods, who 
was horn in 1808, and died in lS(!i*; and the said 
^Villianl Moffett Woods was a son of Michael 
\Voods, Third, of Nelson Ciniiity, Viri!,inia, who 
was horn aliont 1T4(), and died in 1825; and the 
said [Michael Woods, Tliird, was a sou of Col. John 
A\'(iods, who Mas horn in 1712, and died in 1791, 
and who \\as the main executor of his father's es- 
tate ; and the said Col. John ^A'oods was a favorite 
sou of Michael Woods of Blair Pai'k, who died in 
1702, and was the main executor of his father's es- 
tate. The old papers in (juestiou consist partly of 
those Avhich came into Col. John Woods's hands 
from his father; partly of the receipts Col. John 
^^'oods took as executor of his father's estate ; and 
l)artly of those which Michael Woods, Third, took as 
executor of the estate of his father. These papei'S 
have heen handed down from Col. John W'oods to 
his great-grandson, J. A\'atsou Woods, iu a direct 
line. The genuineness and authenticity of the 
documents can not he questioned. The external 
and internal evidence iu their favor is complete. A 
few of thein have heen reproduced in fac-simile ex- 
pressly for this work, that coming generations may 
see the exact chii'ography of their remoter forhears 
as well as the suhject matter of the papers re- 
ferred to. 

DOCUMENT No. 1. 

June 10, 17:J7— Deed of Charles Iludson to .Micliael 
Woods, of Blair Park. 
[Michael >\'oods settled in (loochland County 
(now Alhemarle), Virginia, in 1734. lie niav 



liavc hdiiglif laud (here (hat year, Iiii( tlie earliest 
inircliase we have record of was made of one 
Cliarles Hudson June 10, 17;'>7. He \nx'u\ Iludson 
"nine(y jiounds current money" for a tract of "two 
(liousaiid acres lying and heiiig in (lie county of 
(ioocliland on the hranches nt' Ivy Creek and on 
the side of (he Kiver Kivanna." The detMl con- 
tains all of the then customary pomp<ms redun- 
dancies and repetitions; and it hegins in these 
words: "This Indenture made this tenth day of 
June in tlie Tenth year of the Eeigu of our Sover- 
eign Lord George the Second hy the Grace of God 
of Great Britain, France and Irelaud King De- 
fender of the faith &c Anno Dimiiui one Thousand 
s(>ven hundred and thirty seven Between Charles 
Hudson of the County of Hanover Gent : of the one 
Part and Michael AVoods of the County of Gooch- 
land of the other I'art AVitnesseth," etc., etc. The 
deed is signed hy Charles Iludson, and on the twen- 
tieth day of Septemher, 1737, it was duly recoi'ded 
at the Goochlaud Court House. 

DOCI\MENT No. 2. 

July 30, 1743— Deed of .Alichael AA'oods to His Son, 
John Woods. 

In 1743, [Michael of Blair Park, lieing then 
tifty-nine years old, and having a large numher 
of children grown to maturity, deeded tracts of 
land to several of them. The original conveyauce 
made to his son John is the only one of the lot made 
that year which is in the hundle of papers in the 
writer's possession. It conveys to John Woods 
three hundred and fifty acres of the tract [Michael 
had purchased of Hudson ahout six years hefore, 
the same heing and lying on hotli si<les of [Medium's 
Kiver. The consideration mentioned is "thirty 
pounds Current [Money of Virginia." This sum 
was mentioned, ^^-e douht not, merely to indicate 
the value of the gift, and imihahly no money 
Iias.sed. The signature of Michael, which occurs 
three times in the deed, is as clear and jet-hlack 
after one hundred and sixty-two yeai-s as it wa.s 
the day it was written; hut it presents some i-atlier 
lieculiar feature's. The grantor s]k'1Is his Christian 
name ".Micheal," and also ".Micheall"; and after 



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that nainc he writes a small "m." apparontly as the 
initial of a iniddh" name. This small "in," in each 
of the thive cases, looks as if it were an after- 
thoujiht, the space between the "^lichfall" and 
"^^■(»ods" is, in each case, too craniix-d to admit 
of th(^ ''m" beinji written fnll size. In one case 
the space is so narrow that the ''m'' is written be- 
low the rest of the name, as will be seen in the fac- 
simile of it to be fonnd in Part I of this work. 
Then, in two cases, he writes his Christian name 
"Micheall," and once "^Micheal.'' Snch marked 
variations in the sj)ellinfj of one's own name in a 
single document are quite nnnsnal, and would al- 
most iudicate that the signer was in his dotage, 
though such could hardly have been the case. We 
can scarcely say with certainty what his exact 
name was. Foiir men witnessed each one of the 
thri'e signings, to wit : ('has. Lynch, Archibald 
Woods, IJobert ^IcNeley and William Wallace. 
If the small "m" in all three of the signatures stood 
for a middle name, we have no idea what that name 
was. It occurs nowhere else in any paper or record 
we have seen. 

DOCUMENT No. 3. 

Nov. 15, 17(i4 — Iieceijits of John Woods's Pastors. 

The Rev. Sanuu'l Pdack, a Presbyterian minister, 
gives John ^A'oods a receipt in 1704 for his "prom- 
ised stipen<l," which amounted to fifteen shillings 
per annum. Several such receipts were given in 
subse<]uent years. ^Ir. IMack was the pastor of 
the church at Rocktish wliich John Woods at- 
tended part of the time, bis own church being that 
at ilountain IMaius, quite near his home, which he 
and his father and near kin had founded. Mr. 
Black calls him "Captain" John Woods iu 1764 
and 17()5, but in 17(J7 it is "Major" John Woods, 
for in 17(i(i he had been commissioned JIajor of the 
.Vlbemarle .Alilitia by Gov. Fauquier. After 1770 
be was called "Colonel" .Toliu Woods, as in that 
year he had been made Lieutenant Colonel. The 
pastor of Cove, Rocktish and Mountain IMaius 
churches abmg about 1772-1782 was the Rev. Will- 
iam Irvin; and he also gives several receipts to 
"Col. John AVoods," for twenty shillings each year, 
towards his "stipend.'' Both Mr. Black and Mr. 
In'iu invariably append to their names the mystic 
U-tters "A". 1). il." ( I'crhi Doiniiii M ini.strriiiiii — 
Minister of the Word of (Jod). Col. Woods was a 
Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, and he paid his pastors 



according to promise. There were unhappy dis- 
sensions in the churches named during both of the 
pa.storates just referred to, and in each case the 
minister was bitterly opposed by some of his peo- 
ple, but it seems Col. \A'oods stood by the preachers 
in both instaiu-es l)y paying them their "stijjends." 

DOCUMENT No. 4. 

May 13, 17C.2— Bill of Sale for a Slave. 

Our Old Virginia ancestors were slave-holders, 
and this docTiment shows that Col. John Woods, in 
May, 17(i2, purchased a boy about thirteen years 
old, nanu'd Allen, not from a Southerner, luit from 1 
a citizen of that section of our country in which the I 
traffic in uegroes was most vigorously denounced — 
nuiiuly after their slaves had been converted into 
good hard cash. The writing shows that the gentle- 
man frirtu whom he bought "Allen" was a certain 
John Kidd, of the city of Philadelphia, and the con- 
sideration paid was "Sixty-tive pounds current 
money of the Province of Pennsylvania.'' The bill of 
sale was executed "at Coojiers Ferry iu the New 
Jerseys," aud Avas wituessetl to by Robert Anderson 
and William Dallas. The writing is perfectly clear 
aud legible after one hundred an<l forty-three years, 
and it may serve to remind posterity of an institu- 
tiou whose departure we can all be glad of, what- 
ever our views as to the ethical character of the 
means by which the South was forced to accept its 
abrogation. 

DOCUMENTS 5-0-7. 

Nov. 27, 170(5— June 9, 1770— Dec. 10, 1770. 

Colonial Commissions Issued to John Woods. 

Prior to 1700 John AYoods, son of Michael, of 
Blair I'ark, was called "Captain John Woods,'' 
and there is good reason for believing that he 
had earned that title bj' actual service in the 
French aud ludian Wars (1754-1703), aud that 
the experience he gained during that contest, to- 
gether with his known high character, accounted 
for the honors conferreil uix>n him by three of the 
Colonial governors of Virginia in giving him com- 
missions iu the militia, (a) The first was from 
"Francis Fau(]uier, Esqr., his ^lajesty's Lieuteuant- 
(Jovernor, and Commander iu Chief of the Colony 
aud Dominion of A'irgiuia," appointing him "to be 
Major of the Militia of the County of Albenuirle." 
This commission is dated at Williamsburg the 
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year of liis Majesty's Keigii, Annoqiiv Domini, 17fi6. 
Governor Fauquier's siguature is (juite distinct 
still, (b) The second Colonial commission he re- 
ceived made him Lieutenant Colonel of the Albe- 
marle Militia — "whereof Thomas Jefferson, Esqr., 
is Lieutenant and ('hief Commander." It is dated 
at Williamsburg the ninth day of June, and in the 
tenth year of his Majesty's Reign, Annoquc Domini 
1770. It has appended in large and distinct char- 
acters the simi)le name, "Botetourt," though the 
printed heading of the commission reads thus: 
"forborne Baron dc Botetourt, his ilajesty's Lieu- 
tenant and Governour General of the Colony and 
Dominion of Virginia, and Vice Admiral of the 
same." (c) The third and last commission is 
dated December 10, 1770, and is signed by "^Yill- 
iam Nelson," who was then President of his Ma- 
jesty's Council and Commander in Chief of the 
Colony and Dominion of Virginia. Like the other 
two it is given at Williamsburg. The position to 
which Col. Woods is hereby assigned is that of 
"Lieutenant Colonel of the Militia of the County 
of Albemarle, whereof Thomas Jefferson is Lieu- 
tenant and Chief Commander — the same position 
given him some months previously by Lord Bote- 
tourt. Col. Woods was fifty-eight yeai-s old when 
this commission was issued, but he lived twenty- 
one years after receiving it. When the Revolution 
began he was about sixty-four, and it is hardly 
likely he rendered service in the field durqig that 
great contest. His active yeare were given to the 
Colony and not the State of Virginia. 

DOCUMENT N(». 8— see page 481. 
July 10, 17G7 — Receipt to John Woods, Executor. 
The husliand of Hannah Woods, daughter of 
Michael of Blair Park, was William Wallace, Sr., 
and this couple had a son, William Wallace, Jr. 
This son gave John AA'oods, executor, a receipt for 
his portion as the grandson of Michael Woods of 
Blair Park, July 10, 1707. See facsimile of Do<u- 
ment 8, page 481. The INlary Woods and James 
Woods, who sign as witnesses, were cliil- 
dren of Col. John Woods. The signature of 
William AVallace, Sr., father of William Wallace, 
Jr., can be seen in the fac-simile of part of a deed 
Michael Woods made in 1743, ^\liich appears on 
next page. 

DOCr.MENT No. !t— see page 481. 
July 10, 17G7 — Receipt of John Woods, Executor. 
This paper is a receipt which Col. John Woods 
gave as a legatee of Michael of Blair Park to him- 



self as executor in full of his expenses and trouble 
in winding up his father's estate. The same day 
he gave a like receipt for the legacies of his two 
daughters, Sarah and Anna Woods. His signa- 
tures to the two receipts, rt'spectively, are almost 
identical, the peculiar form of the J. and the W. 
being found the same in both. The witnesses to 
both are the same, one being David Lewis, Jr., and 
the other his son, ilichael Woods, Jr. 

DOCl'MEXT No. 10— see page 48L 
July 10, 1707 — llaunah Wallace's Receipt. 

This lady Mas a daughter of .Michael Woods of 
Blair Park, and the wife of William Wallace. It 
seems she had rendered personal services t)r in- 
curred «'X])enses in connection with the settlement 
of her father's estate for which she received three 
piainds, fourteen shillings and eight pence. The 
James and ^lary AA'oods who sign this receipt Avere, 
beyond all doubt, the children of Col. John ^Voods, 
of whom an account will be found in Part I of 
this volume. 

DOCFilENT No. 11— see page 48:3. 

July 15, 1767 — William Woods's Receipt. 

The eldest son (and second child) of Michael of 
Blair Park and Mai'y nee Campbell, was ^Villiani. 
He gave two receipts to his brother John, executor 
of their father's estate, July 15, 1 767 ; one, as shown 
in the accompanying facsimile, for his legacy ; and 
the other, for certain other claims. The latter is 
a (juaiut document, and runs thus: — "Then received 
of Brother John AA'oods the sum of twenty shillings 
in full of all debts. Dues and Denmuds from the be- 
ginning of the world till the day of date hereof. I 
say received by me all errors exceptetl.'' One of the 
M itnesses in each of these receipts was James 
A\'oods, the s(m of his brother John. 

DOCr.MENT No. 12— see page 483. 

Nov. 16, 1767 — Receipt of Robert Poage. 

The Avife of Robert Poage Avas Jean, ncc Wal- 
lace, a daughter of William AVallace, by his Avife 
Hannah, ncc Woods, and a grand-daughter of old 
Michael of Blair Park. Attention is called to 
a deceased son of Archibald Woods. That son 
Avas probably aliAe Avhen Michael's Avill was made 
in 1761, but died before Michael himself did; and 
as Michael had said in his will his "living" grand- 
children should inherit under the Avill, it Avas a 
(luestion Avhether that grandson had any claim. 



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DOCUMENT No. 13— see pajio 485. 

July 2, 1768— Eeceipt of John Woods, of South 
Carolina, for a Brother and Sister. 

This John AYoods was, as seems almost certain, 
a son of Archibald "Woods, the son of Michael of 
Blair Park. That he was a grandson of Michael is 
absolutely certain, as appears in a receipt which 
he gave John Woods, executor, on receiving the 
legacies of William AVoods and Isabella Woods 
who, we know, were children of Archibald AA'oods, 
grandchildren of Michael, and citizens of South 
Carolina. The South Carolina John Woods is fully 
discussed in Part I of this work, in connection with 
his father, Archibald Woods. The records show 
that he lived in Granville County, South Carolina, 
and in July, 1708, he collected six legacies — five be- 
sides his own — for as many grandchildren of 
Michael of Blair Park. 

DOCUMENT No. 14— see page 485. 

July 18, 1768— Receipt of John Woods, of South 
Carolina, for Three JIarried Sisters. 

The John Woods already referred to above gave 
receipts for three ladies whom we regard as his 
sisters, Mrs. Brazeal, Mrs. Cowan and Mrs. 
Trimble. It is deemed most probable that six of 
Archibald Woods's children were living in Carolina 
in 1768, and that the John Woods mentioned in 
this document came to Virginia to collect the six 
legacies, Archibald, his father, being still a citizen 
of Albemarle County, Virginia. The William 
Woods who is one of the witnesses to this receipt 
is old Michael's son, and the Susannah Woods who 
also witnessed to it was the widow of Col. John 
Woods. 

DOCUMENT No. 15— see i)age 486. 

July 2, 1768— Bond of Andrew Wallace, of Albe- 
marle, and John Woods, of South Carolina. 

The John Woods whose name is signed to the two 
last named documents, and whose home was, in 
1768, in South Carolina, is a puzzle to all who 
study the lists of Michael Woods's children and 
grandchildren. This question is fully discussed in 
Part I in dealing with Archibald Woods, son of 
Michael. When he collected from his uncle John 
AVoods the legacies coming to his brother William 
Woods and his sister Isabella Woods he was re- 
quired to give the executor an indemnifying bond, 
and Andrew Wallace, a brother of A\'illiam AVal- 
lace, husband of Margai'et AVoods, and ancestor of 



General Lew Wallace, recently deceased, joined 
John in this bond. The bond recites that said John 
AA'oods was then a citizen of Granville County, 
South Carolina, and that the William Woods and 
Isabella AVoods whose legacies he had collected for 
them from his uncle John were children of Archi- 
bald AN'oods. and then I July, 17<>S) living in Snutb 
Carolina. It is strange that six of Archibald 
AVoods's children should have migrated to the low, 
swamp lands of the extreme southern sea-coast 
part of South Carolina, leaving their father in 
Albemarle. But we know that Archibald, a few 
years after this bond was executed, left Albemarle 
and settled on Catawba Creek, in what is now 
Roanoke County, and there spent the rest of his 
days; and we feel it not entirely improbable that 
his sou John died soon after executing this bond ; 
and that Archibald had a son borne to him in 1768 
to whom this Siuue name (John) was given. This 
bond was witnessed to by AVilliam AA'allace and 
Alichael Wallace, who, as we believe, were brothers, 
and the sons of William Wallace and Hannah, ncc 
AA'oods. The concluding portion of this bond is 
herewith presented in fac-simile. 

DOCUAIENT No. 16— see page 4S6. 

Nov. 26, 1793 — Receipt of Susannah Woods. 

Susannah was the youngest child of Col. John 
Woods. It is not unlikely that she wrote her name 
Susannah AVoods for the last time when she signed 
this receijit, for she was married a day or two after- 
wards to Daniel Aliller. She, a few years later, 
removed with her husband to Madison County, 
Kentuckj', and there became the ancestress of a 
numerous posterity. She was a favorite child of 
her father. Her brothers, James and Michael, were 
the executors of her father's estate, though James 
migrated to Kentucky before the estate Avas settled 
up. 

DOCUAIENT No. 17— see page 4S(). 
October 5, 1797— Receipt of Dan'l Miller. 

This is the man Avho married Susannah AA^oods, 
as mentioned in connection with the preceding 
document. The William Woods who appears here- 
in as one of the witnesses, was not William, the 
son of Michael, nor the son of that AVilliam 
("Beaver Creek AVilliam AVoods"), but probably 
William, the son of "Beaver Creek AVilliam," who 
came to be known in Albemarle as "Beaver Creek 
William, the Second." AA'e reason herein almost 
entirely from the signatures to be found in the old 
papers we have been dealing with. 



AITENDIX ("—SOME ANCIENT DOC^t^MENTS 




^^Xiv^ 





486 



THE WOODS-McAFEE MEMOKIAL. 




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4 A? ^^^~ ^-1* 



\ -^ 







INDEX. 



Abell, Dr. C. S. . . 
Abell, Dr. Russell 

Abell, Mary 

Adams, Anna . . . 



VAGV, 

274 
274 
274 
118 

Adams, Samuel 118-164 

Adams, Thomas 

Adams, William 

Adamses, The 

Adventurers, and Hunters 

Aiken, Maria 

Alamance, Battle of 

Alderson, George 

Alderson, Rev. John 

Alderson, West Virginia . . 

Alexander. Anita 

Alexander, Betty 

Alexander, Emma 

Ale.xander, Fanny 

Alexander, Gabriel 

Alexander, James 

Alexander, Jinger 

Alexander, Major John . . . 

Alexander, Mildred 

Alexander, Rev. Archibald 

Alexander, Richard 

Alexander, William 

Allen, Ann 

Allen, James 

Allison, Jennie 

Allison, Joseph 

Anderson, Archer 

Anderson. Jean Hamilton . 

Anderson, Rebekah 

Anderson, Rev. James .... 

Anderson, Susannah 

Andrews, John 



57 
118 
181 
213 
355 
115 
217 
180 
180 
204 

38 
275 
275 

81 
275 
275 

49 
275 

44 
275 



P.VGE 

Banks, Laura Alice 260 

Banks, Marvin R 260 

Banks, Mary Robert 260 

Banks, William Rochester 260 

Barclay, Hugh 106 

Barclay, John W 106 

Barclay, Michael W., M. D 106 

Barclay, Mike 108 

Barnett, Arthur 264 

Barnett, Carl Price 264-266 

Barnett, Robert McAfee 246, 264 

Barnett, Susan J 109 

Barrett, Mrs. Elizabeth, of Ireland 3-141 



45 

137 

133 

273 

273 

7 

99 

99 

46 

Appendices, The 423-486 



Armagh County, Ireland 156 

Armstrong, J. M 276 

Ai mstrong, J. M., Jr 277 

Armstrong, Joseph 276 

Armstrong,, Joseph Lapsley 277 

Armstrong, Lxitta H 277 

Armstrong, Martha A 277 

Armstrong, Priscilla 210-249 

Armstrong, Richard T 277 

Armstrong, Robert 276 

Armstrong, Rufus V 277 

Armstrong, William 190-196 



Bates, Mary 108 

Beard, Alice Woods 116 

Behre, Daniel Henderson 413 

Behre, Florence Gustavia 412 

Behre, Frederick Gustavus 412 

Behre, Gen. Christian 412 

Behre, Joanna W 413 

Behre, Sallie Henderson 411 

Behre, Susan Webb 413 

Bell, Elizabeth 419 

Bell, Henderson 45 

Bell, John 419 

275^-'Pen Hur 3S9 

5 Ben Hur Beech 357 

Bennett, Genevieve Davis 255 

Bennett, Joel D 204-255 

Bennett, Joseph 256 

Bennett, Mary McClung, nee McAfee 256 

Benton, Hon. Thomas H 51 

Berry, Daniel, M. D 307 

Berry, Susan 120-307 

Beverly, Manar 42-53 

Big Black Mountains 173-207 

Big Bone Lick 167 

Birkhead, Alice, and Family 410 

Birney, James G 47 

Black, Judge Gideon B S5S6-147 



Armstrong, William 

Arnold, Major John 

Arnoux, Anthony 

Attack by Indians on McAfee's Station 

Atcherson, Thomas 

Augusta Academy, Va 

Aylett, Rebecca 



B. 

Bagnell, Anne 2 

Bailey, Anna W 249 

Bailey, Margaret 275 

Baker. Esther 5 

Baker, James 320 

Baker, Maria C 124-320 

Baker, Samuel 320 

Balcony Falls. Va 19-43-52-64 

Baldridge, Susannah 

Ball, Amanda 

Ballard, Bland 

Banks, Anita Moore 

Banks, Clinton S 

Banks, Jennie Moore 



Black, Rev. Samuel 22 

Black, Thomas , . . 86 

Blackburn. Mrs. James 374 

Blair Park, Va 20 

Bohon. George — married Anne Woods 89 

Bond, Annie Boyle 397 

Bond, William Franklin 397 

Boone. Daniel — Estimates of his achievements 212 

Boone, Letitia 410 

276 Boonesboro, Ky 179 

146 Boone's Road, or Trace 1 77-473 

308 Borden, Ben, Jr 47-54-144 

187 Borden, Ben, Sr 42-54 

272 Borden, Hannah 55 

128 Borden, John .' , 54 

130 Borden, Joseph 54 

Borden, Martha 47-54 

Borden's Grant 42-53-54 

Boston, Addie Woods 116 

Bovi'yer, Col. John 55, 56-145 

Boyce, Sarah Ann 60 

Boyce. Susan Jane 60 

Boyne. Battle of the 156 

Brashear, Dennis 46 

Brazeal, Mrs. Willis 114 

Breckinridge. Rev. Dr. R. J 51-161 

136 Brevard, Albert 338 

48 Brevard, Lizzie A 338 

47 Briscoe. William 7 

260 Brison, Mary 123-320 

260 Brison. Rebecca 123 

260 Brown, Charles 88 



488 



INDEX. 



Brown, Charles Hamilton 

Brown, Elizabeth 

Brown, Elizabeth E 

Brown, Eugenia 

Brown, Hattie L 

Brown, James McAfee . . 

Brown, Joseph 

Brown, J. Shannon 

Brown, Lillie 

Brown, Mary Ann 

Brown, Mrs. Mandy 



PAG." 

263 

320 

136 

282 

250 

263 

263 

263 

354 

263 

261 

Brown, Professor W. G 143-289 

Brown, Robert McKarney 263 

Brown, William 263 

Bruce, Elizabeth Barbour 289 

Bruce, Helm 288 

Bruce. Hon. H. W 289 

Bruce. Helm. Jr 289 

Bruce, James White 289 

Bruce, Louise Reid 289 

Bruce, Mrs. Helm 1 41-288 

Bryan, Mary 316 

Buchanan. Alexander 201, 209 

Buchanan, Alexander H 239 

Buchanan, Anna Maria 239-244 

Buchanan, Annie 209 

Buchanan. Caleb 245 

Buchanan. Charles Allen 246 

Buchanan. Claiborne 244 

Buchanan, Dorcas 209 

Buchanan. Floro Alma 386 

Buchanan, George, the Pioneer 163-190-196-209-235 

Buchanan, child of George, the Pioneer 209 

Buchanan, George McAfee 239-242 

Buchanan, George McAfee. Jr 240 

Buchanan. George Watkins 246 

Buchanan. George William 245 

Buchanan. Henry Rives 246 

Buchanan, James, child of George and Margaret 190-209 

Buchanan. James, child of James M. and America 239 

Buchanan, James McAfee 246 

Buchanan. James Milton 236 

Buchanan. James S 240 

Buchanan Jane 209 

Buchanan, John, who married Margaret Grant 204 

Buchanan, John, child of George, the Pioneer 209-236 

Buchanan, John W., child of J. M. and America 239-244 

Buchanan. Lee 236 

Buchanan. Lizzie 236 

Buchanan. Margaret, child of George, the Pioneer 209 

Buchanan, Mary, who married Peter Dimn 236 

Buchanan. Mary Yoder 239-243 

Buchanan, Mary Louise 386 

Buchanan. Mary, child of George, the Pioneer 209 

Buchanan. Mildred 244 

Buchanan. Nancy McAfee, child of George, the Pioneer, 209 

Buchanan. Nancy McAfee, child of J. M 239-243 

Buchanan. Nellie 386 

Buchanan. Nora 236 

Buchanan, Queen 239 

Buchanan, Sarah E 239 

Buchanan, Thomas, child of J. M. and America 239 

Buchanan. Thomas S.. child of James and Rebecca 240 

Buchanan. Victoria N 240 

Biichanan. Warren 244 

Buchanan. William, child of Alexander and Nancy 245 

Buchanan, William, child of J. M. and America ." 239 

Buchanan, William, child of John 236 

Buchanan, William Terry 246 

Buchanan. Wood H 236 

Buckner. Hon. Richard A 147 

Buckner, Catherine 387 

Buford, Charles S 50 

Buford. Col. Abraham 50 

Buford, Mary 50 

Buford, William S 50 

Bullitt, Captain Thomas 167-212-437 

Bullitt, Hon. Thomas Walker 440 

Burnham, Edmund H 108 

Burnham, Eugenia 108 

Burkes. General Armory 141 

Bush, Anne 47 



P.\CF. 

Buster, John 70 

Butler's Kentucky (History of) 147 

Butler. Mann 376 

Butler, Mary Malvina 379 

Butler. Richard 439-440 

Burrows. Mary Jane 418 

Burrows. Rev. Reuben, D. D 419 

Burton, Beulah 325 

Butts, Mary 105 

C. 

Cabell, Elizabeth 49 

Cabell, Nicholas (Colonel) 49 

Caldwell, Abraham 1 48 

Caldwells, The. in Virginia 42 

Campbell. Given 120-307 

Campbell. Given. Jr 303 

Campbell. James (Judge) 308 

Campbell. John Poage (Doctor) 46 

Campbell. Magdalen 31-92-96 

Campbell. Susan E 307 

Campbell, Susan Woods 308 

Campbell, Mary, of Ireland 9-23 

Campbell, William 67 91-93-96 

Campbell, William (Colonel) 51 

Campbells, The, in Virginia 42 

Canfield, Carrie Imogene 250 

Canfield, Elizabeth 240 

Caperton, Andrew 60 

Caperton, Archibald 60 

Caperton, Doctor A. C 60 

Caperton, Green 60 

Caperton, Hugh 60 

Caperton, Huldah 60 

Caperton James W. (Colonel) 309 

Caperton, John 60 

Caperton, Katherine Phelps 313 

Caperton, Mary James 313 

Caperton, Mary P 312 

Caperton. Milton T 60 

Caperton, Sallie G 60 

Caperton, Susan 60 

Caperton, Thomas Shelton 60 

Caperton, William (Colonel) 59-309 

Caperton, William H 60 

Caperton, William, Sr 309 

Cardwell, John R 275 

Card well. Mary 209-275 

Carroll. Nora 325 

Carrington. Hannah 49 

Carson, John (Captain) 52 

Carson, Samuel P. (Hon.) 52 

Carthrac, Miss 47 

Caruthers, Esther 105 

Caruthers, Margaret 105 

Castleman. Laura 389 

Castle's Woods. Virginia 174 

Casualties in Kentucky due to the Indians 189 

Catapas (or Catawba) Creek, Virginia 159 

Chandon, Gaston de 60 

Chapline, Mary 338 

Chauvin, Lise 344 

Chenault, Elviree 366 

Chenault, Mattie McDonald 403 

Chenault. Susan 108 

Chenault. William 403 

Cherokee Indians 179-180 

Chrisman. Betsy 45 

Chrisman, Joseph, Jr 52 

Chrisman, Polly 46 

Christian, Mary 51 

Christian. William (Colonel) 180 

Clack (Clok-Clock). Moses 375 

Claiborne, Nathalie 244 

Claiborne. Nathaniel C. (Colonel) 244 

Clark, Agnes, who married James McAfee, Jr 89,194,195 

Clark, Bennett 256 

Clark, Genevieve Bennett (See Preface) . .201-204-255-257, 260 

Clark, Genevieve B., child of Champ and Genevieve B. . . 259 

Clark. Hon. Champ, M. C 256-257 

Clark, George Rogers (General) 186-211-271 

Clark, James M 336 

> 



INDEX. 



489 



PAGE 

Clark, James W 105 

Clark. Martha W 336 

Clark. Susan B 58 

Clarke, Judge, of Alabama 47 

Clav, Annette 47 

Clay, Henry ( Lt. Colonel ) 47 

Cleaver. Louise 328 

Cleland. Charlotte 131 

Cleland. Thomas, Rev. Dr 193-368 

Cleland, Thomas. Rev., of Missouri 42 

Clinch River Valley 174 

Clover IJck Creek, Harlan County, Ky 173 

Cloyd, David 121 

Cloyd. Elizabeth 50 

Cloyd, James 129 

Clunendike. with the McAfees in 1781 187 

Coates. Arthur Edward 360 

Coat of Arms of one branch of the McAfees 152-155 

Coat of Arms of one branch of the Woodses xvi, 3 

Cochran, George M 52 

Cochran, H. P 32-34 

Cochran. James 52 

Cockrell. Martha Shannon 360 

Cockrill, Benjamin F 313 

Cockrill. Susan 313 

Coleman. William Oscar 243 

Collins. Barl)ee J. (Colonel) 58-60- 

Collins. Thomas . .' 7 

Collins. History of Kentucky bv 188-202-212 

Cook. Lizzie ". 268 

Cooper, Rachel 58 

Cornett. Robert N 451 

Cornstalk. Chief of the Shawnees 171-175-439 

Council of the McAfees and Col. Henderson. April. 1775 179 

Coudert. Catharine 60 

Coudert. Frederick R 60 

Cowan, James (Mrs.) 117 

Cowan. John 70 

Cox, Elizabeth Dillwyn 325 

Craig. George E 387 

Craig. Margaret A 387 

Craig, Elijah 211 

Craig. W. W 60 

Crawford, Alex. W. (Rev.) 387 

Crawford. Adne Mitchell 387 

Crawford. Irvine Craig 387 

Crawford. Lawrence 387 

Crawford. Margaret 387 

Crawford. Robert Irvine 387 

Crawford. Robert Taylor 387 

Crawford. William H 95 

Crawford. William Harris 309 

Creel, Eliza 392 

Creel. Henry E 404 

Creel. Mary Miller 406 

Creigh. Sabina L. S 348 

Crocket. Anna E 277 

Crocket. Anthony (Colonel) 146, 277 

Crocket. Samuel 277 

Crozet. Virginia 314 

Crumpacker. MSry Ellen ; 337 

Crumpacker. Richard 337 

Cumberland. Duke of 154 

Cumberland Gap 74-75 

Cumberland Mountain. Rock Wall of 181-182 

Cummin gs. Magdalen Campbell Wallace 31 

Cunningham. Mary 275 

Curry. Rebecca 21^ 

Curry. Susan 202 

Currys, The 181 

D. 

Dabney, Louisa Elizabeth 106 

Daingerfield. Joseph F., M. D 270 

Daingerfield, Joseph F., Major 271 

Daingerfield. LeRoy 271 

Iiaingerfield. Miss Sallie 201-270 

Daingerfield. William, Col 271 

Dalaney. Robert 277 

Dai ville. Kentucky 46-183 

Dar:iall, Elizabeth S 360 

Davenport, Sarah Harris 94 



PACK 

Davenport. William 94 

Davenport, William 201 

Davidson. George 57-62 

Davidson. History of Presbyterianism in Ky., by 147 

Davies. Samuel, Rev ''2? 

Daviess, Annie T 210-273 

Daviess, Hannah 273 

Daviess, name properly spelt "Daviess" 273 

Daviess, Jean Hamilton 274 

Daviess, John Burton Thompson 274 

Daviess, Joseph 274 

Daviess. Joseph Hamilton, Colonel 273 

Daviess. Maria Thompson 274 

Daviess, Mortimer Hamilton 274 

Daviess, Nannie 274 

Daviess, Samuel, Captain or Judge 210 

Daviess, Samuel, (Jr.) 274 

Daviess, William ( Major) 273 

Daviess, William J 274 

Davis, John W 236 

Dawn of New Bra for Kentucky 167 

Dean, Susie T TT. 240 

Dean, Grace L 254 

Dedman, Anderson 377 

Dedman, Anna Daviess 379 

Dedman, Bartolett S 379 

Dedman. "Birdie" (M. A.) 379 

Dedman. Charles McBrayer 231-379 

Dedman. Dixon, of Albemarle 374 

Dedman. Dickson Gooch, M. D 4-377 

Dedman. Old Homestead of Dr. Dickson G 378 

Dedman, Eliza (Eloisa) 379 

Dedman-Gooch Marriage Bond — Fac-simile 370 

Dedman, Henry 379 

Dedman, James Gustavus, Captain in the C. S. A 379 

Dedman, John 376 

Dedman. Julia Anderson 379 

Dedman. Lucy (or Lucinda) 377 

Dedman. Martha 376 

Dedman, Mary 377 

Dedman, Nathan 368-372 

Dedman, Richmond, who married Mary W. Woods .... 406 

Dedman. Samuel, of Albemarle 27-371 

Dedman. Sarah Everett 89-368 

Dedman. Susanna 379 

Dedman, William 379 

Dedman, William, son of Gus and Josephine 379 

Dedmans. The, m Virginia and Kentucky 371-375 

Democratic Ideas, the Rise of, In Virginia, Due to the 

Scotch-Irish 10 

Description of Kentucky in Pioneer Period, by Col. 

Durrett 194 

Destitutions, Spiritual, of Kentucky, in 1783 189 

Dickey, Julia Ann " 275 

Disaster to Boone in Powell's Valley, Oct. 1773 468 

Dickinson. W. J 466-470 

Dissenters. Persecuted by English Bigots 1 

District of Kentucky 78-190 

Documents. Ancient, of Interest to Woodses 479-486 

Dodd, John L 131 

Dodd, Joseph C 131 

Donegal Presbytery 22-99 

Doneghy, Susan, w'ife of N. D. Woods, Sr 380 

Doom's Station, Virginia 12 

Doosing. William us 

Dorsey. Dr.. of Fleming Co., Ky 46 

Drake. Elizabeth ; 360 

Draper's Meadows, Virginia 19-77-161 

Dreaming Creek, Ky 59 

Drennon's Lick, Ky 167-217 

Drowning Creek, Kentucky ]07 

Dubsith. Gaelic for McAfee 153 

Du Bois (or Dubose) French form of Woods name 1 

Duke of Argyle 9 

Duke, Basil, M. D 50 

Duke, I^ucy 50 

Dulaney, Frances 5g 

Duncan, Blanch 244 

Duncan, B. F. ( Professor) 244 

Duncan, Emily 3x5 

Duncan, James B 244 

Duncan, Mary Eva 244 



490 



INDEX. 



I'Ar.p, 

Dunn, George 236 

Dunn, John 237 

Dunn. Nancy 236 

Dunn. Peter R 236-264 

Dunn. Susan 236 

-iXirrett, R. T.. A. M.. LL. D 220-221 

-^urretfs (R. T.) Centenary of Kentucky 147-194-212 

Dyzart. John, who married Martha Woods 85 

E. 

Edmunds, Edwin Short 270 / 

Edmonds, John Thomas 271 

Edmunds. Mec 270 

Edmimds. Sallie. Mrs 252-271 

Edington, Sarah Jane 116 

Elderslie, King George Co., Va 4-142 

Elkin. Anice 109 

Ellis. Thomas S 108 

Ellison, Julia Grayson 314 

Ellison, James Monroe -314 

Ellison, John 315" 

Elston, Isaac C 355 

Elston. Susan Arnold 355 

Embry, Allen. Rev 108_ 

Embry. John H lOs" 

Eno River, North Carolina 133 

Eras ot Kentucky History 169 

Estill, Abigail 57 

Estill, Eliza 309 

Estill. Eliza H 60* 

Estill. Elizabeth 60 

Estill. Florence 60 

Estill. James, the Pioneer 58-309 

Estill, James M 60 

Estill, Josephine 60 

Estill, Martha 60 

Estill, Martha Woods -r 60 

Estill. Maud 60 

Estill. Rodes 60 

Eulogy of Adam Wallace 9 

Eustis, Mary Tyler 404 

Eustis. Joseph Tracy 404 

Eustis, William Tracy 404 

Everett, John 374 

Everett, John, Jr 374 

E^'erett, Nathan 374 

Everett, Peter 374 

Everett, Richmond 374 

Everett, Sally 374 

Everett, Samuel Dedman 374 

Everett, Sarah 374 

Eves, who married Sallie Wallace 360 

Ewing, Mary 360 

Ewing, Margaret 200 

Ewing, Samuel. Sr 204 

Ewing. Samuel. Jr 200 

Ewing. William 204 

Exploration and Settlement of Kentucky 167-212 

F. 

Fac-slmile of J. M. Buchanan's Signature 242 

Fac-simile of Mrs. J. M. Buchanan's Signature 242 

Fac-simile of Dedman-Gooch Marriage Bond 370 

Fac-similes of Eleven Ancient Documents 479 

Fac-simile of McAfee Coat of Arms 152 

Fac-simile of Wallace Chart ^ 487 

Fac-simile of Woods Coat of Arms xviii 

Fac-simile of Will of Michael Woods. Jr 65 

Falling River Church. Virginia 49 

Falling Spring Church, Virginia 67 

Farwell. Lynn 325 

Fauquier, Governor 98 

Fauntelroy. Apphia 271 

Faust. Cornelia J 354 

Ferguson. Edwin 269 

Field Family. The Kentuckv Branch of 298 

Filson's Map of 1784 ". 185 

Filson's Stations of Wilderness Road 112 

Fiske. Prof. John, on the Settlement of Virginia. .. .11-141-155 

Fleming. Anna 316 

Foote's Account of Woodses and Wallaces 4-15 

Foote's Sketches of North Carolina 150 



PAor 

Foote's Sketches of Virginia 10-15-44-141-159 

Forsyth, Andrew 204-26S 

Forsyth, Ben Travis 270 

Forsyth, James Fulton 270 

Forsyth, Mary Julia 270 

Forsyth, V/illiam Stock well 204-269 

Forsythe, Anne E 269 

Forsythe, George McAfee 268 

Forsythe. Joseph H 269 

Forsythe, M. L 269 

Forsythe, Mary J. Lee 269 

Forsythe. Matthew 268 

Forsythe. Robert B 269 

Forsythe. W. Etta 269 

Fort Pitt 71 

Fort, or Station, Roneer, View of a Typical 184 

Forwood, Lilly 316 

Foster, Edward West 313 

Foster, Ellen C 313 

Foster, Frances 120 

Foster, R. C 120 

Foster, Robert C 313 

Foster, Robert Coleman, M. D 313 

Founding of Kentucky. Part of McAfees in the 215 

Frankfort. Ky.. Site ot Visited by McAfees 205 

Fraser, Charlotte M 415 

Fraser. R. Ludlow 415 

Fremont. Gen. John C 51 

Frohman, Abraham 88 

Frohman. Jacob 7S-S8 

Fuller, Mildred 360 

Fulton, Anna Maria 269 

Fulton, John Milton 269 

G. 

Cachet, Capt. Charles 420 

Gachet, Dr. Charles 421 

Gachet. Tallulah 420 

Gaines. Frank Pendleton 364 

Gaines. Lucy Briscoe 360 

Galey, Benjamin 88-9S 

Garland, James 102 

Garland. Mary 102 

Garnet. George 92 

Garrison, Commodore 60 

Garrison, Estill 60 

Garrison, Minnie 60 

Garrison, William. Jr 60 

Garrison, William R 60 

Garth, James 95 

Germans Led to Settle In Virginia 10 

Gllmore, Lucretia D 320 

Gilmore, Col. John 7 

Gilmore, Capt. John 91 

Given, Mary 308 

Glasgow, Ann 360 

Glasgow. Elizabeth 360 

Glenn, Mourning 309 

Goldsby, J. W. W 289 

Gooch, Sir William (Governor) 10-53-158 

Gooch, William, and Children 375 , 

Gooches, The, in Virginia and Kentucky 871-380 

Good, John A 338 

Good, Sarah 338 

Goodall, Mrs. Julia Grayson 61-62-145-314 

Goodall. McChesney 315 

Goodloe. David 108 

Goodloe. David 316 

Goodloe, Elizabeth 108 

Goodloe. Elizabeth 315 

Goodloe. Emma 316 

Goodloe, George White 315 

Goodloe. Harvey 315 

Goodloe, Henry 316 

Goodloe. John Duncan .304-315 

Goodloe. Lucy 315 

Goodloe. Margaret F 315 

Goodloe, Mourning Shelton 316 

Goodloe, Paul Miller J15 

Goodloe. William 60 

Goodloe. William .'15 

(roodwin, Brower G ' .54 



INDEX. 



491 



rAC.:-, 

Goodwin, Grover Cleveland 354 

Goodwin. James Dennis 354 

Goodwin, Mrs. .Tames Dennis 13S 

Goodwin. Wesley 354 

Gordon, Lucy ." 92 

Gordon. William 81 

Gough, Nellie 315 

Grant (Gaunt) . Margaret 204 

Grant (Gaunt). Thomas 162-189-204 

Granville County. South Carolina 112-113 

Grave of Michael Woods of Blair Park 24 

Grave of "Mother McAfee" 218 

Graves of James and Agnes McAfee 199 

Gray, David 97 

Gray. Elizabeth CO 97 

Gray. John Courts 97 

Gray, Peyton 95 

Gray. Sam Marshall 97 

Gray, Theresa D 97 

Gray. Versailles 97 

Gray, William 97 

Grays and Woodses 149 

Greathouse Family, The 238 

Greathouse. Nancy 201 

Greaver, Elizaleth 34S 

Green, Col. Thomas M 41-51-55-144 

Greene. Eliza 402 

Greenlee, Grace, or Grizelle 57 

Greenlee. Mrs. James (Mary) 41-42-143 

Greenwood, Va 4-5-12 

Griffin. Bettie 269 

Grlmsley, William 379 

Gross, Doctor, the Famous Surgeon 48 

Guilford C. H.. N. C 7-71 

Guthrie, Margaret D 201-261-263 

Guthrie. D 360 

H. 

Haggin, J. B 268 

Haggin, Mrs. L-ena 268 

Hale, Dr. John P 165, 216, 217, 231 

Hall. John 129 

Halliburton, Agnes 826 

Halliburton, Eulalie 326 

Halliburton, John M 326 

Halliburton. Margaret 326 

Halliburton. Mary 826 

Halliburton, Orlando 325 

Halliburton, Orlando. Jr 326 

Halliburton, Walker 326 

Hamilton, Ann 204 

Hamilton, Jean 274 

Hamilton, Leonora 274 

Hamilton, Ninian 274 

Hamilton. Robt 274 

Hamilton, Vess 272 

Hamilton, William 274 

Hankins. George 88 

Hanks, Susan M 397 

Hann, Robert 108 

Hanover Presbytery 22 

Harbison, Agnes 379 

Harbison, Albeit; 379 

Harbison, Rev. J. B 379 

Hardin, Judge M. R 315 

Hardlsty, Thomas . 377 

Hardrick. Fannie 275 

Hardy, Charles B 245 

Hardy, Charles B., Jr 245 

Hardy, John B 245 

Hardy, J. Warren 245 

Hardy, Oscar 245 

Hardy. Wm 106 

Hare, Sarah Elizabeth 49 

Hare. Dr. William Bordley 49 

Harris, Mrs. Angellne B 108 

Harris, Benjamin 82 

Harris, Elizabeth 103 

Harris, Isabel 806 

Harris, Frances 108 

Harris, Francis Bond 305 

Harris, James 104 



i'.\r.F. 

Harris, Jane Woods 305 

Harris, John Woods 103, 104, 301 

Harris, Martha Maupin 305 

Harris, Martha, Overton 306 

Harris, Martha Ryland 104 

Harris, Mary 60 

Harris, Mary Elizabeth 306 

Harris. Mary Frances 306 

Harris, Mary ?>ances 104 

Harris, Judge Overton 302 

Harris, Overton ' 103 

Harris. Overton Michael 104 

Harris, Overton Thomas 306 

Harris, Robert 309 

Harris, Sarah Elizabeth 104 

Harris, Sallie Tyre 306 

Harris, Susan ." 306 

Harris, Tabitha 108 

Harris, Thomas Berry 306 

Harris, Tyre 306 

Harris, Tyre Crawford 306 

Harris, Virgil McClure 305 

Harris, William Anderson 104 

Harris, Wm. B 82 

Harris, William Christopher 306 

Harrison, Charles B 343 

Harrison, Jennie Clyde 343 

Harrison, Margaretta Ross 274 

Harrod, Capt. James . . .' 169-206 

Harrodsburg, Ky 78, 183, 187. 190 

Harrodsburg Presbj-terian Church 191 

Hart, David P 349 

Hart, Nathaniel 349 

Harvey, Maria Hawkins 47 

Harvey, Matthew 55 

Harvey, Robt 55 

Hatfield, Mary Woods 116 

Haupt, Anna 47 

Haw River, N. C 133 

Hawkins, Ben 47-55 

Hawkins, Magdalena 55 

Hawkins, Martha 48 

Hawkins, Miss, Daughter of Ben and Martha 55 

Hayden's Virginia Genealogies 142 

Hazel Patch, Meeting at, of the McAfees and Hender- 
sons in 1775 179 

Head. Elizabeth 402 

Head, Rev. Jesse 402 

Henderson, Alexander 7 

Henderson, Col. Campbell G 414 

Henderson, Caroline W 412 

Henderson, Charlotte M 415 

Henderson, Daniel S 414 

Henderson, Hon. Daniel S., Jr 415 

Henderson, Dorcas 59 

Henderson, Edward P 415 

Henderson. Franklin E 415 

Henderson. Col. Richard 169-179 

Henderson, Sarah Webb 415 

Henderson, Sophie 415 

Henninger, Charity E 342-343 

Henninger, Christopher G 343 

Henninger, Conrad 342-343 

Henninger, Henry 342 

Henninger, Henry Harrison 34S 

Henninger, Jacob 342 

Henninger, Jane (Hines) 343 

Henninger, "John 342-343 

Henninger, Katharine 343 

Henninger, Mary (Dougherty) 343 

Henninger, Samuel 343 

Henninger. "William 343 

Henry. Gov. Patrick 59-86 

Henton, William 108 

Herron, John 84 

Hibler, Mrs 105 

Hickman, Catharine 50 

Hickman, John L 50 

Hickman, Josephine 379 

High Bridge Church, Va 67 

Hillsboro, N. C 133-150 

Hindman, Lucy H 250 



492 



INDEX. 



PAci: 

Hindman, Rev. John 21-99 

History ot Kentucky, True Place of McAfees in 211-215 

Hooker. Mary Jane lOS 

Hoden, Leo 108 

Hoge, Nellie 297 

Hoge, Rev. James 122 

Holman, Richard 89 

Holmes, John 86 

Holmes, Margaret 85 

Houser, Anna Sophia 394 

Houser, Anthony 394 

Houser, John 394 

Houston, Matthew 120 

Houston, Matthew Hale 121 

Hudson. Sallie 336 

Huffman, Eliza Woods 116 

Hughes, Laura 239 

Hume, Stanton 108 

Hume, Thomas R 109 

Humphreys, Capt. John 95 

Hunters' Path 181-459 . 

Hurricane Gap, Ky 173 

Hycotee River 133 

I. 

lan's Costumes of Clans 216 

Indian Attack on Boone's Company 468 

Indians Attack McAfee's Fort May, 1781 187 

Indian Camp Farm 89-111-159 

Indian Depredations in Kentucky, 1794 189 

Indian Rock. Va 64 

Irvine, Abraham 204 

Irvine, Abram 47 

Irvine, Anna 47 

Irvine, Anna 297 

Irvine, Major David C 49 

Irvine, Ky 173 

Irvine, Margaret 41 

Irvine, Mary E 269 

Irvine, Sarah 47 

Irvine, Rev. William 103 

Ivy Depot, Va 6, 94 

J. 

Jackson, John 402 

Jackson, Mary Ann 401 

Jackson, Thomas 402 

Jackson, Thomas Cleland 402 

Jackson, Thomas C, Jr 402 

Jacob, Col. Richard T 51 

James, John 360 

James, Thomas R 362 

James River 64, 89, 181 

Janny, Mary 393 

Jarman, Mary 62 

Jarman, Thomas 62 

Jarman, William 62 

Jarman's Gap (formerly Woods's Gap) 12 

Jefferson, Thomas 94 

Jenkins, Margaret Jane 288 

Jennings, Ann 91 

Jennings Creek 64 

Jennings, Jonathan 91 

Johnson, Benjamin F 274 

Johnson, Dr. James 48 

Johnson, Samuel D 274 

Johnson, William McAfee 275 

Johnston, Judge David E 471 

Johnston, Col. J. Stoddard 214, 224 

Johnston, Col. Richard M 209 

Jones, Dana 60 

Jones, Eleanor 355 

Jones, Elizabeth Everett 385 

Jones, James M 92, 385 

Jones, John Paul 6, 355 

Jones, John S 92 

Jones, La Grand 83 

Jones, Mildred 62,314 

Jones. Nancy 62 

Jones, Sarah Ellen 62 

Jones. Thompson 211 

Jones, Capt. William R 62 



PACE 

Jouett, John 73 

Journals of James and Robert McAfee, 1773 425-453 

Joyes, Jud.ge John 277 

Joyes, Stella 277 

K. 

Kavenaugh, Anna 57 

Kavenaugh, Joel 57 

Kavenaugh, John M .' 60 

Kavenaugh, William 63 

Kay, Elizabeth 307 

Kay, Elizabeth A 120 

Kay, Reuben 120 

Keene, Mary 108 

Keene, Oliver 46 

Keeth, Julian C 282 

Keith, Mary Randolph 50 

Kelley, Abner 360 

Kelly. Isaac 121 

Kelties. Highland Clans and Regiments 216 

Kentucky 164, 165, 188. 194 

Kentucky Court of Appeals 49 

Kentucky, Founders of 215 

Kentucky History, Place ot McAfees in 211, 215 

Kentucky Land Law 59 

Kentucky River, Course of McAfees on 173-214 

Kentucky River at Mouth 167 

Kentucky River at Mouth ot Drennon's Creek 178 

Kentuckv River, Three Forks of 78 

Kevil, Mattie 34S 

King, Thomas 210 

King's Mountain 52 

Kinnard, Mary F 352 

Kirk, Capt. Robert 52 

Kirkwood, Mrs. Jessie 414 

L, 

Lambert, Charles 67, 97 

Lambert, Gen 68 

Lampkin, Tallulah 420 

I-ancaster, Pa 15, 158 

Land Laws of Virginia, in Kentucky 148, 149 

Land Office at Frankfort 73. 7S 

Landrum, Gen. W. J 131 

Lang, Shelburn 420 

Lang, Susan 419 

Langsford, Mrs. N. B 105 

Lapsley, David Nelson 131, 288 

I.apsley, Isabel 282 

Lapsley, James 129, 132 

Lapsley, James 282 

Lapsley, James '^^'oods 278, 282 

Lapsley, Jean 129 

Lapsley. John 129 

Lapsley, John A 130 

Lapsley. Col. John P 284. 286 

Lapsley. Joseph 7-27, 37, 82, 126-132 

Lapsley. Joseph. Jr 129 

Lapsley, Joseph B 130 

Lapsley, Judge J. W 120. 126 

Lapsley, Dr. J. Y 282, 288 

I-apsley, Mary 129 

Lapsley, Mary Alberti 282 

Lapsley, Mary C 131 

Lapsley, Mary Elizabeth 288 

Lapsley, Norvell 282 

Lapsley. Priscilla Catherine 130 

Lapsley, Robert Armstrong 131 

Lapsley, Robert Alberti 282 

Lapsley, Dr. Robert McKee 131 

Lapsley. Rutherford 282 

Lapsley, Dr. R. M 288 

Lapsley, Samuel Norvell 282 

Lapsley, Sarah 31 

Lapsley, Dr. William J 284 

Lapsley. Zaidee 282 

Larned's English in America 150 

Laughery, Capt 74 

Leatherwood Creek, Ky 173 

Lee. Willis A 211 

Leftwich. Mildred 337 

Le Grand, Lucy 45 



INDEX. 



493 



TACK 

Leonard, Leila 344 

Letcher. Hon. Robert P 147 

Lewis, Gen. Andrew 175 

Lewis, George W 11 'j 

Lewis. John 11, 42, 53 

Lexington, Va 54, 57 

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation 256 

Lipscomb, Thomas C 260 

Lisle, Sarah Catherine 390 

Lisle. 45 

Little River, N. C 133 

Little River Presbyterian Church, N. C 134 

Livingston Count.v, Ky 94 

Locke, Martha Jones 419 

Loftus, Sir Adam and Jane Vaughn 2 

Loftus, Adam and Jane Purden 2 

Loftus, Sir Dudley and Annie Bagnell 2 

Loftus, Rev. Edward 2 

Loftus. I.etitia and Richard Parsons 2 

Logan, Elizabeth J. Lee 390 

London Medico-Chirurgical Review 48 

Ix)ng Hunter's Road 459 

Lord. Eliza Selden 47 

Lowery, Mrs., married 'VS'llliam McAfee 210 

Luke. Jane 50 

Lupton, Alice May 393 

Lupton, Thomas Neill 393 

Lusk. Jane Kavenaugh 294 

Lyell, 45 

Lyie, Capt. John 45 

Lyle. Mary Paxton 45 

Lyles. The. in Virginia 42, 45 

Lyon, Joseph 190 

M, 

McAden, Rev. Hugh 55, 127, 133 

McAfee, Agnes, nee Clark 194-199 

McAfee, America 201 

McAfee, Anna Helen 250 

McAfee, Anna Ruth 250 

McAfee, Anne, child of 'William and Rebecca 211 

McAfee, Annie 277 

McAfee, Annie, child of Samuel and Hannah 210 

McAfee, Blanch, child of 'U'illiam L. and Cornelia 272 

McAfee Brothers meeting with Col. Henderson 179 

McAfee, Captain Samuel 12 

McAfee, Cornelia Lawson 204 

McAfee, Catherine Agnes 250 

McAfee, Clarke "^'illiam, child of Thomas C. and Martha 268 

McAfee. Cleland Boyd 250 

McAfee Colony, The, Removal to Kentucky in 1779 .... 175 

McAfee Company, The 163 

McAfee. Cora 272 

McAfee, Cornelia 268 

McAfee, Dwight A 275 

McAfee, Edwin 262-268 

McAfee, Elizabeth, child of R. L. and Jane 204 

McAfee. Elizabeth, child of James and Agnes 201 

McAfee. Elizabeth R., child of T. C. and Nancy 201 

McAfee. Emile 'U^adsworth 254 

McAfee, Esther Lucille 250 

McAfee, General Robert B 47-90-156-180-193-196-207-216 

McAfee, George, child of Col. George and Ann 204 

McAfee, George, Jr., child of George, Sr., and Susan . . . 204 

McAfee, George, M. D 269 

McAfee, George, child of James and Agnes 201 

McAfee, George, child of James and Nancv 268 

McAfee, George, child of James, Sr.. 162-190-193-202-203-259-276 

McAfee, George G, child of T. Clark and Nancy 201 

McAfee, Grace Deane 254 

McAfee, Hannah, child of Samuel and Hannah 210 

McAfee, Hannah, who married Judge Daviess 273 

McAfee, Harriet Lanier 277 

McAfee, Helen Bailey 253 

McAfee, Helma IjOuise 250 

McAfee, Howard Bailey 250 

McAfee, Hugh Bailey 250 

McAfee, Isaac, child" of T. Clark and Nancy 201 

McAfee, James Alexander 277 

McAfee, James Ben Ali Haggin 268 

McAfee, James — "Big Jim." 203-204-260 

McAfee, James, Jr 86-89-154-162-180-183-187-190-193-195 



McAfee. James Philip 204-264-268 

McAfee, James, Sr 156-157-159-161-162 

McAfee, James, child of James, Jr., and Agnes 201 

McAfee, Jane, child of L. L. and Jane 204 

McAfee, Jane, child of Samuel and Hannah 210 

McAfee, Joseph Ernest 250 

McAfee, Joseph, child of John and Elizabeth 247-248-251 

McAfee, John Armstrong 250 

McAfee, John Clark 247-251 

McAfee, John B 268 

McAfee, John, Jr.. of Ireland 155-156 

McAfee, John, child of John, Jr 156 

McAfee, John, Sr.. of Scotland 154-156 

McAfee. John, child of Col. George and Anne 204-269 

McAfee, John, child of James and Agnes 200 

McAfee, John, child of James, Sr 161-162-202 

McAfee, John, child of Samuel and Hannah 210 

McAfee, John, child of George, Sr., and Susan 203 

McAfee, J. J., of McAfee, Ky 210 

McAfee, Kenneth Bailey 250 

McAfee Knob, Virginia 159-160 

McAfee, The Village of 214 

McAfee, Lapsley Armstrong 250 

McAfee, Lapsley Ray 250 

McAfee, Laura, child of R. L. and Jane 204 

McAfee, Laura 268 

McAfee, Leal 277 

McAfee, Lewis Carroll 268 

McAfee, Lou Marie 250 

McAfee, I.X)well Mason 250 

McAfee, Malcolm, head of McAfee Clan 153 

McAfee, Malcolm, who died at sea 157-202 

McAfee, Malcolm, child of John, Jr 156 

McAfee. Margaret, child of Col. George and Anne 204-269 

McAfee, Margaret, child of George, Sr., and Susan .... 204 

McAfee, Margaret, child of James, Jr., and Agnes 201 

McAfee, Margaret, child of James, Sr 163-209 

McAfee, Margaret, child of 'U'illiam and Rebecca 211 

McAfee, Mary B., child of Col. George and Anne 269 

McAfee, Mary E., child of T. C. and Nancy 201 

McAfee. Mary McClung. child of Col. George and Anne. 204 

McAfee. Mary Rochester, child of R. L. and Jane 260 

McAfee. Mary, child of George. Sr.. and Susan 204-276 

McAfee, Mary, child of James, Sr 163-204 

McAfee, Mary, child of Samuel and Hannah 210 

McAfee, Mary, child of '^'illiam L. and Cornelia 272 

McAfee, Mary, child of 'W'illiam and Rebecca 211 

McAfee, Mary, child of James, Jr., and Agnes 86-181 

McAfee, Mary, who married Banks 268 

McAfee, Mary, who married Hon. T. P. Moore 273 

McAfee. M. E.. who married Geo. M. Forsythe 268 

McAfee, Mrs. James. Sr., her grave 162-189-218 

McAfee, Mrs. 'VlMlliam L 272 

McAfee, Nancy, child of James, Jr., and Agnes 201 

McAfee. Nancy Clark, child of T. C. and Nancy 201 

McAfee, Narcissa "W.. child of Col. George and Anne. . .204-268 

McAfee, Paul Hindman 250 

McAfee. Philip, child of James and Nancy 268 

McAfee. Priscilla. who married McDowell 47 

McAfee. Ralph Canfield 250 

McAfee, Rev. Dr. John A 249 

McAfee. Rev. Dr. Samuel L 253 

McAfee. Robert Livingstone 203-268 

McAfee, Robert W 251-254 

McAfee, Robert "W., Jr 254 

McAfee, Robert, child of Samuel and Hannah 210 

McAfee, Robert, child of James, Sr.. .163-186-187-190-193-205-207 

McAfee, Ruth Myrtle 250 

McAfee, Ruth "Winchell 254 

McAfee, Samuel, child of James, Sr. 163-166-180-187-190-193-209 

246 

McAfee, Samuel, child of John and Elizabeth 247, 251 

McAfee, Samuel. Jr.. child of Samuel, Sr., and Hannah. 210 

McAfee. Sarah Jane, child of T. C. and Nancy 201 

McAfee Stone House of 1790 194, 197, 198 

McAfee, Susan, child of George. Sr., and Susan 203 

McAfee Family, The — Their true place in Kentucky 

History .211-215 

McAfee, Thomas Clark, child of James. Jr., and Agnes. 201, 271 
McAfee, Thomas Cleland, child of Thomas Clark and 

Nancy 201, 268 

McAfee, Wallace Taylor 250 



494 



INDEX. 



PACK 

McAfee. William A 277' 

McAfee. William H.. child of Col. George and Anne 204, 269 

McAfee. William Lewis, child of T. C. and Nancv 201. 272 

McAfee. William, child of James, Sr 1G3, 166, ISC, 193, 210 

McAfee, William, child of John. Jr 156 

McAfee. William, child of Samuel and Hannah 210 

McAden. Rev, Hugh 55. 127, 133 

McAlpine. Sarah 45 

McAnulty. David W 350 

McAnulty. Joseph S 350 

McAnulty. Robert A 350 

McBrayer. Mrs. Mary Lea 379 

McBride, Albina 290 

McBride. Judge Ebenezer 293 

McBride, Albina, portrait 292 

McCarney, Margaret 210 

McCauslands, The, in Virginia 42 

McClung. Mary 45, 50 

McClungs, The, in Virginia 42 

McClung, Mary 45-50 

McCormick, Hannah 210 

McCown, James, Sr 1S6. 190, 196 

McCown, James, Sr 187 

McCown, James, Jr 164, 190 

McCown, John 165, 179 

McCown, Joseph 1S5 

McCown. Phoebe Ann 245 

McCoy, Pitt Y 297 

McCue, Rev. John 52 

McCue, Sarah Allen 52 

McCues, The, in Virginia 42 

McCulIough, Mary W 122 

McCutcheon, Mary J 269 

McDonald, Adam 264 

McDonalds, of Islay 154 

McDowell. Abram Irvine 47 

McDowell, Alexander K. M 47 

McDowell, Alex. KM 295 

McDowell, Anna, married Caldwell 48 

McDowell, Betsey 45 

McDowell. Betsey, child of John and Lucy 45 

McDowell, Betty, married Dr, Welch 47 

McDowell, Caleb Wallace 48 

McDowell, Caleb W., son of Samuel and Marj* 49 

McDowell, Celia 52 

McDowell. Gen. Charles 51 

McDowell. Charles, son of John and Lucy 45 

McDowell, Clarissa 52 

McDowell, Edward Irvine 47 

McDowell, Elizabeth 49 

McDowell, Elizabeth, daughter of James and Elizabeth, , 50 
McDowell. Elizabeth, married Hon. Thomas H. Benton. 51 

McDowell, Ephraim, of Ireland 41-42 

McDowell, Ephraim, world famous surgeon 47.48,49 

McDowell, Ephraim, M. D., nephew of the famous phy- 
sician 46 

McDowell, Henry Clay 47 

McDowell, Rev. Hervey 294 

McDowell, Maj. Hervey 46 

McDowell, Hetty 46 

McDowell, Hugh Harvey 52 

McDowell, Isabella 46 

McDowell, Gov. James 9 

McDowell. James, son of Ephraim and Margaret 42 

McDowell, James, who married Susan Shelby 45 

McDowell, James, child of John and Magdalen 50 

McDowell. Col. James 45, 45 

McDowell. James, son of James and Elizabeth 50 

McDowell. James, son of Col. James and Sarah 51 

McDowell. Col. James, of Yancey County 52 

McDowell. James 78, 81 

McDowell, Col. Joe. of North Carolina 49 

McDowell, John, first husband of Magdalin Woods, 

15,19,40,42,43,53 

McDowell, John, son of Samuel and Mary 45 

McDowell, John, married Sarah McAlpine 45 

McDowell. John, of Rutherford county 52 

McDowell. John Adair 47 

McDowell. John Lyle 46, 295 

McDowell. ( Hunting ) John 51 

McDowell, Col. Joseph 47 



p\r.E 

McDowell, Jo.seph. Sr 51 

McDowell. Joseph 47 

McDowell. Joseph J ' 52 

McDowell, Joseph Nashe 45 

McDowell, Juliet 46 

McDowell, Louise Irvine 294 

McDowell, Lucy 45 

McDowell, Magdelen. married Caleb Wallace 48 

McDowell. Magdalen, married Andrew Reid 49 

McDowell. Margaret 52 

McDowell. Margaret Irvine 48 

McDowell. Margaretta 42 

McDowell, Martha 50 

McDowell, Mary, married Thomas H. Sheldon 45 

McDowell, Mary 47 

McDowell, Mary, married Judge Clarke 47 

McDowell, Mary, married Mr. Young 49 

McDowell. Mary, child of Samuel and Mary 50 

McDowell, Mary E., daughter of Ephraim and Margaret. 42 

McDowell, Mrs. Mary Moffett 52 

McDowell, Sallie 45, 46, 47 

McDowell, Samuel 32 

McDowell. Samuel, married Mary McClung 44, 50 

McDowell, Samuel, married Betsey Chrislman 45 

McDowell, Samuel, son of James and Mary P 46 

McDowell, Samuel, of Mercer county ....". 47 

McDowell, Samuel, son of Col. Joseph 48 

McDowell. Sarah, married John McDowell 45 

McDowell. Sarah, married Michael Sullivant 48 

McDowell, Sarah, married Judge Caleb Wallace 49 

McDowell. Sarah, daughter of James and Elizabeth ... 50 

McDowell. Sarah, daughter of John and Magdalin.... 51 

McDowell. Sarah 52 

McDowell. Sarah Shelby r: 47 

McDowell. Susan 51 

McDowell, Judge William 46, 47 

McDowell, William Adair 47 

McDowell, William Preston 47 

McElroys, The. in Virginia 42 

McGary, Col. Hugh 187 

McGavock. David 50 

McGee, J.ohn 190, 206 

McKamey. James I., portrait, first view 261 

McKaraey, James I., portrait, second view 265 

McKamey, James 1 263, 264 

McKamey, John 201 

IMcKamey, Nancy 203 

McKamey, Robert 204 

McKee, James 131 

McKee, Joseph 328 

McKee, Margaret 328 

McKee, Margaret 274 

McKee, Mary Charlotte r. 131 

McKee, Mary (Polly) Wear 130 

McKee, Mary 328 

McKee, Robert A 328 

McKee. Samuel 78. 81 

McKee, Samuel 328 

McKee, Thomas 328 

McKee. William 130 

McKnine, Zilpha E 138 

McLarty. Annie E 350 

McLarty, Lillie 350 

McLarty, Willie 350 

McLaryo, Miss 86 

McLaughlin, Judge Wm 32 

McLure, Ann Mary 104 

McMichael, Jane 156, 161 

McNair, J 360 

McPheeters. Wm 45 

McPheeters, The, in Virginia 42 

McRoberts, Thomas 108 

Macfarlane, Charles Roy 301 

Mcfarlane, George B 300 

JIacfarlane. Mrs. George B 104, 106, 299 ' 

Macfarlane, George Locke 301 • 

Macfarlane, Wm. L 301 .- 

Macgowan. Basil Finis 418 

Macgowan. Birkhead 417 

Macgowan, Carrick Bell 418 



INDEX. 



49o 



PAi.r. 

Macgowan. David 419 

Macgowan. David Bell 417 

Macgowan. Ebenezer 418 

Macgowan. Mrs. Emma B 417 

Macgowan. Evander L 418 

Macgowan. Everett 417 

Macgowan. John 418 

Macgowan. Mary Ixjcke 417 

Macgowan. Thomas 418 

Madison County. Ky 58, 59 

Madison, Gabriel 73 

Madison, .John, brother of President Madison 46 

Madison, Jlargaretta 46 

Ma.goffin, Beriah 210 

Magoffin. Gov. Beriah 273 

Magoffin. Beriah III 273 

Magoffin. Ebenezer 273 

Magoffin, Gertrude 273 

Magoffin, Sue 273 

Malone, Johnson 377 

Map of Albemarle County, Va at end of book 

Map of Central Kentucky at end of book 

Map of Kentucky at site of Irvine at end of book 

Map of Mercer County. Ky at end of book 

Map of Parting of the Ways. New River. Va at end of book 

Map of S. W. Virginia and S. E. Kentucky at end of book 

Map of Three Pioneer Roads at end of book 

Marble, Mrs. Mary A 349, 95 

Marriage Bond of Nathan Dedman and Elizabeth Gooch. 370 

Marshall, Alexander Keith •; 50 

Marshall, who married Burch Woods 92 

Marshall, Charles Thomas 50 

Marshall, Charlotte 50 

Marshall, Humphrey 175, 205 

Marshall. James K 50 

Marshall. Jane 50 

Marshall. Jennie M 201 

Marshall. John 50 

Marshall, Lucy SO 

Marshall, Maria 50 

Marshall, Marv McAfee 260 

Marshall, Neal" B 260 

Marshall. Capt. Thomas 50 

Martin, George 82 

Martin. Margaretta H 274 

Martin. Wm. H 274 

Mason, Alfred D 325 

Mason, Mrs, Alfred D 120, 324 

Mason. Alfred D., Jr 324. 325 

Massie. Esther 106 

Massie. James W 106 

Massie. Mary 106 

Massie, Nathan 106 

Massie. Nathaniel H 106 

Matthews. John 338, 52 

Matthews. Leonora 33S 

May. Charlotte 276 

Mebane, Ann Loney 135 

Mercer County. Ky., in 17S7 i 46, 

Merriwether. Francis 73 

Methodist Cemetery, Lexington, Va 96 

Miles, Richard 95 

Milford, Ky 59 

Miller, Appeline 60 

Miller, Christopher 1 108 

Miller, Daniel 102, 107, 150 

Miller, Elizabeth 108 

Miller. Garland 60 

Miller. Hannah 52 

Miller. James 108,52 

Miller, John, of Augusta 161 

Miller, Gen, John 104 

Miller, John, and his ten children 108 

Miller, John M 60 

Miller. Malinda 108 

Miller, Mamie Patterson 402 

Miller, Margaret 108 

Miller, Polly 107 

Miller, Robert 107 

Miller, Susan 106 

Miller, Susannah 108 

Miller, Thomas H 60 



i'.\r.K 

Miller. Thomas W 103 

Miller, Judge Wm, C 402 

Miller, W, H 101, 107.150 

Minter, Jeremiah 47 

Mitchell, Ariadne B 385 

Mitcheli, Basil B 385 

Mitchell, James 42 

Mitchell, Louisa 42 

Mitchell, Thomas 42 

Mitchell, Virginia W 385 

Mcffett, Elizabeth 52 

Moffett, Col. George 51 

Moffett, George. Jr 52 

Moffett, James 52 

Moffett. Capt. John 51 

Moffett, Magdalin 52 

Moffett. Margaret 49 

Moffett. Margaretta 51 

Moffett. Martha 52 

Monk. Rebecca W 354 

IMontgomery County. Va 71 

Montgomery. Elizabeth 155 

Montgomery. Eliza A. M 283 

Montgomery, Col. James 283 

Mont.gomery. Rev. Dr. John 368 

Montgomery. Joseph 82 

Montgomery Presbytery. The Woods Legacy to 118 

Moon, J. Bailey 106 

Moore, Hannah Ellen 274 

Moore. James J 274 

Moore. Jane M. R 204 

Moore, Jane Rochester 268 

Moore, Hon. Laban 374 

Moore, Lawson 268 

Moore, Mrs. Mary Eliza 385 

Moore, Mary Lock 274 

Moore, Thomas 96 

Moore, Hon, T. P 147, 210, 275 

Morgan, C. America 90 

Morris, Matilda M 347 

Morrow, Florrie 282 

Mosby, Nancy 92 

Mount Zion Church, Kentucky 108 

Mountain Plains 29,57,140 

Mountain Plains Church 20, 98 

Moyes, Wm, P 269 

Mud Meeting House 204 

Mulberry Hill, Homestead of Andrew Reid 49 

Mullins, Col,, married Susan Woods 58 

Munday, Elizabeth 92 

Munday. George 92 

Munday, Harry, married Nancy Woods 92, 93 

Munday. Harvey 92 

Munday. James 92 

Munday. Katliarine 92 

Mundav, Mary 92 

Munday. Patty 92 

Munday. Woodson 92 

Murray. Jane 203 

N. 

Nail, Rev. Dr. James H 122 

Nail. Rev. Dr. Robert H 122 

Nail. Rev. Robert 122 

Nash. Hon. Francis 134, 150 

Natchez. Miss 8S 

Natural Bridge. Va 64 

Navigation Laws 86 

Neal. Sallie 95 

Nelson. Eliza 101$ 

Nelson. Governor of Virginia 98 

Netherlands, Richard 82 

Kevins, Rev. Henry Van Dyke 271 

New Ca.stle Del 157 

New Providence Cemetery 89.172-193, 369 

New Providence Church, Ky 190-196. 368 , 

New Providence Church, Mo 247 

New River 77, 202 

Noble. Margaret 355 

Noel. Bernard 91 

North Carolina, what it included in early days 113 



4ftf5 



INDEX. 



TACP, 

Notes by the Editor on McAfee Journals 440, 453 

Nunnally. Victoria 240 

Nutty. Gale Richard 297 

Nutty. Gale Richard, Jr 297 

Nutty, Mrs. Jessie 297 

Nutty, Pitt McCoy 297 

O. 

O'Bryan, Barsha 121 

OBryan, G. G 121 

O'Bryan. Susan 121 

O'Coillte. Irish for Woods 1 

Octoraro Creek, Pa 202 

OHart. John 141 

Old and New Style of Reckoning 144 

O'Neil. Margaret 51 

ORear, Alice F 299 

O'Rear, Allen B 301 

O'Rear, Aroma 301 

O'Rear, Charley 'Wayman 301 

O'Rear. Daniel 299 

O'Rear. Louella 301 

O'Rear. Mattie 301 

O'Rear. Mary Varina 301 

O'Rear. Robert 301 

O'Rear. Susan Allie 301 

O'Rear. William Alexander 301 

O'Rear, William T 299 

O'Rear. Woods Slavin 301 

Orange County. N. C 132 

Orange County. Virginia. Records 41 

Orange Presbytery, Manual of. by D. I. Craig 150 

Oronsay. Isleaf 154 

Ould. Mrs. Elizabeth Wallace 31 

Ovariotomy, by Ephraim McDowell 4S 

Owsley, John Samuel 108 

Owsley, Gov. William 309 

P. 

Page, Thomas Nelson 347 

Painter, Harriet IIS 

Painter. William 275 

Paint Lick Presbyterian Church, Ky 104 

Pantops Academy, Va 321 

Paris Treaty of, 17S3 72 

Park College. Mo 249 

Park. Junius B 109 

Parker. Elizabeth 271 

Parks. Catherine, and Andrew Wallace 5 

Parsons, Elizabeth, and Thomas Worsop 2 

Parsons, Richard, and Letitia Loftus 2 

Partman, Kate 108 

Path of Buffalo Elk 455 

Path Hunters 459 

Patrick, Col. Wm lOG 

Patrons, Descended from Woodses 278, 366 

Patrons, Descended from McAfee 234 

Patrons, Sketches of 219 

Patterson, Sallie D 274 

Pawling, Col. Henry 5 

Pawling, James 165 

Paxton, Isabella 45 

Paxton, James Alexander 50 

Paxtons, The, in Virginia 42 

Peaks of Otter 64 

Penn, William 10 

Pension Laws, 1818-20 14S 

Pension to Samuel Woods, Sr 71 

Perkins, Bertha 97 

Perkins. Campbell 97 

Perkins. China 97 

Perkins, Fanny 97 

Perkins. Rev. George K 97 

Perkins, Havana E 97 

Perkins, John 97 

Perkins. Mollie 97 

Pepper's Ferry. New River S66, 472 

Permanent Settlement of Kentucky begun 167. 212 

Perry. J. M.. of Staunton 322 

Persecutions of Scotch-Irish 141 

Pettus, Gen. E. W 138 

Pettus, Gertrude 108 



TACK 

Pettus, Dr. William 108 

Peyton, 10, 12. 53 

Phelps, Katherine Cobb 313 

Phelps, Thomas 313 

Phillips, Ariadne 389 

Phillips, Everett De Hart 389 

Phillips, James G 389 

Phillips, Laura Castleman 389 

Phillips, Mary 389 

Phillips, Robert 275 

Phillips, Wm. Castleman 389 

Phillips. Mrs. Will 388 

Picture of Early Kentucky, by Col. Durrett 185 

Piedmont. Va. ' 10,11 

Pillson. Mary, married Wm. Wallace 5 

Pinckney. Family. The 416 

Pine Mountain at Wasioto Gap 183 

Pineville. Ky.. at Wasioto Gap 77 

Pioneer Forts 184 

Pioneer Graveyard 194 

Pioneer Roads 454-473 

Piqua. Ohio 211 

Pittman. Asa 274 

Pittman. Cora 274 

Pittman. Marie 274 

Pittman, Marie D 274 

Pittman, Nannie Trabue 273 

Pittman, Trabue 274 

Pittman, William Daviess 274 

Pittman. William D., Jr 274 

Pittman, William H 273 

Pittman, William H., Jr 274 

Pittman, Velona 274 

Pitzer, William W 256 

Place of McAfees in Kentucky History 211, 215 

Pleasant Garden. N. C 51 

Pleasants, Martha B 315 

Poage. James and Mary, their children 327 

Poage, Rev. Josiah B 254 

Poage, Margaret 326 

Poage, Martha 119 

Poage. Mary Esther 254 

Poage, RxDbert 73, 159 

Poage, Robert, married Jane Wallace 5 

Poem, Cumming's. on Sword of Adam Wallace 8 

Point Pleasant. Battle of 171 

Polhemus, James S 320 

Poor Fork, of Cumberland, McAfee Crossing in 1773 . . 438 

Porter, who married Patsy Woods 92 

Porter, Jimmie 92 

Portrait of, Barnett, Carl Price 266 

Portrait of, Barnett, Robt. McAfee 266 

Portrait of, Bennett. Joel D 258 

Portrait of, Bennett, Mrs. Joel D 258 

Portrait of. Bennett. Mrs. Joel D 257 

Portrait of, Bennett, John McAfee 258 

Portrait of. Bennett. Sadocia B 250 

Portrait of. Brown. Edwin McAfee 262 

Portrait of. Brown. Mrs. Mandy 261 

Portrait of. Buchanan, Geo. M. and family 242 

Portrait of. Buchanan. James 241 

Portrait of. Buchanan. Mrs. James 241 

Portrait of. Buchanan. James M 242 

Portrait of. Buchanan, Mrs. James M 242 

Portrait of. Buchanan. James S 241 

Portrait of. Buchanan. John W 241 

Portrait of, Caperton, James W 310 

Portrait of, Caperton, William H 310 

Portrait of, Caperton, Woods 310 

Portrait of Clark, Bennett 257 

Portrait of Clark, Hon. Champ 257 

Portrait of, Clark, Mrs. Champ 257 

Portrait of Clark. Gene-ueve 257 

Portrait of. Durrett. Col. R. T , 220 

Portrait of. Edmunds. Mrs. Sallie McAfee 252 

Portrait of. Eustis. Mrs. Mary T 405 

Portrait of. GooO.loe. Hon. J. D 304 

Portrait of. Goodwin. Grover C 353 

Portrait of. Goodwin. James D 353 

Portrait of. Goodwin. Mrs. Jas. D 353 

Portrait of, Guthrie, Mrs. Margaret D 261 

Portrait of. Hale, Dr. John P 230 



INDEX. 



^ 



497 



PACK 

Portrait, of, Harris, ,Tahn Woods 303 

Portrait of, Harris, Mrs. Mary Frances 303 

Portrait of. .Johnston, Col. J. Stoddard 229 

Portrait ot, I.apsley, Col. John 284 

Portrait of, Lapsley, Rev. William .1 284 

Portrait of. Lindsay, Mrs. Nancy H 311 

Portrait of, McAfee, Mrs. Anne Hamilton 267 

Portrait of, McAfee, President .John A 251 

Portrait of, McAfee, John Clarke 251 

Portrait of, McAfee, Joseph 251 

Portrait of. McAfee, Samuel 251 

Portrait of, McAfee, Samuel Lanty 251 

Portrait of, McAfee, Gen. R. B 20S 

Portrait of, McAfee, Robert W 251 

Portrait of, McKamey, James 1 261 

Portrait of McKamey, James 1 265 

Portrait of. Mason. Mrs. Alfred D 324 

Portrait of, Mason, Alfred D.. Jr 324 

Portrait of, Rickenbaugh, Jacob 265 

Portrait of, Rickenbaugh, James McAfee 265 

Portrait of, Rickenbaugh. Nancv Clarke 2G5 

Portrait of, Royster, Mrs. Lily F 317 

Portrait of, Royster, Samuel B 317 

Portrait of, Royster, Samuel B.. Jr 317 

Portrait of, Thompson, Mrs. Bettie R 317 

Portrait of, Tyler, John Tip 405 

Portrait of, Tyler. Nancy T 405 

Portrait of. Walker, Creed T 324 

Portrait of. Walker, Mrs. Eulalie V 323 

Portrait of. Walker, Robt. W 323 

Portrait of, Wallace. Cen. Lew 361 

Portrait of, Wallace, Hon. Oliver T 304 

Portrait of. Wallace, Thomas B 362 

Portrait of, Wallace, Thomas J 362 

Portrait of, Wallace, Judge W. C 361 

Portrait of, Williamson. J. P 311 

Portrait of Williamson. Rev. and Mrs. T. S 311 

Portrait of Woods, Alice B 407 

Portrait of. Woods, Anna Sophia 396 

Portrait of. Woods, Catherine Lisle 396 

Portrait of. Woods, Col. Chas. A. R 331 

Portrait of. Woods, Clarence E 400 

Portrait of. Woods, Cortlandt B 395 

Portrait of. Woods, Mrs. C. B 395 

Portrait of, Woods, Cortlandt B 396 

Portrait of. Woods, David 332 

Portrait of. Woods, David, Sr 331 

Portrait of. Woods, David, Jr 331 

Portrait of. Woods, David S 332 

Portrait of. Woods, Elizabeth Lee 396 

Portrait of. Woods, Frances Seraphica 396 

I^rtrait of. Woods, Harry E 331 

Portrait of. Woods, James Harvey 407 

Portrait of. Woods, James P 304 

Portrait of. Woods, John D 400 

Portrait of. Woods, Dr. John R 345 

Portrait of. Woods, John W 304 

Portrait of. Woods, Joseph Lisle 391 

Portrait of, Woods, Mrs, Lizzie 391 

Portrait of. Woods, Mary McAfee 396 

Portrait of. Woods, Mary Miller 400 

Portrait of. Woods, Maud Coleman 346 

Portrait of. Woods, Hon. Micajah 345 

Portrait of. Woods, Rev. Dr. Neander M 408 

Pon-trait of. Woods, Sallie H 407 

Portrait of, Woods, Sarah E 407 

Portrait of. Woods, Thomas C 399 

Portrait of. Woods, Thomas J 332 

Portrait of. Woods, Will C 400 

Portrait of. Woods, Rev. W. H 391 

Portrait of. Woods, Rev. Dr. W. H 391 

Portrait of. Woods, Dr. Wni. Stone 291 

Portrait of. Woods, Mrs. Wm. Stone 292 

Portrait of Yantis, Rev. Edward M 284 

Portrait of, Yantis, Rev. Dr. John L 284 

Portrait of Yates, Gretchen 260 

Portrait of. Young, Col. B. H - 230 

Portrait of. Young, Chalmers R 267 

Portwood, Dudley 108 

Poulson, John 163, 204 

Poulson, Margaret 204 

Powell, Hattie 352 



PACK 

Powell, Dr. John W 236 

Powell. Mary Ella 352 

Powell's Valley 174 

Pratt, Sarah E 278 

I'rendergrasts Croniwellian Settlement 141 

Presbyterian Church, Danville, Ky 47 

Presbyterian Church in Valley of Virginia 42 

Presbyterianisni in Kentucky 190 

Presbytery of Transylvania 83 

Preston, Gen. John S 51 

Preston, Lucy Waddell 289 

Preston, Sarah 51 

Preston. William 161 

Preston, Col. William. Surveyor 51 

Preston, Hon. William C 51 

Prevince. Ann 86 

Prince of India, The 359 

ProprietaiT Government of Pennsylvania 10 

Pugh, John Barry 336 

Q. 

Quaker's Meadows, N. C 51 

Quakers in Pennsylvania 158 

R. 

Ramsey, Wm., marrieil Margaret Wallace 7 

Ray, Elvira Jane 138 

Ray, Elvira Jane 354 

Rayburn, Elizabeth S 109 

Rayburn. Nancy 120 

Redd. Miss, married Charles McDowell 45 

Red House, Va 54 

Reed Creek, Va 202 

Reese, Miss 86 

Regulators, The, of North Carolina 115, 134, 135 

Reid, Agnes 59 

Reid, Agnes, married Rev. Dr. Beverly Tticker Lacy . . 49 

Reid, Andrew, of Rockbridge County, Va 49 

Reid, Ann 62 

Reid, Hannah 57 

Reid, John , 104 

Reid, John N 106 

Reid, Mary Louisa, married Jas. J. White 50 

Reid, Mary Louisa 288 

Reid, Samuel 106 

Reid. Samuel McDowell 49 

Reid, Sarah, who married Andrew Moore 49 

Religious Privileges in Kentucky in early days 1S9 

Revolutionary Service of Saml. Woods, Sr 45 

Revolutionary Soldiers flock to Kentucky 189 

Reynard, Andrew Woods 344 

Reynard, Augustine E 344 

Reynard, Claude Faviot 344 

Reynard, Wm. H 344 

Rhodes. Sarah 105 

Rice, Rev. David 187, 190 

Richardson, Mary 51 

Richmond, Ky., Battle of 108 

Rickenbaugh, Elizabeth 264 

Rickenbaugh, Jacob 264 

Rickenbaugh, James McAfee 265 

Rickenbaugh, John Thomas 264 

Rickenbaugh, Laura Anna 264 

Rickenbaugh, Margaret C 264 

Rickenbaugh, Maria Jane 264 

Rickenbaugh, Martha Anne 264 

Rickenbaugh, Mary McKamey 264 

Rickenbaugh, Miss Sara 264 

Rickenbaugh, Sara Frances 264 

Rickenbaugh, Susan Harriet 264 

Ricker. Mehetabel 420 

Riggs, Catherine 394 

Riggs, David 394 

Fiising Sun, Indiana 74 

Road, Boone's 471! 

Road from Catawba Creek to Greenbrier River 217 

Road, the Long Hunters' 459 

Road, The Wilderness 456 

Roads, Antiquity of 455 

Roads, Significance of 454 

Roads, Three Ancient Pioneer 454 

Roanoke County, Va 89 



498 



INDEX. 



„ PAGE 

Roanoke. Red Sulphur Springs 89, 101 

Roanoke River. South Fork 73 

Roble. Mary 236 

Robertson. Hon. George 50 

Robinson, James 138 

Robinson. Martha 385 

Robinson. Mary 138 

Robinson. Mary 237 

Robinson, Michael 13S 

Robinson. Starkey B4, 67 

Rochester. Jane 268 

Rochester. Nancy 4g 

Rochester. Nathaniel 47 

Rockbridge County. Va 3, 5 

Rockcastle River 179 

Rockfish Gap Church 22, 98 

Rock Wall of Cumberland Mountains 181, 182 

Rodman. David ' 402 

Rodman. Nancy Rogers 402 

Rogan, Edgar 264 

Rogers. Mrs. Jane Harris 102, .^01. 306 

Rogers. .John Johnson 301 

Rogers. Martha Hendrick 305 

Rogers. Mary 156 

Rogers. Mary Evelyn 305 

Rogers. Virgil Johnson 305 

Rollins. Hon. James S 309 

Routes, to Kentucky from Virginia 74 

Rowland. Sidney V lOS 

Roy. Margaret 138 

Roy. Mary 138 

Royster. Bettie 316 

Royster. Eila 321 

Royster. Ellen 31G 

Royster, John Madison 316 

Royster, Lavinia 316 

Royster. Mitchell 316 

Royster, Samuel Bryan 316 

Royster. Samuel Bryan. Jr 316 

Royster, Wm. Goodloe 316 

Russell, Col.— 1776 59 

S. 

Sale, J. W 275 

Salt River Settlement 184, 194 

Salter. Susan 420 

Salvisa, Ky 183, 185, 202 

Sampson, Alice Merle 321 

Sampson, Anne Russell 321 

Sampson, Edgar Woods 321 

Sampson, Rev. F. R 321 

Sampson, Prof. John R 321 

Sampson, Mrs. John R 321 

Sampson, Marie Dudley 321 

Sampson. Mary Baldwin 321 

Sampson, Merle D'Aubigne 321 

Sampson, Richard, Sr 321 

Sampson, Richard, Jr 321 

Sampson. Thornton Rodgers 321 

Sandridge. William 375 

Sawyers, The, in Virginia 42 

Scotch Clan of Campbell 9 

Scotch-Irish encouraged by Gov. Gooch 10 

Scotch-Irish oppressed by Pennsylvania authorities.... 10 

Scotch-Irish Race 1, 55 

Scotch Tories in North Carolina 52 

Scott, Martha J 106 

Scott, Nancy Vance 46 

Scottish Clans and Tartans 216 

Schuerman, Mrs. Robbie 260 

Schuerman, Prof. William H 260 

Settlement and Exploration of Kentucky 167, 212 

Settlement and Preemption 73 

Shackelford, Edmund L 108 

Shackelford, Elizabeth 60 

Shackelford, John H 108 

Shaker Fork of Shawnee Run 73 

Shaker Town, Ky 73, 86 

Shaker Village 73, 86 

Shaler's, Kentucky 72, 212 

Shallcross, Ida 240 



Shannon, Sally JUfffffff^ 366 

Shawnee Indians 43 

Shawnee Run ' gg 

Shearer, Nancy E 366 

Shearer, William 366 

Sheely, Mrs. John J 90 

Sheely, John, Jr gg 

Sheely, Van 90. 91 

Shelby, David Hart 349 

Shelby, Edmund Pendleton 349 

Shelby, Edmund Pendleton, Jr 349 

Shelby, B^-an 349 

Shelby, E\'an 175 

Shelby, Gov. Isaac 46, 349 

Shelby, Isaac Prather 349 

Shelby. Lucy Goodloe 349 

Shelby, Mary Bullock 350 

Shelby, Sarah 43 

Shelby, Susan 45 

Shelby, Mrs. Susan G 349 

Shelby, S\isan Hart 350 

Shelby, Major Thomas Hart 45 

Shelby, Thomas Hart 349 

Shelby, Vily de la Fontine 349 

Shelby, William Kinkead 349 

Shelton. Mourning 57 

Shenandoah River, South Fork 12 

Shepherd, Dalertus 67, 93 

Shepherd. Joanna 94 

Shepherd. Magdalin 93 

Shepherds Island Farm 64. 87, 93 



Sherando River 

Shirkey, Col. Nicholas 

Shirkey, Mr 

Short, Martha 

Shrodes, Martha Amelia 

Shryock, Adaline 

Silence of Histories as to Long Hunters' Road. 

Simms. John 

Simrall, Col 

Singleton. Frank 

Sinking Creek, Va 

Skeggs Creek 

Sketches of Patrons 

Slavin, Elizabeth 

Slavin, Elvira F 

Slavin, James Rice Woods 

Slavin, John 

Slavin, John Addison 

Slavin, Martha Rachel 

Slavin, Mary Jane 

Slavin, Sarah Margaret 

Slavin. Susan Overton 

Slavin, William 

Slavin, William 



53 

62 

57 

.... 271 
72 

269 

472 

375 

46 

273 

126 

.... 179 

219 

301 

299 

... 301 

299 

301 

301 

301 

... 301 

... 301 

299 

... 104 

Sraelser. Dr. James W 394, 411 

Smelser. Leila 394 

Smiley. Mattie 321 

Smith, Delia 360 

Smith, Rev. Dudley D 320 

Smith, Elizabeth 115 

Smith, Frances A 320 

Smith, Rev. James P., D. D 320 

Smith. John 91 

Smith. Rebecca G. - 239 

Smith, W. C 282 

Snidow, Mrs 36 

Snoddy, Dora Lee 336 

Snoddy, John T 336 

Society for Suppression of Vice 254, 255 

Somers, Ruth 419 

Sommers, Edward 180 

South Carolina, area in early days 114 

Speculators not ranked with settlers 213 

Speed, Thomas 228 

Speed, Thomas, portrait of 229 

Speed. William T 355 

Spessard. Major M. P 116 

Spring, McAfee's, at Frankfort 205 

Spotswood, Governor Ill 

Stamp Act 86 



INDEX. 



499 



Stanford. Ky 183 

Starling, Lucy Todd 47 

Starling, William 47 

Stations. Boone's 478 

Stations. Ix>ng Hunters' Road 473 

Stations of James McAfee 183 

Stations, Wilderness Road 458 

Stephens. Charles 108 

Stone, Martha Jane 103. 290 

Stone, Matilda Caroline 293 

Stone House of James McAfee 197,198 

Stuart, Elizabeth A 110 

Stuart, Col. John 110 

Stuart, Miss, sister of Col. John 38 

Stuarts. The. in 'Virginia 42 

Suddarth. Napoleon B.. M. D 384 

Suit by heirs of Sam Woods. Jr.. to recover land 88 

Sweeny. Lizzie 108 

Sullivan. J, H 342 

Sullivant. Joseph 48 

Sullivant. Michael 48 

Sullivant, William S 50 

Surveyors under Col. William Preston 50 

Surveys of McAfee's Company 171, 175 

Switzler, Jane 360 

Sword of Adam Wallace used at Waxhaw 7, 8 



Talbott, Leonidas B 312 

Talcott, W. Va 180 

Talmage. Ky 185 

Tanner. Isadora 380 

Tanner. John 380 

Tanner. Julia Butler 380 

Tanner. Wm 380 

Tanner. Wm. Atticus 380 

Tarlton's Troopers at Waxhaw. S. C 7. 8 

Taylor, Mrs. Adne 385 

Taylor, Col. Aylett Buckner 386 

Taylor, Basil Mitcliell, M. D 386 

Taylor, Ella 250 

Tavlor, Elizabeth Winn 386-- 

Taylor, Eulalie V 325 

Taylor, John Young 387 - 

Taylor, Richard 387 

Taylor, Dr. Richard Aylett 387 

Taylor. Sarah Francis 386 

Taylor. Thomas Wallace 386 

Taylor, Col. William 51 

Taylor, William Woods 386 

Tavlor. 'Virginia Everett 38G 

Templin. John 129, 425 

Terry, Emily R 245 

Test, Esther French 355 

Thackeray, notice by, of effect of Braddock Defeat 19 

Thames, Battle of the 209 

Thomas, Charles 116 

Thomas, John W 116 

Thomas, Susannah 402 

Thompson, Agnes 121 

Thompson, Calliavnie 121 

Thompson, Charles 121 

Thompson, Elizabeth 121 

Thompson, Francis 121 

Thompson, George 121 

Thompson, Major George C 46 

Thompson, Jane 121 

Thompson, Hon. John B 273 

Thompson, John Hill 121 

Thompson, Malcolm 316 

Thompson, Mariah 273 

Thompson, Martha 121 

Thorpe, Stanton H 109 

Timber Ridge, 'Va 43 

Timber Ridge Church 53, 55, 56 



Timber Ridge Church Yard 

Toleration, Act of 

Tour of the McAfee Company to Kentucky 

Trabue, Charles C 

Trabue. Martha 

Trace, Boone's 

Tragedy, First in Salt River Settlement . . . 



56 
10 
163 
121 
121 
473 
186 



PAr.K 

Trails. Indian, in Kentucky before advent of white men 454 

Travis. Rev. Dr. J. M 270 

Trickery in the way Samuel Woods was deprived of 

land at Shakertown 88 

Trimble. Allen. Gov 51. 52. 74 

Trimble. James 51 

Trimble. John 51 

Tiimble. Mrs. John 117 

Tryon. Governor, of North Carolina 115 

Turner. Mary Vincent 276 

Turpin. Eliza J 365 

Turpin. William 366 

Twyman. Dr. Wm 379 

Tyler. Henry S 404, 406 

Tyler, John Tip 404 

Tyler, Nancy Thompson 404 

U. 

Ulster, men of, how treated by English 156 

Underwood, Josephine 320 

V. 

Vance, Dr. Robert P 52 

Van Sant. Dr. J. A 306 

Vamer, Major J. A. R 30, 37, 142, 150, 321-327 

View of "Ben Hur Beech." 357 

View of Boone's Trace or Wilderness Road 177 

View of Burial Ground of Michael Woods of Blair Park 25 
View of Cumberland Gap from the Kentucky side .... 192 
View of Cumberland Gap from the Tennessee side .... 75 
View of Dr. Dickson G. Ded'man's old home, Lawrence- 
burg. Ky 378 

View of "Blmwood," old homestead of R. W. Walker . . 323 

View of "EUerslie Farm" 361 

View of Harrodsburg Presbyterian church 191 

View of Home of W. C. Woods in Lawrenceburg, Ky 399 

View of James McAfee's Spring 170 

View of James River at farm of Michael Woods, Jr 65 

View of Kentucky River at Mouth 168 

View of Kentucky River at Mouth of Drennon's Creek. . 17? 

View of McAfee Knob 160 

'View of Nathan Dedman's old home 373 

.-View of New Providence Cemetery looking north .... 172 

View of New Providence Cemetery looking south 369 

View of Rock Wall of the Cumberland Mountain 182 

View of the McAfee Stone House of 1790 197 

View of the Poor Fork (of Cumberland River) 438 

View of Typical Pioneer Fort 184 

View of Wasioto Gap, Pineville 79 

View of Woods Gap 13 

View of Woods Gap 17 

Vivian, Willis 92 

W. 

Waddell 10, 12. 38, 41, 53, 55, 74. 141. 147, 150 

Wade, Miss Belle 420 

Wade, Henry '119 

Wade, Henry Harrison 419 

Wade, Mrs. H. H 419 

Wade, Henry H., Jr 419 

Wade, Munson Lang 419 

Wade. Nathaniel 419 

Wade. Neander Woods 419 

Wade. Susie L 420 

Wagnan, C. L 106 

Walden, Judge Austin 58 - 

Walker, Beulah 326 

Walker. Catherine E. H 325 

Walker. Catherine R 131 

Walker, Cornelia 326 

Walker, Creed 120 

Walker, Creed 326 

Walker, Creed Taylor 324, 325 

Walker, Elizabeth 360 

Walker, Elizabeth R 326 

Walker, Eulalie 326 

Walker, Henry 36, 125, 126 

Walker, James Mosby 325 

Walker, James Norvell 325 

Walker, John M 120, 325 

Walker, Joseph W 120 



JOO 



iXDi:x. 



rAc; 

Walker, Joseph Woods 325 

Walker, Joseph Woods, Jr 326 

Walker, Lucy 94 

Walker, Margaret Eulalie 325 

Walker, Marj- Agnes 325 

Walker. Mary Eulalie 325 

Walker, Mary Virginia 32C 

Walker. Mazie 274 

Walker, Reuben Kay 325 

Walker, Robert Burton 326 

Walker. Robert Dillwyn 325 

Walker, Robert Woods 325 

Walker, Robert Woods, Jr 325 

Walker, Samuel Taylor 325 

Walker, Sarah Epps 325 

Walker, Dr. Thomas 56, 154, 212 

Walkers, The. Early Settlers of Virginia 42 

Wallace, Adam, son of Peter, Sr., and Elizabeth 7, 9 

Wallace, Adam, son of Peter. Jr.. and Martha 7 

Wallace, Andrew, son of Peter, Jr., and Martha 6, 7 

Wallace, Andrew, son of Peter, Sr.. and Elizabeth .... 6 

Wallace, Andrew, son of Samuel and Esther B 

Wallace, Andrew, son of Peter, Sr 109 

Wallace, Andrew C 360 

Wallace, Andrew F 360 

Wallace, Anna Chenault 366 

AVallace, Arthur Andrew 360 

Wallace, Benjamin F 360 

Wallace, Judge Caleb 4 

Wallace, Caleb, son of Samuel and Esther 5 

Wallace, Caleb, of Danville 48 

Wallace, Celia Ann 360 

Wallace, Charles L 363 

Wallace, David 355 

Wallace, Edgar Thomas 360 

Wallace, Eliza Brown 4 

Wallace, Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, Jr., and Martha. 7 

Wallace. Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew and Margaret. 7 

Wallace, Elizabeth, nee Woods, in Virginia 3 

Wallace, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Esther ... 5 

Wallace, Elizabeth Brown 377 

Wallace, Elizabeth W 360 

Wallace, Elveree Shearer 366 

Wallace, Erasmus D 360 

Wallace, G. W 116 

Wallace, Hannah, daughter of Andrew and Margaret . . 7 

Wallace, Hannah, daughter of William, Sr., and Hannah 5 

Wallace, Henry Lane 355 

Wallace, Henry N 360 

Wallace, Hugh Campbell 360 

Wallace, James, son of Peter, Jr., and Martha 7 

Wallace, Jane or Jean, daughter of William, Sr., and 

Hannah 5 

Wallace, Janet, daughter of Peter, Jr., and Martha . . 7 

Wallace, Jean, who married Wilson 7 

Wallace, Jennie Turpin 366 

Wallace, John, son of Peter, Jr., and Martha 7 

Wallace, John, son of William, Sr., and Hannah 5 

Wallace, John, Jr 360 

Wallace, John Chilton 360 

Wallace, John G 360 

Wallace, John Walker 360 

Wallace, Josiah, Sr 360 

Wallace, Josiah, Jr 360 

Wallace, Josiah, son of William, Sr., and Hannah 6 

Wallace, Lee Ewing 360 

Wallace, Major Gen. Lew 4, 6, 31, 110, 355 

Wallace, Lew, Jr 356 

Wallace, Lewis T 360 

Wallace, Malcolm, son of Peter, Jr.. and Martha 7 

Wallace, Margaret, who married William Ramsey .... 7 

Wallace, Maria H 360 

Wallace, Mary, daughter of Andrew and Margaret .... 7 

Wallace, Mary, who married Archibald Woods 58 

Wallace, Mary Belle 360 

Wallace. Mary M 360 

Wallace, Mary S 360 

Wallace, M. B 366 

Wallace. Melville W. F 360 

Wallace, Mildred Fuller [\ _ 360 

Wallace, Michael, son of Andrew and Margaret 6 

Wallace, Michael, son of William, Sr., and Hannah.... 5 



Wallace, Michael, M. D 2, ♦ 

Wallace, Michael W . . .' 32 

Wallace, Nettie Briscoe 360 

Wallace, Newton 350 

Wallace, Hon. Oliver Terrill 355 

Wallace. Oliver T., Jr 366 

Wallace. Peter, Sr., and his descendants 3, 4, 82 

Wallace, Peter, Jr 7_ 9 

Wallace, Peter, Sr., and Jr 30 

Wallace, Rose Ann 360 

Wallace, Salem 365 

Wallace, Samuel, son of Andrew and Margaret 6 

Wallace, Samuel, son of Peter, Jr., and Martha 7 

Wallace, Samuel, son of Samuel and Esther 6 

Wallace. Samuel, son of Peter. Sr., and Elizabeth 6 

Wallace, Sarah, daughter of William, Sr., and Hannah. . 5 

Wallace, Sarah Lapsley 321 

Wallace, Shannon Phillips 366 

Wallace, Sarah 62 

Wallace, Susan 359 

Wallace, Susan, who married Thomas Collins 7 

Wallace, Susannah, who married Wm. Woods 56 

Wallace, Susannah, daughter of Peter, Sr., and Elizabeth 5 

Wallace, Susannah, daughter of Peter, Jr., and Martha. 7 

Wallace, Thomas Bates 359 

Wallace, Thomas Bates (No. 2) 360 

Wallace. Thomas Bates (No. 3) 360 

Wallace, Thomas Josiah 359 

Wallace, Thomas Josiah (No. 2) 360 

Wallace. Wilbur B 360 

Wallace. Sir William 8 

Wallace. Capt. William B 377" 

Wallace. William. Sr.. son of Peter, Sr., and Elizabeth. . 4 

Wallace, William. Sr 5 

Wallace, William (the 2nd) 5 

Wallace, William 19, 97 

Wallace. William A 360 

Wallace, William Anderson 366 

Wallace, William Brown 4 

Wallace, William C. Jr 360 

Wallace, Judge William Cyrus 357 

Wallace, William F 363 

Wallace, Miss, who married Josiah Wallace 5 

Wallaces, How connected with the Woodses 3 

Wallaces, The King George Co., Va 142 

Walter, Mrs David ' 92 

Warren, Sallie Hare 289 

Warfield, Ruth 108 

Warren, Clara 244 

Warren, James Buchanan 243 

Warren, Jean Hamilton 274 

Warren, Letitia Craig 274 

Warren, Marie 274 

Warren, Mary 243 

Warren, Mollie A 355 

Warren, William 274 

Warren, Dr. W. C 243 

Washington, Gen 212. 355 

Washington Academy 128 

Washington College 128 

Washington and Lee University 51, 128 

Wasioto Gap 77, 79, 183 

Watauga. Treaty of 179 

Watkins. Henrietta R 246 

Waxhaw, S. C, where Peter Wallace, Jr., was killed. . 7 

Wayt. Twymonia 62 

Wear, Celia 360 

Wear, Miriam 130 

Webb, Caroline Rebecca 414 

Webb, Charles 416 

Webb, Family The 416 

Welch, Doctor, of Galveston 47 

Wiieelers. North Carolina 134 

White. Agnes Reid 289 

White. Rev. Dr. Alexander 53 

White, Isabelle 289 

■UTiite, James Jones 50, 289 

White, Jennie Faulkner 315 

White, Reid 289 

^^^litefield. George 162 

Whitsitt, Dr. W. H 5, 49, 142 



INDEX. 



501 



Wilderness Road 12, 111, 161, 180, 456, 458 

Wilkinson, Samuel F 354 

Will of .lames McAfee 198 

Will of Michael Woods, Jr 64 

Williams, Henry 96 

Williams, Ma. 'ha Jane 354 

AVilliamson, Prof. A. W 36 

AVilliamson, Andrew Woods 326, 327 

Williamson County, Tennessee 59 

Williamson, Elizabeth Poase 327 

Williamson, James Gilliland 327 

Williamson, Mary Poage 327 

Williamson, Nancy Jane 327 

Williamson, Smith Burgess 327 

Williamson, Rev. Thomas S., M. D 326 

Williamson, William Blair 327 

Wilson, General John 95 

Wilson, Wallace T 60 

Wilson's Station 183, 206 

Winchester, Va., settled 1732 11 

Winn, Kittle Byrd 97 

Winter of 1779-1780 in Kentucky 186 

Witt, D. R 342 

Witzmann, E 420 

Witzmann, Mrs. E 420 

Wood. Cordelia 328 

AA'-ood, Eleanor 328 

Wood. Henrv Cleveland 118 

Wood. Col. James 10, 71, 146 

Wood. Mrs. John M 130 

Wood. Mrs. J. M 32S 

Wood, Judge John McKee 328 

Wood, Louise 328 

Wood, Richard Julian 328 

Wood. Sallie 245 

Woodford County, Ky 52 

"Woodlawn", home of Col. J. W. Caperton 313 

Woods. Absalom, child of John and Elizabeth 116 

Woods, Adam, child of William and Susannah 57 

Woods, Agnes Grear, child of James and Nancy 121 

Woods, Alice 338 

Woods, Alice Behre 4^10 

Woods, Anderson, child of James and Mary 103 

Woods, Andrew, child of Michael of Blair Park 34, 119, 126, 318 

Woods. Andrew, child of William and Susannah.' 57-60 

Woods, Andrew, child of Archibald and Isabella 118 

Woods, Andrew, Jr., child of Andrew and Martha 122 

Woods, Andrew Alford ._j^ 337 

Woods, Andrew Chevalier (No. 1.) 343 

Woods, Andrew Chevalier (No. 2.) 344 

Woods, Andrew Chevalier (No. 3.) 344 

Woods, Andrew (and James), brothers of Michael and 

Elizabeth 2, 3 

Woods, Ann, widow of Michael, Jr 77 

Woods, Ann, child of Archibald and Mourning '61 

Woods, Ann Eliza 320 

Woods, Ann Elizabeth 294 

Woods, Anna, child of Archibald and Mourning 61 

Woods, Anna, child of Col. John 106 

Woods, Anna L., child of William and Sarah J 116 

Woods, Anna Sophia 394 

Woods, Ann, wife of Michael. Jr 63 

Woods, Anne, child of Michael. Jr., and Ann 97 

Woods, Ann, child of Samuel. Jr., and Mary 89 

Woods, Ann, child of David by first wife 91 

Woods, Archibald, child of Michael. 

19. 3-5. lin. lis, 159. 32(1, 339, 342 

Woods, Archibald, child of John and Elizabeth 116 

Woods, Archibald, Jr.. child of Archibald and Isabella. . 118 

Woods, Archibald, child of James and Jane 118 

Woods, Archibald, child of Andrew and Martha 122 

Woods, Archibald, child of Andrew No. 3 337 

Woods, Archibald, child of Adam and Anna 58 

Woods, Archibald, child of William and Susannah.... 57-59 

Woods, Archil)ald, child of Archibald and Mourning. . 60 

Woods, Archibald, child of William and Mary 60 

Woods, Archibald, child of William and Harriet 116 

Woods, Archibald Douglass 336 

Woods. "Baptist Billy." 61, 94 

Woods, Barbara, who married George Martin 82 

Woods, Barbara A., child of S. R. and Zilpha 138, 351 

Woods, "Beaver Creek Billy," first and second 315 



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Woods, Benjamin F 137, 354 

Woods. Bessie Devall 344 

Woods, Burch, child of John and Nancy 92 

Woods, Carrie Webb 410 

Woods, Catharine Lisle 394 

Woods, Charles A. R. (Colonel) . .56. 58, 59, 61, 62. 145. 328, 337 

Woods, Charles Edward 294 

Woods, Charles Lewis 348 

Woods, Charles Gachet. child of Neander M. and 

Tallulah 421 

Woods, Charles Walker 381 

Woods, Clarence Everett 402, 404 

Woods, Cortlandt Barrett 393 

Woods, Cortlandt B 394 

Woods, Daniel S., child of W. M. and L. E 106 

Woods, David, child of Michael, Jr., and Ann, 

77, 86. 87, 91. 181, 200 

Woods, David, child of John and Ann 135 

Woods, David, child of William and Joanna 95 

Woods, David, Jr 335 

Woods. David (No. 1.) 348 

Woods, David (No. 2) 94, 348 

Woods. David (No. 3.) 95, 97, 348 

Woods, David Everett 348 

Woods, David J., Rev 123 

Woods, David Sidney 138, 351 

Woods, David, child of John and Nancy ' 92 

Woods, Doak 133 

Woods. Edgar 338 

Woods, Edgar, Ph. D., Rev., 

5. 10, 16, 37, 57, 61. 70. 119, 123. 14.5, 318 

Woods, Edgar, Jr., M. D 320 

Woods. Edward Morris 347 

Woods, Edward Orin , 352 

Woods. Edward Payson 3S3 

Woods, Eliza, child of John and Nancy 92 

Woods, Elizabeth, and the Wallaces 3 • 

Woods, Elizabeth, child of David and Mary 89, 93 • 

Woods, Elizabeth, child of Micajah and Lucy 95 . 

Woods, Elizaljeth, who married William B. Harris .... 82 • 

Woods, Elizabeth, child of James and Mary 103« 

Woods, Elizabeth, child of Andrew and Martha 121. 

Woods, Elizabeth, child of William of North Carolina. . 134 

Woods, Elizabeth, who married Samuel Woods 137" 

Woods, Elizabeth, child of David and Mary 93.- 

Woods, Elizabeth, child of Michael, Jr., and Ann 93 

Woods, Elizabeth, child of Micajah by his first wife. ... 95 

Woods, Elizabeth A., who married Rickey 342 

Woods, Elizabeth Ann 354 *■ 

Woods, Elizabeth Hannah 380 

Woods, Elizabeth Lee 394 

Woods, Elizabeth Lisle 343 

Woods, Ellis Jackson 398 

Woods, Emma Birkhead 410 

Woods, Everett Dedman 410 r 

Woods Family, Brief Summary of 139, 140 f 

Woods, Fannie Everett 384 

Woods, Fannie L., child of W. M. and L. E 106 

Woods, Florence Boone 410 

Woods, Frances, child of James and lUary 103 

Wcwds, Frances, Jr 294 

Woods, Frances J., M. D 293 

Woods, F. M., Rev., D. D 123, 337 

Woods, Frances S 394 

Woods, Frederick 338 

Woods. Frederick Davis 352 

Woods Gap 11. 13, 15, 16, 17, 21 

Woods, Gertrude 354 

Woods, Gladys Aubrey 336 

Woods, Hannah, child of Adam and Anna . . . .• 58 

Woods, Hannah, child of Michael, of Blair Park 4, 97 

Woods, Hannah, who married William Kavenaugh .... 63 

Woods, Harry E 335 

Woods, Harvey, child of Joseph, of Mercer County, Ky. 118 

Woods, Henry, child of Micajah and Lucy . .• 95 

Woods, Henry, child of Micajah by his first wife 95 

Woods, Henry McKee, D. D 320 

Woods, Henry W., child of David and Sallie 95,348 

Woods, Henry, Rev. Dr 337 

Woods, H. K 348 

Woods, Hugh Phillips 354 



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XVoods. Hugh, child of Samuel and Elizabeth 138, 354 

AVoods. Ina 348 

Woods. Isabella, wife of Archibald Ill 

Woods, Isabella, child of Archibald and Isabella 114 

Woods, James, who lived in Albemarle in 1749 2 

Woods. James, who married Mildred Jones 314 

Woods, James, child of Andrew and Martha 120 

Woods, James, child of Archibald and Isabella 117 

Woods. James, son of John and Susannah 101-104 

Woods. Child of "Beaver Creek Billy, the 2nd." 62 

Woods, James, child of John and Elizabeth 116 

Woods, James Baker, M. D 320 

Woods, James Brison, child of Andrew, Jr., and Mary . . 123 

Woods, James Brison. Jr 339 

Woods, James Garland, child of James and Mary 103 

Woods, James Goodloe, child of William and Mary .... 60 

Woods, James Harris 290, 293 

Woods, James Harvey, child of Samuel. Jr., and Mary. 

73, 89, 200, 367 

Woods, James. Jr., child of James and Nancy 120 

Woods, James McAfee 410 

Woods, James Michael, child of Michael and Esther . . 105 

Woods. James Moses 293 

Woods, James P., child of William and Sarah J 16, 338 

Woods, James and Samuel, probably related to Michael 28 

Woods, J. Watson 106, 479 

Woods, Jane, child of Michael and Ann 70 

Woods, Jane, child of Michael and Esther 106 

Woods, Jane, who married Joseph Montgomery 82 

Woods, Jane, wife of James 117 

Woods. Jane Creigh 348 

Woods, Jane Lynn 348 

Woods, Jennie M 342 

Woods, John, of Ireland — His children 2-9 

Woods. John, of Ireland — Coat of arms 3 

Woods. John, child of William and Susannah 57, 58 

Woods. John, child of David and his first wife 77 

Woods, John, child of William, of North Carolina 134 

Woods, John, child of Col. John 107 

Woods, John, child of Archibald and Isabella j 14-117 

Woods. John, child of .Michael of Blair Park 22,97-109,141 

Woods, John, child of James and Mary 103 

Woods. John, child of David by his first wife 92, 95 

Woods. John, child of David by his first wife 92 

Woods, John B., child of Samuel, of Albemarle 82 

Woods, John Caruthers, child of Michael and Esther . . 105 
Woods. John ChristopTier, child of William and Mary. . 60 

Woods, John D., Hon., of Tennessee 133, 138, 350 

Woods, John G 338 

Woods, John H. McKee 320 

Woods, John H., child of W. M. and Elizabeth 137 

Woods. John Harvey 351 

Woods. John, Jr., child of John and Ann 135 

Woods, John M 337 

Woods, John Michael 352 

Woods. John N.. child of David and Sallie 95, 349 

Woods, John Raiford, child of S. R. and Zilpha 138 

Woods, John Rodes. of "Holkham" 95. 344. 348 

Woods, John William. Judge Ill, 116. 338 

Woods, Johnson P., child of W. M. and Elizabeth 137,352 

Woods, Joseph, child of James and Jane 117 

Woods, Joseph, child of Archibald and Isabella 118 

Woods, Joseph, child of John and Elizabeth 116 

Woods, Joseph Bond 397 

Woods, Joseph Hamniel 354 

Woods, Joseph Lisle 394 

Woods, Joseph R., child of William and Sarah J 116 

Woods, Julia H., who married Coleman 313 

Woods, Kitty 348 

Woods, Joseph, legacy of, to Montgomery Presbytery.. 119 

Woods, Lena 348 

Woods, Leo Bennett 381 

Woods, Leon E 335 

Woods, Leonona 338 

Woods, Leslie Neill 393 

Woods, Lettie Page 347 

V/oods, Lillian E 352 

Woods, Lindsey, child of William and Nellie 135 

Woods, Lucy, child of William and Mary 60 

Woods, Lucy, who married Caperton 309 

Woods, Lucy, child of Archibald and Mourning 59 

Woods, Luther Todd 337 



Woods, Lydia B 320 

Woods. Lynn Creigh 343 

Woods, Madison D 294 

Woods, Magdalen, child of Michael of Blair Park. .7, 31, 40, 53 

54,56 

Woods, Magdalen, who married William Campbell 96 

Woods, Mary Miller 403 

Woods, Margaret, child of Michael, Jr.. and Ann 97 

Woods, Margaret, who married Richard Netherland . . 82 

Woods, Margaret, child of Michael of Blair Park 109 

Woods, Margaret, child of John and Nancy 92 

Woods, Margaret, who married Andrew Wallace 6 

Woods, Margaret, wife of Samuel, Sr 70 

Woods, Margaret Holmes, who married Samuel, of 

Paint Lick 85, 86 

Woods, Margaret Jane 354 

Woods, Margaret Lynn 348 

Woods, Mariah, child of David and Sallie 95 

Woods, Martha ("Patsy"), child of Samuel, Jr., and 

Mary 90 

Woods. Martha, who married Thomas Moore 96 

Woods, Martha, child of Archibald and Elizabeth 60 

Woods, Martha, child of Michael, of Blair Park 119 

Woods, Martha 294 

Woods, Martha, child of Micajah and Lucy 95 

Woods. Martha, child of Andrew and Martha 125, 126 

Woods, Mary, child of William and Joanna 96 

Woods, Mary, child of James and Mary 103 

Woods, Mary, child of William and Susannah 62 

Woods, Mary, child of Col. John and Susannah 104 

Woods, Mary, child of Michael and Esther 106 

Woods, Mary, child of William and Susannah 57 

Woods, Mary 338 

Woods, Mary, w"ho married Benjamin Harris 82 

Woods, Mary, child of Micajah by his first wife 95 

Woods, Mary, who married a Mr. Campbell 96 

Woods, Mary, child of Archibald and Mourning 60 

Woods, Mary, child of Micajah and Lucy 95 

Woods, Mary, child of Andrew and Martha 124, 125 

Woods, Mary, child of William, of North Carolina .... 134 

Woods, Mary Ann, child of William and Mary 60 

Woods, Mary E., child of Samuel and Zilpha 138 

Woods, Mary C 320, 342 

Woods, Mary Ellen 354 

Woods, Mary Ethel 352 

Woods, Mary Lupton 393 

Woods, Mary Louisa, child of W. M. and L. E 106 

Woods, Mary McAfee 381, 394, 404 

Woods, nee McAfee 77, 89 

Woods, Mary Rice, child of James and Mary 103 

Woods, Mary Watts 347 

Woods, Matilda 294 

Woods, Maud Coleman 346 

Woods, Micajah, Hon 63, 68, 70, 96, 344 

Woods, Micajah, child of William and Joanna 94, 95, 348 

Woods, Michael, of Blair Park §, 28, 83, 85 

Woods, Michael, child of Col. John and Susannah ; . . . 105 

Woods,.. Michael, child of James and Mary 103 

Woods, Michael, child of Michael and Esther 105 

Woods, Michael, child of William and Susanna 57, 58 

Woods, Michael, who married Hannah Wallace (and 

whom Collins, in his history of Kentucky, probably 

, refers to on page 477 of volume 2) 5 

Woods, Michael, Jr., child of Michael, of Blair Park, 

28, 63. 65, 68, 70, 97 
Woods, Miss, child of John and Nancy, who married 

Garnett 92 

Woods, Minerva A 294 

Woods, Mourning, child of William and Mary 60 

Woods, Mourning, child of Archibald and Mourning. ... 61 

Woods, Nancy, child of William and Mary 60 

Woods, Nancy, child of David and Mary 89, 92 

Woods. Nannie S., child of W. M. and L. E 106 

Woods, Nannie, child of John and Nancy 92 

Woods, Nathaniel, child of James and Mary 103,104 

Woods, Nathaniel Dedman 380 

Woods, Nathaniel Dedman, M. D 381 

Woods, Neander M., Rev., D. D 89, 409 

Woods, Neander M., Jr 410, 420 

Woods, Nellie 297 

Woods, Oliver Brison 337 



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Woods, Oscar W.. child of William and Sarah J 116 

Woods, Owen S., child of W. M. and Elizabeth 137, 354 

Woods, Patrick, child of Adam and Anna 58 

Woods, Patsy, child of John and Nancy 92 

Woods, Peter, child of John and Nancy 58 

Woods, Peter, child of William and Susannah 57 

Woods, Peter A., child of "Beaver Creek 2nd." 62 

Woods, Rebecca, child of Andrew and Martha 121 

Woods, Rebecca 338 

Woods, Rhodes, child of John and Nancy 92 

Woods, Rice, child of James and Mary 103 

Woods, Rice Garland, of Paint Lick, Ky 103 

Woods, Richard 82 

Woods, Richard, child of Michael, of Blair Park 110 

Woods, Richard, of Albemarle 38 

Woods, Richard, son of Richard of Albemarle 39 

Woods, Richard, why regarded son of Michael 37 

Woods, Robert, child of Andrew and Martha 122 

Woods, Robert, child of James and Nancy 120 

Woods, Robert Emmet 342 

Woods, Robert Emmet, Jr 343 

Woods, Robert F 354 

Woods, Robert H., child of Micajah and S. H. D 95 

Woods, Robert Harris, child of William and Mary .... 60 
Woods, Robert Harris, child of Micajah and his second 

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Robert James 343 

Robert Kay 307 

Sallie 348 

Sallie, child of Adam and Anna 58 

Sallie Stuart 347 

Sallie Rodes 348 

Sally, supposed by some to have been the name 
one of the children of Samuel, Jr., and Mary .... 89 

Samuel, of Augusta county, Va 82 

Samuel, of Amherst County. Va 82 

Samuel, of Botetourt County, Va. . 82-86 

Samuel, of Rockbridge County, Va 83 

Samuel, of Paint Lick, Ky 83, 147 

Samuel, of Albemarle 82 

Samuel, child of John and Anna L 137 

Samuel, Sr., child of Michael, Jr.. and Ann, 

70. 77. 78. 87. 1(12, 145. 149. 200 
Samuel, Jr., child of Samuel, Sr,. .71, 73. 78, 86, 149, 200 
Samuel Caruthers, child of Michael and EsLber 105 



Samuel, child of William of North Carolina 

Samuel Baker 

Samuel Dickson 

Samuel M., child of David and Mary 

Samuel R. F 

Samuel Ray. child of Samuel and Elizabeth. 

Sarah, who married Joseph Lapsley 

Sarah, child of James and Mary 

Sarah, who married Charles Lambert .... 
Sarah, child of Archibald and Mourning. . . . 
Sarah, child of William and Susannah . . . . 
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Sarah, child of Michael of Blair Park 126-132 



Sarah, child of William and Susannah . . 
Sarah A., child of W. M. and Elizabeth . . . 
Sarah J., child of "Beaver Creek 2d." . . . 

Sarah M 

Semiramus S., child of William and Mary 

Senoria D., child of W. M. and L. E 

Shelby Watkins 

Sidney, child of John and Nancy 

Stephen W., child of W. M. and Elizabeth 

Sue 

Suita, child of Col. John and Susannah . . . 
Susan, child of William and Susannah . . . 

Susan, child of Michael and Esther 

Susan, child of William and Susannah. . . . 

Susan, child of Adam and Anna 

Susan M., child of W. M. and L. E 

Susan McKay, child of Samuel and Zilpha 

Susan McKuine 

Susannah, child of James and Mary 

Susannah, child of Michael and Ann .... 



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Woods, Susannah, child of William and Joanna 96 

Woods, Susannah, who married Henry Williams 96 

Woods, Susannah, child of Archibald and Mourning ... 60 

Woods, "Surveyor William" no 

Woods, Tallulah Gachot, child of Neander M. and Ta1- 

lulah 421 

Woods, Tavner, child of David and Sallie 95 

Woods, Theodore 320 

Woods, Thomas 320 

Woods, Thomas, child of John and Ann L 136 

Woods, Thomas, child of Archibald and Mourning .... 61 

Woods. Thomas Cleland 380. 398 

Woods, Thomas Creigh ' 348 

Woods, Thomas Dabney, child of "Beaver Creek the 2d" 62 

Woods, Thomas Harris, child of William and Mary 60 

Woods, Thomas J., child of W. M. and Elizabeth 137 

Woods. Thomas James, M. D 332, 351 

Woods. Thomas James LeGrand 342 

Woods, William, of Ireland 2, 132-140 

Woods, William, child of "Beaver Creek the 2d" 62 

Woods, William, child of James and Mary 103 

Woods, William, child of David and Mary 89, 93 

Woods, William '82 

Woods, William, who married Sarah J. Edington 338 

Woods, William, child of Michael of Blair Park 35, 56, 63 

Woods, William, child of William of North Carolina ... 134 

Woods, William, child of John and Anna 135 

Woods, William — "Beaver Creek Billy" ' 57, 61 

Woods, William, child of Adam and Anna 53 

Woods. William, child of Archibald and Mourning 60 

Woods, William, child of Archibald and Isabella 112,114 

Woods, William, child of John and Elizabeth 116 

Woods, William, child of David and Mary 93 

Woods, William, child of Michael, Jr., and Ann 61,94 

WoQids, William A., child of W. M. and Elizabeth 137 

Woods, William Benton, wife of Ellison 314 

Woods, William Clarence 397 

Woods, William Cleland 393 

Woods, William C, child of William and Mary 60 

Woods, William Doak 135 

Woods, William Gayle 338 

Woods, William Harvey 380, 389, 392 

Woods, William Hervey, Rev., D. D 392 

Woods, William M., child of W. M. and L. E 106 

Woods, William Mitchell 352 

Woods, William M.. child of Thomas and Susannah .... 136 
Woods, William Moffett, child of Michael and Esther. . 105 
Woods, William Price, child of James and Mildred ...62,314 
Woods, William S., child of Micajah. by his second wife 95 
Woods, William S., child of Samuel R. and Zilpha ..... 138 

Woods, William Shepherd 348 

Woods, William Stone. M. D 103, 290, 293 

Woods, William — many of this name 61, 94 

Woods, Woodford, child of Samuel, Jr., and Mary .... 90 

Woodson, David M 45 

Woodson, Sallie 374 

Worsop, Elizabeth and her husband, John Woods 2-9 

Worsop, Thomas and Elizabeth Parsons 2 

Wrig'ht, Kate 47 

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Yandes (Yantis) 130 

Yantis, Rev. Edward 284, 285 

Yantis, Col. John 130, 283 

Yantis, Rev. John Lapsley 283, 284 

Yates, Miss Gretchen 264, 266 

Yates, Mrs. Randolph 264 

Young, Mr., who married Mary McDowell 49 

Young, Col. Bennett H 226 

Young, Col. Bennett H., portrait 230 

Young, Chalmers B 264, 266 

Young, Robert 264 

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